The ability of our elected representatives to make optimally informed decisions about programs and budgets is constrained by ...

Elon Musk is making major moves to reshape the federal government and President Donald Trump is standing behind his ...

A raft of new lawsuits contend that President Trump and Elon Musk are breaking the law to ransack the F.B.I. and other ...

Howard County Executive Calvin Ball says there are about 50,000 federal workers living in the county who are grappling with a ...

Federal workers had a chance to share thoughts on the Trump Administration's buyout offer with Howard County Executive Calvin Ball.

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With an executive order, the president can’t write a new statute, but an order can tell federal agencies how to implement a ...

Sometimes a constitutional crisis sneaks up on you, shrouded in darkness, revealing itself gradually. Other times it ...

The Supreme Court majority built by Donald Trump could uphold efforts to expand presidential authority based on the legal ...

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Loren L. AliKhan in Washington extended a temporary restraining order that set aside the ...

Trump’s second term is all about curtailing government’s power and reach.

Elon Musk and his allies have spent the last two weeks barreling full speed into multiple government agencies, causing ...