Politics

Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump and key members of his administration are lashing out at judges who have halted some of his second-term agenda, suggesting they don’t have the authority to question his executive power. So far, the courts have pushed back on Trump’s attempts to end birthright citizenship, freeze […]

Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — A Senate Judiciary Committee vote on advancing Kash Patel’s nomination to be FBI director was delayed Thursday after Democrats raised objections. The move will require the committee to take a one week hold before voting on Patel’s nomination but the delay will likely have no bearing on Patel’s […]

ABC News Republican Rep. Mike Turner on Sunday refuted claims that the massive overhaul of the federal government by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) constitutes a federal crisis. “Elon Musk goes about his job, which is a very important job, I mean the fact that we have Elon Musk looking from the private […]

ABC News In an interview on ABC News’ “This Week” on Sunday, Connecticut Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy warned of an “assault on the Constitution” under President Donald Trump. “I think this is the most serious constitutional crisis the country has faced, certainly since Watergate,” Murphy said. “The president is attempting to seize control of power, […]

Melina Mara /The Washington Post via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Speaker Mike Johnson led a cross-section of House Republicans for a trip down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House on Wednesday, where they’re huddling with President Donald Trump to chew over their strategy to advance the president’s ambitious agenda. “This is part of the process…the America First […]

Photo by Kevin Lamarque – Pool/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) —  Before deciding to resign from the Office of Personnel Management, a senior agency official was asked a question by a staffer from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE): “What’s going to break?” The official, a civil servant serving in a nonpartisan role, who asked that their […]

Tetra Images/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Seven people have filed a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that the U.S. government would only recognize a person’s sex assigned at birth on government-issued documents. The complaint, filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts, accuses the State Department of rejecting some applications from transgender […]

(Photo by Kenny Holston-Pool/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency group has made swift work of the billionaire’s goal to scale back or dismantle much of the federal government, end diversity policies and otherwise further President Donald Trump’s agenda. DOGE employees, many of whom have no government experience, have been going through […]

(SimpleImages/Getty Images) (WASHINGTON) — Environmental nonprofits are gearing up to challenge some of the actions President Donald Trump has issued since taking office. There is litigation coming for the majority of the executive orders Trump has signed so far that affect the environment, conservation and decarbonizing the economy, several nonprofits told ABC News. Environmental lawyers […]

Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — As President Donald Trump works at a breakneck speed to implement his second-term agenda , including wholesale firings and sweeping policy changes, he and his advisers assert his power over the executive branch is complete and can’t be questioned. Still, his flurry of executive actions and orders spark a critical […]