In a perfect world, Congress and the courts would keep President Donald Trump’s executive branch in line by balancing out his portion of the country’s power base. Absent their effectiveness, the financial markets may be the last line of defense to moderate Trump’s behavior, according to new analysis in The Bulwark.
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A prominent Republican U.S. senator delivered candid and heartfelt responses to leaders of nonprofit groups in her state expressing concern over the massive and sudden cuts to federal agencies, programs, and the federal workforce—along with President Donald Trump’s tariffs, executive orders, and legal battles.
In a new video, CNN Reporter Elle Reeve asked voters in South Dakota if they voted for Trump and if they regretted their vote in 2024. She also pressed them on how the tariffs were affecting them and their community.
The Atlantic’s Jonathan Chait says that President Donald Trump’s refusal to bring back Kilmar Abrego Garcia from El Salvador is about much more than a wrongly deported immigrant. As he writes in his latest piece, Chait believes that the Garcia case represents a “trapdoor” that Trump is exploiting that he believes could “swallow the Constitution”…
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. Four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration, financial technology startup Ramp published a pitch for how to tackle wasteful government spending. In a 4,000-word blog post titled “The Efficiency Formula,” Ramp’s CEO and…
House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) appeared to grow frustrated when asked if President Donald Trump had plunged the country into a constitutional crisis. CNN’s Dana Bash said on Thursday’s Inside Politics, “The Trump administration is finding ways to defy the courts on a few fronts right now,” citing the case of a Maryland father…
U.S. trade partners are buying up more American goods and trying to curry favor with president Donald Trump in an effort to stave off sweeping tariffs. The administration is negotiating with more than 70 trading partners, many of whom are trying to eliminate the trade imbalances Trump says the tariffs are meant to even out,…
ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. A Wisconsin teenager accused of murdering two family members and plotting to assassinate President Donald Trump was inspired by Terrorgram, a white supremacist network that operated on the Telegram messaging and social…
Critics are attacking President Donald Trump’s director of the Federal Communications Commission, Brendan Carr, after he bashed a media conglomerate on X over the news coverage by its subsidiary cable news channel.
The 245 percent tariffs President Donald Trump put on China are “unlikely to achieve his goal of returning manufacturing jobs to the United States,” wrote Dr. Moira Weigel in a New York Times guest essay Thursday.