The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse and oversight over military actions, but recent actions by the White ...

Some lawmakers worry that the impasse is ceding their authority over federal spending to an increasingly assertive president.

Editor’s note: This editorial originally ran in fellow CNHI paper the Joplin, Missouri, Globe. Congress has been dropping the ball for years. It needs to reclaim its authority among the three branches ...

The Trump White House is planning to send a second rescissions request to Capitol Hill in the coming weeks, hoping to extract a legislative stamp of approval for its efforts to impound funding that ...

President Trump's expansive interpretation of executive power is continuing to reshape federal spending in a government shutdown.

Two interrelated fears that have caused mounting public alarm with respect to the Trump Administration involve unchecked executive power and the erosion of the rule of law. These worries have ...

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-La.) has done nothing to challenge Donald Trump as the president tests the thresholds of his executive authority. (J. Scott Applewhite / Associated Press) Whatever ...

Congress today temporarily extended the NSA’s spying powers that time and again have been used to violate our rights. Disturbingly, this three-month extension was snuck into a broader funding bill, ...

President Trump isn’t the first president to order military strikes without congressional approval. But his decision to bomb Iran comes at a uniquely volatile moment — both at home and abroad.

Nuts and Bolts is a recurring series by Stephen Wermiel providing insights into the mechanics of how the Supreme Court works. Please note that the views of outside contributors do not reflect the ...

They say Congress has given in to the "unchecked power" of the executive. A tri-partisan group of senators on Tuesday introduced legislation designed to claw back national security powers, delineated ...

Whatever you think about American politics and government, whether you are on the right, the left or somewhere in the middle, you should be mad at Congress. I don’t just mean the Republican-controlled ...