Opinion | All Presidents Test the Limits of Their Authority. Trump Is Doing Something Far More Radical.
The funding freeze went beyond previous presidents’ efforts at executive authority.
01:00 PM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories The Gulf of America Is Only the Beginning
The early skirmishes over global landmarks are nothing compared to the fights over renaming public projects after President Donald Trump himself.
07:52 PM on 01/30/2025 Politico Top Stories IOC presidential candidates pitch to exclusive club of Olympic voters at closed-door event
Behind closed doors at the IOC seven candidates hoping to lead the Olympic body are making key pitches to an exclusive club of more than 100 voters
04:42 AM on 01/30/2025 ABC Politics Donald Trump sounds the same. His White House so far couldn't be more different
Donald Trump 2.0 is, so far, very much the same as his first go around
01:06 AM on 01/30/2025 ABC Politics Trump's orders take aim at critical race theory and antisemitism on college campuses
President Donald Trump is ordering U.S. schools to stop teaching what he views as “critical race theory” and other material dealing with race and sexuality or risk losing their federal money
06:58 PM on 01/30/2025 ABC Politics What to know about Guantanamo Bay, the base where Trump will send 'criminal aliens'
President Donald Trump says he will use a detention center at Guantanamo Bay to hold tens of thousands of criminal immigrants in the U.S. illegally
08:26 PM on 01/30/2025 ABC Politics Trump White House rescinds memo freezing federal money after widespread confusion
President Donald Trump’s budget office has rescinded a memo freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country
08:02 PM on 01/30/2025 ABC Politics Trumps pledge to lower prices is already facing a reality test
“If it was so simple, they would just do it,” Norbert Michel, a vice president at the libertarian-leaning Cato Institute, said of lowering prices.
05:00 AM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps federal spending freeze is straight out of Project 2025
The OMB memo is the boldest, and clearest example of how the administration is employing Project 2025’s strategies.
10:11 AM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories GOP steps aside as Trump assaults Congress power
The president goes after the "power of the purse" with nary a peep from Republican leaders.
04:45 AM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories RFK Jr. is in the hot seat
Trump's health secretary nominee is expected to face questions on vaccines, abortion, and food production regulation at his confirmation hearing.
10:37 AM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump's spending freeze spreads chaos across US
Supporters of climate, infrastructure, mortgage, tech, health, veterans' and other projects expressed alarm as tens of thousands of programs appeared possibly at risk.
07:15 PM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump hires new lawyers to appeal his hush money conviction
The lawyers will replace Todd Blanche and Emil Bove, who represented Trump during the trial last spring.
10:51 AM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories DOJ moves to drop prosecution of former Trump co-defendants in classified documents case
The request offered no explanation for the Justice Department’s decision to abandon the case against the two Trump allies.
11:26 AM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories The West is trying to interfere in our elections, Russia moansIt's judgment day for Bob Menendez
A federal judge will sentence the convicted former senator from New Jersey.
07:00 AM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories 'It was leaked to us: Army in chaos over Trump orders
Confusion around the new administration’s spending freezes and executive orders has caused disarray inside the Pentagon.
06:00 PM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories How Trumps orbit used blunt force to squeeze Hegseth through
The aggressive posture, inspired by Trump, meant going after not only Democrats, the media and Hegseth’s accusers — but also their own party.
08:00 PM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories Ukraine is pinning hopes on Putin exasperating Trump
Washington and Kyiv are holding fast to separate assumptions about the prospect of ending the ongoing war — but both could be wrong.
04:47 AM on 01/29/2025 Politico Top Stories Defense secretary pulls Trump critic Gen. Milley's security clearance and protective detail
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