“We’ve never seen a president try to basically destroy an agency that Congress has stood up.” On Monday, Trump claimed he doesn’t need Congress at all to scrap USAID altogether.

Absolutely not. USAID was created through executive order in 1961, but it has been propped up as an agency by Congress through various legislative actions. The Foreign Affairs Reform and ...

The world has become much more complex, making it tougher for Congress to wrap its mind around and tackle these new challenges. There was a time when political scientists and party analysts ...

With Republicans in control of Congress and Donald Trump back in the White House, many in the GOP see immigrationas a top priority. Focusing on the issue would help them consolidate a wavering House ...

MANILA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - (This Feb. 5 story has been corrected to fix the number of impeached senior officials from four to five, and to add details about the fifth official in paragraph 10) The ...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has tried to freeze up to hundreds of billions of dollars in federal money and given billionaire ally Elon Musk access to sensitive Treasury payment systems ...

Relegated to the minority in Congress and left with few legislative tools to check Trump, Democrats are seeking to rally voters against his push to freeze federal loans and grants, dismantle the U ...

Just over a quarter (26%) of voting members in the U.S. Congress identify as a race or ethnicity other than non-Hispanic White, making the 119th Congress the most racially and ethnically diverse to ...

Kelly Loeffler, of Georgia, to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration Ideology data is based on DW-NOMINATE statistics developed by Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal. More ...