The White House is leaning harder on every available lever, from federal funding threats to National Guard deployments and agency crackdowns. The result is a sharper clash with states, universities, a

Donald Trump’s second-term project is now colliding with the limits of narrow majorities, a restive Congress, and an electorate that already senses a difficult year ahead. The result is a Washington d

A new report says more than 100,000 children in the U.S. have had a parent detained since the administration’s deportation campaign began. The human toll is spreading far beyond immigration courts and

The administration’s stance on Iran is now defined less by strategy than by whiplash: threats, deadlines, and sudden pauses. That instability is reshaping alliances abroad and testing the limits of co

The Justice Department’s new $1.776 billion “anti-weaponization” fund is being sold as redress for political persecution. Critics see something else entirely: a cash pool built from taxpayer dollars a

A proposed change to Supplemental Security Income could slash or terminate benefits for an estimated 400,000 disabled adults. The policy would hit especially hard for people living with family members

Donald Trump says he has paused a planned strike on Iran after pressure from Gulf leaders reopened a diplomatic lane. But the episode underscores how quickly the administration is willing to move from

House lawmakers have moved to reopen most of the Homeland Security Department after a record shutdown that dragged on for 76 days. The immediate crisis is easing, but the political damage inside Washi

The administration’s domestic agenda is expanding from deportation to a broader assertion of federal control over cities, courts and oversight offices. What looks like policy is increasingly a test of

The White House is pressing ahead with a war that many lawmakers never fully voted for, and Congress is showing it has little appetite to stop it. Each failed attempt to reassert oversight makes the p

House lawmakers have reopened most of Homeland Security after a record-setting shutdown, but the deal exposed how broken the federal budgeting process has become. The government is running again, yet

The House narrowly blocked another attempt to rein in President Trump’s military campaign against Iran, leaving lawmakers with few tools to force a vote on war powers. The stalemate deepens a constitu