After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a ...

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen believes his Republican colleagues will not allow President Donald Trump to keep the ...

Far from being a new debate brought on by current events, the discussion over extending home rule to Washingtonians has been ...

The 1973 law granted the city a greater degree of self-governance. It also allows the president to federalize D.C.'s police ...

President Trump on Monday announced he was taking federal control of D.C.’s police department and deploying the National Guard in the city in an attempt to fight crime. “Our capital city has been ...

“Congress can grant him that authority,” he said. “But Congress also has the authority to even change the Home Rule Act.” They could give him greater power or even repeal the act altogether, he said.

While the congressional stock trading question has played out on Capitol Hill for years, the debate saw some renewed momentum this week. A bill sponsored by Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) has cleared the ...

The federal budget deficits caused by President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law could trigger automatic cuts to Medicare ...

Medicare and other federal programs could see deep cuts under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act was passed on July 4, according to an Aug. 15 Congressional ...

After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

Congress rarely uses the Congressional Review Act to disapprove of federal agency rules. When it does, reporters call the CRA “obscure” and argue Congress is “pushing the bounds of a little-known ...