The filibuster is a procedural, not constitutional, requirement and can be changed. It’s been on the Senate books since 1917, ...

Powerless to stop President Trump or Russell T. Vought, the nominee to lead the White House budget office, Democrats pulled ...

U.S. Congress can't just sit by while President Trump does whatever he wants. But lawmakers seem to have no intention of actually working.

He claims unprecedented power over the budget, fires the leaders of government oversight agencies, and places vast ...

Reports indicate President Donald Trump may be considering an executive order to slash the Department of Education, but he ...

Patrick Healy, the deputy Opinion editor, hosted an online conversation with the Times Opinion columnists Michelle Goldberg ...

But those sorts of efforts are faithful to the basic principle of democratic accountability, the idea that a single ...

The fate of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is hanging in the balance after Trump and Musk signaled ...

The overriding concern of the Democrats is to smother any genuine opposition to Trump and maintain collaboration with their ...

Trump’s first two weeks in office have featured a flurry of policy announcements. • Of most consequence to markets are ...

While most presidents take months or years to complete the items they promised on the stump, Donald Trump signed 36 executive orders in his first week alone. Since then, almost daily, he has hosted ...

President Donald Trump hinted during a news conference that Japan could soon face U.S. tariffs if it doesn’t take steps to ...