Trump Presidency News

Is Donald Trump a president in name only? The very idea seems absurd, but federal judges have issued injunction after injunction after injunction, blocking the president’s ability to exercise executive authority—the very authority the Constitution clearly vests in him. Trump has appealed one of these injunctions to the Supreme Court, urging the justices to uphold…

Almost immediately after the Senate named Russ Vought Office of Management and Budget director, President Donald Trump also named him the acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is a rogue agency with a long history of overreach and corruption. The agency has seen rampant internal racism and anti-woman…

Attorneys general in left-leaning states have been crowding into courtrooms to sue the Trump administration. This spectacle, the growing tangle of hastily issued injunctions preventing the enforcement of presidential executive orders, might lead some to think that they are observing the reverse side of a familiar pattern—one in which the party that lost a national…

In a letter that no doubt sent shock waves through Washington’s permanent, untouchable bureaucracy, President Donald Trump’s acting solicitor general, Sarah Harris, sent a letter to Congress on Wednesday informing it that the Justice Department will no longer defend the constitutionality of federal laws that limit the ability of the president to remove the heads…

President Donald Trump has entered Washington like a bull in a China shop, shattering the Mandarin norms of the administrative state in order to undermine the deep state, but the bureaucrats are fighting back. A bevy of leftist organizations—mostly unions and woke pressure groups—have proved themselves deep state allies by filing lawsuits to block Trump’s…

President Donald Trump is reportedly preparing an executive order to halt funding of risky viral gain-of-function research—lab experimentation designed to genetically manipulate biological agents to make them more transmissible and pathogenic. Trump is right to do so. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, which killed more than an estimated 15 million globally, the rationale for such a moratorium is stronger than…

While many Americans may be familiar with the three branches of government in the Constitution, fewer are aware of the fourth branch of government—a vast bureaucracy of “alphabet soup” agencies (think the IRS, FDA, DOJ, and many, many more) that technically answer to the president but enjoy civil service protections that make them hard to…

“The United States is once again the ‘Shining City Upon a Hill,’ to which the U.K. and, indeed, the world will once again look for leadership, for courage, for freedom.” Those are unambiguous words amplified by the Right Honorable Suella Braverman, king’s counsel and member of Parliament, former home secretary and attorney general of the…

Did you know that your tax dollars have been propping up a system of nonprofit organiations that house and transport illegal aliens across the country? President Donald Trump has paused some of the programs that propped up that system, and now those nonprofits are taking him to court. HIAS (formerly Hebrew Immigrant Aid Services) and…