Even if a lapse in appropriations justifies RIFs, the administration will struggle to lawfully carry out such RIFs.

It’s not just about Medicaid funding.

Treating a tax or tariff as different from a confiscation is an interpretive issue that should be decided by Congress, not the judiciary.

The Trump administration plans to use the pending shutdown as justification for additional RIFs.

The FBI directors shows a “lack of candor” before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

A review of Casey Dominguez, “Commander in Chief: Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers” (University Press of Kansas, 2024).

Congress is running out of time to reauthorize foreign and domestic instruments of statecraft critical to protecting American interests.

A deeper look at the examples cited by Trump’s OMB and how Congress fought back against those late rescissions from Presidents Ford and Carter.