President Donald Trump’s dramatic pause of federal grants and loans is queuing up a Supreme Court showdown over the ...

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The exit of President Joe Biden and the entrance of President Donald Trump have put into focus two powers of the executive ...

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This is the practice of presidents refusing to spend funds that Congress has appropriated, shifting power to the White House.

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Both outgoing President Joe Biden and incoming President Donald Trump used that power in self-interested, shortsighted ways.

Legal experts tell ABC News that the sheer number of presidential executive orders is unprecedented but whether or not they ...

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The Tennessean’s proposed 28th Amendment would bar the president from pardoning himself, his close relatives (and their ...