During the dismal days that followed Watergate and the resignation of President Richard Nixon, there was a dark-humored joke that made the rounds. It went something like this: As Nixon was making his ...

Richard Nixon tried the same thing Donald Trump is trying in not spending money Congress has already approved. It did not end ...

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how Donald Trump’s late-night purge of 18 independent inspectors general violates a law ...

President Trump is impounding funds already legally authorized by Congress, in defiance of law, precedent, and arguably the ...

The relationship between the press and the presidency has always been messy. From Thomas Jefferson’s praise of newspapers as ...

Trump is leading a revolution. The Democrats are still acting like he won the election because of the price of eggs. This is ...

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, ...

President Donald Trump's administration on Monday issued a sweeping directive to federal agencies to temporarily pause ...

Presidential candidates Richard Nixon, later the 37th president of the United States, and John F Kennedy, the 35th president, during a televised debate in 1960. Presidential candidates Richard ...

The GAO, a nonpartisan agency that works for Congress, can investigate spending and determine if withholding of funds ...

The Trump administration has rescinded a plan for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions ...

A wide-ranging pause on agency funds and grants remains on ice — even after the White House rescinded a contested OMB memo ...