As President Trump moves unilaterally to slash the federal bureaucracy and upend longstanding policies, Republicans in Congress have embarked on a spree of deregulation, using an obscure law to quietly but steadily chip away at Biden-era rules they say are hurting businesses and consumers. In recent weeks, the G.O.P. has pushed through a flurry of […]
A dispute over a memo about how Wisconsin state workers should interact with federal immigration agents escalated this week into sharply worded warnings from the president’s border czar, Thomas Homan, and the state’s Democratic governor, Tony Evers. Mr. Evers and others interpreted comments by Mr. Homan to suggest that he and other elected officials could […]
The Trump administration sued Maine on Wednesday over policies that allow some transgender athletes to compete in women’s sports, claiming the state is violating a federal law intended to prevent discrimination based on sex. Attorney General Pam Bondi, announcing the move at a news conference while flanked by young female athletes from the state, acknowledged […]
The mayor of Washington, D.C., ordered citywide spending and hiring freezes on Tuesday and raised the possibility of furloughs after the U.S. House of Representatives left for recess with the District still facing a potential billion-dollar budget cut. The order does not lay out specific cuts, but it paves the way for possible steep reductions […]
