“We’ve never seen a president try to basically destroy an agency that Congress has stood up.” On Monday, Trump claimed he doesn’t need Congress at all to scrap USAID altogether.

Photo: Getty Images WASHINGTON—In laying out the checks and balances of democracy, authors of the U.S. Constitution imagined that the president and Congress would wrestle for power when their ...

Republican lawmakers applaud after the certification of President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory in Washington on Jan. 6. (Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock ...

MANILA, Feb 5 (Reuters) - (This Feb. 5 story has been corrected to fix the number of impeached senior officials from four to five, and to add details about the fifth official in paragraph 10) The ...

Just over a quarter (26%) of voting members in the U.S. Congress identify as a race or ethnicity other than non-Hispanic White, making the 119th Congress the most racially and ethnically diverse to ...

The 119th session of Congress is officially in full swing and members have already gotten to work on their lengthy to-do list. This session will last until 2027 and is predicted to have a jam ...

The U.S. Congress is getting younger – on the whole, at least – according to a Pew Research Center analysis of representatives and senators in the new 119th Congress. The median age of voting members ...

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CLIMATEWIRE | More than 50,000 scientists and their supporters have signed an open letter asking Congress to safeguard federal research and scientific jobs ahead of the incoming Trump administration.

The two lawmakers have gained support from conservatives and liberals alike partly by promising to fight for Congress to determine how to spend an ever-bigger share of Brazil’s federal budget ...

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