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The General Assembly, if the bill becomes law, would have a statutory role in rule approval if the executive branch creates a rule with economic impact of $1 million. In a speech on the House ...

Trump has largely bypassed the Republican-led Congress to pursue his agenda at the outset of the new administration, a break ...

Republican lawmakers are facing frustrated crowds at town halls across the country over the Trump administration's policies.

I’m going to break the boundaries of the prompt and say that the most important — or at least most predictive — day of Donald Trump’s second term came before it even began: It was July 15, 2024, the ...

Excluded from the hiring freeze are members of the military, immigration enforcement and in the executive office of the president, as well as possible exemptions through the government’s Office ...

A lot of this stuff will be fought out in Congress, but there shouldn't be micromanaging of the executive branch on national security issues by random, single judges, who have no standing ...

the legislative branch, which makes the law; the executive branch, which enforces the law; and the judicial branch, which interprets the law. And yet, despite this carefully balanced structure ...

State Sen. Brian Helton praised Gov. Patrick Morrisey’s efforts at executive branch consolidation during Thursday’s Senate Government Organization Committee meeting. (Photo courtesy of WV ...

"[N]o statutory delegation of authority to the Executive Branch permits the President to short-circuit Congress's deliberative process by executive order," wrote Kollar-Kotelly, who was appointed ...