Absolutely not. USAID was created through executive order in 1961, but it has been propped up as an agency by Congress through various legislative actions. The Foreign Affairs Reform and ...

The world has become much more complex, making it tougher for Congress to wrap its mind around and tackle these new challenges. There was a time when political scientists and party analysts ...

“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.

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 ...

With Republicans in control of Congress and Donald Trump back in the White House, many in the GOP see immigrationas a top priority. Focusing on the issue would help them consolidate a wavering House ...

While the bill has now been passed out of Congress, there are hurdles ahead for its implementation. The Laken Riley Act will require a ramp-up period and a boost in funding, Immigration and ...

President Trump is threatening to use his powers to adjourn Congress so he can make recess appointments for at least some of his top Cabinet nominees and their deputies, enabling them to begin ...

This new push for remote voting, led by a conservative Republican, reflects a younger generation of members of Congress eager to modernize the institution — as well as the intense pressure on ...

WASHINGTON—Days before his inauguration, President-elect Donald Trump made clear in a two-hour private meeting with Senate Republicans that he wouldn’t wait on them to start implementing his ...

TikTok’s shutdown today — however brief — marks a historic moment in Washington’s governance of the tech industry, an overwhelming bipartisan deal to shut down a popular app over national ...

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 ...

From all the reports coming out of the new Congress, nothing has changed on that count. Trump and his crony oligarchs have been soaking up all the attention over the past couple of weeks ...