Since his inauguration on January 20, President Trump has delivered more positive achievements for more of the American people than any other president serving an equivalent time in office. Yet, Trump has experienced more opposition, including assassination attempts, than any other president since the Civil War. In fact, 67 percent of all federal injunctions in the last 100 years have been issued against President Trump.  When opposition and hostility to a national leader who is...

The fiscal impact of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” which one prominent budget hawk called a “debt bomb,” is becoming a significant political concern among Republican lawmakers who have made little progress toward offsetting the $3 trillion projected cost of the legislation. Some GOP senators fear that the bill’s failure to rein in federal spending in a substantial way over the next decade is fueling jitters in the bond market, where soft demand for U.S. debt has...

The independent Government Accountability Office has served Congress as the nation’s chief investigator of wrongdoing at federal agencies for more than a century. Now it’s under assault. The typically uncontroversial, under-the-radar agency is fighting to retain power against attempts by Republicans in the Trump administration and on Capitol Hill to undercut its legal conclusions and independence — an onslaught that has been fast and furious. First, Elon Musk’s Department of Government...

The Humphrey’s decision is not dead yet. In an unusual order issued last Thursday, the Supreme Court signaled that it is poised to pare back significantly, if not outright reverse, its 1935 decision in Humphrey’s Executor v. United States, as President Trump is urging it to do. Humphrey’s approved administrative agencies deemed “independent” of presidential control even though they exercise some executive powers — independence that includes “for good cause”...

A TV ad from a group supportive of President Donald Trump makes misleading claims, and uses outdated data, to argue that he is “fixing” an economy “ruined” by Democrats. For example, the ad says that “inflation and gas prices” are now “at four-year lows,” based on data from March. National average gasoline prices have increased since then and are several cents higher than when Trump took office. And economists have warned that inflation also may soon increase again because of Trump...

More than two decades ago we blew the whistle at Enron and WorldCom, industry giants whose spectacular falls revealed two of the largest accounting fraud scandals in American history. We know the destruction that fraud causes. We lived through it. We witnessed how unchecked power, collusion at the highest levels and manipulated financial statements can bring down iconic companies, destabilize markets and vaporize billions of dollars and thousands of jobs overnight. That’s why we are raising...

For politically untested Syrian President Ahmad al-Sharaa, it was a seismic, high-profile development: an in-person May 14 meeting with President Trump, a promise to lift economic sanctions on Damascus and an endorsement from Mr. Trump and key Middle Eastern leaders. Equally important is what the White House believes the 42-year-old Syrian leader can do for the U.S. Some analysts and Syria watchers say it could be a lot, most immediately by helping curb Iranian influence...

Two weeks into the sex trafficking trial of Sean "Diddy" Combs, witnesses have accused the hip-hop mogul of everything from breaking into a rival's home to taking ecstasy and attempting to intimidate or pay off witnesses in the case. Combs is not charged with any of these alleged crimes, but legal experts say these allegations could provide powerful fodder for the prosecution's use of a sweeping mafia-busting law that has widened the scope of the...

The White House has lost confidence in a Pentagon leak investigation that Pete Hegseth used to justify firing three top aides last month, after advisers were told that the aides had supposedly been outed by an illegal warrantless National Security Agency (NSA) wiretap. The extraordinary explanation alarmed the advisers, who also raised it with people close to JD Vance, because such a wiretap would almost certainly be unconstitutional and an even bigger scandal than a number of...