A new lawsuit calls the firings illegal and seeks to revitalize a little-known oversight board that helps protect U.S. and EU ...

Washington — The federal government's personnel and budget offices issued a memo to the leaders of all executive branch agencies on Wednesday directing ... consolidate areas of the agency organization ...

By signing 26 executive orders during his first day in office alone, Trump put himself on pace to rank among the fastest-acting presidents during his first 100 days in office. In addition to curbing ...

a president can order the federal government to take any steps that are within the scope of the constitutional authority of the executive branch and do not violate any federal law.

Accordingly, in the U.S., as in virtually all modern states, law is made and interpreted not only by the legislature and the courts, but also by a multitude of executive branch officials applying ...

Under my direction, the executive branch will enforce all sex-protective laws to promote this reality, and the following definitions shall govern all executive interpretation of and application of ...

That authoritarian trope masquerading as a legal doctrine holds that literally everybody who works in the executive branch of government serves at the pleasure of the president and can be hired ...

and that the executive branch has every right to look into government agencies like those dealing with education and Medicaid, "Congress has to do their work." Late Thursday night, Balderson's ...

That theory holds that the president has absolute authority over the executive branch. As the president put it bluntly on social media last week, “He who saves his Country does not violate any ...

OIRA oversees executive branch regulations, while the newly created DOGE aims to eliminate government waste, fraud and spending. The order comes as the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled against ...

But support for independence has smacked up against a theory long popular within conservative legal circles that a president should have near complete control over the executive branch and the ...