The ruling from a federal court in Washington, D.C., is a reprieve for CFPB staff who had been bracing for mass layoffs as ...

Though Republicans control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives, tight margins may help tether acceptance of federal power grabs to reality.

An obscure court decision involving former President Joe Biden’s presidential board appointments was the key to seizing ...

The Trump administration is planning to hollow out the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) by firing 95% of its staff while canceling the lease on its Washington, D.C., headquarters, according ...

The Freedom Caucus’s power is expanding beyond the halls of Congress with the appointment of Russ Vought as White House ...

The act of violence almost 150 years ago effectively gave birth to the civil service, that class of nonpartisan experts who ...

The first salvo was fired on February 8 by Donald Trump loyalist—and currently envoy for special missions and interim ...

A group of 191 House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of ...

President Trump has given Elon Musk unprecedented power and room to run to remake the executive branch. But to the extent that Musk deviates ...

Trump and Musk are eviscerating U.S.A.I.D., a pillar of soft power since it was established under the Kennedy administration.

The directors of supervision and enforcement at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau stepped down, citing the stop work orders issued by Russell Vought, the agency's new acting director.

The decision, however, led to further backlash from conservative alumni and activists. Wheaton alumnus Eric Teetsel, chief ...