By Maya C. Miller and Carl Hulse In a Congress controlled entirely by Republicans, there has been little pushback to President Trump’s brute-force efforts to unilaterally upend entire federal agencies and bend them to his will. But the administration’s latest...

By U.S. Senator Alex Padilla I was interested to read my colleague Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso (R., Wyo.) endorsing the editorial board’s stance on overturning California’s legal right to set its own emissions standards (“The Senate Can End California’s...

By Neely Bardwell Democratic U.S. Senators sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, today calling out the devastating impacts of President Trump’s “election-integrity” promoting executive order (EO) and the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act on Native...

By Paul Kane and Meryl Kornfield In a rare bipartisan effort to defend its institutional authority, Congress is quietly resisting President Donald Trump’s attempt to assert control over the Library of Congress — a move that experts say threatens the...

By Sandhya Raman A group of Senate Democrats is accusing the Trump administration of skirting federal law and threatening millions of lives with a proposal to dissolve the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. SAMHSA, the Department of Health...

By Sarah Stierch A bill to provide disaster relief to hundreds of thousands of farm workers was introduced by U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla. If signed into law, the Disaster Relief for Farm Workers Act will provide compensation to farm workers...