This Isn’t the First Time the Fed Has Struggled for Independence
The Trump administration is threatening the Fed’s autonomy, which the central bank regained with the Treasury-Fed accord in 1951.
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The Trump administration is threatening the Fed’s autonomy, which the central bank regained with the Treasury-Fed accord in 1951.
Plus, the secret to selling 150 million books.
President Trump wants substantially lower borrowing costs, but officials at the central bank appear ready to resist delivering further cuts...
The president continues to brush off an issue that he said he would solve in his first months in office. Some Democrats say he is making the...
President Trump wants a new congressional map in Indiana that would boost Republicans, but he has struggled to win over some state lawmakers...
Unlike during his last time in the White House, people now disapprove of Trump because of the economy, not in spite of it.
The legislation codifies President Trump’s agenda but includes a few measures challenging his policies and insisting on more consultation wi...
After nearly 11 months in office, the president’s tendency to talk about his predecessor is more pronounced than ever.
President Trump has framed the program as a way for the government to raise billions of dollars and prioritize the admission of successful e...
Several Democrats who fought to steer federal money to their states and districts have boasted about their success even after voting against...
The Trump administration’s 2025 National Security Strategy is a pivot to the agenda of online reactionaries.
The Office of Government Ethics told senators that Bryan Bedford, the F.A.A. administrator, did not divest from the airline he previously ra...
The end of Jerome Powell’s term as Fed chair will give President Trump his biggest opportunity yet to reshape the central bank.
The move by Representative Haley Stevens, a Michigan Democrat who is running for Senate, does not have the support of her party’s leaders an...
The case involves an Alabama man who challenged his death sentence after a murder conviction because of his varying results in a series of I...
Some Republicans in the Indiana Senate have resisted a new congressional map despite lobbying from the White House and threats of political...
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth briefed congressional leaders on Tuesday about the monthslong military campaign targeting people suspected of...
Eileen Higgins, a former Miami-Dade County commissioner, will also be the city’s first female mayor and the first non-Hispanic mayor since t...
President Trump’s decision to allow Nvidia to sell its chips to China has raised questions about whether he is prioritizing short-term econo...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio called the Biden-era move to the sans serif typeface “wasteful,” casting the return to Times New Roman as par...
Mr. Miller, one of President Trump’s top advisers, sold shares in the mining company MP Materials following a lucrative deal between the com...
“The public deserves to know how the Trump administration has justified the outright murder of civilians as lawful,” the organizations said...
A case over a firing at the F.T.C. has far-reaching implications for the federal government.
The battle preceded the department’s looming decision over whether — and how — to bring new charges against James B. Comey.
The measure restricts immigration arrests around state courthouses. Republicans have criticized the law and suggested it would face legal ch...
Plus, a big Hollywood battle just got messier.
The case centers on efforts by Republican officials to lift limits on how much money political parties can spend in coordination with candid...
The executive order from the Florida governor came after another Republican governor, Greg Abbott of Texas, issued a similar declaration las...
The president rolled out a $12 billion bailout for farmers as he makes the case that his policy is working — or will soon.
Mr. Blakeman, the Nassau County executive, would face a bitter Republican primary showdown with Representative Elise Stefanik.
In a sign of bipartisan frustration with the Defense Department, the final defense policy bill aims to compel the Pentagon to share execute...
The Senate is set to vote later this week on a three-year extension of Affordable Care Act subsidies that Republicans oppose. The G.O.P. has...
The system in the House promotes control by party leaders over accountability and achievement.
A five-year-old photo of agents kneeling at a D.C. protest after George Floyd’s killing led to the firing of about 16 agents.
Andrew Ferguson has used the Federal Trade Commission’s consumer protection mandate to investigate issues important to President Trump and h...
President Trump expressed his love of “Phantom of the Opera,” got in more digs at Jimmy Kimmel and joked — perhaps — about adding his name t...
Melania Trump went minimal, Gloria Gaynor dressed to shine, but the star of the night was the president.
Plus, the social changes sweeping Iran.
As a lawyer for a conservative think tank, Ms. Bondi, now the attorney general, filed a Supreme Court brief last year saying service members...
Past presidents have attended the marquee event, but on Sunday Mr. Trump will be the first to host it, putting his cultural takeover of Wash...
The Treasury Secretary said on Sunday he recently shed his holdings to comply with his federal ethics agreement.
A former secretary of homeland security on the illegality of Trump’s boat strikes.
What a special House election just told us.
After my father-in-law died, we found something interesting in his files.
President Trump is shifting from discussion of the long-lasting competition among the world’s biggest economies and nuclear powers.
President Trump has repeatedly ousted leaders of independent agencies despite federal laws meant to shield those regulators from politics.
Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to oust a Federal Trade Commission leader offer parallels to the current fight over President Trump’s action...
A New York Times review of President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s actions on immigration showed that they created an opening for a more aggressive...
Not too much religious moralism in the administration, but too little.
Until the court imposes limits, the administration will keep acting as if there are none.