Only a day into his second term, President Donald Trump’s deregulatory agenda began to take fuller shape, as his administration raced to delete a dizzying array of federal rules meant to combat ...

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stock indexes slipped Wednesday after the Federal Reserve opted not to cut interest rates for the first time since it began trying to help the economy through easier rates ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has rescinded a plan for a sweeping pause on federal grants and loans totaling potentially trillions of dollars after it was temporarily blocked by a ...

On Wednesday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: USA TODAY Justice Department Correspondent Bart Jansen takes a look at what's next after a federal judge temporarily blocked a Trump administration ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Private school vouchers and other school choice initiatives would expand under an order coming from President Donald Trump telling government agencies to repurpose federal dollars.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked a push from President Donald Trump to pause federal funding while his administration conducts an across-the-board ideological ...

Vought did not venture into impoundment in his Project 2025 chapter. But, he wrote that the president “should use every possible tool to propose and impose fiscal discipline on the federal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next week — an unprecedented move to shrink the ...

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem joined federal agents Tuesday in New York City to announce the arrests of immigrants wanted on criminal charges, including a man accused of kidnapping who ...

Inspectors general Each of the federal government’s largest agencies has its own inspector general who is supposed to conduct objective audits, prevent fraud and promote efficiency. Trump has ...

A federal judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration's freeze on federal grants and loans, minutes before the wide-reaching directive was set to go into effect A federal judge has ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The state of Alabama urged a federal judge Tuesday to allow the nation’s fourth execution with nitrogen gas to proceed next week, but a doctor who witnessed an earlier ...