A federal judge voided the Trump administration's termination of a $2.8 billion clean-air grant program. The EPA read that ruling and concluded no action was required. The judge had to order it a second time.
Jordan referred former special counsel Jack Smith for criminal prosecution — not for anything he said, but for something he didn't volunteer. Smith's lawyers took it apart, and former prosecutors called it 'an embarrassment.'
On July 23 the House voted 214-208 to order U.S. forces out of Trump's unauthorized war with Iran. These 182 Republicans we track voted no — the second time Congress has told the president to stop, and the second time they tried to stop Congress from saying it.
Rep. Greg Steube introduced articles of impeachment against a Florida federal judge over a ruling — days after the judge had died, and against a decision that followed Supreme Court precedent.
As U.S. forces resume fighting in Iran, House Republicans are embracing a legal theory that lets Trump keep the war going without a vote in Congress.
In the early morning of June 5, the Senate voted 52-47 to pour nearly $70 billion into ICE and Border Patrol with no oversight, no transparency, and a new slush fund for punishing 'non-cooperating' cities. Here are the senators with report cards on this site who voted yes.
Trump fired all the commissioners of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, freezing the only federal agency devoted to election administration right before the 2026 midterms.
The Trump administration is threatening to withhold hundreds of millions in homeland security and counterterrorism grants unless states rewrite their election rules to match his demands.
A ProPublica investigation found the Trump administration is detaining and deporting immigrant children at about three times the rate of his first term — after stripping away the legal protections that used to shield them.
