Trump’s potential use of extraordinary authorities may be the first signal of how he intends to govern the second time around.
Today, the facility—referred to as the President’s Emergency Operations Center (PEOC)—is staffed by the White House Military Office soldiers in 12- or 24-hour shifts. The bunker is located ...
Misusing emergency powers will open the door to further such abuses by this president—or a future one, writes Elizabeth ...
Invoking presidential emergency powers gives the president the ability to go around Congress and unlock federal funding to crack down at the border. By Zolan Kanno-Youngs Reporting from Washington ...
A Brennan Center analysis “identified 137 statutory powers that may become available to the president when he declares a national emergency.” In this case those powers include suspending some ...
President Trump has declared an energy emergency, which his team has said would unlock additional powers to jump-start production. Speaking about the declaration from behind the desk of the Oval O ...