In February 2023, Texas Gov. Abbott toldstate agenciesthat DEI initiatives are “illegal." The memo, sent by Abbott's chief of staff, Gardner Pate, said these initiatives violate the law because they "expressly favor some demographic groups to the detriment of others." ...
But the Trump administration has argued that DOGE employees are authorized to access the records and are being supervised by the agencies to which they have been detailed. At the Treasury Department, for example, Justice Department lawyers invoked the need-to-know exception and said in a filing ...
A shutdown occurs when Congress fails to approve new spending for federal agencies, which are generally barred from spending money without congressional authorization. There are some exceptions, like activities needed to protect life and property. Each agency makes its own determination about which empl...
Making sure payroll taxes are paid to the right agencies and on time isn’t a task you should take lightly. If you don’t make your payments on time, you could face huge fines, see your business shut down and possibly spend time behind bars. Law said any money that you withhold from...
(Roe v. Wade, 1973) or the power of federal agencies to interpret ambiguous statutes (Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, 1984). Perhaps tellingly, when Trump considered a similar decree during his first term in 2018, then-House Speaker Paul Ryan, a fellow Republican,said such a ...
“Let me state this unequivocally: DO NOT LET ANYONE TAKE AWAY YOUR HOPE,” she directs firmly — and often doubles down on it. She cites the example of doctors who treated Stu’s death as imminent when the couple still had eight more years of life together. “Doctors are not God,”...
Trump has routinely dismissed scientific consensus that industry was causing global warming and gutted federal science agencies including the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior and interfered with their scientific advisory panels. He also boasted about removing the United States fr...
policy, and healthcare reform. Some promises have been less specific or more controversial than others, but all of them hold significance for what is to come in these first 100 days of Trump’s presidency. Already some of the promises have been enacted and their effects are beginning to be...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — The aspirations of Florida’s first lady Casey DeSantis have long been a topic of discussion in the state capital of Tallahassee. This week, her husband Gov. Ron DeSantis added to the speculation by talking her up as his potenti
absolutely, those should be the priority of ICE,” she said. “But that doesn’t mean that the other illegal criminals who entered our nation’s borders are off the table.”