Prospect

If the president wanted to cause airline disasters, it’s hard to imagine what he would have done differently.

On the last day of Trump’s first term, Office of Management and Budget officials asserted that presidents can alter spending they don’t like. They’re returning to OMB to finish the job.

Republicans reveal their first targets for the Congressional Review Act. Consumer protection rules may be next.

Michigan and Ontario will be on the front lines of serious economic disruptions if and when the Trump tariffs finally materialize.

The Biden administration wanted to restore the domestic semiconductor industry. The results have disappointed.

As many as 200,000 federal employees with weaker civil service protections could be let go. But they are supposed to only be fired for poor performance.

Today on TAP: That will depend on whether two justices, Chief John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett, are offended by a whole new level of dictatorial overreach.

These are not bright guys, and things got out of hand.

MAGA is getting its most depraved wishes.

The alleged eight-month ‘deferred resignation’ contradicts federal rules.

Avril Haines ran cover for the CIA’s domestic surveillance. Who could possibly be worse?

Wealthy oil and gas interests getting politicians to do their bidding: coming to a federal government near you.

Today on TAP: Neutering the NLRB and targeting janitors, even as his billionaire backers stomp on workers’ rights

Pausing funds appropriated by Congress is a deliberate taunt to draw a legal challenge that the White House’s most radical architects think will give them unilateral spending power.

Open-source software from China calls into question why we’re committing trillions to winning the AI race.

Will some serious pushback set in before Trump blows us and the Constitution to hell?

Chris Hayes’s new book argues that the demand for attention has taken over every facet of our lives.

Today on TAP: Will they increase his popular support—or backfire?

Elon Musk wants to cut government spending. But the waste in the system goes to elites like him. Here’s a better way to bring down deficits.

Like the Confederacy’s leader, Trump’s agenda is civil war.