A 1974 law requires the president to spend the appropriations passed by Congress or seek its permission to suspend funding.

President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, ...

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell describes how Donald Trump’s late-night purge of 18 independent inspectors general violates a law ...

One thing we saw lots of this week as power switched from one political party to the other was presidential pardons.

However, the Constitution grants presidents broad authority to issue pardons for federal offenses, even preemptively, as evidenced by Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon after Watergate.

Our only elected vice presidents are DFLers Hubert Humphrey ... But he ultimately lost out to the more conservative Richard Nixon. After Ike’s rejection, Stassen, for no good reason ...

The president returns to power with more GOP unity than he had in 2016. Congressional Republicans were far from standing foursquare behind him. House Republicans had 241 seats the ...

Specifically, he’s a fan of William McKinley, president from 1897 to 1901 ... Doug reckons this makes Trump more like Richard Nixon (similarly irascible with questionable ethics, though that ...

Vice President Kamala Harris ... (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Richard Nixon, after all, came home to California after losing the 1960 presidential election, lost the governor’s race in 1962 to ...

Half a century later, it welcomed an estimated crowd of 4,000 to see then-Vice President Richard Nixon speak during a ... Constructed in 1900, three years after the death of Turner's father ...

Vice President Kamala Harris ... (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) Richard Nixon, after all, came home to California after losing the 1960 presidential election, lost the governor’s race in 1962 to ...