After declaring a public safety emergency Aug. 11 in Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump suggested that declaring a national emergency would let him bypass the law’s limits.

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen believes his Republican colleagues will not allow President Donald Trump to keep the Washington, D.C., police department under federal control indefinitely. Van Hollen ...

Far from being a new debate brought on by current events, the discussion over extending home rule to Washingtonians has been ...

The 1973 law granted the city a greater degree of self-governance. It also allows the president to federalize D.C.'s police ...

The federal budget deficits caused by President Donald Trump’s tax and spending law could trigger automatic cuts to Medicare ...

President Trump on Monday announced he was taking federal control of D.C.’s police department and deploying the National ...

Congress rarely uses the Congressional Review Act to disapprove of federal agency rules. When it does, reporters call the CRA “obscure” and argue Congress is “pushing the bounds of a little-known ...

The statute does not require evidence or congressional approval — only a presidential declaration of emergency.

It would take some doing, though — including, literally, an act of Congress. But the issue bubbled up again this week, the latest in the blizzard of initiatives that have surfaced since Trump ...