The U.S. president wields enormous power and Donald Trump has greatly expanded his executive authority over the past year. But there is one area where he is learning the limits of presidential power - his ability to quickly lower the cost of living.

"The War Powers Act is Unconstitutional, totally violating Article II of the Constitution, as all Presidents, and their Departments of Justice, have determined before me," Trump wrote. But Trump went too far by calling the 1973 War Powers Resolution unconstitutional. Courts have repeatedly declined to rule on its constitutionality.

A Republican lawmaker has introduced a new bill to Congress that would curb President Donald Trump ’s executive powers. Newsweek contacted the White House via email for comment outside of regular business hours.

In 2025, Donald Trump returned to global center stage with big plans. In Year One of his second term, he expanded the formal and informal powers of the presidency in ways that challenge the American political system itself. In 2026, he looks set to up the ...

WASHINGTON − Conservative and liberal justices on the Supreme Court had tough questions for the Trump administration as the court considered whether President Donald Trump can impose sweeping tariffs on nearly every good imported to the U.S. During the ...

President Donald Trump pardons Butter, the national Thanksgiving turkey, in 2019at the White House in Washington, D.C., as first lady Melania Trump watches. The recent presidential pardons of figures who tried to overturn the 2020 election are part of a ...

All eyes are on the Supreme Court as it hears arguments on President Trump’s global tariffs. The case will not only decide the fate of one of the president’s signature policies but will also carry far broader implications for presidential power over ...

While the ruling in Wilcox was merely a stay of the District Court’s order and did not reach the merits of the case, the question of whether NLRB officials can be removed without cause has persisted throughout the summer. President Trump fired Gwynne ...

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