The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the power to punish perceived foes.
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The second-term president likely will seek to cut off spending that lawmakers have already appropriated, setting off a constitutional struggle within the branches. If successful, he could wield the power to punish perceived foes.
During Donald Trump’s second presidency, ProPublica will continue our focus on the areas most in need of scrutiny. Here are some of the issues our reporters will be watching — and how to get in touch with them.
Molly Redden, the author of today's feature story on impoundment, is reporting on the new administration's cultural agenda. Redden says she's "interested in hearing from federal workers seeing rightward shifts in policy on civil rights, religion, free expression, LGBTQ+ rights and reproductive health, and people with insight into how ideological groups and donors who helped reelect Trump are trying to influence White House policymaking."
“It’s not fair. Those of us who have been here for years get nothing.”
— Rosa, one of the many undocumented Mexican immigrants who’d settled nearly 30 years ago in Whitewater, Wisconsin, on why her feelings of indifference toward the Nicaraguan asylum-seekers who began moving into town a few years ago turned to frustration and resentment.
