Federal Government

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Tuesday called for sweeping Washington reform including term limits for congressional lawmakers, telling supporters “it’s time to drain the swamp.”

Under Trump's proposal, members of the House of Representatives would serve a maximum of six years, while Senators would be limited to 12 years in office.

“Decades of special interests, decades of failure must come to an end,” said Trump, who vowed, if elected, to try to impose the term limits through a constitutional amendment...

The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2025 general recommendations are that children receive about 19 vaccinations and other immunizations. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View the full fact brief on Wisconsin Watch.

The federal government has enforcement authority over federal crimes like crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally, even if they happen on tribal land. AllSides highlights content from Gigafact, a network of newsrooms that respond to online claims. View the full fact brief on The Colorado Sun.

Covid.gov, the government website where you could previously find information about covid, now redirects to a page that pushes the conspiracy theory that the virus originated from a lab. Navigating to the website reveals a prominent banner with the words “Lab Leak” and a photo of Donald Trump, as spotted earlier by Wired’s Andrew Couts.

Covidtests.gov, where you could order free covid tests, also redirects to the new webpage.

President Trump on Thursday signed a memorandum extending a freeze on hiring federal civilian employees into mid-July as his administration looks to slash the size and scope of the government.

The memorandum states that no civilian government role that is currently vacant will be filled, and no new positions will be created unless stipulated by the administration.

Welcome back to Forgotten Fact Checks. This week, we look at the left’s sudden flip-flopping on the Supreme Court, and cover more media misses.

Suddenly, the Supreme Court Is Good

The Nation’s Elie Mystal writes that Trump has been “racking up some wins at the Supreme Court and the answer for why is simple: John Roberts is a feckless coward.”

“He’s like a cop in Uvalde, cowering outside waiting for the shooting to stop, instead of doing his job,” Mystal said in a post on X sharing his column about the Court’s “rubber stamp rulings.”

An appeals court ruled Friday that President Donald Trump can fire two board members of independent agencies handling labor issues from their respective posts in the federal government.

A divided three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit agreed to lift orders blocking the Trump administration from removing Merit Systems Protection Board member Cathy Harris and National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox.

A U.S. appeals court on Friday refused to pause a judge's ruling requiring the Trump administration to reinstate 25,000 workers at 18 federal agencies who lost their jobs as part of the Republican president's purge of the federal workforce.

A panel of the Richmond, Virginia-based 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said there was no reason to pause the decision because the judge in Baltimore, Maryland is expected to decide next week whether to extend it further, in a lawsuit brought by 19 Democrat-led states and Washington, D.C....

In the wake of the crises of the decade so far — the pandemic, extreme weather and natural disasters, among others — Americans have increasingly expressed their doubts about institutions, the government especially.