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Dozens of measures sprinkled throughout the recently enacted spending package seek to tie the Trump administration's hands on funding, an act of quiet bipartisan resistance to efforts to trample congressional power.
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The ruling from a Trump-appointed federal judge is the third in recent weeks to reject the administration's demand for voters' personal data from nearly every state.
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Before the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, allegations against four others shot at by federal immigration agents failed to withstand scrutiny.
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A federal judge weighing whether the project may proceed has focused on whether the administration can use private donations to bypass congressional approval.
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In the aftermath of the abduction of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, Venezuela has agreed to submit a monthly budget to the Trump administration, which will release money from an account funded by oil sales. It's a deal for the interim government led by Delcy Rodriguéz that historian Greg Grandin calls "governing under the blade." In a further shift away from the nation-building foreign policy of the past several decades of U.S. power, "what the United States is planning for Venezuela is basically to run the country as a vassal state," he says. "This is an arrangement with transactional details that we've never seen before."
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