WASHINGTON—President Trump signed an executive order that seeks to give his political appointees far-reaching control over ...

The order is the latest example of Trump’s embrace of a broad and controversial theory of executive power. The White House is ...

A U.S. senator has demanded to know whether the White House has considered firing Democrats on the bipartisan Federal Trade ...

The Trump administration has taken another step to centralize the executive branch with a new order that “reins in ...

President Trump’s efforts to expand control over independent agencies tees up a new test of presidential power that is ...

Trump ordered independent agencies like the Federal Trade Commission, Securities and Exchange Commission and Federal ...

Trump’s new EO would effectively bring the FTC, SEC, FDIC under control of the White House’s Office of Management and Budget The White House has already said that Trump has the authority to ...

The president says the move will increase “supervision” over independent agencies. His critics say it’s alarming.

The executive order would affect agencies like the SEC and FDIC, but it excludes the Federal Reserve's Board of Governors and ...

In one episode that made headlines, Trump met with then-FTC Chair Joseph Simons in the White House and pushed him to take action on the censorship allegations, as POLITICO reported in August 2020.