Just a little over a week into his second term, President Donald Trump is taking steps to maximize his power, sparking chaos and what critics contend is a constitutional crisis as he challenges the separation of powers that have defined American government for more than 200 years.

The prospect of legal challenges to President Trump’s purges may be a feature, not a bug, for adherents of sweeping presidential authority.

There’s an as-yet unanswerable question to apply to so many of the incredible things President Donald Trump is trying to do as he barrels through the second week of his second term: Can he actually do this?

Trump is likely to succeed in expanding presidential powers on some fronts because the Constitution generally puts vast power in the hands of the president.

The White House’s temporary pause on trillions in federal spending could set up a court fight over executive authority and Congress’s control of the purse.

The memo, issued by the acting director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, Matthew Vaeth, said all federal spending must be aligned with “Presidential priorities,” and cited Trump’s emergency orders on issues including immigration,

This is Washington Edition, the newsletter about money, power and politics in the nation’s capital. Today, senior economy editor Ben Holland looks at behind the Trump administration order pausing some government spending.

Legal and business experts in the clean-energy sector are sorting through President Donald Trump's aggressive executive orders on climate and energy.

President Trump rescinded trillions in federal funding. On Tuesday, a federal court paused the freeze. Today, Trump walked the entire plan back.