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December 2025

Trump Vetoes Bills Depriving States of Congressionally Approved Funding to Exact Revenge for Opposing Him
Donald Trump’s first two vetoes of his second term fit his pattern of using his power, not for the interests of the American people, but for personal…
 • Executive Watch
The Trump Administration Disses the Separation of Church and State This Christmas
There is a long tradition of the United States government releasing secular and non-sectarian messages for the Christmas season, carefully avoiding…
 • Executive Watch
Trump's Cabinet Members Illegally Refuse to Testify Before Congress
The main theme of the Trump administration’s abuse of executive power is its attempt to take away power from Congress.
 • Executive Watch
Abandoning All Pretense, Trump Threatens to Pull Licenses of TV Stations Simply for Criticizing Him
When the Trump administration intimidated ABC into briefly suspending Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night TV show in September, the supposed rationale was a…
 • Executive Watch
The Wall Street Journal Finds That $1 Million Is the Going Rate for Crooks to Obtain Fast-Track Pardons From Trump
Trump’s signature abuse of executive power is the way he has issued pardons. The Constitution gives the president a very broad power to grant clemency…
 • Executive Watch
Trump's Pardons of White Collar Criminals Deprives Their Victims of Just Compensation While Filling His Pockets
Pardons for those who have been convicted of crimes may be justified if they have reformed—and paid restitution to their victims.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Lies to Troops Saying He's Giving Them a Bonus From His New Tariff Revenues
In an otherwise inexplicable speech to the American people, Donald Trump promised to pay special bonus checks to members of the U.S.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Illegally Renames Kennedy Center After Himself
After illegally renaming the U.S.
 • Executive Watch
Trump’s Dirty Tactic to Put Voter Rolls Under Federal Control in a Possible Bid to Disenfranchise Americans Who Don’t Vote MAGA
In Article I, Section 4, the Constitution gives state governments authority over federal elections, with a supervisory role for the U.S.
 • Executive Watch
Trump Threatened to Withhold Federal Funds From Indiana Unless it Approved His Plan to Gerrymander its Electoral Map
Initially, it was just a rumor that Donald Trump was threatening to withhold federal funds from Indiana if its legislature didn’t approve his…
 • Executive Watch
Trump Illegally Tries to Pardon a Supporter Convicted of Tampering With Voting Machines Under State Law
Donald Trump has granted a pardon to Tina Peters, who was convicted of tampering with voting machines in an attempt to promote the lie that the 2020…
 • Executive Watch
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