Amber Phillips
Reporter, The Fix at The Washington Post
Author@washingtonpost 5-Minute Fix newsletter. Better understand today's political news in 5 minutes or less at https://t.co/WSCWHscUhN. Tik Tok & Insta @byamberphillips
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3 weeks ago |
washingtonpost.com | Amber Phillips
What’s up with Trump’s talk of expanding the U.S.? (washingtonpost.com) What’s up with Trump’s talk of expanding the U.S.? ‘He just wants the territories,’ one expert says By Amber Phillips 2025032808000600 Growing American territory was not something President Donald Trump campaigned on, nor was it a major focus in his first administration. But it is now.
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1 month ago |
washingtonpost.com | Amber Phillips
President Donald Trump asserts he can withhold money that Congress has allocated to a program, deport migrants without going through immigration courts, fire federal workers and tell the Justice Department not to enforce laws that Congress passed. And if judges rule against him, he says they should be impeached. He and his allies justify much of this by saying the Constitution grants him broad authority to do it. He is probably wrong, say almost all legal experts I’ve talked to.
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1 month ago |
washingtonpost.com | Amber Phillips
President Donald Trump is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening, six weeks into a presidency in which he has radically reoriented the federal government and appeared to alter U.S. foreign policy toward Russia. It will also be his first address to the nation since returning to the White House, and it comes amid economic uncertainty and Trump’s declining popularity. Here’s what to watch for. 1How does he address the cost of things?
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1 month ago |
washingtonpost.com | Amber Phillips
Most of what Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service has been doing is under legal scrutiny. He has dismantled government agencies, stripped down the federal workforce and gained access to sensitive government data — all in an attempt, he says, to “restore democracy.”So is any of this legal? The courts will ultimately decide that, and the lawsuits have started in earnest.
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2 months ago |
washingtonpost.com | Amber Phillips
This week, opposition and roadblocks to President Donald Trump’s efforts to lurch the country rightward started to take shape. Courts stopped Trump actions on everything from freezing federal grants to firing federal workers. The Trump administration toyed with ignoring them, which would launch the country into a full-blown constitutional crisis if he did.
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RT @wpjenna: Fani Willis’s sprawling case against Trump paints a vast conspiracy. But experts say the scope and specificity could be a prob…
Can Trump go to jail? Why is everyone saying this Georgia indictment so serious? What's he saying about this? All your questions answered here, in my daily newsletter, The 5-Minute Fix: https://t.co/bAggCnzANU
Fani Willis has taken on some big cases with this racketeering -- or RICO law -- and her track record is pretty impressive.
What could Trump and @youngthug possibly have in common? @byamberphillips has you covered on Georgia's RICO law https://t.co/ZWWuiwpzRr
