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President Donald Trump washed his hands of one of his most controversial policies and blamed it on lower-ranking officials.

The president sat down for an extended interview with The Atlantic's Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer, who wrote that he seemed to acknowledge that his executive powers have limits, even as he continually seeks to expand them, and they added that Trump seemed to understand the Constitution would not allow him to disregard a judicial order.

President Donald Trump wants to reverse increases to food aid made under the former Biden administration — but he could be hurting his own voters the most with those plans, reported Politico.That's causing members of the administration to be wary of how to go about doing it.

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, more colloquially known as food stamps, allows lower-income people to purchase “any food or food product intended for human consumption,” with the exception of alcohol, tobacco and hot foods. The program, administered at the state level but made possible with federal funding, has been tweaked many times, with an expansion under the Biden administration.

President Donald Trump's escalating threats have produced chaos and fear across American political and economic life, but that dynamic could ultimately undo his presidency as many of those ultimatums ring hollow.

The president has been threatening to fire Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell over his response to global tariffs, but Trump seemingly backed down after advisers warned the move was legally and financially risky — and political scientist David Faris published a piece for Slate explaining how this "depressingly familiar loop" keeps playing out.

Three months into Donald Trump's second presidency, journalists Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer covered a lot of ground with him during a late April interview for The Atlantic — from foreign policy to immigration.

The reporters also addressed embattled Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, whose critics are calling for him to resign over a series of controversies — which include firings at the Pentagon and a security breach in which Hegseth discussed a military operation in Yemen on the messaging app Signal.

House Republicans are on course for obliteration in next year's midterm elections as President Donald Trump's numbers slide, said CNN data forecaster Harry Enten on Monday morning — and there are some very clear danger signs for them if you break down the data further.

"I mean, look, it's the congressional GOP. It's the House GOP," Enten told anchor John Berman. "If the House GOP is under any illusions that Donald Trump's fall in the polls won't bring them down as well, well, they are living on fantasy island."

President Donald Trump waded into Canada's federal election that has essentially become a referendum on him.

The U.S. president has upended relations between the neighboring allies with steep tariffs on Canadian imports and threats to use “economic force” to annex the country as the 51st state, and Trump fired off another ultimatum Monday morning at 8:36 a.m. EST, as the first polls opened in Newfoundland and parts of Labrador.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is facing a primary challenger that could tempt many of his former supporters, according to an article from the Washington Post.

“I feel like he just flows with the wind. I really do. Which is not a good thing,” Jane Rabon, a Republican who came to hear Graham speak in the Sun City retirement community, told the Post. “Sometimes I just want to reach out and smack him.”

President Donald Trump is facing plummeting support as he approaches his 100th day in office, but panelists on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" agreed it didn't have to be that way.

The president is underwater in several new polls as voters turn against his trade wars and government cuts, and Politico's politics bureau chief Jonathan Martin identified some of the choices Trump could have made early in his presidency to avoid drawing voters' ire.

Stockpiling is the reflex response by firms to the imposition of tariffs, but with the rapidly-changing position of the Trump administration, companies are finding that it isn't so straightforward this time around.

Whether it's the luxury, electronics or pharmaceutical sectors, US President Donald Trump's unpredictability complicates the calculations of firms.

Donald Trump exploited voters’ nostalgia for pre-pandemic America and, in 100 days, exchanged it for economic crisis. Then he showed how ‘indifferent” he was to people’s suffering by taking off to play golf.

That’s the opinion of a CNN analyst running through a whirlwind 100 days that he wrote took the USA from “an economy that the world envied to the brink of crisis, risking America’s reputation as a financial safe haven and fostering fear among voters who’ve lost confidence in his leadership.”

President Donald Trump admitted he was enjoying his second presidency more than his first during a lengthy, sit-down interview.

The president agreed to an interview with The Atlantic, whose editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg was inadvertently involved in a war planning group chat that has plunged the administration into scandal. But correspondents Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer found him eager to strike a bargain with them.

President Donald Trump sat down for a lengthy interview with The Atlantic, where he gave a hint that he's troubled by his Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's job performance so far.

The Pentagon chief has been embroiled in scandal for weeks over his usage of the non-secure Signal app to plan military operations with individuals outside of government, including The Atlantic's editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who the president invited to the interview along with two correspondents for the magazine.