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If a sitting president and the entire executive branch were simultaneously removed or incapacitated, the Constitution and the Presidential Succession Act lay out a specific order: the vice president i...
Joe Biden’s approval ratings during and at the end of his presidency trended lower than most recent post‑World War II presidents, with multiple measures showing his averages among the lowest on record...
If a sitting U.S. president were medically diagnosed with dementia, the U.S. Constitution and federal practice point to two legal routes: voluntary transfer of power (resignation or delegation under t...
Presidents have repeatedly sent U.S. forces, including Marines, into combat or combat-like operations without a prior formal declaration of war by Congress; Justice Department and congressional-histor...
The 25th Amendment has been formally used multiple times since its 1967 ratification: Section 2 (to fill a vice‑presidential vacancy) was used twice in 1973–74 when Nixon and then Ford nominated Geral...
The Twenty-Fifth Amendment has been used, but not in the way some headlines imply: its provisions have been invoked multiple times to fill vacancies and to temporarily transfer power when presidents w...
MAGA is widely depicted in recent reporting and commentary as a populist, nationalist and media-driven movement that departs from key pillars of traditional conservatism—especially free‑trade preferen...
There is no single authoritative count in the provided sources that tallies every U.S. politician killed or injured in assassination attempts since 1900; available listings and timelines instead catal...
Available analyses disagree on precise attribution, but multiple sources show deficits rose under Republican presidencies in the post‑1980 era (notably Reagan, both Bushes, and Trump) while deficits g...
A public diagnosis of dementia for a former U.S. president would carry legal, political and reputational consequences but would not automatically trigger a change in office or criminal liability; the ...
Official, comparable annual deportation totals for every president from Reagan through Trump are not provided in the supplied sources; available reporting instead gives fiscal-year snapshots, administ...
Charlie Kirk was born in October 1993 in the Chicago suburbs and raised by professional parents in a politically engaged, predominantly conservative household; he became active in politics in high sch...
Democratic administrations generally pursue : raising top individual and corporate rates, expanding credits for lower‑ and middle‑income households, increasing IRS enforcement, and sometimes proposing...
Both major U.S. parties — Republicans and Democrats — have played roles in past federal government shutdowns; historical shutdowns occurred under presidents and Congresses controlled by each party at ...
Since 1980, , though counts differ depending on whether one counts every funding gap or only full "shutdowns." , while other presidents (Reagan, Carter, Obama) saw fewer or shorter shutdowns depending...
The Trump administrations’ Title X policy shifts — most notably the 2019 “domestic gag rule” and the 2025–2025-era funding withholdings and proposed reinstatement of restrictive rules — reduced the nu...
Measured as debt held by the public relative to GDP, Donald Trump’s term saw roughly a 23 percentage-point increase in the debt‑to‑GDP ratio — a sharp rise largely tied to the COVID recession and reli...
Bill Clinton’s 1994 legislative package—most notably the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the 1996 welfare reform (PRWORA)—marked a clear policy shift that tightened immigration-relat...
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 was enacted to by requiring notification to Congress within 48 hours and by limiting deployments to roughly 60 days absent congressional approval or an extended autho...
The White House "Presidential Walk of Fame" is a newly refashioned colonnade exhibit where President Donald Trump installed bronze plaques beneath portraits of every U.S. president; many of those plaq...