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Griffiths Comments on the US’s Ability to Acquire Greenland in La Presse Article
“The executive power is less hampered than we normally see, but that doesn't mean that there are no constraints,” says Ryan Griffiths, professor of political science.
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Monarch Quoted in Newsweek Article on Trump’s Tariff Checks
Any funding not covered by what tariffs have raised would likely have to come through Congressional authorization, says Ryan Monarch, associate professor of economics. “It’s not something the president can just wave a magic wand and disperse the money as they see fit,” he says.
Maxwell Experts Unpack the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’
A recent State of Democracy lecture offered varying perspectives from Maxwell faculty members Brynt Parmeter, Leonard Burman and Colleen Heflin in a discussion led by Chris Faricy, director of the Campbell Public Affairs Institute.
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Reeher Discusses the Government Shutdown With LiveNOW from FOX and Daily Kos
“President Trump is planning—at least he's saying he's going to do this, and he seems to be taking steps towards doing this—to very aggressively use this moment of a shutdown to make further changes in government, to remove more federal workers, to rescind funding that's been appropriated,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.
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Barton Discusses Gerrymandering, Uncompetitive Elections With GD Politics and Washington Post
“In theory, what we want is the election that really decides who is going to serve in government to be one that was a higher-turnout election where campaigns, candidates, platforms, policies made some sort of difference in the outcome,” says Assistant Teaching Professor Richard Barton. “But most of those general elections are just not competitive, and they’re not consequential.”
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Reeher Discusses Trumps ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ on LiveNOW from FOX
“There's going to be an enormous amount of pressure on the Republicans to stay together on this. More than anything else that any Republican who's serving in Congress right now will face, because this is going to be Donald Trump's signature domestic bill,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.
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Reeher Talks to CBS New York and WCNY About President Trump’s First 100 Days
“Donald Trump has come in and has had just a blizzard of executive orders and other kinds of actions that have had serious impact in the federal government, the relations between the major branches of government and have had effects that have trickled down into Syracuse,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.
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As Trump's Budget Bill Moves Ahead in the House, Reeher Discusses What’s Next With LiveNOW from FOX
“The strategy is going to be walking a tight rope. You've got folks in the Freedom Caucus on the Republican Party in the House that want deeper cuts and more reassurances that these cuts are actually going to happen. And you've got moderate Republicans in the Senate that are worried about those cuts,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.
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Gadarian Discusses Cory Booker’s Marathon Speech on the Senate Floor in Axios Article
Senator Booker's speech is intended to “bring attention to the threat that Booker and Democrats argue that Donald Trump poses to the health of American democracy and the welfare of the American public and be a rallying cry for other Democrats to act boldly with whatever means they have,” says Shana Gadarian, professor of political science.
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Maxwell Panel Weighs the Implications of the Proposed Dismantling of the Department of Education
The Center for Policy Research’s latest ‘What’s at Stake’ discussion explored the potential effects on public schools, Title IX, higher education accessibility and more.
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Lovely Discusses Trump’s Arbitrary Trade Policy in New York Times Article
“What Mr. Trump is doing with tariffs is a result of a lost consensus about how the United States should interact with other countries in the global economy. He is stepping into that vacuum, filling it with the unrestrained and autocratic use of import taxes, moves that appear to be based on personal whim rather than on U.S. trade law,” says Mary Lovely, professor emerita of economics.
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Keck Weighs In on Trump’s Threats to Ignore Court Orders in HuffPost Article
“Lots of the fights that they have picked—especially Musk’s out-of-control, rampant destruction of federal agencies from within—a lot of those fights they are not going to win in court,” says Thomas Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics.
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Sen. Schumer Presents Dean Van Slyke with Copy of Floor Remarks Commemorating Maxwell’s Centennial
In the official record, Schumer describes a “remarkable milestone” for a “remarkable school.”
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Reeher Speaks With AP News, City & State and Spectrum News About the Race for NY-22
“In some ways, you almost have two generic candidates running, one more conservative and one sort of more mainstream. And you’ve got a district that just seems more built for people who are closer to the center, in either party,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.
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Murrett Discusses Ukrainian President Zelenskyy’s Upcoming Trip to Washington With Fox News
Vice Adm. Robert Murrett (Ret.), professor of practice of public administration and international affairs, says President Zelenskyy is here to “garner additional support from the administration, the Congress, and address the United Nations in ways that will provide the military support and also looking forward to negotiations.”
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Keck Comments on Biden’s Supreme Court Reform Proposals in Al Jazeera and UPI Articles
“It pretty clear and consistent across lots of polls that public support for the court itself has been tanking,” says Thomas Keck, Michael O. Sawyer Chair of Constitutional Law and Politics. “So, in theory, that creates some space for a capable political leader to speak to those concerns.”
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Reeher Discusses the Biden-Trump Debate with AFP, The Globe and Mail, The Hill and Newsweek
“Trump seemed to bring almost every issue back to immigration and the harms he asserted were coming from that—that was obviously one of his main strategies. President Biden seemed to address different policy questions more in their own terms. He talked fast and in a staccato, hoarse whisper,” says Grant Reeher, professor of political science.
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O’Keefe Talks About the Need for Civil Service System Reform in Washington Post Article
“We think the current civil service system is badly in need of reform. But the blueprints offered by both left and right are problematic. One side is firmly rooted in a status quo that (inadvertently or otherwise) impedes accountability, and the other could end up politicizing the very civil servants who should be politically neutral,” writes University Professor Sean O'Keefe and his co-authors.
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Hranchak Speaks With The National About the Delay in US Military Aid for Ukraine
“Taking advantage of the delay in aid and the fact that the Ukrainians could not respond adequately, the Russians intensified their shelling of our power plants, and today Ukraine is forced to resort to blackouts to preserve electricity,” says Tetiana Hranchak, visiting assistant teaching professor in the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs.
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