federal
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Trump signed another executive order in May 2025 that called for administration officials to “prioritize funding for qualified advanced nuclear technologies through grants, loans, investment capital, funding opportunities and other federal support.”
From MarketWatch • May 18, 2026
The tax code only allows lawsuits against the government when a federal employee is responsible for the disclosure.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026
Manzo purged the municipal police and pleaded with the federal government to send troops and military-grade weapons to Uruapan.
From Los Angeles Times • May 18, 2026
America may have empowered the president to give the capital a case of Mar-a-Lago face, but the city’s inhabitants get only the slightest of say in federal matters.
From Slate • May 18, 2026
The term conveyed the political fear, so potent among the Antifederalist critics of the constitutional settlement of 1788, that the states would be absorbed by the new federal government.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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