Carla Hayden was appointed to the position by Barack Obama and confirmed by the Senate in a 74-18 vote in 2016 James Devaney/GC Images; Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty The Trump administration has ...

In just over 100 days, we’ve seen President Donald Trump work overtime to erase every ounce of cultural and racial diversity from our government institutions, including threatening to end funding to ...

Portions of the Constitution were deleted from the Library of Congress' website after President Donald Trump ousted the longtime librarian from her role in May The omitted portions of Article I cover ...

Carla Hayden, the 14th librarian of Congress, who has held the position since 2016, received an unexpected email on May 8, 2025. “Carla, on behalf of President Donald J. Trump, I am writing to inform ...

Donald Trump’s administration is attempting a hostile takeover of the Library of Congress — an agency that is part of the legislative branch and functions as its research arm in addition to ...

The Trump White House has a new target in its campaign to expand executive power: the Library of Congress. Never mind the name — administration lawyers are now arguing that the main research library ...

Who is in charge of the Library of Congress: Congress or the president? Until recently, the settled answer in Washington was that the world’s largest library was, as its name states, a legislative ...

The past week has been witness to the rarest of rare Trump-era occurrences: Congress has been standing up for itself a little. It hasn’t happened over any of the numerous brazen abuses of the ...

CROFTON, MD ‒ Claire Holahan, 34, takes her toddler to the library once or twice a week for story time so she can play with other children and the library's toys. It's not until after bedtime that she ...

In just over 100 days, we’ve seen President Donald Trump work overtime to erase every ounce of cultural and racial diversity from our government institutions, including threatening to end funding to ...