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They have been working on drafting a plan for when Trump returns to the White House to oust federal employees and replace them with like-minded officials.Ramaswamy said, currently, presidents act like puppets who cant implement policies.
The investigation by the Pentagon's internal watchdog was prompted by complaints during the Trump administration
A Pentagon report has found the Donald Trump White House pharmacy improperly provided prescription drugs and misused funds.
NEW YORK (AP) — The director of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025 vision for a complete overhaul of the federal government stepped down Tuesday after blowback from Donald Trump's campaign,
Leaked Project 2025 videos reveal conservative plans for federal overhaul while Trump distances himself from the initiative as scrutiny mounts.
The latetst -- and most surprising -- to come out in support of the bill is billionaire Elon Musk, the Donald Trump-supporting, often regulation-averse Tesla CEO and X owner.
Mr Trump also promised to cut 10 government regulations for every new regulation implemented if he is elected in November.
Sen. JD Vance declined on Friday to rule out the use of family separations if he and Trump win back the White House.
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump said on Thursday he would appoint billionaire Elon Musk to head a government efficiency commission if he wins the U
Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts defended Project 2025 and said it has been mischaracterized by its critics.
The short-term bill is expected to get a vote on the House floor this week as Congress faces a Sept. 30 shutdown deadline.
The US Congress has passed a temporary funding measure to keep government agencies operational until December 20, thereby avoiding a government shutdown. The measure includes an additional $231 million for the Secret Service following assassination attempts against Donald Trump. However, a final spending agreement remains far from certain, with tough negotiations expected post-election.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma's top education official is seeking to purchase 55,000 Bibles for public schools and specifying that each copy contain the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution,
Oklahoma is soliciting bids for Bible suppliers to provide their wares for the state’s education department – and the specific requirements fit Bibles endorsed by former President Donald Trump.
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump’s campaign still owes St. Cloud nearly $209,000 for services related to a July rally, officials from the central Minnesota city say.
Tuberville assessed the Republican Party’s chances of retaking the Senate is “looking good in a lot of areas.”
Documents obtained by HuffPost show the agency spent several days accommodating the former president’s effort to take credit for COVID-era payments.
Trump is the first president in more than a century to win a non-consecutive second term. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A good-governance group is warning of severe consequences if President-elect Donald Trump continues to steer clear of formal transition planning with the Biden administration — inaction that
President-elect Donald Trump has not yet submitted a series of transition agreements with the Biden administration, in part because of concerns over the mandatory ethics pledge vowing to avoid conflicts of interest once sworn in to office, CNN has learned.
The second Trump administration is beginning to populate, with the president-elect appointing a border czar, nominating an ambassador to the United Nations and choosing a leader of the Environmental Protection Agency. But the most important appointment President-elect Trump has made so far is his first — Susie Wiles as his White House chief of staff.…
President-elect Donald Trump named William "Bill" McGinley to serve as his White House counsel Tuesday, filling a critical role inside the West Wing.
Lander gave the bleak assessment at a press conference announcing a report on the impacts of the 2024 elections — saying that if Trump cuts federal funding, key infrastructure projects, schools and housing could be imperiled.
Sean Duffy, a Fox Business host and former Representative for Wisconsin, has been tapped by Donald Trump to lead the department of Transportation.
Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy vow their Department of Government Efficiency will end work-from-home for federal bureaucrats — but we don’t see why President-elect Trump should wait on DOGE to pull the plug.
Donald Trump's transition has failed to sign ethics agreements, which in turn has reportedly allowed the team to run on "secret money," and the president-elect's critics are outraged. Trump has been quick to announce his Cabinet nominations over the last two weeks, but he has been slow to reveal...
Donald Trump's ethics and transparency promises may be a violation of the Presential Transition Act, a report suggests.The former and incoming president raised eyebrows by missing a key deadline for signing transition agreements with the White House. He ultimately signed most of the needed documents...
Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency partner Vivek Ramaswamy are compiling a list of Uncle Sam’s biggest boondoggles for Donald Trump.
Gov. Newsom called a special session to prepare $25 million for legal battles with the incoming Trump administration. Republicans dismiss the session as a political stunt.
AURORA, Colo. (AP) — An apartment building that was the scene of a viral video that led former President Donald Trump to claim a Denver suburb had been taken over
Caleb Vitello, who has decades of experience with ICE, has been tapped as acting director of the agency
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump is promising expedited federal permits for energy projects and other construction worth more than $1 billion. But like other Trump plans, the idea is likely to run into regulatory and legislative hurdles, including a landmark law that requires federal agencies to consider the environmental impact before deciding on major projects.
President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan Wednesday to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown, instead telling House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans to essentially renegotiate — days before a deadline when federal funding runs out.
Democratic and Republican senators were stunned when Trump and Musk tanked a bipartisan agreement to avoid a government shutdown.
A new GAO audit reveals the FAA's aging and slow-to-modernize air traffic control systems, with many critical systems at risk of failure.
Donald Trump and JD Vance want US lawmakers to pass a different temporary spending bill to the one...
The House has resoundingly rejected President-elect Donald Trump’s new plan to fund federal operations and suspend the debt ceiling a day before a government shutdown.
The Republican-led House passed a funding bill to avert a government shutdown, contradicting Trump's push for a debt ceiling hike. The bill, extending funding until March 14, allocates disaster and farm aid. Democrats agree on the package despite removing controversial elements.
Hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House approved a new plan late Friday from Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but drops President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year.
The CWA feels that comments made by AT&T's CEO are similar to ones made before that the carrier lied about.
The White House may not have to adopt a position related to the bill, with Republicans more likely to hold it so Trump can put his signature on it.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump used a raucous rally Sunday on the eve of his inauguration to promise swift Day 1 action remaking the federal government, shifting federal priorities at breakneck speed and ensuring that “the curtain clo
Trump administration proposes ‘deferred resignation program’ which would allow federal employees to remain on the payroll through Sept. 30 but not have to work
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next week.
It gives a small win to those who say it would disrupt programmes that serve tens of millions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
A number of U.S. government web pages changed or went dark Friday as agencies scrambled to comply with President Donald Trump's executive orders declaring his administration would recognize only two genders and ordering an end to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
WASHINGTON (AP) — As part of the Trump administration’s push to expand U.S. energy production, federal officials will review and consider redrawing the boundaries of national monuments created under previous
Callers are getting busy signals and voicemail inboxes are full at many U.S. Senate offices. People are trying to reach out and voice their opinions on President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks, executive orders and moves to dismantle various federal programs.
The Trump administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday.
Remaining workers would oversee the limited life-saving programs the Trump administration intends to continue for the time being.
A U.S. judge has temporarily halted the Trump administration's controversial buyout plan for federal workers, offering hope to unions and opponents. The plan, which aims to reduce the federal workforce, has sparked legal challenges and protests. Over 60,000 federal employees have already accepted the buyout offer.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump declared he was revoking Joe Biden's security clearances and halting his intelligence briefings. Trump cited a report labeling Biden as forgetful. Biden's past actions questioned Trump's suitability for briefings over concerns of potential information leaks.
The courts are slamming the brakes on some of President Donald Trump's efforts to quickly trim and transform the federal government.
The federal hiring freeze implemented by President Donald Trump has affected the hiring of a crucial group of federal workers: firefighters.
President Trump, with Elon Musk, aims to radically transform the U.S. government by downsizing the civil service and cutting spending. His plans, which include closing agencies like the U.S. Agency for International Development, have sparked controversy and face legal challenges. The focus is on eliminating fraudulent payments.
A federal judge removed the hold he'd placed on President Trump's buyouts of federal workers on Wednesday, ruling that neither he nor the unions that sued to block it...
Trump has said he wants to use financial incentives to encourage government employees to quit
Trump wants to use financial incentives to encourage government employees to quit. According to the White House, tens of thousands of workers have taken the government up on its offer.
Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove sent a letter excoriating now-former acting Assistant Attorney General Danelle Sassoon after she sent her resignation to Attorney General Pam Bondi. And her letter makes allegations against Bove that could end up in court, a legal analyst warned Thursday on M...
The Trump administration, with Elon Musk's support, is making sweeping changes across the U.S. federal government, impacting the judiciary system by challenging lease use and firing thousands of probationary staff. It halts crucial programs such as wildfire prevention and dismantles renowned disaster response teams, sparking both support and frustration.
Officials at DHS said they had fired hundreds of employees across several of its agencies.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were spotted conducting an assessment at the shuttered facility both Thursday and Friday, according to a federal prison union leader.
President Donald Trump's administration has agreed not to fire additional staff at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau following a court order, temporarily halting a feared mass layoff. This decision came amid allegations of plans to dismantle the agency, opposed by employee unions and advocacy groups.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation's nuclear weapons programs, in an about-face that
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation's nuclear weapons programs, in an about-face that
Positions cut also appeared to focus on agency’s centers for tobacco products, including oversight of e-cigarettes
A former FDA official said cutting recent hires could backfire, eliminating staffers who tend to be younger and have more up-to-date technical skills.
Tension is high in West Boylston, Massachusetts, as Town Administrator James Ryan and Police Chief Dennis Minnich spar over a Donald Trump flag
Here's a look at some of the broad and specific ways federal agencies and employees are being affected by the Trump administration and DOGE's reductions so far.
The president is claiming total control over agencies that, by law, are independent.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration has kept withholding foreign aid despite a court order and must at least temporarily restore the funding to programs worldwide, a federal judge said
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Trump administration is once again targeting California's controversial high-speed rail project, with federal transportation officials on Thursday announcing an investigation and possible withdrawal of about $4 billion in federal funding.
President Trump's initiative to reduce the federal workforce has led to the Pentagon announcing 5,400 job cuts. Legal challenges and public backlash persist, with criticism over the impact on government services. Amid this, prominent figures like Elon Musk are playing significant roles in reshaping federal employment landscapes.
Order by Trump-appointed judge setback for government employee unions who have filed lawsuit against firings
Elon Musk, spearheading cost-cutting efforts in President Trump's administration, mandates federal workers to justify their weekly accomplishments, threatening non-responses as resignations. This move is part of larger efforts to reduce government size, leading to massive workforce cuts. Employee unions condemn the ultimatum as disrespectful and unlawful.
Elon Musk, head of the Department of Government Efficiency, threatens to fire federal workers who fail to report their weekly accomplishments. This follows President Trump's call to downsize the federal workforce. The move has sparked union outrage and raised legal questions about authority and execution.
In President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s latest move targeting the federal workforce, employees began receiving emails Saturday afternoon asking them to explain what work they did last week, as Musk announced that “failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.”
The billionaire working to strip the federal government of its workforce made the demand after President Donald Trump told him to "GET MORE AGGRESSIVE."
PRESIDENT Donald Trump has sacked a whopping 2,000 workers and put thousands more on leave in the latest USAID chaos.It comes a day after Tesla tycoon
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Sunday that it is eliminating 2,000 positions at the U.S. Agency for International Development and placing all but a fraction of other staffers worldwide on leave .
Current news highlights major domestic issues in the U.S., including government layoffs, Elon Musk’s influence, Giuliani's legal settlements, bipartisan support for Ukraine, challenges to EPA climate fund claw backs, U.S.-China trade tensions, New York City's congestion program, and broader federal policies under the Trump administration.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration said Wednesday it is eliminating more than 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall U.S. assistance around the world.
Judge says office of personnel management lacks power to order firings, including those of probationary employees
WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite a comment by President Donald Trump, the Environmental Protection Agency does not plan to reduce its staff by 65%, the White House and the agency said
The recent lease cancellations come as the Department of Government Efficiency continues to slash the budgets of federal agencies under the direction of President Donald Trump
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday gave the Trump administration until Monday to pay nearly $2 billion in debts to partners of the U.S.
The Associated Press has found that the Trump administration has stalled at least $60 million in funding intended largely for affordable housing developments nationwide.
Free training classes for firefighters and other first responders are provided through Fema at the Maryland site
President Donald Trump said it is "very important" that there is no dissent from House Republicans and urged them all to vote in favor of the funding bil.
Johns Hopkins University announced Thursday that it will be cutting more than 2,000 jobs after it lost $800 million in funding from the US Agency for International Development amid the Trump administration’s effort to significantly downsize the federal government.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a six-month spending bill on Friday hours before a government shutdown, overcoming sharp Democratic opposition to the measure and sending it to President Donald Trump to be signed into law. The vote was 54-46.
Republicans have long sought to chip away at U.S. Education Department’s funding and influence
The questionnaire sent to Canadian researchers is fueling fears that U.S. funding could be tied to conforming to political policies and ideology.
Mr Trump has long promised to take the agency apart, deriding it as wasteful and polluted by liberal ideology. But the department cannot be dismantled without an act of Congress.
Trump has signed more executive orders at this point in a term than any other modern president, focusing mostly on cuts to the federal government and trade.
President Donald Trump, alongside musician Kid Rock, has introduced an executive order aimed at curbing ticket scalping and enhancing transparency in ticket pricing. The order pushes for enforcement by the FTC and collaboration with major ticketing agencies to fight bots and excessive resale prices in the entertainment sector.
The Trump administration is contemplating a significant expansion of its travel restrictions, potentially banning citizens of 36 additional countries from entering the United States, according to an internal State Department cable.
The 1992 deployment in Los Angeles proved that troops operate best on the streets when the state is in charge.
The failure to deploy rural broadband has become synonymous with excessive bureaucracy. The real story is more complicated.
Beim dänischen Digitalministerium sollen alle Angestellten ohne Microsoft auskommen. Stattdessen werde man Linux und LibreOffice nutzen, sagt die Ministerin.
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Some early filers say worries about the future under the Trump administration moved up their timelines.
At a bill signing event at the White House, Trump invoked his high-profile former aide, saying "Now I know why Elon doesn't like me so much."
"The curfew remains in effect... for downtown Los Angeles to stop bad actors who are taking advantage of the President's chaotic escalation," said L.A.'s Mayor Bass.
The Army is reviewing why pro-Trump merchandise was sold at Fort Bragg this week at an event orchestrated by the White House and supporters of President Donald Trump.
Amazon, Oracle, Coinbase, and others are all backing the event.
President Trump is sending tanks rolling through the streets of the capital not to honor service, but to celebrate power.
All employees at the Danish Ministry of Digital Affairs are to work without Microsoft. Instead, Linux and LibreOffice will be used, says the minister.
Palantir has never had a great reputation. Even before it teamed up with Trump to create a massive, abusable database of American residents’ information, it was working with forward-looking cop shops, that wanted similar massive, abusable databases of their o…
Elon Musk may be gone from the Trump administration — and his friendship status with President Donald Trump may be at best uncertain — but his whirlwind stint in government certainly left its imprint. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his pet g…
Former Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board members said the Trump administration usurped their authority by denying awards to "a substantial number" of the individuals it had selected for the program.
US president unveils website for applicants to register interest in visa granting permanent visa, path to citizenship.
The White House could appeal the injunction issued by the judge but the decision in a federal court is a setback for President Trump.
The developer must also publish known failure modes, keep all documentation current, and push updates within 30 days of a version change.
UPDATE, 9:16 PM: Gavin Newsom’s renewed control of the California National Guard didn’t last more than a few hours thanks to a federal appeals court. “The...
President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard to L.A. will be “the first, perhaps, of many,” he told reporters this week.
The administration’s opponents should invoke Roberts court precedents to oppose the administration’s harmful policy agenda.
The program will allow for compensation for exposure to toxic waste.
Jutes revolt against Redmond: Minister for Digital Affairs aims the longboats away from Vinland Comment The boss of Denmark's Ministry for Digitalization says her department will move away from Microsoft – starting with LibreOffice.…
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As President Donald Trump kicked off a birthday military parade on the streets of Washington, DC, what's estimated as roughly 2,000 events were held across the US and beyond - protesting Trump and Elon Musk's evisceration of government services, an unpreceden…
The U.S. Army celebrated its 250th anniversary on Saturday with a massive military parade in Washington, D.C., against a backdrop of political division and protests savaging President Trump.
President Donald Trump carried out the swearing in of 300 new U.S. service members during Saturday's Washington, D.C., military parade.
Antonia Hitchens on President Donald Trump’s military parade, in Washington, D.C., to celebrate the two-hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the U.S. Army.
As millions of Americans protested at “No Kings” rallies across the country, onlookers gathered in Washington on the president’s birthday for a muted celebration.
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This week, our winners on the insightful side are a comment-and-reply combo regarding Trump ordering the National Guard into California. In first place, it’s huskcummerbund with a question: Hey, remember when Kristi Neom tweeted “If Joe Biden federalizes the …
We compare and contrast US President Donald Trump cancelling a proposed military parade in 2018 for being too costly wit
Tanks roll through US capital to mark Army's 250th anniversary, prompting cheers and condemnation.
A massive military parade in Washington DC to mark 250 years since the founding of the US Army coincided with Donald Tru
Mayor Eric Adams hosted a lengthy livestream on the porch at Gracie Mansion. The mayor hosted the late-night event with the internet personality known as "Sneako" from the porch at Gracie Mansion on Saturday. [ more › ]
Three dozen horses, 28 Abrams tanks, 6,700 soldiers, and millions of taxpayer dollars later, and Donald Trump’s military birthday parade was still a flop at best. A crowd that was well under the administration’s projected 200,000 peppered the National Mall …
“My request to all of you is: Please, become rich off selling to the United States Army.” This was Army Secretary Dan Driscoll’s parting message at the end of his Exchange session at the AI+ Expo for National Competitiveness, earlier this month. It was th…
The parade will coincide with thousands of protests nationwide against the Trump administration’s policies.
The change marks another blow to NOAA’s forecasting abilities, adding to growing concerns about the agency’s readiness for hurricane season.
Millions of Americans are expected to lose their Medicaid coverage under the current version of the bill, and many will suffer or die as a result, a new analysis shows.
The president's impact on investment in the US is far more incremental than he has claimed.
The hearing on whether to indefinitely block President Trump's June 4th proclamation on Harvard's international students is scheduled in federal court in Boston.
Even though the billionaire is no longer leading the Department of Government Efficiency effort, many key staffers — and DOGE ideas — are now more permanently embedded in the federal government.
The President wrote Sunday on Truth Social that he instructed his entire administration "to put every resource possible behind this effort."
President Donald Trump on Monday doubled down on his goal to conduct mass deportations in some of the country's biggest cities, specifically those run by Democrats.
A leader who uses military force to suppress his political opposition ought to lose the right to govern.
Donald Trump ordered ICE officers to prioritize deportations in Democrat-run cities in a wild Truth Social rant Sunday night. The president issued the...
Kim Sajet, the director of the National Portrait Gallery (NPG), has resigned just days after the Smithsonian Institution attempted to challenge President Trump's firing of her. [Read More]
Back in 2019, the Trump DOJ and FCC cobbled together a dumb plan to try and hide the problems created by their rubber stamping of the competition-eroding T-Mobile and Sprint merger: they’d pretend they were helping satellite TV company Dish Network create a n…
When Andrew Ferguson made his pitch to Donald Trump to take over the organization, his one-page “pick me” plea talked about “ending” former FTC Chair Lina Khan’s “politically motivated investigations.” We pointed out at the time how hilarious it was that he t…
President Donald Trump promised his supporters “the largest deportation program in American history” — but he’s nowhere close. That distinction belongs to an early 20th-century program that likely saw 2 million people deported. When looking at more recent ti…
As Trump ramps up mass deportations and conflicts with with progressive leaders like Chicago’s Brandon Johnson, he’s taking aim at the Windy City
Federal judge on bench for 40 years lambasts grant terminations as 'racist' and anti-LGBTQ.
The Senate confirmed Republican Olivia Trusty to serve on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday, installing another nominee by President Donald Trump and ending the brief lack of quorum at the agency. The vote was 53-45, with Sen. John Fetter…
U.S. President Donald Trump will extend the looming TikTok ban for another 90 days later this week, the White House said today (via Axios). It will be the third extension Trump has put in place since taking office in January. Trump's second TikTok extens…
The California Democrat returned to the Senate floor Tuesday to warn that the Trump administrations response to immigration protests in Los Angeles should "shock the conscience of our country."
Jeremy Greenberg was in charge of coordinating federal help after hurricanes, wildfires, earthquakes and other emergencies. He has resigned from leading FEMA's National Response Coordination Center.
The $200 million DoD contract is for OpenAI to develop AI tools for national security purposes, potentially placing it as a competitor to Palantir.
The Trump administration is considering putting in place legal and financial hurdles that would reduce the number of pharmaceutical ads, according to reports...
Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump’s first term, his administration built about one...
The US president will cut short his time at the meeting and return to DC, citing the conflict between Israel and Iran.
For a brief moment, it looked like real life was finally having an effect on Trump’s “immigrants are inherently evil” fantasies. There was a brief window, last week, where Trump indicated he’d roll back some of his deportation goons because it was going too f…
When a federal judge ruled last week that Marco Rubio can’t just declare that the US can detain green card holder Mahmoud Khalil based on the Secretary of State’s “vibes check” assessment of his political beliefs, you might think Khalil would finally be free …
Ted Johnson / Deadline: The US Senate confirms Olivia Trusty to the FCC, giving Republicans a 2-1 majority after the recent departures of two members — The Senate confirmed Olivia Trusty to the FCC, a move that gives Donald Trump and Republicans a 2-1 major…
President Donald Trump has been privately trashing Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, while refusing to call him after Minnesota political assassination.
The tech industry is fully on board, but the rank and file won't have to do time as grunts.
Trump says he backs the MAHA agenda which includes eliminating toxins linked to human health problems. But his administration continues to cuts funds, grants and regulations that support that goal.
Trustees of the Social Security trust fund predict the fund will be exhausted in eight years. Unless Congress acts, Social Security payments will automatically drop by 23% at that time.
TikTok still has the same owner. There's another ban-or-sale deadline coming up, but Donald Trump is going to extend it — again.
President Donald Trump has officially made changes to the White House grounds. Well before Trump assumed office in 2017, presidents always had their say on...
What to know about the local officials and members of Congress who have been handcuffed, slammed to the ground, and detained by authorities.
How did Kristi Noem amass so much power as DHS secretary?
The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing Wednesday examining the cognitive abilities of former President Joe Biden.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth snapped back at female Democratic senators, at one point telling one that her "time was up," as he was grilled at a congressional hearing.
Can recognition for outstanding work suddenly be a bad thing?
Health specialists were put on leave, and a report on how to protect 20 million workers from wildfire smoke has stalled
Quick reminder: The law that banned the app is called ‘Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act’ The Trump administration is set to again waive the 2024 law that requires the made-in-China social network TikTok to either sell it…
What may be one of the U.S. Supreme Court’s most important and far-reaching rulings in decades dropped in late May 2025 in an order that probably didn’t get a second – or even first – glance from most Americans. But this not-quite-two-page ruling, as technica…
Trump has been comfortable deploying the power of government to achieve specific economic outcomes, diverging from the GOP's traditional free-market approach
The world’s richest man has reshaped the US government. Fault Lines investigates what that is costing the United States.
Who needs regulations on things with clear ties to mesothelioma?
NPR has heard from more than 50 veterans around the country who are upset about the VA cutting a program that was helping vets avoid foreclosure. Veterans now have worse options than most Americans.
The U.S. Army Reserve has directly commissioned four top Silicon Valley executives as lieutenant colonels under a new initiative, Detachment 201, aimed at accelerating tech integration into military operations. While these part-time roles are intended to brin…
The Dodgers said they asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to leave Dodger Stadium after they arrived at a parking lot near one of the gates.
The president's comments came after workers erected two 88-foot-tall flagpoles, one on the north lawn and one on the south lawn, at the White House on Wednesday.
Without Elon Musk, what is the Department of Government Efficiency going to do?
If parties won’t nudge unfit politicians into retirement, what can?
The Trevor Project, an organisation involved in the service, called the change "incomprehensible".
Buried in the Trump administration's proposed 2026 budget is the near elimination of something called the Ecosystems Mission Area. It's a program that monitors living things and the health of the land and water they inhabit. NPR's Ari Daniel reports that care…
Coal power is on life support in the US. It used to carry the grid with cheap electricity, but now plants are closing left and right. There are a lot of potential reasons to let coal continue its journey to the grave. Carbon emissions from coal plants are a m…
As President Trump deploys troops to guard against protesters in Los Angeles, service members share concern over orders.
US Senator Chris Van Hollen argues that the Trump has made his administration ‘a junior partner’ to Netanyahu.
I. A Parliament of Billionaires Donald Trump is America’s first billionaire president. He entered the White House in 2017 with a net worth of $3.7 billion, according to Forbes, and in 2025 with a net worth of $5.2 billion. Trump’s habitat, unlike yours or m…
Donald Trump is using the powers of the presidency—augmented with powers that the Constitution doesn’t give him—to make war on blue states and their officials. There have been critical historical periods when presidents used federal law to enforce constituti…
ICE and DHS have claimed multiple times since May that there’s been a 413 percent increase in assaults against their agents to justify their officers wearing masks and refusing to identify themselves. The data states otherwise. The Washington Post’s Phillip…
What about notebooks, including AI-ready devices? Ah well, still months to go, eh Microsoft With fewer than four months before Microsoft pulls the plug on standard support for Windows 10, businesses are replacing dusty – but in some cases perfectly working – …
It has never been about removing dangerous criminals — the “worst of the worst” — from the United States. Under Donald Trump, immigration enforcement has been about removing immigrants from the country. Period. That’s the whole thing. (And, apparently the onl…
<p><span style=" font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; display: inline !important; float: none;">The Trump administration has proposed to eliminate the U.S. Chemical Safety an…
President Donald Trump has vowed to pave over the grass...
This was never an issue before, but it’s suddenly an issue now that ICE has gone full Gestapo to keep up with Trump’s mass deportation demands. ICE’s tactics — unmarked vehicles, masked officers, and untargeted raids of any place that might contain foreigners…
This week, Tesla launched its long-promised robotaxi service in Austin, and almost immediately its vehicles were caught fucking up. In a YouTube video, a Tesla robotaxi briefly drives on the wrong side of the road. Another video shared by Ed Niedermeyer, the …
Florida's attorney general says the facility is on track to open in early July, at a little-used airfield in the Everglades. Environmental activists hope they can repeat history and stop the project.
President Trump tells Senate Republicans to lock themselves in a room if necessary to work out differences and pass the megabill that will fund his second-term agenda.
In a move to bolt the stable door, US House of Representatives staff must stop using WhatsApp, and switch to a more secure service like Apple's Messages.WhatsApp on an iPhoneIt may seem as if the government prefers to make its messages insecure, but really it…
The Trump Administration(s) aren’t simply content to declare satire dead. Trump’s reappearance in the Oval Office demands we dig up the corpse and desecrate it. And while we’re desecrating that corpse, why not desecrate a few national landmarks? That’s the pi…
"It's not good for our environment, it's not good for our quality of life," said one protester.
The agency that operates the bridge is concerned about a federal crackdown.
Employees at the National Science Foundation say they’ve been blindsided by a plan for the Department of Housing and Urban Development to take over their offices
Every year, millions of Americans rely on FEMA assistance after hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and other disasters. The president says state governments should do more.
“It’s just more salt in the wound on how incompetent all of this has been.”
The Senate parliamentarian, often called a referee, has thrown a spanner in Trump's tax bill.
National Science Foundation employees were told they'll be removed from the agency's headquarters on Tuesday (June 24) with no direction yet for where to go.
So much for a "well-regulated" militia.
In a newly revealed March memo, officials proposed ways to dramatically curtail the US government’s disaster response role, such as by ending aid for smaller disasters and cutting housing funds for survivors. Read more:…
By Deroy Murdock, The Daily Signal | June 23, 2025 “I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud, nothing I can do,” President Donald Trump told a join…
The Federal Communications Commission will suspend the enforcement of a rule that would lower the price of prison phone and video calls. On Monday, the Trump-appointed FCC Chair Brendan Carr announced that prisons won’t have to comply with the pricing rules u…
As it stands, Republicans in the Senate are yet to convince key holdouts to support Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
The Trump administration freezes funding that education officials estimated at $6.5 billion — as feds evaluate 'priorities and ... statutory requirements.'
The National Climate Assessment is the most influential source of information about climate change in the United States.
The federal grant funding traditionally goes out by July 1. It includes support for migrant education, after-school programs and English language learners.
TikTok told its global e-commerce staff it would announce "organizational and personnel changes" on Wednesday, per a memo viewed by Business Insider.
DOGE staffers have been working on changes at the ATF that would roll back dozens of gun restrictions. The DOJ wants to downsize the agency — a move some fear will hinder criminal investigations.
NASA science might be cut, but cash can be found to move a 'space vehicle' from museum to museum Lurking in the text contained within the One Big Beautiful Bill, which was passed by the US Senate yesterday, is an $85 million allocation for shifting a "space v…
NPR's Juana Summers speaks with McKay Coppins, who recently profiled Russell Vought in the Atlantic. Vought is a key player in the Trump administration's push to remake the federal government.
President Trump will give a speech in Iowa Thursday night as the official start to a year of events marking the country's 250th anniversary. It comes at a crucial time for his domestic policy agenda.
After weeks of work, the House passed the Senate version of the megabill on Thursday, sending it to Trump's desk to sign.
While there were no changes made to Trump’s megabill after it came back from the Senate, some House Republican holdouts said Trump made promises to get their votes.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -As U.S. President Donald Trump worked to pass his signature spending bill, he blended charm and threats, bestowed gifts and bellowed...
Efforts to win over holdout House Republicans extend into early hours as Trump's tax and spending bill hits hurdles.
"we live in a society where conservatives believe in magical weather control machines but not climate change."View Entire Post ›
White House condemnation of a free app has drawn substantial attention to it, helping ICEBlock become the most popular social networking app in the App Store, beating out apps like X and Instagram. ICEBlock alerts people to sightings of Immigration and Cu…
The Trump Administration’s constant escalation of its mass deportation programs now means ICE, CBP, and other federal agencies must come up with thousands of arrests a day. This never had anything to do with removing criminals from the country and, even if yo…
The governor and top emergency official in Texas are both members of a council advising the Trump administration on options for eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
Federal agencies could choose to fire workers en masse or offer options like buyouts. Here's what we know about how and when it could happen.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced that the TSA and its nearly two-decade mandate for passengers to remove their shoes at airport screening is officially over.
'The Things We’ll Never Know' show highlights what we'll be missing President Trump's budget slashes funding for science and led to the cancellation or reduction of thousands of research programs, so scientists have staged a series of presentations to show le…
The president backed off his plan to fire 83,000 workers at the Department of Veterans Affairs — but his administration is still getting rid of tons.
Kerr County applied for federal grants to build a warning system to protect residents from flash floods. Under the Trump Administration, that kind of funding is drying up.
Business Insider spoke with 16 federal workers after the Supreme Court decision that will allow federal staff cuts to continue.
Trump’s Qatari jet was just the beginning.
The U.S. Space Force and the entire private space industry are telling Congress this is a recipe for disaster.
Hundreds of law enforcement agencies used Atherton’s license plate surveillance system with searches tied immigration enforcement despite California law.
The White House has announced plans for a new $200m ballroom, with construction to start in September.
Agency wants a single private integrator to herd 74K bits of kit with only 40% of the funding so far Get ready to start flying American skies with a renewed sense of confidence, at least eventually, as the Federal Aviation Administration has finally decided t…
US President Donald Trump previously said that his ballroom addition would not "interfere with the current building".
The longest federal government shutdown in history is now history, and agencies and services are starting to slowly come back to normal.
For the first time since the government shutdown ended, the sweeping construction of the new White House ballroom is visible.
The rare move will result in longer lines, likely frustrating many travelers.
The TSA is experimenting with new ways to make airport security less of a headache, and it's leaning more on private companies to do it.