Vice President Vance pushed back at a question Tuesday that suggested the U.S. wasn't putting pressure on Russia to end the war with Ukraine, days after he and President Trump sharply criticized Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky in a stunning Oval Office meeting. As the vice president took questions from reporters at a Senate office building...
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 Tuesday that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) rules for the city of San Francisco under the Clean Water Act are overly vague, siding with the city after it appealed a lower court’s decision. San Francisco appealed the case to the Supreme Court after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
The Social Security Administration (SSA) said in a release that it has identified more than $800 million in savings or “cost avoidance” for fiscal 2025 among information technology, grants, property and payroll. The SSA stated that it froze hiring and “drastically” cut back on overtime, saving about $550 million. The government agency that administers the...
House Democratic leaders will give remarks Tuesday morning ahead of President Trump's first major speech before Congress. The press conference, led by Democratic Caucus Chair Pete Aguilar (D-Calif.) and vice chair Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), comes just 10 days before government funding is set to expire, with no bipartisan deal in sight. Speaker Mike Johnson...
The vast majority of college and university presidents have retreated into silence or vague abstractions in the face of the Trump administration’s edicts.
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said President Trump’s tariffs on other countries are part of a “drug war,” not a “trade war.” Lutnick joined CNBC on Tuesday, just hours after Trump’s 25 percent tariff plan went into effect for Mexico and Canada. In retaliation, Canada introduced a 25 percent tariff on the U.S. and Mexico is...
Americans awoke on Tuesday morning to an intensifying trade war, as President Trump’s newest tariffs on Canadian, Mexican and Chinese imports were imposed and those countries quickly moved to retaliate. The Trump administration imposed 25 percent tariffs on most imports from Canada and Mexico and a new 10 percent tariff on imports from China. In...
The Trump administration is considering selling or canceling leases on thousands of empty federal buildings to help solve the dual problems of a surplus of empty federal office buildings and the housing shortage, with developers potentially turning them into apartments and condos.
President Trump is set to address a joint session of Congress for the first time during his second term on Tuesday, outlining the goals of his administration and how he views the state of the country. The first address that the president gives to Congress is technically not referred to as a State of the...
President Trump has turned the history of the Western world upside down by luring Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky into the Oval Office and using the occasion to put the United States squarely in the camp of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
