The Social Security Administration’s acting leader stepped down from her role over requests from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to access recipient data, according to several reports. Acting Commissioner Michelle King departed from the agency over the weekend after more than 30 years of service. She allegedly refused to provide DOGE staffers with sensitive...
Top officials from the U.S. and Russia met in Saudia Arabia on Tuesday to discuss mending the relationship between the countries and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. No Ukrainian officials were present at the meeting, The Associated Press reported. The talks come after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country wouldn’t agree...
On Feb. 11, House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) announced the establishment of the Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets.
In today’s issue: Republican lawmakers have budget specifics to craft, a looming fiscal deadline next month and internal divisions galore over how to get President Trump’s agenda woven into statute as soon as possible. The House, which moved a GOP budget outline through committee last week, is out until next week while the Senate, still...
Billy Nolen, a former acting Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator, said Monday that now is the time for air traffic control upgrades. “[One of the things] I've testified both before the House and before the Senate, that says the FAA oversees systems of systems and facilities that are between 40 and 60 years old,” Nolen...
A federal judge Monday evening declined to block Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from gaining access to Education Department data on student borrowers. U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss ruled that the University of California Student Association (USCA), which brought the lawsuit, had not shown sufficient irreparable harm to receive such immediate relief. “Because...
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) all recently took a trip to Ukraine according to a page on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's website. The senators finished the visit to Ukraine’s capital city, Kyiv, on Monday, according to the page. The Colorado, New Hampshire and North Carolina lawmakers also went...
Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley on Monday decried “a prosecution” of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) “for hosting” an immigration webinar. “Border Czar Tom Homan doubled down last night that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) might be prosecuted for hosting a forum on ‘Know Your Rights’ for accused illegal aliens. Such a prosecution would be an assault...
