President Donald Trump’s order to begin dismantling the US Department of Education, which he’s expected to sign this week, is a welcome step toward shrinking government and shedding woke...
The leader of a far-right political party in France said he would not address as planned the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) after Steve Bannon, a close ally to President Trump, appeared to give a Nazi salute at the forum Thursday. "I had been invited … to make a speech on the links between the...
When President Trump and Elon Mask brought the shutters down on USAID, I was reminded of things I had seen and heard in Uganda last month while conducting development research there — things that should make us rethink stereotypes about foreign aid and its effectiveness.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the Pentagon is preparing for a hiring freeze and an “aggressive” effort to fire civilian employees as the Trump administration’s axe to the federal workforce reaches the Defense Department (DOD). Hegseth said the government’s largest agency was doing a “reevaluation of our probationary workforce” in compliance with President Trump’s Jan....
A majority of Americans are displeased with President Trump over his decision to pardon nearly all of those charged for their role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to a poll. The Washington Post/Ipsos survey, released Thursday, found that 83 percent of respondents were opposed to Trump’s offer of clemency for...
President Trump and Maine’s Democratic Gov. Janet Mills briefly quarreled Friday at a National Governors Association session at the White House after Trump told a meeting of Republican governors he would withhold federal funding from the state over its refusal to comply with an executive order on transgender athletes. In remarks Friday afternoon, Trump repeated the...
Democratic strategist James Carville said Thursday that President Trump's poll numbers are declining, adding, "the collapse is already under way." Speaking on Fox News's "Hannity," Carville said Democrats don't need to be aggressive because Trump's policies are making him unpopular. "Let's see when they put the Medicaid budget, when they put the tax -- the...
To come anywhere close to Hegseth’s target, the Pentagon bureaucracy will engage in yet another cut drill, with many promising programs falling on the cutting room floor while legacy activities survive yet again.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) defended the Senate's budget resolution, which rolled in during the wee hours of Friday morning and involves a two-track process instead of the one large spending bill proposed by President Trump. “This budget resolution is a complete game changer when it comes to securing our border and making our military more lethal. It...
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau took a veiled swipe at President Trump on Thursday, after Canada defeated the U.S. in the 4 Nations Face-Off hockey game. “You can’t take our country — and you can’t take our game,” the outgoing prime minister wrote on social platform X, indirectly referencing Trump’s proposal to make Canada the...
National security adviser Mike Waltz is set to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday, amid backlash over President Trump's approach to ending the Russia-Ukraine war. Waltz will speak a day after Vice President Vance, who stunned the U.S.'s European allies at the Munich Security Conference last week with a speech that...
With Democrats screaming that the sky is falling every time the Department of Government Efficiency axes one federal worker, Elon Musk’s team needs some good public relations.
Trump’s openly siding with an accused war criminal constitutes the greatest repudiation of Western values and collective security arrangements by any American president since World War II.
