Elon Musk left Washington acknowledging the immense difficulty of the task he undertook. It involved parsing through the federal budget line by line, while every cut, and even those DOGE wasn't responsible for, was ripped apart by opponents who fueled sharp and sometimes violent public backlash.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) doubled down on his claim that there won't be Medicaid cuts in President Trump's "big, beautiful bill," despite projections that millions of low-income individuals would lose health insurance as a result of the bill. Johnson, during an appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," pushed back on independent projections that the bill...
A fourth wave of Big Lots stores will reopen this week, bringing back nearly 80 locations in nine states that were previously shuttered as part of the retailer's bankruptcy filing.
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought on Sunday pushed back against the idea that a sizable package of Republican priorities that recently made it through the House is going to raise the deficit. “This bill doesn’t increase the deficit or hurt the debt,” Vought told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the...
Elon Musk offered his opinion on the Trump administration in an interview shortly after he departed from the White House, despite initially saying he only wanted to talk about "spaceships," rather than "presidential policy." In an interview with "CBS Sunday Morning," the former Trump adviser told CBS Correspondent David Pogue that he only wanted to...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said Sunday that Americans “aren’t interested in bending the knee to a wannabe king,” referring to President Trump. “Donald Trump has learned an important lesson, the American people aren’t interested in bending the knee to a wannabe king,” Jeffries said on CNN’s “State of the Union” to the outlet’s...
People of good will can differ about whether Harvard and its peer universities have met their legal obligations to Jewish students. But, by any standard, the Trump administration’s response has been grotesquely disproportionate.