The Senate early Saturday adopted changes to a House budget blueprint for enacting President Trump's agenda despite pushback from fiscal hawks in the lower chamber.
Former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is questioning President Trump’s decisions to pick “amateur isolationists” for senior policy jobs at the Pentagon and to fire Gen. Timothy Haugh, the head of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command, without explanation. “If decades of experience in uniform isn’t enough to lead the N.S.A. but...
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer defended President Trump's decision to slap new tariffs on global trading partners, suggesting in a new interview that the additional import taxes will protect American workers. "I can tell you this, the president is focused on protecting the American worker through these tariffs. Fair trade practices are important to the American...
House Budget Committee Chair Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) on Saturday blasted the Senate's budget resolution, passed by the upper chamber only hours before, as “unserious and disappointing.” Arrington criticized the budget plan for “creating $5.8 trillion in new costs and a mere $4 billion in enforceable cuts” or “less than one day’s worth of borrowing by...
I’m outraged that the federal government has abruptly — and, I believe, illegally — terminated contracts to support work that I and hundreds of my fellow researchers have been pursuing.
Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators are set to hit the streets across the country on Saturday in protest of President Trump and his administration. The “Hands Off!” rallies are taking place in more than 1,000 cities across all 50 states, and nearly 400,000 people have signed up to attend the protests, according to the progressive organization...