The Supreme Court has rebuffed President Trump's initial attempt to expand his firing powers, as the first case involving the new administration's aggressive agenda reached the high court.
The Trump administration said Sunday that it was placing all but a fraction of staffers at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave worldwide and eliminating 2,000 U.S.-based staff positions.
Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) slammed the criticism of the overhaul of thousands of federal employees, calling some of the critiques “ridiculous.” Jordan joined “Fox News Sunday” to discuss the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the slashing of various federal jobs. On air, Jordan noted a recent story published by The Washington Post that said...
German conservative opposition leader Friedrich Merz won the country’s election Sunday, while the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party placed second despite making gains. Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded defeat, calling the election results “bitter,” The Associated Press reported. Scholz’s Social Democratic Party placed third, behind the AfD, in its worst result in a national election...
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) broke with President Trump over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday and advised against a public spat between the two leaders. “Are you disturbed at all by the rhetoric coming from the Trump administration about Zelensky?” ABC News’s Martha Raddatz asked Lawler on “This Week.” “I did not agree with the...
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) slammed Elon Musk over an “absurd weekend email” sent to federal employees requiring they send the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) a list of what they accomplished in the past week. “Our public workforce deserves to be treated with dignity and respect for the unheralded jobs they perform,” Murkowski wrote on...
The Trump administration is putting all civil servants employed by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on administrative leave beginning Monday at midnight, according to a notice reviewed by The Hill. At the same time, 2,000 staff are expected to be cut from the agency in the U.S., part of a “Reduction-in-Force,” reads the...
President Trump's deadline for denying automatic citizenship to illegal immigrants passed with barely a whimper last week as the policy remains snared in a web of court rulings -- all of them against the president.