Top Democrats are demanding President Trump immediately reinstate two commissioners who were fired from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) just days after he took office. In a letter to Trump, Democratic Reps. Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (Va.), ranking member on the House Committee on Education and Workforce, Jamie Raskin (Md.), ranking member on...
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) clashed with Trump administration intelligence officials as they asserted that information on U.S. war plans for Yemen did not include intelligence information. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard initially declined to say whether she was a party in a Signal group chat exposed by Atlantic journalist Jeffrey Goldberg after he was...
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Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the top-ranking Democrat on the Senate Finance Committee, grilled Wall Street veteran Frank Bisignano, whom President Trump has picked to lead the Social Security Administration, about what role he’s played in giving members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to the department. Wyden, citing a tip from a “whistleblower,” asked...
Sen. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said Tuesday that there's going to be an investigation into top Trump administration officials who carried out sensitive intelligence conversations over a commercial messaging app Signal. Risch said he spoke to Secretary of State Marco Rubio "at length," following the bombshell report from...
Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) should apologize to Tesla shareholders over comments she made calling “for Elon to be taken down.” “On March 29th it's my birthday, and all I want to see happen on my birthday is for Elon to be taken down,” Crockett said in an event...
A group of Democrats are calling for the Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee to hold a hearing “as soon as possible” with tech billionaire Elon Musk about his operations with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and its role in the administration’s funding. The letter, signed by Democratic Reps. Steny Hoyer (Md.), Mark Pocan...
Russian President Vladimir Putin gave U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff a portrait of President Trump to deliver to the U.S. president as a gift, the Kremlin confirmed on Monday. Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that Putin gave the painting to Witkoff when he was in Moscow earlier this month, when asked by a journalist about...
The Trump administration is scrambling to contain the fallout from a bombshell Atlantic article revealing its editor in chief had been mistakenly included in a Signal group chat involving national security adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and other Trump administration officials discussing plans for an attack in Yemen. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt argued in a post on the...