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...
Multinational auto manufacturer Stellantis said Friday it would begin offering employee discounts to the public in an effort to cushion the blow from President Trump’s new tariffs. The move follows in the steps of Ford Motor Company, which announced a similar bargain earlier this week. Auto tariffs went into effect on April 3, the day...
The amount of Democrats who say they are proud to be an American has decreased by 8 percentage points in the last year, according to survey results published Friday. Just 58 percent of Democrats still say they are proud patriots — compared to 66 percent who said the same in April 2024, YouGov’s latest poll...
Peter Marks, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) vaccine official who resigned last week amid pressure from the Trump administration, urged families to continue vaccinating their children. Marks, who previously led the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, pointed to concerns around Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his...