Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) and Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) wrote Wednesday to Energy Secretary Chris Wright about reports that staffers with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been granted access to the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Markey and Beyer, who co-chair the Congressional Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, cited recent...
Emergency crews are responding to reports of a military plane that crashed into the San Diego Bay near Shelter Island, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department Wednesday.
A federal judge on Wednesday granted a request from two transgender high school athletes in New Hampshire to add the Trump administration to a lawsuit challenging a state law barring trans athletes from girls’ and women’s sports after President Trump's issued an executive order doing the same earlier this month. The teenage plaintiffs, Parker Tirrell...
The White House on Wednesday sought to turn around claims from Democrats that there was a looming “constitutional crisis” if President Trump defied court orders, arguing that the real “crisis” was the result of federal judges blocking the president’s agenda. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt accused media outlets of “fear-mongering” with headlines about a constitutional crisis....
The star of the first House’s Delivering on Government Efficiency (DOGE) subcommittee hearing on Wednesday was an individual not in attendance: Elon Musk. Democrats on the panel took intense aim at Musk, who is heading the DOGE initiative under President Trump, accusing him of breaking the law in his quest to eliminate spending he deems wasteful...
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended a decision by the White House on Tuesday to keep The Associated Press out of the pool of reporters allowed inside the Oval Office to cover an executive order signing with President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk. "We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into...
A former Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) staffer "mistakenly” received editing access to a sensitive federal payment system at the Treasury Department for a brief period last week before staff revoked his capabilities. Marko Elez, a 25-year-old DOGE staffer who resigned Friday, did not use the additional privileges to make any changes to the database,...
The Department of Homeland Security says it has "clawed back" $59 million in FEMA funding that went to NYC migrant hotels, a day after it said it had fired employees over it.
Florida Republican Congressman Aaron Bean is putting forward the DRAIN THE SWAMP Act to compel the relocation of a swath of the federal bureaucracy outside Washington, D.C.
Prior to resigning from the Treasury Department, Marko Elez at one point had "read/write permissions" to the Secure Payment System, Joseph Gioeli III indicated in a court filing.