Politics

A week before President Donald Trump was set to be sworn-in in front of a scaled-down crowd at the Capitol Rotunda, Washington D.C. felt completely still. Eight years earlier, the city had been electric with dissent, planes and busloads full of protesters already arriving, eager to demonstrate their displeasure with …

Since the names of the younger, inexperienced people working for Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have become public, a flurry of reports have detailed their troubling histories of extremism and severe workplace infractions. One individual who resigned Thursday over revelations of racist posts on his X account …

On Wednesday evening, one day into her tenure as U.S. attorney general, Pam Bondi announced the end of the Kleptocracy Initiative, launched by the Justice Department in 2010 to battle high-level corruption worldwide and return ill-gotten funds to victims of financial crimes. The former Florida attorney general and legal counsel …

Donald Trump will become the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl on Sunday, and he’s spent the run-up to the big game talking out of his ass about the game that famously spurned him when he tried to buy a team in the 1980s. Trump threw a nod …

Freshman Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego was recently named the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee’s new subcommittee on “digital assets,” which will oversee cryptocurrencies. On the heels of that appointment, Gallego will hold a ritzy donor retreat alongside one of the crypto industry’s biggest cheerleaders and investors, Marc Andreessen. …

The Trump administration has pulled the rug on the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), bringing its humanitarian work abroad to a stop. USAID has been a critical component of American “soft power” since the JFK era, communicating the ideals of America as a force for good in the world …

The Vice President and Elon Musk, the de-facto head of government under Donald Trump, are tag teaming on social media to promote the reinstatement of Marko Elez, a key Musk deputy who departed his post inside the Treasury Department amid a Wall Street Journal exposé linking him to racist social …

Donald Trump has been waiting for years for this kind of opportunity. As the deadly fires raged and enveloped Los Angeles near the dawn of his second presidency, Trump didn’t see a moment for compassion, or charity, or leadership. Instead, he saw a chance for maximum leverage against his political …

Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Fox News, Republican lawmakers, and countless prominent right-wing commentators across social media are pushing a ridiculous lie about the Biden administration funding the media. It started on Tuesday when staff at Politico reportedly didn’t receive their paychecks on time because of technical glitch. The right began …

Elon Musk and the Trump administration are attempting to dismantle the federal workforce and our intelligence agencies, but there’s just one problem: federal employees and veterans aren’t taking the bait. Despite repeated emails, misleading promises, and thinly veiled threats, the so-called “deferred resignation” program is flopping. Instead of persuading career …