After instructing federal agencies to cut off all contracts with Harvard University, the Trump administration is warning the nation’s universities that their federal funding and research grants will only remain safe if the school is compliant with the political goals of the Trump administration. “Universities should continue to be able …
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The Department of Education announced on Tuesday that it would be culling over 1,300 employees, reducing its total workforce to about half of what it was when President Donald Trump took office. Education Secretary Linda McMahon told Fox News that night that the mass layoffs were “the first step” toward …
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Parents, students, and teachers beware. President Donald Trump‘s scorched earth campaign against federal agencies could be headed to the Department of Education, via a proposed executive order that would dismantle the department. According to a draft obtained by The Wall Street Journal, the president was expected to instruct newly confirmed …
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Donald Trump is rewarding many of his donors with important roles in his upcoming administration. Almost three dozen people tapped to serve in his White House donated to his campaign or to groups that supported his election, according to a CNN analysis of federal campaign records. A dozen of Biden’s …
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Jon Stewart weighed in on Donald Trump‘s cabinet picks, arguing that the president-elect doesn’t see some of his more confounding selections a drawback, but rather a plus, given his previously-stated goals of overhauling and eliminating several of the country’s key agencies. “I think we’re missing the mark on the idea …
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President-elect Donald Trump nominated his transition co-chair Linda McMahon to serve as secretary of the Department of Education. McMahon, a major Republican donor and former CEO of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), headed the Small Business Administration during Trump’s first term. After donating a reported $814,600 to Trump’s campaignas of July, …
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On Wednesday, five men who had worked as “ring boys” for World Wrestling Entertainment as young teenagers in the 1980s filed a lawsuit alleging that they were groomed and sexually abused by ring crew boss and ring announcer Mel Phillips on the company’s watch. The suit, filed by five John …
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