The mass purge of federal workers under Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) plan is more than just an attack on the government bureaucracy — it’s a direct assault on the veterans who make up nearly 30 percent of the federal workforce. In a decision …
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There was a special buzz in the air at the Washington National Cathedral this past Sunday. It was the first Sunday following the sermon heard around the world, when Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde became a viral phenomenon for “preaching truth to power” at the prayer service for the nation. On …
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On Jan. 20, some time between the hour when he learned that Joe Biden had preemptively pardoned him for testifying before the Jan. 6 committee and the hour when he learned that Donald Trump had pardoned the men who violently attacked him on Jan. 6, Michael Fanone went to look …
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Late last year, as Donald Trump and his transition staff crafted executive orders, pardons, and a multi-front policy blitz designed to create “shock and awe” at the dawn of his second term in the White House, they were confident that the American people would ultimately let them get away with …
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Let’s be clear up front: Donald Trump doesn’t care one iota about the Constitution. I wrote about it for Rolling Stone before the 2016 election, laying out how he had already demonstrated during his first real campaign that he didn’t believe “core principles and values” of the nation’s founding document. …
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After a disastrous rollout and widespread backlash, the Trump administration has rescinded an from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to freeze the distribution of billions in federal funds and grant money to government programs. In a brief memorandum issued to executive departments and agencies on Wednesday, the OMB …
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.‘s long and tumultuous road to Donald Trump’s Cabinet faced its toughest test on Wednesday, when the vaccine conspiracy theorist and former presidential candidate appeared before the Senate Finance Committee to defend his nomination as Health and Human Services secretary. Once a staunch critic of Trump, Kennedy …
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Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has been sentenced to 11 years in prison after being convicted in July of corruption and bribery. The sentence is the longest ever imposed upon a former U.S. senator. Menendez did what he could to appeal to President Donald Trump — who could pardon him given …
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Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer went down in history for kicking off President Donald Trump‘s first term with lies about the size of the crowd that attended the 2017 inauguration. At her first official briefing to kick off Trump’s second term, current White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt …
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President Donald Trump is expected to sign two new executive orders banning transgender people from enlisting in the military, as well as eliminating the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives from the military. The orders, expected to be signed on Monday, will reinstate Trump’s previous policy from his first term, which …
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