There is a new staffer from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency seeking access to sensitive data at the IRS — and his family has ties to a sanctioned Russian oligarch. The Washington Post recently reported that two DOGE representatives, Gavin Kliger and Sam Corcos, have been at the IRS …
Read More »
The National Institutes of Health is in danger of being gutted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Department of Health and Human Services. The NIH is best known for funding a broad spectrum of research science at universities with approximately $40 billion in annual grants. But it also runs its own …
Read More »
Donald Trump is — at least publicly — attempting to reign in Elon Musk and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) amid growing pushback from the public, Congress, and members of the president’s Cabinet. On Thursday, Trump reportedly told his Cabinet members during a White House meeting that they …
Read More »
Republicans have censured Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) after the congressman protested the GOP’s planned cuts to Medicaid during President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress. The House voted 224-198 to punish Green, with 10 Democrats joining Republicans. Green voted present. The vote comes a day after the …
Read More »
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 …
Read More »
Donald Trump’s administration — which is, in partnership with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, waging a sweeping, shambolic crackdown on the federal workforce — is now ordering employees to stop reading the news on their office computers. In an email today titled “Internet Browsing from Government Equipment,” which …
Read More »
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a vaccine conspiracy theorist with no real medical experience — which is why thousands of doctors and dozens of Nobel Prize winners opposed his confirmation to run the Department of Health and Human Services, and why countless others have been concerned about his ability to …
Read More »
If Republicans’ crusade to fire tens of thousands of federal employees, raise prices through an ill-advised trade war, gut Medicaid and other social services, and generally make things more difficult for working class Americans wasn’t enough, they would also like you to stop being such a baby about it. On …
Read More »
Trump’s interminable address to Congress was met with Democratic responses ranging from angry heckling, from Texas Rep. Al Green, to sober counterprogramming, from Michigan Sen. Elissa Slotkin. The split response underscores the lack of unity among Democrats in how to respond to Trump’s destructive opening blitz. At times, the two …
Read More »
The Supreme Court rejected a bid by the Trump administration to continue withholding billions of dollars in foreign aid. In a 5-4 decision on Wednesday, the court declined to overturn a lower court ruling that ordered the administration to unfreeze over $2 billion in USAID funds to pay outstanding invoices …
Read More »