How DOGE cracked Washington: A focus on arcane agencies gave Musk and his allies swift control of government nerve centers
Political appointees with deep ties to Musk now sit in key leadership positions across agencies that comprise the federal ...
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Federal judge lets Trump’s ‘buyout’ plan for federal employees proceed
A federal judge in Boston Wednesday is allowing the Trump administration to move forward with its federal worker buyout ...
Fact check: $50 million for condoms in Gaza? Five big reasons to be skeptical Trump’s story is true
During her first official White House briefing as President Donald Trump’s press secretary, Karoline Leavitt announced that ...
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‘Some of the things that I say will be incorrect’: Musk backs away from false claim of $50 million for Gaza condoms
Elon Musk acknowledged Tuesday that there might not have been a federal plan to spend $50 million on condoms for Gaza – two ...
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White House says it will cancel $8 million in Politico subscriptions after a false right-wing conspiracy theory spreads
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, responding Wednesday to a question about a right-wing conspiracy theory, ...
Trump and Musk set their sights on Social Security by spreading rumors
Before President Donald Trump started mass layoffs of federal workers, he demonized them, arguing, despite evidence to the ...
What the White House meant when it said Biden directed the mass killing of 100 million chickens
At her first White House briefing, Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made an unusual claim about inflation that has stung ...
Trump White House bars Associated Press reporter for a second day. AP signals legal action
On Tuesday the White House broke with decades of precedent and blocked Associated Press reporters from attending two of ...
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How Trump arrived at his stunning idea to ‘take over’ the Gaza Strip
Trump administration officials are hurrying to catch up to the president’s audacious and improbable plan for the United ...
Trump’s federal grant pause creates confusion over Medicaid funding
The Trump administration’s freeze on federal grants sparked chaos and confusion at state Medicaid agencies on Tuesday.
White House says New Jersey drones that caused hysteria were ‘not the enemy’
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said reported drone sightings that sparked panic in New Jersey last month were drones authorized to fly by the Federal Aviation Administration and “not the ...
White House pressures ICE to pick up pace of migrant arrests, sources say
In the first weeks of the new Trump administration, the White House has boasted about the arrests of thousands of ...