President-elect Donald Trump’s landing team for the Labor Department includes a pair of high-ranking agency officials from his first term and a former chair of the federal agency that adjudicates labor disputes within the federal workforce. Trump’s transition operation recently informed the Biden administration that Virginia Secretary of Labor Bryan Slater, former Equal Employment Opportunity […]
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The White House slammed President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans for the unraveling of a spending agreement that could lead to a government shutdown by the weekend. “Republicans need to stop playing politics with this bipartisan agreement or they will hurt hard-working Americans and create instability across the country,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said […]
Kate MacGregor, who served as Interior deputy secretary during the Trump administration, is leading the Trump transition effort at that department, according to a person who works for the Biden administration. MacGregor, who could return as Interior’s deputy in a second Trump term, held several other senior posts at the department under Trump, including as […]
President-elect Donald Trump is opening the door to a government shutdown a week before Christmas. Republican lawmakers don’t appear to be on board. Facing a Friday night funding deadline, Republican leaders were already struggling to build support for passage of a bipartisan catch-all bill to punt the funding fight into March. Now Trump and incoming […]
Speaker Mike Johnson has a massive new headache as he races to stop a holiday government shutdown — and his name is Elon Musk. The tech scion and mega-ally of President-elect Donald Trump took to his social platform X on Wednesday to slam a short-term funding bill Johnson backed, criticizing the 1,547-page continuing resolution for […]
Speaker Mike Johnson is dealing with a nightmare before Christmas. And it won’t be his last. GOP leaders are now considering a plan B to avert a shutdown deadline on Friday as conservatives, Elon Musk, Donald Trump and JD Vance have excoriated the original spending plan, which included several add-ons like $100 billion in disaster […]
Donald Trump and JD Vance injected themselves further into an escalating fight over federal spending, demanding that House Republicans scrap a plan that would avert a government shutdown within days. Trump and Vance issued a statement Wednesday insisting that Congress raise the nation’s debt ceiling and cut a range of spending proposals instead of passing […]
Speaker Mike Johnson’s leadership team is quietly discussing a plan B to fund the government amid conservative opposition and vocal criticism from incoming President Donald Trump’s top ally Elon Musk. The Louisiana Republican is discussing dropping $100 billion disaster aid and other attachments and instead passing a “clean CR” — then dealing with the other […]
The House passed legislation pushed by socialite Paris Hilton meant to help combat the kind of abuse at youth centers she herself endured as a teen, sending the measure to President Joe Biden’s desk. The vote was 373 to 33. “I was force-fed medications and sexually abused by the staff. I was violently restrained and […]
Allies of Donald Trump are pushing for him to file a lawsuit against Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, who railed against the now-president elect on the campaign trail, calling him a “adjudicated rapist.” Trump recently settled a defamation lawsuit he brought against ABC News and George Stephanopoulos after the news anchor said on air that Trump […]