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With the 2028 Summer Olympics approaching, President Donald Trump plans to enforce a ban on transgender athletes from competing in women’s and girls’ sports — and he’s relying in part on a fraud-related immigration law. Trump’s Feb. 5 order, in keeping with a campaign promise, primarily centers on school sports while also directing the secretaries […]

President Donald Trump’s first actions of his second presidential term have included executive orders to end federal diversity, equity and inclusion programs, repeal DEI rules and encourage private companies to do the same. A PolitiFact reader saw social media posts saying that Trump’s second-in-command, Vice President JD Vance, benefited from DEI programs. “Was Vance a […]

Adding work requirements for people on Medicaid was a hot topic of debate during President Donald Trump’s first administration — and it may be again in Trump’s second term. Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican known for his folksy one-liners, is among those pushing for such reform. But when he went on Fox News Feb. […]

In a closely watched Oval Office event, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk shared some of the findings and rationale behind his Department of Government Efficiency, which President Donald Trump has tasked with cutting spending across the government. As an example of his work so far, Musk cited some “crazy things” that had emerged in just the […]

Editor’s note, Feb. 25, 2025: On Feb. 24, NPR reported it had obtained a document detailing that the State Department under former President Joe Biden had planned to spend $483,000 in fiscal year 2025 to buy electric vehicles, plus $3 million for supporting equipment, including charging stations. That would have been a small fraction of […]

Elon Musk and President Donald Trump said they have uncovered massive “fraud” in the federal government. During Oval Office remarks Feb. 11, Trump said that their efforts to cut spending turned up  “billions and billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse.”  Trump added: “We found fraud and abuse, I would say those two words […]

In his Super Bowl Sunday interview, President Donald Trump defended efforts carried out by Elon Musk to slash the federal budget, including at the U.S. Agency for International Development, and he said more is coming.  Trump told Fox News’ Bret Baier that “maybe in 24 hours” he will tell Musk, the billionaire leading the Department […]

The Department of Government Efficiency — the Trump administration’s cost-cutting agency, headed by billionaire business owner Elon Musk — has put hundreds of federal officials on leave, gained access to sensitive federal payment systems and led the charge to shutter federal agencies. The pushback against DOGE, as it is called, has been swift, as lawmakers […]

U.S. Rep, Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, said on X that although it’s too soon to say what caused the fatal Jan. 29 collision between a U.S. Army helicopter and an American Airlines jet, President Donald Trump had cut several aviation safety jobs and paused new hires as soon as he resumed the presidency. “On his first […]

Republicans calling to slash government spending have scrutinized the U.S. Agency for International Development’s programs and questioned the need for some of its spending.  President Donald Trump’s administration has pointed to a range of programs as emblematic of the federal agency’s waste, from Politico subscriptions to antidisinformation campaigns and diversity-based theatre productions. Americans want their […]

As unions and Democrats denounced the Trump administration’s effort to slash the federal workforce through worker buyouts, some social media users have said his actions parallel those by President Bill Clinton. “To all you Democrats freaking out over President Trump’s buyout program, I present to you a piece of history,” LD Basler, a retired federal […]

Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain of Arizona once famously defended his Democratic competitor, then-Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, when a woman at a Minnesota town hall falsely described Obama as “an Arab.” “No, ma’am,” McCain responded at the 2008 event, taking the microphone back from her. “He’s a decent family man and citizen that […]