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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 […]

In an executive order about medical care for transgender youth, President Donald Trump called to end “reliance on junk science.” But the order itself included claims about gender-affirming care that clash with leading medical research and practice.  The Jan. 28 order declared that the U.S. government “will not fund, sponsor, promote, assist, or support the […]

President Donald Trump delivers a simple message to voters: he will rescue them from Democratic policies that have imperiled their wallets, safety and freedom. Here’s what he omits: sometimes he promoted those very same policies. Here are six times Trump or his spokesperson called out Democrats for policies that Trump himself supported during his first […]

Even as emergency responders were working to recover the remains of passengers and crew members who died in the Jan. 29 midair collision near the Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, social media users, especially critics of President Donald Trump, pointed to some of Trump’s policies as contributors to the crash. “Just last week, Trump FIRED […]

UPDATE, Jan. 31, 2025, 7 p.m.: President Donald Trump issued a Friday evening proclamation recognizing February 2025 as National Black History Month. “I call upon public officials, educators, librarians, and all the people of the United States to observe this month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities,” he wrote. It was not immediately clear what this […]