Jeff Mordock

Steel dossier: How government subsidies in other countries wrecked the U.S. steel industry

The United States relied on domestically produced steel for most of the 20th century. But for the last few decades, it has imported roughly 25% of the steel it uses, decimating an industry once synonymous with America.

April 25, 2025

Trump administration moves to reclassify federal employees, making them easier to fire

The Trump administration announced it is moving forward with a rule to reclassify some career civil servants as "at will" federal employees, a plan it says will make it easier to fire underperforming employees.

April 18, 2025

Trump, U.S. officials meet with first-in-line Japan on tariff relief

President Trump said Wednesday he met with a delegation from Japan to negotiate "trade fairness" as nations try to avoid the reimposition of hefty U.S. tariffs.

April 16, 2025

Trump plans to join meeting with Japanese trade officials

President Trump said he will participate in a meeting between Japanese and U.S. trade officials Wednesday to underscore his aim to make a deal with other nations on his sweeping tariffs.

April 16, 2025

Vance to visit Italy for Holy Week, will also visit India

Vice President J.D. Vance and his family will travel to Italy this week to participate in Holy Week events and then visit India with his wife, Usha Vance, the first Hindu American second lady.

April 16, 2025

Biden, in first speech since leaving office, says Trump is threatening Social Security

Former President Joseph R. Biden returned to the spotlight Tuesday, excoriating President Trump's cost-cutting agenda, saying it threatens Social Security and will harm older Americans.

April 15, 2025

Trump signs executive orders to overhaul government procurement, office space

President Trump on Tuesday signed a slew of executive orders overhauling how and where the federal government spends taxpayer money, directing agencies to move to rural areas and purchase more off-the-shelf items.

April 15, 2025

Karoline Leavitt jabs Biden ahead of his Chicago speech: ‘Thought his bedtime was much earlier’

The White House on Tuesday clapped back at President Biden ahead of his first public address since leaving office, which will focus on protecting Social Security.

April 15, 2025

Trump says Harvard should lose tax-exempt status over activism

President Trump on Tuesday called for Harvard University to lose its tax-exempt status over its left-leaning campus activism.

April 15, 2025

Rampant ‘shrimp fraud’ deals another blow to devastated U.S. shrimpers, but tariffs offer new hope

Restaurants, stores and even shrimp festivals are importing cheaper foreign shrimp but telling customers they're eating shrimp caught by U.S. fishermen in the Gulf of America.

April 11, 2025

Trump signs bill loosening cryptocurrency regulations

President Trump on Thursday signed into law a bill that loosens cryptocurrency regulations by shielding decentralized finance (DeFi) exchanges from IRS requirements that such platforms be treated as brokers and that they track and report user activity.

April 10, 2025

Trump’s first three Cabinet meetings feature more press questions and answers than all of Biden’s

President Trump answered nearly 100 questions from the press during his first three Cabinet meetings this year -- nearly 20 times the number answered by President Biden in the same setting during four years in office, according to data compiled by The Washington Times.

April 10, 2025

Russian-American ballerina released from Russian penal colony in latest prisoner swap with U.S.

Russian American ballerina Ksenia Karelina was released Thursday from a Russian penal colony in the latest prisoner swap between Moscow and Washington.

April 10, 2025

Trump signs order directing DOJ to probe critics Miles Taylor, Chris Krebs

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing the Justice Department to investigate two officials from his first administration who have become some of his harshest critics.

April 9, 2025

Trump targets more law firms

President Trump tightened the screws on the law firm Susman Godfrey LLP for actions the administration deemed to be against the government.

April 9, 2025

Trump orders slashing of bureaucratic regulations

President Trump on Wednesday ordered federal agency heads to scrap three regulations on the books for every new one they implement, targeting "illegal or unconstitutional" rules for elimination.

April 9, 2025

Trump tries to reinvigorate America’s military and commercial shipbuilding

President Trump on Wednesday set in motion a plan to revitalize the nation's military and civilian "maritime dominance."

April 9, 2025

American board game industry fears devastation from Trump’s tariffs

Tabletop game companies have enjoyed a massive renaissance over the past decade with even smaller gaming companies enjoying success, but President Trump's tariffs threaten to decimate the industry because it relies almost exclusively on production in China.

April 8, 2025

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: Fired federal workers could fill factory jobs created under Trump

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the Trump administration is planning to boost U.S. manufacturing jobs by filling them with fired federal workers.

April 8, 2025

Tariffs target trade deficits, not direct duties on U.S.

President Trump's "reciprocal" tariffs are based on trade deficits rather than the tariffs imposed on U.S. goods by other countries.

April 7, 2025