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Musk issues warning to federal employees who do not return to office

Elon Musk said Monday that federal workers who do not return to the office will be placed on administrative leave.

February 24, 2025

Trump administration predicts minerals deal with Ukraine will get signed this week

President Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday he expects a deal to come together this week with Ukraine to give the United States access to rare earth minerals.

February 23, 2025

Patel tells FBI employees to ignore Musk’s email on work reporting, for now

Kash Patel, the newly minted head of the FBI, is making it clear the bureau does not take marching orders from Elon Musk.

February 23, 2025

Sen. Markwayne Mullin soft-pedals Trump’s third term remark: ‘People need to take it as a joke’

Sen. Markwayne Mullin threw cold water Sunday on the prospect of President Trump seeking a third White House term.

February 23, 2025

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth defends Trump’s firing of Joint Chiefs, other military leaders

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday that President Trump fired Air Force Gen. Charles "CQ" Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, because he was "not the right man for the moment."

February 23, 2025

Trump’s leaders at federal agencies rebuff Musk demand that workers justify their week or be fired

The directive that all federal employees share what work they accomplished last week or be fired is running into resistance, including from President Trump's choices to lead federal departments.

February 22, 2025

Musk wields symbolic chainsaw at CPAC in celebration of his federal role: ‘This is awesome’

In his first appearance at the Conservative Political Action Conference, Elon Musk waved a DOGE-themed chainsaw above his head and gushed over his role in helping President Trump dismantle the federal bureaucracy.

February 20, 2025

Vance emerges as an early favorite at CPAC to carry the MAGA flag into 2028

If anything has dulled the GOP's elation over the start of President Trump's second term, it is that, barring a political meteor, this term will be his last.

February 20, 2025

At CPAC, Vance says leaders who enable illegal immigration are ‘greatest threat’ to U.S., Europe

Vice President J.D. Vance on Thursday warned that the greatest threat to the U.S. and Europe is the flood of illegal immigrants and attempts to snuff out opposition to it.

February 20, 2025

Musk set to make CPAC debut

Elon Musk is coming to CPAC.

February 20, 2025

DOGE shows the receipts to rebuff its Democratic opponents

The Department of Government Efficiency recently blew the whistle on the federal government's plans to spend taxpayer dollars on male circumcisions in Mozambique, housing illegal immigrants in New York hotels, and grants to environmental activists promising "climate justice travels through a Free Palestine."

February 18, 2025

Trump treated like NASCAR royalty at Daytona 500

President Trump traveled Sunday to the Daytona 500, the most significant event on the NASCAR calendar, to celebrate the iconic race and the nation's renewed "spirit."

February 16, 2025

Democrats hunt for Trump vulnerability, zero in on inflation

Democrats, scrambling to find a weak spot in President Trump's political armor, are accusing him of abandoning his vow to lower costs for American families.

February 16, 2025

Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: Quid pro quo concerns taint dismissal of charges against NYC mayor

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said he is "very concerned" that President Trump is using the justice system to pressure Mayor Eric Adams to help enact his immigration agenda in New York City.

February 16, 2025

Democrats suspect Elon Musk is only in DOGE for the money

It's no surprise that the government is a major client of a man who runs a rocket ship company that can reach the space station, builds armored electric vehicles and owns a network of communications satellites. But when that man is Elon Musk, every one of his transactions draws scrutiny for cronyism.

February 14, 2025

Democrats focus on Musk, ignore MTG’s plea for bipartisanship at first DOGE subcommittee meeting

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene kicked off the inaugural DOGE subcommittee hearing with a plea to her colleagues to set aside the political theater and partisan attacks in their quest to identify waste, fraud and abuse in federal spending.

February 12, 2025

MTG opens DOGE panel with call to avoid ‘political theater’

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene opened the first meeting of the DOGE subcommittee by vowing to work with President Trump and Elon Musk to expose the "waste, fraud and abuse within the federal government" and offer "plans to fix the tremendous problems."

February 12, 2025

Judge pauses NIH plan to cap ‘indirect’ costs in response to lawsuit from states

A Massachusetts federal judge put a pause Monday on the Trump administration's push to change how the National Institutes of Health funds research.

February 10, 2025

Up next? Steel tariffs: Trump continues early-term blitz over Super Bowl weekend

President Trump announced Sunday he plans to slap a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum imports, marking his latest move to reshape global trade.

February 9, 2025

Trump inks Gulf of America proclamation over the renamed Gulf of Mexico

President Trump on Sunday signed a Gulf of America Day proclamation as he flew over the body of water that the rest of the world still calls the Gulf of Mexico.

February 9, 2025