Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has dominated headlines during President Donald Trump’s second term. Nigel Farage, the Reform UK party leader who initiated Britain’s departure from the European Union, has been taking notes. Farage posted a social media video on Tuesday proclaiming, ‘Britain needs its own DOGE!’ He said it was the ‘first in a series’ of videos that ...
The Biden administration slow-walked its designation of American Marc Fogel as a ‘wrongful detainee’ in Russia, Republicans and officials who previously worked on the effort to free Fogel told Fox News Digital. ‘Marc Fogel was viewed by the Biden administration as just an average White guy from flyover country in Western Pennsylvania,’ House Chief Deputy Whip Guy Reschenthaler, R-Pa., told ...
President Donald Trump’s new Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, was sworn in at the White House on Wednesday, just hours after being confirmed by the Senate. White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters during her briefing, ‘Senate Republicans continued to confirm President Trump’s exceptionally qualified nominees, most recently Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, who will be ...
The Trump administration simultaneously views Russian President Vladimir Putin as a ‘great competitor’ and ‘adversary’ as it hashes out negotiations regarding the war in Ukraine, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said during a Wednesday press conference. ‘I believe this nation views Putin and Russia as a great competitor in the region, at times an adversary,’ Leavitt said when asked ...
Elon Musk’s DOGE team has successfully canceled millions of dollars of government contracts that the administration says were a waste of taxpayer dollars. A senior administration official told Fox News Digital on Wednesday that DOGE has worked with various agencies to cancel several contracts in the Social Security Administration, the Departments of Homeland Security and Labor, and several other areas. ...
House Democrats on Wednesday reintroduced legislation that aims to find ways to deliver reparations to Black Americans who are descendants of slaves. Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., is co-leading the reintroduction of H.R.40, or the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act, to Congress with Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J. Pressley, a progressive member of the Squad, said ...
Marko Elez — who before resigning from the Treasury Department had been a member of Treasury’s Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) team — was ‘mistakenly’ given ‘read/write permissions’ on the Secure Payment System rather than ‘read-only,’ Joseph Gioeli III of the Bureau of the Fiscal Service declared in a court filing. The filing is connected to a case in which ...
Current and former state attorneys general are praising the Trump administration’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for its ‘common sense’ decision to roll back a Biden-era climate rule requiring companies to disclose their carbon emissions. ‘We’ve led multiple common letters over the years against this radical Biden climate fiasco, and we’ve taken multiple steps to try to ensure that ...
Russian missiles struck Kyiv in the early hours of Wednesday, killing at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said. The barrage of ballistic missiles hit hours before Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent visited the Ukrainian capital, the first Cabinet-level Trump official to do so, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy aide Andriy Yermak wrote on Telegram. Bessent is visiting the city to meet with ...
House Republicans have released their framework for a massive conservative policy overhaul to advance President Donald Trump’s agenda, just as the Senate advances its own version of the plan. House and Senate GOP lawmakers have been at odds over how to go about executing Trump’s policy goals, and an earlier delay by House GOP leaders to kick-start the process in ...