Top Democrats are staying out of the Trump outrage cycle this time

When President Donald Trump signed the pardons of Jan. 6 defendants, many 2028 Democratic hopefuls didn’t acknowledge it. And few got sucked into an outrage cycle over Elon Musk’s straight-arm…

Trump plan to upend civil service advances under new name

The Trump administration pressed ahead Monday with rebranded plans to make it easier to fire certain federal workers. In a memorandum to all federal agencies, the Office of Personnel Management…

Will Trump’s billionaire brigade run America like a tech startup?

Will Trump’s billionaire brigade run America like a tech startup? lead image Source link

Dems attack Elon Musk after DOGE gains access to sensitive data

Dems attack Elon Musk after DOGE gains access to sensitive data lead image Source link

How Democrats lost the DEI war

Donald Trump’s move to rapidly eradicate diversity efforts from the federal government marks the culmination of a widespread conservative backlash to the antiracism movement of 2020. Five years ago, as…

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Trump ousted the top Democratic campaign finance regulator. She says it's illegal.

President Donald Trump moved this week to fire the chair of the Federal Election Commission, Democrat Ellen Weintraub, the latest in a line of ousters of Democratic-aligned regulators across the…

Elon Musk presents a new vulnerability for Donald Trump

Democrats are starting to wake up and sketch out a plan to help them win back the working class: Turn the world’s richest person into their boogeyman. They’ve set their…

Lobbying firms tied to Trump report wave of new clients

Lobbying firms with close ties to President Donald Trump have added new clients in droves since the election, with several disclosing close to two dozen so far, as companies, industry…

'I don't think they're going to get the battle that they want.' Inside Trump’s first clashes with Congress and the courts

Washington had four years to prepare for a second Trump presidency. But are there signs that the president’s political opponents didn’t do their homework? In his first week in office,…