Hegseth has issued a memorandum ordering a reduction in the number of general and flag officers by 20 percent. WASHINGTON—Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth on May 5 ordered a 20 percent reduction in the number of four-star generals and flag officers in the U.S. military, as well as reductions to the number of officers elsewhere.
Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a scathing letter to Harvard President Alan Garber, slamming the school and saying they will not get future federal grants.
The National Endowment for the Arts, the nation’s largest funder of arts and arts education, has begun sending grant terminations to arts organizations. President Trump’s proposed budget, released last week, calls for shutting down the agency, which was founded in 1965. Mr. Trump’s budget proposals in his first term had called to shut down the
The bill aims to bring predictability to the stablecoin market with a regulatory system, but Democrats said they want more security-related reforms. WASHINGTON—A group of nine Senate Democrats announced May 3 that they will not support a bill designed to regulate stablecoins in the cryptocurrency industry. Stablecoins are digital assets whose value is fixed in
The Trump administration’s plan to trim the IRS workforce has resulted in almost one-third of its tax auditors leaving the agency through March, according to a report from the U.S. Treasury Department’s watchdog. Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has sought to trim the federal workforce through a combination of layoffs and so-called
The coalition seeks a court order to lift the wind permitting halt, while the White House calls the lawsuit a partisan attack on Trump’s energy agenda. A coalition of 18 Democratic-led states filed suit on Monday challenging President Donald Trump’s nationwide suspension of wind energy project approvals, calling it an unlawful and politically motivated blockade
The Trump administration continues to defend rules that regulate the abortion drug mifepristone by asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit.