DOGE Has Saved About $50 Billion So Far, Says Treasury Secretary Bessent

‘That’s a very good start,’ the Treasury secretary said. The Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) created under the Trump administration has saved about $50 billion so far, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said in a new interview. “So that’s a very good start,” Bessent told Fox News of the cuts in federal spending,

Trump endorses House budget amid competing proposals in Congress

Speaker Johnson on timeline for budget Speaker Johnson on timeline for budget plan as Senate Republicans move on own proposal 05:43 Washington — President Trump endorsed House Republicans’ budget proposal that would enact trillions of dollars in spending reductions and tax cuts in a single bill, saying on Wednesday that he prefers that approach over

Watch Live: Trump’s labor secretary pick faces confirmation hearing

Washington — Former GOP Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Trump’s nominee to run the Labor Department, is expected to face tough questioning from at least one member of her own party as she appears before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her confirmation hearing Wednesday.  Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who sits

U.S. envoy in Ukraine after Trump blames Zelenskyy for Russia’s invasion

President Trump, speaking Tuesday afternoon from his home in Florida, appeared to shift three years — if not many decades — of U.S. foreign policy almost 180 degrees, issuing remarks that made his administration sound aligned more with Russian President Vladimir Putin than America’s European allies of the last eight decades. In rhetoric similar to