‘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,
Elon Musk will be kept away from government decisions involving space, President Donald Trump said on Feb. 18. “I will not let there be any conflict of interest,” Trump told reporters at the White House in Washington. He said later: “I told Elon, any conflicts you can’t have anything to do with that. So, anything
In the case of Eric Adams, the Trump Justice Department had at its disposal “prudent and imprudent ways to achieve similar ends,” our editors write. President Trump could have pardoned Adams or instructed prosecutors to drop the case against him because it was weak. Instead, Justice Department brass conceded in a memo that its order
The Trump administration asked the court to ‘stay the injunction’s nationwide application,’ limiting its effect to the plaintiffs in the case. A federal judge in Maryland on Tuesday denied President Donald Trump’s motion for a partial stay of a preliminary injunction that blocked an executive order on birthright citizenship from taking effect. The plaintiffs filed
The two men talked about Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), predicting $1 trillion in suspect spending will be found. President Donald Trump and Elon Musk discussed waste, fraud, abuse, and more in a joint interview with Sean Hannity that aired on Feb. 18. The world’s wealthiest man and the president of the United States
Unlike his first term, Trump faced little organized opposition from the public during the early weeks of his second term. WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump took the reins at the White House for a second time and immediately set the tone for his new administration, issuing rapid-fire executive orders and reframing the federal government with comprehensive changes
When Hamas gunmen paraded emaciated Israeli hostages across a stage in Gaza earlier this month, they were flanked by two representatives from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), an aid group that boasts of its neutrality. The agency’s participation in the choreographed propaganda display—as well as its failure to visit the hostages as