POLITICS

State Department planning to shrink U.S. staff by 3,400 in massive reorganization

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The State Department is planning a sweeping reorganization of its bureaus and U.S. staff, with around 3,400 jobs eliminated and almost half of its domestic offices closed or consolidated in the coming months, the department told lawmakers Thursday, according to documents obtained by CBS News. The plans were previewed by senior State Department officials last

White House Says MAHA Report Being Updated After Nonexistent Citations Found

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The White House said on May 29 that the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission report is being updated, after some studies cited in the report were found not to exist. “I understand there were some formatting issues with the MAHA report that are being addressed, and the report will be updated,” White House press

Fed’s Powell Says Interest Rate Decisions Will Be ‘Non-Political’ in Meeting With Trump

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The White House meeting came amid intensifying pressure from the president to ease monetary policy as inflation has fallen. President Donald Trump told Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell at a White House meeting on May 29 that the central bank chief erred in not lowering borrowing costs, while Powell said decisions on interest rates would