LGBT Groups Silent About Scott Bessent’s Historic Confirmation

Trump’s Treasury secretary became the highest-ranking openly gay official to be confirmed by the Senate (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent made history as the nation’s highest-ranking gay official after the Senate confirmed him to the cabinet post on Monday. But the confirmation has gone unmentioned by the country’s top LGBT groups, which effusively

WaPo Issues ‘Clarification’ Acknowledging It Cited Sanctioned Terror Financier in Piece on ‘Palestinian Prisoners’

‘A previous version of this article referred to Samidoun as an activist network that supports Palestinian prisoners’ L: (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) R: A Samidoun flier with an anti-Israel slogan. (Sean Gallup/Getty Images) The Washington Post quietly amended a piece on “Palestinian prisoners” to note that the original version cited the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network

Judge blocks Trump federal funding freeze on all public loans, grants and more

A federal judge on Tuesday issued a stay against a White House directive that ordered a spending freeze on federal assistance, which sent Washington into chaos on Tuesday as organizations scrambled to figure out how they are affected after the late-night memo was published by news outlets.  Judge Loren L. AliKhan for the U.S. District

House Oversight Chair Worries Resistance From Federal Agencies Will Sink Efforts to Cut Spending

Sitting on the shelf in the nation’s capital are thousands of ideas for making Uncle Sam cost taxpayers a lot less. Federal departments and agencies haven’t addressed 13,808 cost-saving anti-waste and fraud recommendations from Inspectors-General (IGs), some more than five years old, and nearly 300 more related Government Accountability Office (GAO) ideas, according to government

EXCLUSIVE: Read Jim Acosta’s Resignation Letter to CNN

No one more fully embodied the mainstream media’s smug self-righteousness and sneering disdain for everyday Americans It’s official. Jim Acosta, the obnoxious TV journalist best known for fighting a young female staffer who tried to take away his microphone at the White House, has quit his job at CNN after refusing to accept a humiliating