President Trump’s nominee to run the Social Security Administration, Frank Bisignano, was questioned about customer service improvements, erroneous payments and the potential privatization of the agency during a Senate hearing Tuesday morning. Some Senators also tried to nail down Bisignano’s stance on efforts by the Elon Musk-helmed Department of Government Efficiency‘s efforts to cut costs at
President Trump’s Ukraine and Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff was in Moscow, where he met with Russian President Vladimir Putin, when he was included in a group chat with more than a dozen other top administration officials — and inadvertently, one journalist — on the messaging app Signal, a CBS News analysis of open-source flight
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Washington — Democrats grilled the leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies Tuesday over a security breach in which top Trump officials inadvertently included a journalist in a group chat about the United States’ highly sensitive plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA director John Ratcliffe appeared before the
The Trump administration invoked a state secrets privilege Monday and refused to give a federal judge any additional information about the deportation of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under war authorities. U.S. District Judge James Boasberg is weighing whether the government defied his order to turn around planes carrying migrants after he blocked deportations of
Washington — Leaders of U.S. intelligence agencies are testifying Tuesday before the Senate Intelligence Committee about global security threats, one day after it was revealed that top Trump officials inadvertently included a journalist in a group chat about the United States’ highly sensitive plans to bomb Houthi targets in Yemen. Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia,
During his Senate confirmation hearing Tuesday, Frank Bisignano, President Trump’s nominee to run the Social Security Administration (SSA), is likely to face a barrage of questions about where he stands on the future of a government agency that provides retirement, disability and other benefits to more than 70 million Americans. Like other federal agencies, the