Despite promises to cut spending during the campaign and his first few months in office, President Trump‘s federal government has spent about $220 billion more in his first 100 days compared to the same time period last year. In fact, the government is now spending more, day to day, than was spent in nine of
Congress starts work on Trump budget bill Congress returns from recess to work on Trump-agenda budget bill 03:41 The Trump administration has told federal agencies to monitor and report occupancy data in public buildings and offices leased by the government, as President Trump presses government workers to stop working from home. Agencies have until Sunday
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she’s “very confident” that the two people arrested in connection with the theft of her purse are in the country illegally. “These are career criminals,” Noem told CBS News in an interview at the U.S.-Mexico border on Monday. “They have perpetuated crimes against many people in this country for
Washington — President Trump repeatedly distanced himself from Project 2025 on the campaign trail, saying he had “nothing to do with” the initiative spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation, had not read it and didn’t have any plans to. But as the president marks 100 days in the White House, many of the plans he has
Washington — In the four years between his two terms, President Trump had a lot of time to consider what he could do differently if he won the presidency again. In the first 100 days of his second term, he’s been able to deliver on some of the promises he repeated most during his campaign,
President Trump has set a historic record during the first 100 days of his second term, signing far more executive orders than any other president in U.S. history over the same period. Mr. Trump has signed 142 executive orders so far, according to data from the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa
Since President Trump returned to office 100 days ago, Elon Musk has amassed vast power — leading the administration’s efforts to shutter government agencies and slash the federal workforce. Musk’s ruthless approach to leading the Department of Government Efficiency — epitomized by a speech in which the Tesla CEO brandished a chainsaw — has drawn