President Trump has argued that some of the tariffs he’s imposing this week could help the government raise over $1 trillion in the next year or so, helping to reduce the national debt and even potentially offset some income taxes. But economists are skeptical that these tariffs can bring in as much as Mr. Trump
Republicans’ slim majority in the House grew a little larger Tuesday after the GOP candidate in Florida’s 6th Congressional District won his special election. Another seat in Florida’s 1st Congressional District is also on the ballot today, and polls in that district have not yet closed. Republican state Sen. Randy Fine is the winner over
Booker’s marathon Trump protest continues Booker says he’ll speak on Senate floor as long as he physically can in Trump protest 03:38 As Sen. Cory Booker delivered a marathon speech on the Senate floor in protest of President Trump’s policies, questions emerged about how the New Jersey Democrat was surviving the feat of endurance without
Washington — Democratic Sen. Cory Booker is delivering a record-breaking marathon speech on the Senate floor, which started Monday evening and has continued into the evening Tuesday, in a protest of the Trump administration’s policies. The speech now marks the longest on Senate record, surpassing Sen. Strom Thurmond’s 24 hour and 18 minute address in 1957.
Top federal health leaders across the Department of Health and Human Services were effectively ousted Tuesday from their posts, with many reassigned to positions at the Indian Health Service, or IHS, as part of a sweeping restructuring ordered by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senior leaders at multiple agencies were removed, multiple health officials said,
Teams handling Freedom of Information Act requests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were gutted Tuesday as part of the widespread job cuts ordered by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., multiple officials said. The process of fulfilling FOIA requests from reporters, advocacy groups
The Trump administration admitted in a court filing Monday that an “administrative error” and an “oversight” resulted in a Salvadoran man’s deportation and imprisonment in a supermax prison in El Salvador, despite a legal order prohibiting his removal there. Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office director Robert Cerna said that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was