Court blocks administration from deporting 3 Venezuelan immigrants to Gitmo

Albuquerque, N.M. — A federal court on Sunday blocked the Trump administration from sending three Venezuelan immigrants held in New Mexico to Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba as part of the president’s immigration crackdown. In a legal filing earlier in the day, lawyers for the men said the detainees “fit the profile of those

Russ Vought orders Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to stop work

The Trump administration late Saturday ordered the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an independent government agency designed to protect consumers from corporate fraud and scams, to halt much of its work, amid an ongoing overhaul of the federal bureaucracy. In an email to CFPB staff Saturday, Russ Vought — the newly confirmed director of the Office of Management

Rep. Ilhan Omar says GOP “doesn’t have the numbers” to dismantle USAID through Congress

Washington — Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, said Sunday that she doesn’t think Republicans have the support in Congress to approve the Trump administration’s gutting of federal agencies and programs, saying “that’s why they’re not bringing it through Congress.” “Every single process that they are going through in implementing Trump’s agenda is, at the