Wall Street kicked off the new trading week in turbulence after Trump did not rule out a tariff-driven recession. Wall Street navigated a fresh round of turbulence to kick off the trading week after President Donald Trump did not rule out a tariff-driven recession. The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average ended March 10 down by
Congress has until March 14 to avert a shutdown. WASHINGTON—Republicans have released their proposal for extending government funding, but it faces hurdles in both chambers of Congress. The 100-page continuing resolution (CR)—Capitol Hill parlance for a stopgap funding bill—would primarily extend funding past the March 14 deadline to Sept. 30. But it also contains provisions
The secretary of state announced the move. The U.S. State Department has canceled some 83 percent of United States Agency for International Development (USAID) contracts, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on March 10. “The 5200 contracts that are now cancelled spent tens of billions of dollars in ways that did not serve, (and in
Noem named Todd Lyons as the acting ICE director, and Madison Sheahan as the deputy director. Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday appointed new leadership at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and said that they would continue to use polygraph tests to identify information leakers within the department. Noem named Todd Lyons
Former PM Malcolm Turnbull has been vocal on his views regarding the Trump administration and his former colleagues. U.S. President Donald Trump has launched a stinging rebuke of former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull after comments on Bloomberg saying the CCP leadership was more “respectful” than Trump. In a post to Truth Social, Trump accused
Some of Trump’s bank accounts were closed by several institutions in 2021. President Donald Trump’s organization along with son Eric Trump filed a lawsuit on Friday against Capital One for “unilaterally” terminating hundreds of related accounts resulting in financial losses. The lawsuit, filed on March 7 by Donald J. Trump Revocable Trust, DJT Holdings, DTTM
Medicaid is a broadly popular program that provides medical coverage to low-income Americans through a combination of state and federal funding. More than 60 percent of Americans either know someone who has benefited from Medicaid or have been enrolled themselves, according to health policy think tank FFF. So any talk of altering the program usually