Trump’s pick for deputy defense secretary told senators that the United States must expand the defense industrial base to keep pace with China. Stephen Feinberg, President Donald Trump’s nominee for deputy defense secretary, told lawmakers on Wednesday that the opportunity to build weapons should be extended to major U.S. manufacturers such as Ford and General
The previous block was set to expire at midnight on Feb. 26; the judge says she needs more time to consider arguments in the case. Federal Judge Amy Berman Jackson said on Feb. 26 that she is extending a block on the firing of special counsel Hampton Dellinger. The block was set to expire at
The president says staff at the agency included ‘a lot of people that weren’t doing their job.’ WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump announced that the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, was moving to lay off almost two-thirds of his agency’s employees. “I spoke with Lee Zeldin, and he thinks he’s going to be cutting
The leader of the Department of Government Efficiency was speaking during President Donald Trump’s first Cabinet meeting. Elon Musk said on Feb. 26 that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) canceled an Ebola prevention effort before it was quickly restored. “We will make mistakes. We won’t be perfect,” Musk told the first meeting of President
Trump announced he won’t renew a November 2022 deal in which the Biden administration had allowed Chevron to work with Venezuela’s oil industry. President Donald Trump is preparing to cancel a 2022 sanctions relief agreement with Venezuela, citing the country’s election conditions and insufficient efforts to repatriate its citizens from the United States. On Nov.
Legislators and policy experts noted that spending and staffing have increased while test scores have dropped. WASHINGTON—Since 1950, the number of students in U.S. public schools has doubled, the number of teachers has more than tripled, and non-instructional staff has spiked by more than 700 percent. And yet, the Heritage Foundation director for the Center
‘I’m not going to make security guarantees beyond very much,’ Trump said about Ukraine. ‘We’re going to have Europe do that.’ WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump held the first Cabinet meeting of his second administration on Feb. 26 at the White House, remarking on a wide range of topics, including government-shrinking efforts, the Ukraine rare earths deal,