The pro bono attorneys work at the Covington & Burling LLP law firm, which has an office in Washington. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Feb. 25 suspending the security clearances for employees at a Washington-based law firm who worked on the former special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations. The memo targets attorneys at Covington
A senior adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump says there is no truth to a media report saying he wants to expel Canada out of the Five Eyes intelligence sharing partnership. Peter Navarro, assistant to the president and director of the Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy, made the comments in Washington on Feb. 25
There were questions as to who was running the agency on a daily basis. Amy Gleason is the acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a White House official told The Epoch Times on Feb. 25. According to her LinkedIn page, Gleason last served in government between 2018 and 2021—working in both the
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that to build back the U.S. copper industry, he would look into the possibility of imposing tariffs. WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Feb. 25 signed an executive order to launch an investigation into whether imports of copper and its derivatives pose a threat to U.S. national security. “Like our steel and
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said that to build back the U.S. copper industry, he would look into the possibility of imposing tariffs. WASHINGTON—President Donald Trump on Feb. 25 signed an executive order to launch an investigation into whether imports of copper and its derivatives pose a threat to U.S. national security. “Like our steel and
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt said that her own response to the email took ‘about a minute-and-a-half’ to think about what she had accomplished in a week. WASHINGTON—Agency directors in the executive branch will decide how each agency responds to the email asking federal employees what they accomplished in the past week, according to White House
Top career civil service managers will no longer be judged within rules that allow almost everybody to rate highest. WASHINGTON—Trump administration officials at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) are set to introduce a comprehensive set of reforms to how the performance of top echelon of career