‘Are we OK with us using their tax dollars to feed really bad food and sugary drinks to children?’ Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins asked. The new head of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) said Americans who rely on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, could be barred from using SNAP benefits to purchase sugary
Open borders have allowed drugs and violent criminals to flood the country, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has announced a nationwide and international ad campaign urging illegal immigrants to leave the United States immediately or face deportation “with the inability to return to the United States.” “The international ads
Trump and Elon Musk have said that the Department of Government Efficiency is working to root out fraud, waste, and abuse inside the federal government. Unions, a taxpayer advocacy group, and a small business group have filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration and the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) over accessing taxpayer
Trump has also nominated a commissioner for the agency. President Donald Trump has replaced the head of the Social Security Administration (SSA), the White House said on Feb. 18. “The agency will be led by a career Social Security anti-fraud expert as the acting commissioner,” White House spokesman Harrison Fields told The Epoch Times in
Elon Musk can only advise Trump and communicate the president’s directives, a White House official said. Elon Musk is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and does not have the authority to make decisions, the White House said in new court filings on Feb. 17. Both DOGE and a subunit of
Contract cancellations alone accounted for about 20 percent of the overall savings, DOGE stated. The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, led by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, said its cost-cutting efforts across several federal agencies have saved an estimated $55 billion as of Feb. 17. The savings came from a combination of fraud deletion, contract
The White House limited AP reporters’ access in response to the news agency’s refusal to adopt ‘Gulf of America.’ The Trump administration has announced that it was restricting Associated Press journalists’ access to certain areas frequented by the president, including the Oval Office and Air Force One, part of a continuing demonstration of President Donald