The order is in response to past actions from the federal government to phase out single-use plastic straws. President Donald Trump said on Feb. 7 that he would sign an executive order ending the federal government’s push to transition away from single-use plastic straws. The order would target past actions from the previous administration that
It came after Vice President JD Vance voiced his support. Elon Musk on Friday said that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will bring back a fired staffer who made “inappropriate” social media posts as Vice President JD Vance on Friday said he wanted him to return to the organization. “He will be brought back,”
In this episode of NTD’s “Profiles of Service,” we sit down with Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), a former federal prosecutor who has represented Texas’s District 10 for two decades. McCaul has been chairman of the House Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security committees. As the son of a World War II fighter pilot, McCaul says he
The lawsuit seeks the restoration of USAID funding, the reopening of its offices, and the blocking of further orders to dissolve it. Two labor groups representing employees from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) sued the federal government on Thursday in an attempt to reverse its dismantling. The American Federation of Government Employees, the
Jan. 27 was the official start date of the 2025 tax season and the IRS expects more than 140 million tax returns to be filed by the April 15 deadline. The IRS told its employees this week that workers involved in the 2025 tax season cannot accept a buyout offer from the Trump administration to
‘It is the policy of my Administration to stop funding NGOs that undermine the national interest,’ Trump’s memo reads. President Donald Trump signed a memorandum on Feb. 6 ordering a review of all funding to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that receive money from federal agencies. The executive memo, “Advancing United States Interests When Funding,” directs all heads
Public disclosure of federal spending today is thanks largely to a Republican senator from Oklahoma. News Analysis Revelations that USAID officials are spending hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars overseas for controversial projects such as advancing atheism in Nepal and funding “transgender opera” in Columbia are nothing new. Nearly 20 years ago, in October