A State Department official confirmed the development. A staffer with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the effort headed by Elon Musk, was tapped to be in charge of the Office of Foreign Assistance in the State Department. An official with the Department of State confirmed that Jeremy Lewin will be the acting director of
The Department of Justice will consider retroactively pulling funding from schools that continue to allow transgender boys to compete in girls’ sports. The Department of Justice is seeking a federal court injunction requiring Pine Tree State schools to immediately stop transgender boys from competing in girls’ sports and return all athletic records and titles to
‘Hopefully something can be worked out,’ the president said. President Donald Trump said he will join his Treasury and Commerce secretaries on trade negotiations with Japanese officials on Wednesday, after his tariff announcements have prompted countries to scramble to hold talks with the White House. The Republican president confirmed on Truth Social that he “will
The Trump administration is working with dozens of countries to negotiate new trade deals, White House officials said. President Donald Trump met with Japanese officials at the White House on April 16 to discuss trade negotiations, and his quick reaction on social media afterwards suggested a positive result. “A Great Honor to have just met
“It’s a legal question that the president is looking into,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said. President Donald Trump would consider deporting American citizens convicted repeatedly of violent crimes to prisons outside the country if it were legally allowed, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday. “It’s a legal question that the
The judge said agencies following the president’s direction cannot ‘hamstring in perpetuity two statutes passed by Congress during the previous administration.’ A federal judge on April 15 blocked the Trump administration from freezing the disbursement of funds for climate and infrastructure grants, finding that the pause in disbursing funds was illegal. Nonprofits suing the administration
Fifteen state attorneys general urged a group of top corporate leaders on April 15 to drop their companies’ diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs. Such programs are “divisive” and “unlawful,” the state officeholders, led by Andrew Bailey of Missouri, said in correspondence addressed to Business Roundtable. The six-page letter was signed by 14 other state