‘Not that I spend much time thinking about this,’ Walz says Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D.) accused Republicans of misogyny for questioning his masculinity during his 2024 vice presidential run. “We buy their frame on these issues of sexuality, you know, but their whole thing was is that they spent all their time, these guys
A White House official said the agency will not comply because it is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act but rather the Presidential Records Act. WASHINGTON—Two high-ranking House Democrats are seeking records from the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of its activities, structure, and more. Democrats have been pushing back on the Elon
LaVar Charleston accused of doling out over $200,000 to staff University of Wisconsin-Madison diversity officer LaVar Charleston (wisc.ed) Before he was stripped of his role as the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s chief diversity officer, LaVar Charleston had been accused of assaulting a police officer and engaging in a decades-long pattern of research misconduct. Now he can add financial
Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday found that Elon Musk and the White House’s Department of Government Efficiency likely violated the Constitution when they unilaterally acted to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development. U.S. District Judge Theodore Chuang ruled in favor of a group of more than two dozen unnamed current and
When President Donald Trump moved this weekend to dismantle Voice of America, the government-run news network long denounced by conservatives for liberal bias, MSNBC wrote that the move brought an end to “pro-democracy media outlets” countering “authoritarian propaganda” abroad. But VOA’s liberal staffers have not only faced criticism for running a left-wing broadcaster similar to
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has promoted two agents with the Internal Revenue Service who said they faced retaliation after blowing the whistle to Congress and speaking out to CBS News about political interference into their investigation of Hunter Biden’s tax crimes. IRS special agents Gary Shapley and Joseph Ziegler were assigned to Bessent’s office as
‘More work still to be done,’ the Department of Government Efficiency states. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has said the Social Security Administration has undertaken a “major cleanup” of its records of individuals aged 120 or more this month. “For the past two weeks, [the Social Security Administration] has begun a major cleanup of