Washington — Former GOP Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Trump’s nominee to run the Labor Department, is expected to face tough questioning from at least one member of her own party as she appears before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her confirmation hearing Wednesday. Republican Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, who sits
President Trump, speaking Tuesday afternoon from his home in Florida, appeared to shift three years — if not many decades — of U.S. foreign policy almost 180 degrees, issuing remarks that made his administration sound aligned more with Russian President Vladimir Putin than America’s European allies of the last eight decades. In rhetoric similar to
Elon Musk will be kept away from government decisions involving space, President Donald Trump said on Feb. 18. “I will not let there be any conflict of interest,” Trump told reporters at the White House in Washington. He said later: “I told Elon, any conflicts you can’t have anything to do with that. So, anything
Federal funding cuts are impacting migrant children in Chicago Federal funding cuts are impacting migrant children in Chicago 02:32 Legal services groups that offer representation and guidance to thousands of migrant children facing deportation said on Tuesday that they were abruptly directed by the Trump administration to halt their government-funded work. Affected organizations across the
In the case of Eric Adams, the Trump Justice Department had at its disposal “prudent and imprudent ways to achieve similar ends,” our editors write. President Trump could have pardoned Adams or instructed prosecutors to drop the case against him because it was weak. Instead, Justice Department brass conceded in a memo that its order
The Trump administration asked the court to ‘stay the injunction’s nationwide application,’ limiting its effect to the plaintiffs in the case. A federal judge in Maryland on Tuesday denied President Donald Trump’s motion for a partial stay of a preliminary injunction that blocked an executive order on birthright citizenship from taking effect. The plaintiffs filed
Washington — Former GOP Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Trump’s nominee to run the Labor Department, is expected to face tough questioning from at least one member of her own party when she appears before the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee for her confirmation hearing Wednesday. Her confirmation hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m.