Trump Says He Will Personally Cover Returned Astronauts’ Overtime Pay If NASA Doesn’t

‘If I have to, I’ll pay it out of my own pocket,’ the president told members of the media in the Oval Office. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams should be paid more after their eight-day test flight of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft turned into a nearly 10-month post on the International Space Station,

Judge rebukes Justice Dept., raises due process questions in deportation case

Washington — A federal judge raised questions about the lack of due process for immigrants deported under a wartime authority and rebuked the Justice Department for ignoring his order to turn around two deportation flights last Saturday. “I made it very clear what you had to do,” D.C. Chief District Judge James Boasberg told Drew

DHS gutting offices that offer civil rights and immigration liaison services

Washington — The Trump administration is implementing a reduction in force for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman and the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, effectively gutting the department’s civil rights and immigration liaison services.  DHS said the offices “often

DOGE Official Says IRS Can’t ‘Perform Basic Functions’ Without Billions for Consultants

DOGE has so far ’stopped work and cut about $1.5 billion from the modernization budget,’ the representative said. A Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) representative said that the IRS has a number of decades-old, infrastructure-related problems and said that recent cuts have allowed the agency to save $1.5 billion. Speaking to Fox News on Thursday,

Federal Judge Could Force IRS To Release Internal Records in Alleged Political ‘Weaponization’ Case

Three companies suing the agency say IRS agents fraudulently ‘backdated’ documents The IRS building (Getty Images) A federal judge could soon rule on whether the Internal Revenue Service falsified records to target companies for tax penalties, according to new court filings on Friday. Three companies filed a motion on Friday asking the U.S. District Court

Trump EPA Cancels Funding for Nancy Pelosi’s and Ilhan Omar’s Pet Climate Projects

Action is part of EPA’s DOGE-backed efforts to curb environmental justice spending Donald Trump (Joe Raedle/Getty Images) The EPA canceled two multimillion-dollar environmental justice grants that Democratic Reps. Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) and Ilhan Omar (Minn.) helped to secure just weeks before President Donald Trump took office, the Washington Free Beacon has learned. Pelosi helped secure a