The agency also plans to close down several regional offices, reducing the number of offices from 10 to four. The Social Security Administration (SSA) said on Friday that it is planning to lay off about 20 percent of its workforce, or 7,000 employees, in a bid to support the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts. The agency
Washington, D.C. — The number of migrants crossing the U.S. southern border illegally in President Trump’s first full month in office plunged to a level not seen in at least 25 years, according to preliminary government data obtained by CBS News. Last month, Border Patrol recorded about 8,450 apprehensions of migrants who crossed into the
Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky was not the first European leader to cross the pond this week in search of answers from Donald Trump. But Zelensky’s visit, which culminated in a showdown with the president and vice president, was the most consequential. The Oval Office meeting “revealed the confusion and emotion of the moment,” writes the Hudson
Rubio said he believes that the relationship between Trump and Zelenskyy can be repaired, if Ukraine wants to achieve an enduring and lasting peace. “I think he should apologize for wasting our time for a meeting that was going to end the way it did,” Rubio told CNN on Friday night. Zelenskyy should apologise for
Midwest drivers, Pacific Northwest ratepayers will be first to see prices at pump and in utility bills increase if president imposes 25 percent levy on March 4. WASHINGTON—If President Donald Trump imposes 25 percent tariffs on imported goods from Canada on March 4, as he pledged to do on Feb. 27, drivers across the Midwest
Having been shocked by Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Security Conference and Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s negotiations with Russia, the great and the good in Europe are descending on Washington to understand what the Trump administration is up to. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky and his French counterpart, Emmanuel Macron, are merely
A prominent national law firm that donates prolifically to Democrats attacked its own client, Kansas attorney general Kris Kobach (R.), and withheld work product from the Republican’s office after he fired the firm for subpar performance, in what Kobach’s office viewed as a major ethical breach by a firm recently sanctioned for using AI software