Trump has also nominated a commissioner for the agency. President Donald Trump has replaced the head of the Social Security Administration (SSA), the White House said on Feb. 18. “The agency will be led by a career Social Security anti-fraud expert as the acting commissioner,” White House spokesman Harrison Fields told The Epoch Times in
How shutting down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau would impact Americans – CBS News Watch CBS News The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was created after the 2008 financial crisis to be an advocate for American consumers. The Trump administration is making a push to gut the agency. CBS News business analyst Jill Schlesinger joins “CBS
Elon Musk can only advise Trump and communicate the president’s directives, a White House official said. Elon Musk is not an employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and does not have the authority to make decisions, the White House said in new court filings on Feb. 17. Both DOGE and a subunit of
Contract cancellations alone accounted for about 20 percent of the overall savings, DOGE stated. The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, led by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, said its cost-cutting efforts across several federal agencies have saved an estimated $55 billion as of Feb. 17. The savings came from a combination of fraud deletion, contract
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — Senior officials from Russia and the U.S. met in Saudi Arabia Tuesday to begin talks on improving ties and negotiating an end to the war in Ukraine. As CBS News correspondent Holly Williams reports, some felt the Trump administration had granted Vladimir Putin some degree of victory just by agreeing to
In Fresno, California, social media rumors about impending immigration raids at the city’s schools left some parents panicking – even though the raids were all hoaxes. In Denver, a real immigration raid at an apartment complex led to scores of students staying home from school, according to a lawsuit. And in Alice, Texas, a school
Last month, we broke the news about an Israeli plan to maintain buffer zones indefinitely in Lebanon, Syria, and the Gaza Strip. That plan is coming to fruition in Lebanon, our Andrew Tobin reports. IDF troops “will remain deployed to recently built posts at five strategic locations along the Lebanese side of Israel’s border” past