Over 3,500 Internal Revenue Service employees are expected to be terminated by the end of this week, according to the text of an email obtained by CBS News and shared by an IRS employee. The email was sent to managers of the IRS Small Business/Self-Employed Division Wednesday, and it says that the affected SBSE employees
President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary told lawmakers during her Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday that she no longer supports a pro-union piece of legislation challenging states’ right-to-work laws that she once backed as a lawmaker in Oregon. Former Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) previously represented a swing district that includes parts of Portland. While
The Trump administration said it is pulling the plug on New York City’s controversial congestion pricing plan, just weeks after it started, but Gov. Kathy Hochul and the MTA are fighting to keep it in place. In a letter to Hochul on Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Transportation said it was terminating its Nov. 2024
A legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive orders banning people who identify as transgender from serving in the military exposes great division. Twenty state attorneys general have filed an amicus brief in support of a lawsuit to block the Trump administration’s executive orders that ban people who identify as transgender from serving in the
New York governor Kathy Hochul (D.) on Wednesday moved to sue the Trump administration after it terminated New York City’s congestion pricing program. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a letter earlier Wednesday informed Hochul that the department is revoking the November 21 agreement, which imposed a $9 toll on most drivers entering Manhattan below 60th
U.S. military officials said the overflight was a show of force to demonstrate America’s commitment to Middle East security and warn rivals against escalation. The U.S. Air Force sent two B-52 bombers on a high-profile “force projection” overflight across the Middle East on Feb. 17, in a bid to send a clear warning to adversaries
The move comes as the Trump administration has sought to suspend funding to NGOs. A major Catholic non-governmental organization filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration over the halt in funding for refugee resettlement programs. In a suit filed on Feb. 18 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the U.S. Conference