President Trump is considering allowing Japan’s Nippon Steel to complete its $14.1 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel, according to multiple sources. Approval of the transaction isn’t definite, and Mr. Trump has not made a final decision, sources say. If he were to decide in favor of the merger, it would constitute a reversal of his
The order is in response to past actions from the federal government to phase out single-use plastic straws. President Donald Trump said on Feb. 7 that he would sign an executive order ending the federal government’s push to transition away from single-use plastic straws. The order would target past actions from the previous administration that
Washington — The Justice Department said the federal government would not publicly release the names of FBI agents who worked on the now-closed investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, according to a court order filed Friday. The Justice Department and a group of unnamed FBI agents reached an agreement in which the
It came after Vice President JD Vance voiced his support. Elon Musk on Friday said that his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will bring back a fired staffer who made “inappropriate” social media posts as Vice President JD Vance on Friday said he wanted him to return to the organization. “He will be brought back,”
In this episode of NTD’s “Profiles of Service,” we sit down with Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), a former federal prosecutor who has represented Texas’s District 10 for two decades. McCaul has been chairman of the House Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security committees. As the son of a World War II fighter pilot, McCaul says he
The lawsuit seeks the restoration of USAID funding, the reopening of its offices, and the blocking of further orders to dissolve it. Two labor groups representing employees from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) sued the federal government on Thursday in an attempt to reverse its dismantling. The American Federation of Government Employees, the
‘If you rush right out and just say, like, “This is, like, dictatorial or illegal,” you might end up being wrong,’ says swing-district Rep. Jared Golden (@RepGolden X) Democratic congressman Jared Golden (Maine), who represents a swing district that voted three times for President Donald Trump, criticized his fellow Democrats’ “outrage” at everything Trump does,