Washington — The Senate is scheduled to vote Monday on former GOP Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer’s nomination to lead the Labor Department under President Trump. Chavez-DeRemer served one two-year term in the House, becoming the first Republican woman elected to represent Oregon in Congress. Mr. Trump nominated Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary after she lost her reelection
They were told to report back to work on March 10, according to the American Federation of Government Employees. The U.S. Department of Labor is reinstating approximately 120 probationary employees fired by President Donald Trump’s administration, according to a union representing them. The American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), said on March 7 that the
A new report has found thousands of fake accounts on the social media platform X that were linked to the Chinese Communist Party. X suffered a massive cyberattack on Monday, causing widespread outages for thousands of users across numerous countries. The Trump administration is also rolling out a new app that will allow illega… Original
Washington — Congress is staring down a deadline to fund the government by the end of the week, as the familiar threat of a shutdown looms over Washington. Lawmakers have until the end of the day on Friday, March 14, to fund the government. But it remains to be seen whether House Republicans will be
The District spent $3 million of COVID-19 recovery funding on the plaza A Washington, D.C., maintenance crew began dismantling Black Lives Matter Plaza, which will be replaced with a project celebrating America’s 250th anniversary that includes artwork by local artists. The move comes after House Republicans pressured Mayor Muriel Bowser (D.) to remove the plaza,
Last Friday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins stated on X that a $600,000 grant to Southern University in Louisiana was being revoked for studying “menstrual cycles in transgender men,” in the latest mischaracterization of a grant that was then canceled by the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency team, known as DOGE. DOGE highlighted the Rollins
The CBP Home app would give illegal immigrants the ability to ‘leave now and self deport,’ officials said. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) rolled out a new app on Monday that it said would facilitate self-deportation for illegal immigrants. On the first day of his presidency, President Donald Trump moved to suspend the CBP