Trump Administration Faces Multiple Challenges

President Trump said Friday he will not sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which is set to pass into law tonight, in protest of the Senate not passing the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act.  “THE SAVE AMERICA ACT’S non-passage is CRAZY, and a serious threat to any polit

There is no longer any pretense of a connection between reconciliation and deficit reduction or spending restraint.

Victoria Coates, a former deputy national security adviser to President Trump, agreed with the president’s pessimism around negotiating with Tehran officials to end the Iran war. Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he did not “want to deal with [Iran] anymore” and called the country’s negotiator

It seemed strange, almost surreal, that as President Trump was lecturing the United Nations General Assembly last week, saying he would “annihilate” Iran, the U.N. Human Rights Council had just issued a report finding “reasonable grounds to believe” that the United States committed war crimes on Feb

FBI Deputy Director Andrew Bailey said Monday he is departing the bureau roughly a year after joining the Trump administration. Bailey, in a post on social platform X, thanked President Trump, Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel “for the opportunity to serve” in the post. “With

Plus: 🪖US-Iran conflict hits 7-month mark {beacon}   It’s Monday. We're still feeling the lingering effects of the nor'easter in the D.C. area, so it's a good day to be inside.   In today's issue: Trump guts Biden-era fuel standards US, China to slash tariffs Iran war hits new milestone

Social media platforms hosted by Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube, could face court enforcement in Australia for allegedly not fully complying with the country’s ban on the platforms for those under 16, the country’s digital safety watchdog said in a report published Thursday.  The compliance repo

The Trump administration will move the headquarters for the U.S. Forest Service from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City, it announced Tuesday. In a press release, the Department of Agriculture said the move will also be accompanied by a “sweeping restructuring” at the agency. A department spokesper

More than 400 hospitals across the country are in danger of closing or reducing services because of cuts to Medicaid funding under the GOP’s massive reconciliation package last year, according to new research.  A report from Public Citizen found that 446 hospitals — 267 in urban areas and 176 in rur

President Trump on Tuesday railed against a lawsuit challenging the White House ballroom construction and other projects as a judge ruled construction on the ballroom must be halted. A federal judge ordered the administration on Tuesday to halt the construction of the ballroom until it receives cong

President Trump signed into law on Wednesday a congressional budget package to fully fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Border Patrol through the end of his second term. Republican lawmakers passed the nearly $70 billion reconciliation funding legislation in the House on Tuesday, fo

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on Wednesday said that President Trump's planned 250-foot "triumphal arch" will need red safety lights so not to pose any safety risks to air travel flying to and from Reagan Washington National Airport. The proposed arch, planned to be built at the end of M

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday said the future of Cuba is in the hands of President Trump and Havana’s leadership amid increased U.S. pressure on the communist-ruled island. “No matter what, the Department of War is going to be prepared and postured for any possible contingency,” Hegset

President Trump told reporters Wednesday that he loved “inflation,” after he was asked about inflation spiking in May. “No, I love it. The numbers were great,” Trump said when asked if he was concerned about the latest data, which showed the consumer price index rising to 4.2 percent over the past 1

The SECURE Data Act and the GUARD Financial Data Act offer a potential solution to the lack of federal regulation of data brokers, but both bills leave significant gaps in protecting consumers from the misuse of their personal data.