By Andrew Ackerman · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Trump administration took another swing at the Federal Reserve’s independence late Tuesday with a new executive order that seeks more control over federal agencies that have traditionally operated with day-to-day autonomy. Even as the White House executive order said it would protect the Fed’s monetary policy – including […]
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Trump moves to narrow independence of Fed, along with other Wall Street overseers
By Andrew Ackerman · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The Trump administration took another swing at the Federal Reserve’s independence late Tuesday with a new executive order that seeks more control over federal agencies that have traditionally operated with day-to-day autonomy. Even as the White House executive order said it would protect the Fed’s monetary policy – including […]
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After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds
By Liz Goodwin · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated. Senators have in recent days made the case to Cabinet secretaries and other Trump officials to let money flow back into their states. They are trying to finagle exceptions to […]
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After ceding power of the purse, GOP lawmakers beg Trump team for funds
By Liz Goodwin · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Republican senators find themselves in an unusual position these days: begging Trump officials to release funds they themselves appropriated. Senators have in recent days made the case to Cabinet secretaries and other Trump officials to let money flow back into their states. They are trying to finagle exceptions to […]
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Trump administration fires thousands for ‘performance’ without evidence, in messy rush
By Hannah Natanson, Lisa Rein, Emily Davies · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The first message from her manager on Saturday afternoon misspelled Amanda Mae Downey’s name. The second mentioned “the news” about probationary federal workers, and how the Trump administration planned to fire them. When Downey called her boss at a Michigan branch of the U.S. Forest Service for […]
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Trump administration fires thousands for ‘performance’ without evidence, in messy rush
By Hannah Natanson, Lisa Rein, Emily Davies · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The first message from her manager on Saturday afternoon misspelled Amanda Mae Downey’s name. The second mentioned “the news” about probationary federal workers, and how the Trump administration planned to fire them. When Downey called her boss at a Michigan branch of the U.S. Forest Service for […]
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Trump wants Greenland and Gaza. That might embolden China on Taiwan.
By Katrina Northrop, Vic Chiang · The Washington Post (c) 2025 TAIPEI, Taiwan – President Donald Trump has spent his first few weeks in the White House talking about land deals like the real estate developer he once was. He has threatened to annex Greenland -refusing torule out military force to do so – and has suggested using “economic […]
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Trump wants Greenland and Gaza. That might embolden China on Taiwan.
By Katrina Northrop, Vic Chiang · The Washington Post (c) 2025 TAIPEI, Taiwan – President Donald Trump has spent his first few weeks in the White House talking about land deals like the real estate developer he once was. He has threatened to annex Greenland -refusing torule out military force to do so – and has suggested using “economic […]
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Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money
By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president’s fight against “wokeness” and sowing confusion as schools scramble to comply. In a memo Friday, the Education Department gave an […]
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Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs or risk losing federal money
By COLLIN BINKLEY, AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is giving America’s schools and universities two weeks to eliminate diversity initiatives or risk losing federal money, raising the stakes in the president’s fight against “wokeness” and sowing confusion as schools scramble to comply. In a memo Friday, the Education Department gave an […]