By Dan Lamothe, Alex Horton, Hannah Natanson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and throughout the U.S. military to develop plans for cutting 8 percent from the defense budget in each of the next five years, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post and officials familiar with […]
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Trump administration orders Pentagon to plan for sweeping budget cuts
By Dan Lamothe, Alex Horton, Hannah Natanson · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and throughout the U.S. military to develop plans for cutting 8 percent from the defense budget in each of the next five years, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post and officials familiar with […]
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Elon Musk’s claims of Social Security fraud don’t hold up. Here’s why.
By Hannah Ziegler · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Billionaire Elon Musk took aim at Social Security last week as he defended his U.S. DOGE Service’s plan to slash federal spending – speculating that millions of Americans older than 100 receive fraudulent benefits. During an event at the Oval Office, Musk said he and other DOGE representatives saw […]
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Elon Musk’s claims of Social Security fraud don’t hold up. Here’s why.
By Hannah Ziegler · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Billionaire Elon Musk took aim at Social Security last week as he defended his U.S. DOGE Service’s plan to slash federal spending – speculating that millions of Americans older than 100 receive fraudulent benefits. During an event at the Oval Office, Musk said he and other DOGE representatives saw […]
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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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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 […]