Russ Vought confirmed as White House budget chief
The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s decide to guide the White Home funds workplace regardless of Democrats delivering a marathon of speeches condemning the administration’s imaginative and prescient for slashing the federal authorities. Lawmakers voted 53-47 Thursday night to return Russ Vought for a second tour as director of the Workplace of Administration and Finances. Republicans had been in lockstep behind the person who may dramatically alter how federal…
Trump aides knew he wanted to take over Gaza but had no plan
Within the hours main as much as President Donald Trump’s prime-time press convention Tuesday, his staff knew what was coming. He had been discussing an concept for months — a U.S. takeover of the Gaza Strip — with advisers, a few of whom noticed it as a negotiating ploy to provide Israeli leaders extra leverage over Hamas as they attempt to flip a fragile cease-fire into a long-lasting peace. "This…
Trump to sign order that could bar trans women from US Olympic participation
President Donald Trump will signal an government order Wednesday that might stop feminine transgender athletes from getting into the U.S. to compete in girls’s sports activities through the 2028 Summer time Olympics in Los Angeles. The order will direct federal officers to launch fraud investigations into transgender girls who apply for visas to enter the U.S. to compete in girls’s sports activities, White Home officers mentioned Wednesday morning. That seems…
Judge blocks Trump’s executive order on transgender prisoners
A federal choose has blocked the Trump administration from transferring transgender girls prisoners into males’s amenities or taking away their medical care. U.S. District Choose Royce Lamberth, a Ronald Reagan appointee, dominated Tuesday evening that the coverage — which Trump specified by an executive order on his first day again in workplace — would doubtless violate the Eighth Modification’s prohibition on merciless and weird punishment. The variety of transgender girls…
Welcome to Donald Trump’s new ‘common sense’ culture war
For many years, the Republican Get together has championed a tradition struggle with Christianity at its heart. Underneath President Donald Trump, that struggle is taking a pointy flip towards the secular. Banning gender remedies for minors, prohibiting transgender individuals from serving within the navy, penalizing educators for educating “essential race concept,” and asking federal staff to snitch on managers who promote range, fairness and inclusion are in. New and aggressive…
‘Everyone's afraid to offend the president’: How the tech giants went silent on Paris
Tech titans directed a wave of criticism at President Donald Trump's transfer to desert the Paris local weather settlement —eight years ago. When he did the identical factor this week, they ignored it whereas flocking to Washington to hail his return to the White Home. The variations between 2017 and now are stark: Warmth-trapping emissions proceed to rise globally, anddisasters are accelerating. That comes because the tech business's power wants…
Top USAID career staff placed on immediate leave
The Trump administration has ordered dozens of high profession staff of the U.S. Company for Worldwide Growth to go on administrative go away, based on six individuals advised of the choice. The order — despatched through e mail to members of the senior govt and senior International Service — was issued near the tip of the enterprise day Monday and was efficient instantly, based on two present USAID officers and…
‘There will be many casualties’: Panama girds for war as Rubio opens talks
PANAMA CITY — Marco Rubio’s weekend go to to Panama is ready to supply clues to a urgent query: whether or not the following 4 years of American coverage will extra intently resemble an imperial conquest or a hardball actual property negotiation. On the bottom right here, members of the nation’s small political elite have been bracing for both: As tensions over the Panama Canal ratcheted up final month, Panama’s…
The GOP’s Unreliable Cutter-in-Chief
For all his bluster about “authorities effectivity” lately, President Donald Trump has by no means been comfy as a scissor-happy, cost-cutting deficit warrior. He barreled right into a Republican Celebration a decade in the past that was dominated on the time by the debt-minded politics of Paul Ryan and the tea occasion motion and single-handedly shut down discuss of slashing Social Safety and Medicare. This week, his aversion to austerity…
Trump got what he wanted with Colombia. But his tactics could come back to bite him.
For Donald Trump, the confrontations are the purpose. In his first week again within the Oval Workplace, Trump has shortly torn up his predecessor’s alliance-driven overseas coverage in favor of an much more rambunctious 2.0 model of “America First.” His provocations have raised tensions with key allies on a number of continents — and arrange showdowns with different leaders that, no less than politically, Trump will win no matter how…
