Trump administration fires new immigration judges
The Trump administration has fired a slew of immigration judges as a part of the sweeping strikes to chop hundreds of presidency employees. The Friday terminations affected 5 assistant chief immigration judges, in addition to all the December class of latest judges who've but to be sworn in, mentioned an individual conversant in the firings, granted anonymity to debate non-public discussions. The Associated Press reported Saturday that it affected 20…
Trump says he may consider vote of Congress for DOGE, ‘always’ follows judicial rulings
President Donald Trump mentioned Tuesday that he would possibly think about congressional approval for his Division of Authorities Effectivity’s spending cuts and would abide by courtroom selections whereas the so-called division’s chief, Elon Musk, pushed again on characterizations that his slashing of the federal government constituted a “hostile takeover.” Musk, donning a black MAGA hat, stood together with his younger son behind the Resolute Desk within the Oval Workplace as…
Trump White House escalates feud with AP, threatens to bar reporters from Air Force One
After repeatedly stopping reporters from The Related Press from being in the identical room as President Donald Trump, the White Home on Friday doubled down, showing to bar the group’s journalists from touring on Air Drive One as nicely. The feud, which the White Home Correspondents’ Affiliation has known as a violation of the First Modification and Trump’s personal government order on free speech, started Tuesday and stems from AP’s…
Mass layoffs, court challenges and buyouts: Making sense of Trump's plans to shrink the federal workforce
Widespread layoffs throughout the federal authorities are in full power and will quickly speed up, all spearheaded by Elon Musk’s Division of Authorities Effectivity. Musk, on the order of President Donald Trump, continues to make use of a broad brush to dismantle lengthy standing departments of the federal authorities, together with the efficient shuttering of USAID and inspiring federal staff to take a buyout. The modifications have been met with…
Appeals court rejects Trump administration’s emergency bid to resume spending freeze
President Donald Trump’s blanket freeze of federal spending hit one other stumbling block Tuesday when a federal appeals court docket refused an emergency bid by his administration to carry the restrictions. The choice, by a three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st Circuit Court docket of Appeals, unanimously rejected the trouble, dealing the administration an preliminary defeat within the first appellate choice in an executive-power struggle throughout Trump’s second time period.…
‘We need to delete entire agencies’: Elon Musk has bigger plans for remaking the government
Elon Musk stated america should “delete whole companies” with the intention to obtain the Trump administration’s objectives of drastically downsizing and restructuring the federal workforce. “I believe we do have to delete whole companies versus go away a number of them behind,” Musk stated by way of a video name to the World Governments Summit in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on Thursday. “It’s sort of like a weed, if we…
Trump assumes Kennedy Center chair, ousts longtime president
Within the newest effort to place President Donald Trump’s stamp on the Kennedy Middle, the board of trustees on Wednesday fired its longtime president Deborah Rutter, based on two individuals aware of the matter, and added a number of Trump-linked trustees. Trump dialed into the board assembly Wednesday and welcomed everyone, telling board members that the middle had “grow to be too woke,” based on one of many individuals. The…
Trump says he and Putin will negotiate to end the war in Ukraine
President Donald Trump mentioned that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin had a “prolonged and extremely productive cellphone name” on Wednesday morning through which they agreed to work collectively “very carefully” on a diplomatic decision to the struggle in Ukraine and to go to each other’s nations. The president’s lengthy summation of the cellphone name, which got here in a social media post, laid naked an astonishing shift in technique,…
DOGE order triggers firings at SBA of employees prematurely fired Friday
President Donald Trump’s signature — in thick, black Sharpie ink — was only a formality. Hours after he signed an government order Tuesday requiring federal businesses to work with the Elon Musk-led DOGE Service to chop their present workforce and restrict future hiring, the termination notices began hitting the in-boxes of some hundred probationary workers on the Small Enterprise Administration. Those self same workers had really first obtained emails on…
Vance to meet with Zelenskyy Friday
Vice President JD Vance will meet Friday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in line with an individual aware of his plans, because the White Home pushes to rapidly finish the warfare in Ukraine whereas negotiating a deal to proceed offering assist to the U.S. ally. Vance and Zelenskyy shall be in Munich for a safety convention stacked with world leaders. Vance said last week he hoped to focus his first…
