2 days ago · Around 40,000 federal workers have accepted the Trump administration’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM) buyout offer by the Feb. 6 deadline in its attempt to drastically reduce the size of the federal workforce and sift out uncommitted workers. Workers unions advised against it, stirring up confusion about its legality despite assurances from the administration. American […]

Feb 3, 2025 · Everett Kelley, president of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) union, denounced the buyouts.“Between the flurry of anti-worker executive orders and policies, it is clear that the Trump administration’s goal is to turn the federal government into a toxic environment where workers cannot stay even if they want to,” she said.

1 day ago · President Donald Trump welcomed El Salvador President Nayib Bukele’s offer to house convicted criminals in El Salvador’s mega-prison system.U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio proposed the deal and was stunned that Bukule “agreed to the most unprecedented, extraordinary, extraordinary migratory agreement anywhere in the world.”. Bukule offered to take in migrants deported from the U.S ...

3 days ago · “Exposing the identities of officials who do extremely sensitive work would put a direct target on their backs for China,” said top Intelligence Committee Senator Mark Warner (D-Virginia).. Former CIA director William Burns had devoted much of the CIA’s efforts to recruiting diverse officers to enhance the company’s international communications. In 2021, the CIA focused its budget on ...

1 day ago · As the fate of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) hangs in the balance as the Trump administration considers dismantling it, Secretary of State Marco Rubio has named the director of foreign assistance at the State Department, Pete Marocco, to lead USAID.. Acting Deputy Marocco advised staffers in a memo sent out last week that they were “being placed on excused absence ...

4 days ago · Driscoll refused to assist in the firing of agents involved in Jan. 6 riot cases, pushing against DOJ orders. President Donald Trump‘s pick for FBI director, Kash Patel, is currently under consideration by the Senate. Patel has openly criticized the bureau’s investigations of Trump and Jan. 6 rioters, though he promised at his confirmation hearing that no …

5 days ago · President Donald Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office that halted wind energy projects in federal lands and waters. One administration official said the president wants the wind projects “dead and gone.” In response, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D) announced Monday that his state would stop approving new offshore wind projects, and oil and gas giant Shell walked away ...

6 days ago · President Donald Trump’s controversial health and human services secretary nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., cleared the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday.Kennedy is one of the nation’s most prominent vaccine critics. There has been great uncertainty surrounding RFK Jr.’s nomination after he stumbled on questions about Medicare and Medicaid and backpedaled past vaccine and abortion stances.

Feb 4, 2025 · On Saturday, Ken Martin, chair of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor party, was elected chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC).Martin received a majority of 246 out of 428 votes. “We’re going to get to work,” he said in his victory speech. “We’re going to fight; we’re going to go out there and take this fight to Donald Trump and the Republicans, and we’re going to ...

Jan 25, 2025 · President Donald Trump signed an executive order to “immediately pause the disbursement of funds” passed under his predecessor Joe Biden‘s infrastructure law. “Congress passed landmark infrastructure and climate investments, and now President Trump is attempting to illegally withhold that money from American businesses, communities, and workers,” Rep. Frank Pallone (D-New Jersey ...