Tulsi Gabbard, as Director of National Intelligence, announced on March 10, 2025, that she revoked security clearances for several individuals and groups, acting under a directive from President Donald Trump. The affected individuals include former Biden administration officials and others involved in legal or political actions against Trump, as well as 51 former intelligence officials […]
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In discussing why big donors are holding back on their contributions to the Democrat Party, Alexandra Acker-Lyons, a Silicon Valley political consultant, recently said, “No one is giving until they see a plan for how we are going to better navigate this unprecedented situation and stop acting like this is a normal administration.” The key […]
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A reckoning is coming for higher education. On Friday, the Trump administration announced that it would pull $400 million in grants from Columbia University on Title IV grounds that the school has failed to protect students from repeated cases of antisemitism. As a follow up in a weekend of bad news for Columbia, one of its students faces deportation for […]
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THE CENTER SQUARE—Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Monday that 83% of contracts at the U.S. Agency for International Development have been officially cancelled. The announcement is the crescendo to several weeks of controversy and drama at the federal foreign aid agency as Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency unveiled a string of foreign spending projects […]
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President Donald Trump has maintained a positive approval rating through his first month in office, with average approval of 49 percent, while 47.5 percent disapprove, according to the latest average of national polls compiled by RealClearPolling.com, following Trump’s joint address to Congress on March 4. The support continues despite an onslaught of negative media coverage and very public […]
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Despite President Donald Trump urging Republicans to unite behind a continuing resolution spending proposal to keep the government open, some GOP lawmakers expressed skepticism Sunday, while Democrats are resolutely opposed. Congress faces a Friday deadline to pass a continuing resolution and avert a partial government shutdown. Despite some hesitation, no Republican lawmakers have outright opposed the bill. […]
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Fresh from a run through federal agencies that saw budgets (and heads) exploding all over Washington, Elon Musk and the DOGE team have turned their Starlink satellite and aimed its powerful laser at the most inflated portion of the unofficial “shadow” bureaucracy: government consultants. This has the biggest names in the business – like Booz […]
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Topline: While the Department of Government Efficiency has taken aim at wasteful spending throughout the federal government, so far it has not set its sights on earmarks. The previous ban on earmarks that lasted from 2011 to 2021 brought $141 billion in savings, according to new analysis from OpenTheBooks.com. It’s a crucial area of waste […]
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Bad news. Unemployment increased in the U.S. by 203,000 in February as 588,000 fewer people reported having jobs, according to the latest data by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ (BLS) household survey. That means the economy is slowing down, as has been expected after overheating from high inflation for four years as a result of […]
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President Donald Trump is locked in a lengthy battle with a slate of foreign-aid recipients dead-set on unlocking billions of dollars in U.S. taxpayer money, after his executive order last month temporarily froze the foreign-aid spigot until his administration could vet the process. Trump issued his executive order freezing foreign aid until his administration – […]