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‘Shameful:’ GOP leaders frustrated with Dems on tenth day of shutdown(The Center Square) – U.S. senators have left town for the weekend and will not vote again on a federal funding bill until Tuesday, meaning the ongoing government shutdown… Read More
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Obama’s Obsession: To understand the Biden spying-on-Congress scandal, look no further than busybody BarackMany believe the Biden administration essentially functioned as a third term for Barack Obama. Certainly the latest spying on Congress scandal has Obama’s singular imprint on it.Fact is, Obama… Read More
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Billions in GDP lost during first week of government shutdown, Johnson says(The Center Square) – As the federal government shutdown hits the one week mark, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., is urging Democrats to vote for Republicans’ funding bill to… Read More
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Trimming the fat: Trump touts shuttering government agencies amidst shutdown(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump has condemned the shutdown and laid the blame squarely at the feet of the “Radical Left Democrats”— in the meantime, he appears to… Read More
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‘I don’t have anything to negotiate:’ House speaker holds firm on GOP shutdown strategy(The Center Square) – As the government shutdown enters its second day, House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., defended Republican leaders’ refusal to concede to Democrats’ health care policy demands… Read More
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Soros-backed leftist group pushing Democrats toward government shutdown(Daily Caller News Foundation) – A left-wing activist group that received millions of dollars from the Soros family’s organization is spearheading a pressure campaign to push Democratic senators to vote… Read More
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Trump administration prepares for mass layoffs if government shuts down(The Center Square) – With only six days until the federal government shuts down, Republicans and Democrats have yet to secure a funding deal – and the Trump administration… Read More
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‘Brutal slog:’ government shutdown looms as bipartisan negotiations derail(The Center Square) – Government funding negotiations came to a standstill Tuesday after President Donald Trump cancelled talks with Democratic congressional leaders, saying no meeting “could possibly be productive”… Read More
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Senate rejects both Republican and Democrat govt funding stopgaps, risking a shutdown(The Center Square) – The U.S. Senate failed to pass either Democrats’ or Republicans’ government funding proposals Friday to prevent a government shutdown. Senators have now left town… Read More
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Embattled Fed governor sues Trump over ‘illegal’ firing(The Center Square) – A Federal Reserve governor accused of mortgage fraud filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging her firing was "unprecedented and illegal."Trump fired Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, appointed… Read More
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Trump says he plans to rename Department of Defense(The Center Square) – President Donald Trump said Monday that next week the U.S. Department of Defense could once again return to an earlier name: War Department, a moniker it… Read More
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Federal government to drop 300,000 workers this year(The Center Square) − The federal government is on pace to eliminate about 300,000 workers this year. Office of Personnel Management director Scott Kupor said 80% of those employees would… Read More
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USDA to disperse half its DC workforce across country(The Center Square) – In the coming months, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will relocate more than half of its Washington D.C.-based employees to five different regional hubs across… Read More
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Government begins prioritizing English language across agencies(The Center Square) – The federal government has begun to implement President Donald Trump’s March 1 executive order designating English as the official language of the U.S. with initial guidance… Read More
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In nod to national security, Trump raises copper tariffs to 50%, mulling other tariffs hikes(The Heartlander) — The Trump administration this week announced a long-threatened increase in copper tariffs, even as one of the tariff’s main targets unwittingly made a case for the increased… Read More
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Supreme Court allows Trump’s ‘transformation of the federal bureaucracy’ to proceed(The Daily Signal) – The Supreme Court Tuesday stayed a district judge’s injunction blocking President Donald Trump from carrying out a “critical transformation of the federal bureaucracy.”Trump signed Executive Order 14210 on… Read More
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Against odds, GOP’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ passes House, heads to Trump’s desk(The Center Square) – Against all odds, U.S. House Republicans finally united around the Senate-revised “big, beautiful bill” and passed it in a 218-214 vote Thursday afternoon, sending the… Read More
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GOP subpoenas Jill Biden ‘work husband’ to testify on Biden’s fitness(The Center Square) – The Republican-led House Oversight Committee issued a subpoena to a man described as former First Lady Jill Biden's "work husband" to determine how sharp former President Joe Biden… Read More
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Social Security, Medicare to run out of money earlier than expected(The Center Square) – The Social Security program is nine years away from insolvency, the Social Security Board of Trustees said Wednesday. This forecast moved up one year… Read More
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Former Rep. Billy Long confirmed as IRS commissioner(Daily Caller News Foundation) – The Senate confirmed former Missouri Republican Rep. Billy Long as the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) commissioner on Thursday in a 53-44 vote. While serving twelve… Read More