Trump to nominate Sean Cairncross as national cyber director
Cairncross is a former top official at the RNC and previously led a federal foreign aid agency during the first Trump administration.
DOGE order triggers firings at SBA of employees prematurely fired Friday
Federal workers who mistakenly got termination notices last week got real ones Tuesday just hours after the president’s executive order.
Trump taps bank, Wall Street regulators for top posts
President Donald Trump on Tuesday nominated a slate of top financial regulators, including a permanent head of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an agency that his administration has been ...
Top ICE officials removed as White House ramps up pressure on deportations
The shake-up at ICE comes as the president, and his top immigration officials, are increasingly frustrated with the pace of ...
How Trump might topple California’s clean truck experiment
KEEP ON TRUCKIN’: California’s prospects for shifting the world to electric trucks just got a lot bleaker under President Donald Trump. State officials are facing the loss of substantial chunks of ...
Trump fires USAID’s inspector general after report critical of funding freeze
Paul Martin is one of around 20 inspectors general the administration has pushed out despite objections from lawmakers who say the firing methods violate statutes.
Florida’s immigration battle may be over soon. But will Republicans’ good times last?
Republican legislative leaders and the governor crafted a sweeping new proposal behind closed doors that aims to help ...
Jodey Arrington has 2 days to save the House budget
A plan blessed by Arrington’s close personal friend, Speaker Mike Johnson, has stalled for weeks in the Budget Committee. Arrington and fellow Texas hard-liner Chip Roy have battled Ways and Means ...
Treasury officials: Musk ally ‘mistakenly’ had power to alter payments system
Thomas Krause, another Musk aide who is the leader of Treasury’s DOGE team, also shed new light on the review he is conducting of the agency’s payment process in his declaration. Krause is the CEO of ...
The Democrats enabling Trump’s DOJ demolition
In a statement, national security adviser Mike Waltz said that President Donald Trump’s special envoy for the Middle East, ...
‘Absolute nightmare’: Feds fret as Trump’s resignation plan stalls
A midnight deadline came and went, leaving government workers wondering yet again what the future holds for them under this administration.
SF’s centrist powerbroker makes his entrance
Board President Rafael Mandelman, who was recently elected to guide the new centrist majority, sat down with Playbook for an ...