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Musk hit on USAID riles Dems; many in GOP would absorb it into State Department
Democrats criticized the actions at USAID, blaming Elon Musk, but Republicans seemed contend with absorbing it into the State Department.
'This is a constitutional crisis': Democrats blast Musk and Trump over USAID
Congressional Democrats blast Elon Musk and President Trump over attempts to shut down USAID, claiming they're causing chaos and harming national security.
Democrats Push Back After Musk Says Trump Agrees to Close USAID and Workers Are Kept Out
Democrats are pushing back against the Trump administration’s attempt to gut an agency that provides crucial aid overseas to fund education and fight starvation and disease
Musk says Trump administration is on verge of shutting down USAID
Elon Musk, the administration's billionaire adviser and Tesla CEO, says the administration is on the verge of shutting the U.S. Agency for International Development.
What is USAID, the agency that Musk says Trump agreed should be shut down?
Billionaire businessman Elon Musk said on Monday that President Trump agreed the United States Agency for International Development should be shut down. It was unclear whether that heralded the immediate demise of the agency that was created after Congress passed the Foreign Assistance Act in 1961,
‘Apocalypse at USAID’ as Musk and Trump work to dismantle agency
The fate of the US Agency for International Development appeared bleak Monday after Elon Musk, the world’s richest man charged with overhauling the federal government, said President Donald Trump had signed off on shutting the agency down.
Tulsi Gabbard's Future Could Come Down to One Republican Senator
The Senate Intelligence Committee will vote Tuesday on whether to advance Gabbard's nomination, the New York Times reported.
Who gets more disaster aid? Republican states. Experts explain that and more about FEMA
Disaster aid is suddenly a political hot button after Hurricane Helene last year and this year’s Los Angeles wildfires ...
Republican state AGs back Trump birthright citizenship order in court filing: 'Taxpayers are on the hook'
Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is leading 17 states in an amicus brief supporting the Trump administration's executive ...
18 House GOP lawmakers back Trump’s birthright citizenship order in court
A contingent of House Judiciary Committee Republicans backed President Trump’s order restricting birthright citizenship, ...
Trump, Musk wage two-front war as donor does president’s ‘dirty work’
Trump views Musk as doing the task he assigned him with, and benefits from letting someone else take the heat for drastic and ...
Omar slams Trump, Musk for changes at USAID, accuses president of running dictatorship
Democratic lawmakers stood on the steps of USAID headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Monday and called out President Trump ...
Donald Trump is sworn in as 47th President of the United States
Trump will act swiftly after the ceremony, with executive orders already prepared for his signature to jumpstart deportations, increase fossil fuel development and reduce civil service protections for ...
Gabbard boosted in bid to become chief US spy ahead of committee vote
Former U.S. Representative Tulsi Gabbard's nomination to become director of national intelligence received a major boost on ...
Why Trump admires President McKinley, the original ‘tariff man’
President Donald Trump says McKinley made the United States prosperous through tariffs. Historians say that’s an incomplete ...
Donald Trump sworn in as 47th president of the United States
President Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday, returning the former president to the Oval ...
What the House GOP retreat revealed about Trump, Johnson, and the fragile majority
Speaking to the three top House Republican leaders over the past three days at the House GOP retreat here in Doral, Fla., ...