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Speaker Johnson says tax cuts will be offset with spending cuts
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Sunday that Republicans will find spending cuts to offset President Trump’s push for tax cuts, which a nonpartisan budget analysis estimates will cost at least $5 trillion over 10 years.
‘Finally happening’: House Republicans rally behind Elon Musk’s efficiency rampage
Elon Musk and DOGE have rattled the federal bureaucracy to its core by rooting out questionable spending — the type of free-wheeling spending that Republicans have long derided. It begs the question, why did Republicans need Mr. Musk to start cutting spending?
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Retired Navy captain says DOGE disruptions could improve efficiency, security
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WATCH: White House says Musk will recuse himself from DOGE conflicts
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Biden agency misled over the extent of ‘ecogrief’ training
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Trump plans move to dismantle federal Education Department
President Trump plans to shrink the size of government includes abolishing the Education Department, which spends $80 billion a year as student test scores plunge.
USAID spent funds on DEI, transgender initiatives, terrorist groups
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt laid out some of the odd places the U.S. Agency for International Development spent funds, amid the upheaval of the agency by the Trump administration and Elon Musk.
D.C. Council votes unanimously to expel Trayon White over bribery charges
The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday to expel Ward 8 Democrat Trayon White from office, making him the first member in modern history to be removed from the legislative body, after his colleagues said his federal bribery charges became a drain on public trust.
USAID’s humanitarian aid, programs invite onslaught of scrutiny and overtures to action under Trump
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‘Political corruption’: Speaker Johnson rips New York Democrats’ bid to delay replacing Stefanik
House Speaker Mike Johnson said an effort by New York Democrats to delay a special election to replace Republican Rep. Elise Stefanik is tantamount to "political corruption."
Elon Musk: Trump ‘agreed’ to shutter USAID
Elon Musk has set his sights on shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development and said President Trump is fully on board with the move.
USAID staffers told to stay out of Washington headquarters after Musk said Trump agreed to close it
Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency's Washington headquarters on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them, after billionaire Elon Musk announced President Trump had agreed with him to shut the agency.
