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A federal judge in Massachusetts blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Education Department, calling out the government’s “efficiency” efforts in the process as anything but. U.S. District Judge Myong Joun wrote that there’s “no evidence” that a massive reduction in force “has actually made the Department more efficient.” “Rather,” he wrote Thursday, “the record…

The Federal Emergency Management Agency, a political piñata for anti-government crusaders, has been targeted by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. Not only that, but Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in March that she’d work to “eliminate the agency,” and this month, President Donald Trump’s administration fired Cameron Hamilton, the acting head of…

House Republicans passed their version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the legislative vehicle for President Donald Trump’s agenda, on a party-line vote early Thursday morning. The massive package is now Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s to handle. The Senate GOP faces a whole new set of hurdles to get the bill to Trump’s…

On the long list of people from Donald Trump’s inner circle who are personally benefiting from his second-term agenda, Richard Grenell might be flying under your radar. Grenell — the former U.S. ambassador to Germany and staunch MAGA ally whom Trump named his “special missions envoy” in the current administration — has become one of…

Sen. Ron Wyden is worried that several of America’s largest phone companies are ill-suited to prevent the Trump administration from spying on senators, and the Oregon Democrat is warning his colleagues to take precautions. On Wednesday, Wyden sent a letter to fellow senators in which he claimed that major carriers have failed to set up…

The Supreme Court backed President Donald Trump’s power to fire independent federal agency members over dissent from the court’s three Democratic appointees, who said the majority “favors the President over our precedent.” The majority said Thursday that the president has the power to “remove without cause executive officers who exercise that power on his behalf,…

President Donald Trump loves to talk about cutting red tape. In truth, he’s actually fine with tying the average American up in it. Along with his GOP allies in Congress, Trump regularly bemoans the federal government’s allegedly onerous burdens on businesses, such as mandating that a bank ensure it has enough assets to avoid crashing…

The death of influencer Emilie Kiser’s 3-year-old son is a tragedy. Due to his mother’s significant fame on TikTok, it’s also a national story. What it isn’t is an excuse to shame a grieving parent, and yet the ordeal has quickly become another example of the way parasocial relationships on social media can discourage empathy…

House members looking for an excuse to oppose the Republicans’ so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” were handed plenty of opportunities. The Congressional Budget Office, for example, delivered a brutal assessment of the party’s far-right reconciliation package on Tuesday night. Hours later, investors and the bond market offered a similar verdict: As GOP policymakers prepared…

As the fight over the Republicans’ so-called One Big Beautiful Bill Act unfolded, much of the focus turned to Medicaid, and for good reason. Despite Donald Trump’s promise not to cut the health care program, the GOP legislation would cut roughly $700 billion from Medicaid in the coming years, and with just hours remaining before…