“This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum,” Pritzker said. President Donald Trump will soon federalize 300 National Guard troops in Illinois, Gov. JB Pritzker said Saturday, a move that comes despite the governor’s opposition. “This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, … Read more
Here’s what’s happening to Washington’s high-profile push against Big Tech Half of the government’s biggest antitrust cases against tech giants are hitting “pause,” and half are plowing forward despite a lapse in government funding. The cases against four Big Tech giants — Google, Meta, Apple and Amazon — are some of the most closely … Read more
Most of the OMB will remain on the job as hundreds of thousands of government workers are sent home across the country. The Trump administration is sparing DOGE and much of the Office of Management and Budget amid a government shutdown that has furloughed tens of thousands of government workers across the country. A third … Read more
“Our democracy is badly broken when a president can illegally suspend projects for Blue states in order to punish his political enemies,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) wrote on X. The Trump administration’s threat to cut nearly $8 billion in clean energy funding across a swath of states that voted against President Donald Trump in the … Read more
U.S. president’s cartographical confusion prompts joke at Copenhagen summit. U.S. President Donald Trump’s geographic confusion was the butt of a joke between world leaders at a summit Thursday. Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama was filmed poking fun with French President Emmanuel Macron and Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev at the European Political Community meeting in Copenhagen … Read more
The Senate majority leader also rejected Democratic proposals for a shorter stopgap Senate Majority Leader John Thune said on Thursday that it’s “unlikely” senators will be in the Capitol voting this weekend, all but guaranteeing the government shutdown goes into next week. “They’ll have a fourth chance tomorrow to vote to open up the government, … Read more
Handfuls of agencies posted statements to their websites Wednesday, alerting Americans that the government has officially shut down and that the “radical left” is responsibl Agencies across the federal government are explicitly blaming Democrats for the government shutdown — from banners on top of public websites to suggested out-of-office messages for federal employees — in … Read more
The document will be used to inform the Republican messaging response to the shutdown. President Donald Trump’s economic advisers are warning that a prolonged shutdown could lead to serious economic consequences, according to a White House memo obtained by POLITICO. The U.S. could lose $15 billion of its growth domestic product each week the shutdown … Read more
How long the Trump administration will withhold money and what it means for the Gateway tunnel linking New York and New Jersey is unclear. On Wednesday, the future of the $16 billion train tunnel between New York and New Jersey was thrown into chaos, with thousands of construction jobs and the fate of commuters across … Read more
The flotilla set sail in August and has pro-Palestine activists from around the world on board. Israel intercepted the Global Sumud Flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza on Wednesday evening as it approached Palestinian territory, triggering a wave of street protests in Italy. “Here you can see the interception to one of our boats,” French … Read more