In his first interview since being fired by President Donald Trump on Friday, former Inspector General for the Small Business Administration Hannibal "Mike" Ware called his sudden firing — along with 17 other inspector generals — "alarming" and "a threat to democracy,
President Donald Trump fired more than a dozen inspectors general over the weekend, including the SBA’s top watchdog who was also a Trump appointee.
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is overseeing a new Department of Government Efficiency. Billionaires or mega-millionaires are lined up to run the treasury, commerce, interior and education departments, NASA and the Small Business Administration, and fill key foreign posts.
The order affects several federal departments and is aimed at freeing up government funding to expand school choice programs.
President Donald Trump signed several sweeping executive orders on Wednesday to overhaul the American education system, primarily by removing so-called progressive ideologies from school hallways and classrooms.
The US government has many ways to funnel financial support to businesses, both large and small, helping them to do research and development, expand operations, hire and pay staff, and compete in the global market place.
The National Artificial Intelligence Advisory Committee voted in favor of AI recommendations on everything from health and education to governance and workforce.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel are expected to be grilled by senators during their confirmation hearings.
Senator Tim Kaine, Democrat of Virginia, quickly condemned the Trump administration’s offer to roughly 2 million federal employees to resign in exchange for pay, saying in a Senate floor speech that the deal was a trick, that the president didn’t have the authority to make the offer and employees who resign may not be paid.
Laken Riley Act: President Trump signed his first bill into law, and it closely tracked his agenda on immigration. The bill directs the authorities to detain and deport immigrants who are accused — not yet convicted — of specific crimes if they are in the country illegally. Read more ›