BY ALEX GANGITANO AND BRETT SAMUELS |
President Trump is signaling a softer approach to the mass firings of federal government workers led by Elon Musk as cracks emerge between the tech billionaire and Cabinet secretaries running the agencies he's gutting.
Musk's swift and wide-ranging cost-cutting efforts have been met with pushback from some in Washington, who have complained behind-the-scenes about the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) upending of norms. |
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Explosive details about a Cabinet meeting confrontation between Elon Musk and Secretary of State Marco Rubio were revealed by The New York Times on Friday.
The exchange, in which Musk and Rubio apparently went back and forth heatedly over cuts to the State Department, puts a spotlight on larger questions about President Trump's more politically questionable moves since returning to the White House. |
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BY ARIS FOLLEY AND ELLEN MITCHELL |
Republicans are raising concerns about what the Trump-backed strategy to stave off next week's government shutdown threat could mean for defense programs for the next six months.
President Trump this week touted a clean, six-month continuing resolution (CR) as one that would allow Republicans to focus more on advancing their tax agenda while "effectively freezing spending this year" for government programs. But some Republicans are raising the alarm about what the "freeze" could mean for the military as lawmakers brace for the release of text this weekend. |
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BY AL WEAVER AND MYCHAEL SCHNELL |
The government will shut down next Saturday morning unless Congress can rally around a funding measure by the end of the week, setting up the first big legislative spending fight of President Trump's second term.
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is set to move forward with a stopgap measure, also known as a continuing resolution (CR), that will run through the end of fiscal 2025 on Sept. 30. |
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President Trump's battle to end the Department of Education is about to turn into a war as advocates prepare to defend the federal agency through litigation and civic action while he readies an executive order seeking its elimination.
"I expect that any actions to shutter the agency or to dismantle it will be challenged in the courts, and those challenges will prevail," said Julie Margetta Morgan, a former deputy under secretary of Education during the Biden administration. "I think the other thing to think about here is that the decision to dismantle the Department of Education is incredibly unpopular, and people need to continue to voice their concerns about that and their displeasure with the Trump administration's efforts and to hold policymakers accountable." |
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Fox Business Network host Charles Payne said the apparent decline in consumer spending was "shocking" on Friday, and he claimed a return to "boom times" was not on the horizon.
"A couple of days ago, Bank of America came out with their credit card data, and it was scary. I mean, a shocking decline in restaurants, airlines, lodging," Payne said on Fox Business Network's "Mornings With Maria." |
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BY ALEJANDRA O'CONNELL-DOMENACH |
Hundreds of people gathered at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on Friday afternoon to protest President Trump's recent cuts to government spending on research institutions.
The Trump administration has taken steps to disrupt operations at the country's top federal research institutions since late January, freezing grants issued by the National Institutes of Health and issuing executive orders on sex and gender and diversity, equity and inclusion. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scrubbed its health data from its site in order to comply with those orders. |
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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier said he would continue to pursue an investigation against Andrew and Tristan Tate, influencer brothers who were accused of human trafficking in Romania. "Fleeing our jurisdiction will not stop Florida's ongoing criminal investigation," Uthmeier wrote in a Friday statement on X. |
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Social Security Administration (SSA) acting Commissioner Lee Dudek on Friday reversed the agency's decision to change how newborns in Maine receive their Social Security cards, apologizing for "an undue burden" on people in the state. "In retrospect, I realize that ending these contracts created an undue burden on the people of Maine, which was not the intent," he said in a statement. |
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BY SCOTT A. RIVKEES AND GEORGES C. BENJAMIN |
OPINION | Sixty days into 2025, the U.S. had the highest number of measles cases this early into the year in three decades. Measles has been reported in eight states, with the largest outbreak in Texas, where there have been at least 159 cases and one unvaccinated child has died. The last previous deaths from measles in the U.S. were in 2015 and 2003. Because of the highly contagious nature of this virus, spotty and falling vaccination rates and the arrival of spring break and recreational travel to areas with measles, there is great potential for measles to spread across the country without aggressive action now to bridge gulfs in preparedness. |
OPINION | On his first day in office, President Trump unleashed Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency, which was created "to maximize governmental efficiency and productivity." Unknown to most Americans, there is an existing instrumentality of the U.S. government, the Government Accountability Office. The office is headed by the Comptroller General, which shall "investigate all matters related to the receipt, disbursement and use of public money" and "analyze expenditures of each executive agency" that it "believes will help Congress decide whether public money has been used and expended economically and efficiently." |
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What does President Trump really believe?
Does he want to run for a third term, or is that just a joke? Does he intend to seize control of Gaza and expel millions of Palestinians, or is that just a suggestion? Is Black History Month a waste of time and money, or worth a lavish celebration at White House?
Anyone looking for definitive answers will have a hard time finding them. |
BY BEN COHEN, ALEXANDER OSIPOVICH AND JAMES FANELLI |
After the spectacular collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange, Sam Bankman-Fried opened a Google Doc and started brainstorming a plan to resuscitate his public image.
"These are all random probably bad ideas," the FTX founder wrote.
The collection of 19 bullet points ranged from portraying himself as "extremely pro crypto, pro freedom" to sending out a poll on Twitter soliciting advice. |
Trump administration freezes on U.S. foreign aid have led many United Nations organizations to cut staff, budgets and services in places as diverse as Afghanistan, Sudan, Ukraine and far beyond.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has lamented the "severe cuts" and cited some fallout last week: Over 9 million people in Afghanistan will miss out on health and protection services; cash allocations that helped 1 million people in Ukraine last year have been suspended; funding for programs for people fleeing Sudan have run out, among other things. |
BY SIOBHÁN O' GRADY AND KOSTIANTYN KHUDOV |
One week after Volodymyr Zelensky gambled on a confrontational strategy with President Donald Trump and wound up at the center of an explosive Oval Office meeting, the Ukrainian president is scrambling to restore ties with Washington as the White House ramps up pressure for a quick end to the war with Russia. On Friday, after Russia launched a massive missile and drone attack against Ukraine, Trump said he would consider imposing new "large-scale" sanctions and tariffs against Moscow until a ceasefire and final agreement were reached. |
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