BY MYCHAEL SCHNELL AND EMILY BROOKS |
Frustrations are bubbling up among House Republicans after the conference — by the skin of its teeth — overcame internal disputes to adopt a framework for President Trump's legislative agenda, a troubling sign for the group as it heads into the next, more difficult, step in achieving the president's domestic policy priorities.
The rocky week leading up to the budget resolution's adoption — with fiscal hawks withholding support as they pushed for commitments on spending cuts, forcing leaders to postpone a scheduled vote on the budget blueprint until the hard-liners acquiesced — left a bad taste in the mouth of Republicans in the other parts of the conference who worry that the high target for cuts could lead to slashes to Medicaid. |
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The Education Department's demand that K-12 districts and state officials certify their schools are free of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs is being met with open defiance from blue states and open arms by red ones. Highlighting an already stark divide on the issue, states including New York and Minnesota are telling the federal government they will not sign off on any such certification, while several red states are already collecting signatures from their districts. |
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Congress left town this week without passing legislation to prevent significant budget cuts for Washington, as the measure faces staunch opposition from some conservatives. While the measure swiftly passed the Senate last month, it has sputtered in the GOP-led House, even as President Trump has publicly called for its passage. |
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President Trump's escalating tariff battle with China is rattling the global economy and raising questions about how the standoff will end.
Trump this week announced a 90-day pause on his sweeping tariffs against dozens of countries, but he bumped up import taxes on China to a staggering 145 percent total. China hit back by upping its own tariffs to 125 percent on Friday, raising the stakes as the hikes roil global markets. |
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Trump said Friday he would respect a Supreme Court decision to bring back a Maryland man the administration mistakenly deported to El Salvador.
"If the Supreme Court said bring somebody back I would do that. I respect the Supreme Court," Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to Florida for the weekend. |
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A portrait of President Trump that depicts him raising his fist immediately following the attempt on his life last summer at a Butler, Pa., rally is replacing an image of former President Obama in a prominent spot inside the White House.
Dan Scavino, the White House deputy chief of staff, posted side-by-side photos on social media of the Trump artwork seemingly replacing the Obama painting on Friday at the bottom of the Grand Staircase. |
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ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE — President Trump said Friday he took a cognitive test during his annual physical, the results of which he said would be released this weekend.
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One traveling to Florida that he thought his exam went well. He said it included heart tests and the cognitive test, which he suggested he took partly as a dig at former President Biden. |
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President Trump authorized the military to take control of federal land stretching across three states at the southern border to assist in implementing his crack down on immigration.
The president directed the secretaries of Defense, Interior, Agriculture and Homeland Security, in a Friday evening memorandum dubbed "Military Mission for Sealing the Southern Border of the United States and Repelling Invasions," to provide the Pentagon with jurisdiction of federal lands including the Roosevelt Reservation, which spans across California, Arizona and New Mexico. |
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The U.S. Treasury bond market finished one of its worst weeks in decades on Friday after a chaotic series of days that saw President Trump announce a pause on his widest ranging tariffs yet.
The most attention-grabbing statistic was with the 30-year bond yield, the amount that purchasers make for the bond they bought. The yield saw its largest one-week increase of any point since 1982, finishing the week at 4.87 percent after having peaked just above 5 percent earlier Friday. |
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OPINION | In recent years, so-called Diversity, Equity and Inclusion or DEI programs have swept through American institutions, especially corporations and universities. Yet one identity marker, religion, largely has been left out of this identity-driven movement — even though about 70 percent of Americans identify as a member of a religion.
In fact, in some settings, DEI programming has given rise itself to allegations of religious discrimination, such as those by one employee at the Department of Agriculture who could not opt out of a mandatory DEI training session even though the content conflicted with his sincerely held religious beliefs. The irony has not been lost on the Trump administration. |
OPINION | At just 11 years old, Jane was placed in a chatroom with a predator by Omegle. She was threatened, exploited and abused despite pleas for it to stop.
John was 15 and downloaded what he thought was a safe dating app, only for it to become the connection point between predators who raped him. |
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Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency announced this week that they had found something especially startling in their government-wide hunt for fraud: tens of thousands of people claiming unemployment benefits who were over age 115, under age 5 or with birth dates in the future.
"Your tax dollars were going to pay fraudulent unemployment claims for fake people born in the future!" Musk posted on X, his social media platform. "This is so crazy that I had to read it several times before it sank in." |
An extra fee is showing up on more shopping bills lately, and it carries a not-so-subtle message: These tariffs weren't our idea.
From bathroom-fixture makers to toy shops, companies are starting to tack tariff surcharges onto invoices as a separate line item. Some are a $5 flat fee, while others represent as much as 40 percent of the subtotal. The tactic is a way to pass on at least some tariff costs to consumers — especially on Chinese-made goods, with levies totaling 145% since January — while passing the buck to President Trump. |
An immigration judge has ruled that a Palestinian Columbia University graduate student who participated in protests against Israel can be deported.
Mahmoud Khalil's attorneys said they will appeal Friday's ruling.
Federal immigration agents detained Khalil last month, the first arrest under President Trump's crackdown on students who joined campus protests against the war in Gaza. |
The entire staff of the lead poisoning office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) was included in layoffs at the agency last week. And in recent weeks, state water officials have complained that funding for replacing lead pipes had been frozen or delayed.
These actions have alarmed public health experts, who worry that decades of progress in eliminating a persistent and preventable threat could be jeopardized. |
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