President Donald Trump ordered a freeze starting on Tuesday on potentially trillions of dollars in federal funding to Americans, impacting everything from education grants to small businesses loans — and sparking accusations that he is violating the constitution.
The Senate voted 79 to 18 to confirm Mr. Burgum, a former governor of North Dakota, as the next interior secretary.
The administration is showing it doesn’t view the House and Senate as equal partners. So far, Republicans, who hold both majorities, are accepting their new status.
A new memo from the Office of Management and Budget appeared to say the freeze was reversed, but the White House said that only the original memo was rescinded, not the freeze itself.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order to instruct the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a 30,000-person migrant facility at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba.
President Donald Trump signed the Laken Riley Act into law today, in first legislative win since returning to office. The law, named after a 22-year-old nursing student who was killed by a Venezuelan migrant,
President Donald Trump’s budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country,
Robert F. Kennedy Jr's confirmation hearings began Wednesday before the Senate Finance Committee. He appears before the Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee on Thursday.
The plan to add five incoming and five outgoing flights was included in the bipartisan FAA Reauthorization Act last year.
Fourteen members of the figure skating community were among the 60 passengers on an American Airlines jet that collided with an Army helicopter in Washington, D.C. Officials said no survivors are expected.