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If Donald Trump ’s second administration is more radical than his first, it is also, on the merits, more competent.

Unaffiliated voters are starting to turn against Trump and his disruptive agenda, demonstrating its political risks for the ...

Ex-Rep. George Santos is sentenced on felony fraud charges and President Donald Trump travels to Rome to attend Pope Francis' ...

April 17: Federal judge limits DOGE's access to SSA data ...

A day after it announced the elimination of the Office of Transformation, the SSA said it was closing the Office of Civil Rights and Equal Opportunity and that it would reassign the office's tasks - ...

Legal questions linger over deferred resignation program as feds feel pressure to accept offer ...

Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) - set up to cut US government spending - claims to have saved, on ...

Not since Franklin Roosevelt has a new president driven so many shifts, so fast. Here's 100 things that have already changed ...

The $1 trillion that Musk claimed DOGE would save has been downgraded to $150 billion, and even this figure might not stand ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday was making an announced trip to the southern border -- without reporters -- as he ...

President Donald Trump's approval rating has dropped to 40 percent, lower than all other presidents at this point in their ...