How Trump's plans for federal workers and spending could derail Washington's office recovery
President Trump has moved to slash the federal workforce and spending. The Washington DC office market's recovery from the ...
What is Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and what has it actually done so far?
In an effort to slash government spending, President Trump has asked the world’s richest man, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, to lead ...
Trump spending freezes hits high-value investment projects
President Donald Trump's administration has placed holds on U.S. government grants to states and local communities as part of ...
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What you need to know about impoundment, and how Trump vows to use it
It's a concept that’s normally dry, esoteric and distanced from Americans' everyday lives, yet the heart of the matter is a ...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants to bypass the Fed to lower interest rates
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has a new plan in the fight to bring down historically high interest rates, and it’s got ...
Billions of dollars for US projects remain frozen by Trump, managers and advocates say
President Donald Trump has placed holds on tens of billions of dollars in congressionally-approved spending for projects ...
Senate vote could put Project 2025 architect in charge of Trump's budget office
Vought’s return to the White House Office of Management and Budget, which he also helmed during Trump’s first term, would put ...
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What the data says about U.S. foreign aid
The $71.9 billion in foreign aid that the government spent in fiscal year 2023 works out to 1.2% of that year’s total federal spending.
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There's Actually an Incredibly Easy Way for Elon Musk to Trim $2 Trillion of Government Spending: Cut Funding for Nuclear Weapons
Easy As Pie Can we all agree that nuclear warfare is bad? Yes? Well, do we have an easy way that Elon Musk and his so-called ...
5 things to watch as the federal buyout deadline approaches
The Trump administration is dangling buyouts in front of a disheartened federal work force, hoping to lure a large chunk into ...
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Head Start and other programs still report disruptions after spending freeze supposedly thawed
A week after a federal spending freeze was halted, some early childhood education programs in West Virginia are still having ...
Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts
Department of Government Efficiency workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.