House Democrats press Bessent on IRS layoffs
House Democrats led by Rep. Brad Schneider (Ill.) pressed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on mass layoffs at the Internal ...
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'I'm fighting back': Va. Rep. McClellan puts in House bill to block 10,000 HHS firings
Rep. Jennifer McClellan was joined by 20 fellow Democrats in sponsoring legislation to block cuts to 3% or more of HHS ...
Trump executive order targets scalpers, fees as concert ticket prices soar
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday next to musician Kid Rock to help restore an industry that has ...
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CT's Blumenthal to Trump on ticket scalping bill: 'Put your money where his mouth is.'
After Trump signed an executive order with Kid Rock, U.S. Sen. Richard Blumenthal called on the president to support his BOSS ...
Trump’s ‘External Revenue Service’ can’t replace the IRS
President Trump’s proposal to replace the IRS with an External Revenue Service to collect tariffs and duties from foreign ...
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The Senate’s Age of Irrelevance
Elon Musk’s DOGE and Trump’s executive orders are pushing Congress’s upper chamber from ineffectiveness to obsolescence. Will ...
Black Americans describe how being a federal worker was their path to the middle class — and the heartbreak of losing it
Trump and DOGE's job cuts and DEI scrutiny have threatened a pathway to the American Dream for these Black federal workers.