Month: February 2025
February 25, 2025
Congress
House budget plan advances to final floor vote
The House Republican approach to President Donald Trump’s sweeping domestic policy agenda moved a step closer to approval after Republicans stayed united on a test vote, setting up a...
February 25, 2025
Congress
Prospects dim for reviving deal to grow the federal judiciary
Bipartisan talks to add judges to the federal judiciary are over — at least for now. At a Tuesday morning hearing of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual...
February 25, 2025
Politics
House advances Trump’s ‘big, beautiful’ agenda bill — but GOP opposition could make path difficult
Despite GOP hardliners agreeing to the rule on the budget resolution, many have signaled opposition to the blueprint. Despite GOP hardliners agreeing to the rule on the budget resolution,...
February 25, 2025
Politics
More than 20 federal techies quit to protest DOGE cuts to ‘critical public services’
“We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services,” the staffers said. “We will not lend...
February 25, 2025
Politics
CUNY’s taxpayer-funded Hunter College promotes hateful ‘Palestine’ course targeting Jews, activists fume
Lefty taxypayer-funded Hunter College is promoting a hateful course that targets Israel over "settler colonialism, genocide" and "apartheid" and "infrastructure devastation," furious Jewish watchdog groups charge. Lefty taxypayer-funded Hunter...
February 25, 2025
Politics
IRS admits anti-Trump taxman leaked data on 405K filers — six times more than previously known
Charles Edward Littlejohn was sentenced in January 2024 to five years in prison for the unlawful disclosures. Charles Edward Littlejohn was sentenced in January 2024 to five years in...
February 25, 2025
Congress
Cruz plans first tech subpoena
Amid some Republican pushback against Sen. Ted Cruz's efforts to gain unilateral subpoena power to haul Big Tech CEOs before his panel, the Senate Commerce chair now plans to...
February 25, 2025
Politics
Trump makes surprise appearance on first White House tour of new administration: ‘First lady worked very hard in making it perfect’
'The first lady worked very hard in making it perfect and I think you're going to really love it,' Trump told the first batch of tourgoers. 'The first lady...
February 25, 2025
Politics
Ex-Navy SEAL Rep. Dan Crenshaw fumes over Tucker Carlson in hot-mic moment: ‘I’ll f–king kill him’
Crenshaw fumed Monday that he would "f--king kill" right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson and insisted he was "not joking" in a stunning hot mic moment. Crenshaw fumed Monday that he...
February 25, 2025
Politics
Federal workers in turmoil as Elon Musk’s confusing email ultimatum deadline looms: ‘It’s bedlam’
"Our chief said it was mandatory. Then OPM said it became voluntary. Then I guess Trump just told us it was mandatory again," a longtime employee of the Department...