President Donald Trump's new tool for reshaping the federal government is a relatively obscure agency, the Office of Personnel Management. The agency has offered millions of federal workers eight months of salary if they voluntarily choose to leave their jobs by Feb.
President Donald Trump has begun his second administration with a series of controversial moves and decisions.
President Donald Trump’s administration issued a memo Monday ordering widespread federal assistance to be temporarily paused, as Trump and his allies have argued he can block government funds that Congress has already authorized, despite a federal law forbidding it.
But the spending freeze – along with other key moves early in this presidency, including the firing of Justice Department prosecutors and a bid to repeal birthright citizenship – also reflects Trump’s view that the presidency has almost unlimited power and he can simply decide what is legal and what isn’t.
President Donald Trump began his second administration with a blitz of policy actions to reorient U.S. government priorities
Donald Trump's effort to freeze trillions of dollars in federal grants is the most provocative of his many attempts to expand his power in the first days of his presidency.
The order pausing all federal loans and grants was rescinded Wednesday by the White House Office of Management and Budget. However, there is still confusion on many fronts. HPR talked to U.S. Rep. Ed Case,
President Donald Trump signed the bipartisan Laken Riley Act into law as his administration’s first piece of legislation. People who are in the United States illegally and are accused of theft and violent crimes would have to be detained and potentially deported even before a conviction.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), one of the seven Republican senators who voted to convict Trump in his second impeachment trial, is the latest to express public disapproval, particularly for the pardons for those convicted of assaulting police officers.
The new team entrusted with delivering Donald Trump's agenda ... has been selected to lead the Office of Management and Budget, a post he held during Trump's first term. The Senate still must ...
When he assumed office in 2016 ... The younger brother of Donald, born 1948, Robert was a businessman and investor who spent his final year working for Trump Management before he died in 2020.