The US Department of Labor’s Inspector General Larry Turner was part of a spate of firings by President Donald Trump, the agency said Monday.
As expected, the White House issued a directive to the heads of all executive departments and agencies within the first few hours after
Among other things, the Executive Order eliminates the requirement that certain federal contractors prepare and implement affirmative action programs for minorities and women and revokes OFCCP’s enforcement authority over those programs.
Agencies are starting to take action against DEI-tasked employees and pass lists of those workers on to OPM and the White House.
Stephen Miller, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy, appeared on CNN in a heated interview with host Jake Tapper. The discussion focused on Trump's impending federal aid freeze and Miller's assertion about the political leanings of federal workers.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt is set to make her debut behind the podium as the White House holds its first official news briefing Tuesday afternoon. Leavitt is certain to get questions related to the White House budget office’s decision to pause all grants and loans disbursed by the federal government to ensure its programs are consistent with President Donald Trump’s executive orders.
Phyllis Fong, a 22-year veteran of the Agriculture Department, had told colleagues that she intended to stay after the White House fired her Friday.
The first foreign leader to visit President Donald Trump at the White House in his second term will be wanted for war crimes.
Lori Chavez-DeRemer is the unusual example of a Trump nominee who Republicans find more polarizing than Democrats.
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.