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US Senate panel to vote on RFK Jr.'s health secretary nomination
(Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee will vote Tuesday on whether to advance President Donald Trump's nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the commit...
Feb 02, 2025
Exclusive-SEC's Republican-led commission tightens oversight of probes, sources say
By Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lawyers at the U.S. Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) have been told they need to seek permission from the politically appointed leadership before formally la...
Feb 02, 2025
Democrats elect Minnesota's Ken Martin as their new leader
By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Looking to rebuild after the party's election loss to Donald Trump in November, the Democratic National Committee on Saturday elected Ken Martin, the leader of...
Feb 01, 2025
Trump fires consumer bureau director Chopra, source says
By Douglas Gillison (Reuters) - Rohit Chopra, head of the top watchdog agency for consumer finance, submitted his resignation early Saturday after President Donald Trump fired him overnight, according...
Feb 01, 2025
Trump's Pentagon says it will 'rotate' out some media from offices
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, in an unprecedented move, announced late on Friday it would remove four media organizations including the New York Times from their ...
Feb 01, 2025
US Democratic lawmakers question Trump's blockage of clean energy federal grants
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic lawmakers Friday sent letters to two federal agencies asking them to explain why they froze federal funds on clean energy and investments th...
Jan 31, 2025
Trump administration explores bringing USAID under State Department, sources say
By Jonathan Landay, Steve Holland and Daphne Psaledakis WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration is considering scaling down the U.S. Agency for International Development and putting it under c...
Jan 31, 2025
US judge blocks Trump from freezing federal spending for 22 states
BOSTON (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from freezing federal loans, grants and other financial assistance to 22 states, barring t...
Jan 31, 2025
Senior US Treasury official to exit after rift with Musk allies, report says
(Reuters) - David Lebryk, the top-ranking career U.S. Treasury Department official, will leave following a clash with allies of billionaire and Trump adviser Elon Musk over payment system access, the ...
Jan 31, 2025
Some Republicans in Congress worry about Trump tariffs' toll on their home states
By Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's 2024 campaign promise to impose steep tariffs on imports -- including those coming from close U.S. allies -- has some of his fellow Repub...
Jan 31, 2025
