The Trump administration's top lawyer at the Department of Homeland Security isn't backing down. James Percival, DHS general counsel, went public on X last week with a thread he called "Worst of the Worst, District Judge Edition," naming specific federal district judges in Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, and California.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is launching a new effort to streamline commercial space licensing, allowing innovation to hit the industry with greater ease.
The Smithsonian Institution gets about $1 billion a year from American taxpayers. In return, it runs a "decolonization working group" and a program to preserve the history of the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Trump administration announced Tuesday it is ending a Biden-era Medicare Part D premium subsidy program, saying the program was designed to prop up insurance companies rather than help the roughly 25 million seniors and disabled Americans enrolled in standalone prescription drug plans.
Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine publicly broke with President Trump on Haitian deportations this week, arguing that the roughly 30,000 Haitians in his state holding Temporary Protected Status should not be removed, even after the Supreme Court cleared the way for their deportation.
Senate Democrats tried to push through sweeping legislation Wednesday that would have granted green cards to migrants in the United States under Temporary Protected Status, including people who had already been deported. Republicans blocked it in minutes.
The Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady at 3.5 to 3.75 percent, the second straight meeting where new Chair Kevin Warsh resisted pressure to hike, Reuters reports.
