Author: Elaine Mallon

Many federal agencies are instructing personnel to ignore Elon Musk‘s request to share how they’re spending their time at work.  The Office of Personnel Management, deemed the executive branch’s human resources manager, sent an email Saturday evening titled “What did you do last week” requesting employees to share a five-bullet-point list of the tasks they…

HERE ARE THE LAWSUITS TARGETING TRUMP’S EXECUTIVE ORDERS Vice President JD Vance is delivering remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Day Two at 10 a.m. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095963150525286,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-2426-4417″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”); CPAC is being held from Feb. 19 to Feb. 22 at the Gaylord National Convention Center outside of Washington, D.C. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:11095961405694822,size:[0, 0],id:”ld-5817-6791″});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src=”//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js”;j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,”script”,”ld-ajs”);

Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) and International Brotherhood of Teamsters President Sean O’Brien have made up after coming to blows during a Senate hearing in 2023 in an effort to prop up President Donald Trump’s pick for labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer. During a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing in November 2023, Mullin challenged…

There were no casualties aboard the Delta flight that crashed and flipped upside down at the Toronto airport on Monday evening, which experts attribute to modern plane safety design.  Investigation into the landing crash is still ongoing, but Sheldon H. Jacobson, professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with over 30 years of experience studying…

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Tuesday evening for withholding millions of dollars of funding approved by Congress that assist in USCCB’s mission of providing relief and relocation to asylum refugees.  For fiscal 2025, the federal government has allocated $65 million to the USCCB “for the immediate physical needs…

President Donald Trump‘s pick for labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer, who could be a candidate for bipartisan support with her previous advocacy for labor unions, could be on more shaky ground now that Democrats are taking their frustrations about Trump’s tactics out on his nominees. While serving in the House, Chavez-DeRemer cosponsored the PRO Act, which…

At least eight people are dead in Kentucky due to severe flash flooding occurring across the Bluegrass State and its neighbors on President’s Day weekend. Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) confirmed that deaths have been reported in Clay, Hart, Nelson, Pike, and Washington counties.  FULL LIST OF EXECUTIVE ORDERS, ACTIONS, AND PROCLAMATIONS TRUMP HAS MADE AS…

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) would not say on Sunday whether he is the Democrats’ national leader, as the party struggles to mount defenses to a GOP trifecta in Washington, D.C. Jeffries appeared on ABC’s This Week, in which host Jonathan Karl shared how House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) argued the Democratic party lacks…

Senate Democrats launched an online form on their website for public servants to report cases of the Trump administration acting out of line, particularly regarding the conduct of the Department of Government Efficiency, which is run by Elon Musk.  “Whistleblowers are a vital part of Congressional oversight to hold the administration accountable,” says the description of…

Sen. Andy Kim (D-NJ) said he is open to working with Democrats to deny Republicans the votes needed to keep the government funded as a response to President Donald Trump’s overhaul of the federal government.  “In a few weeks, the Republicans are going to try to figure out how they move forward, and they have,…