Author: Gabe Kaminsky

EXCLUSIVE — During President Joe Biden‘s last 20 days in office, his administration issued at least $1 billion in grants to hundreds of nonprofit groups scattered throughout the United States. A slice of that pie, $50 million, was awarded by the Department of Energy to a little-known charity in New Mexico called the Tribal Energy…

A group suing over President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting effort across the government was awarded millions of dollars in federal diversity, equity, and inclusion grants that may be slashed under the new administration, records show. Last week, the American Public Health Association joined five others in accusing Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency of violating transparency…

A former lobbyist at an influential firm with close ties to Trumpworld has landed a high-ranking role at the White House‘s Presidential Personnel Office, according to three people briefed on the matter. The Presidential Personnel Office, which is responsible for recruiting and vetting political appointees, will count its deputy director as Trent Morse, the people…

In one of his first moves, President Donald Trump rescinded a Biden-era executive order that Republicans argued set aside federal funding to register Democrats to vote in elections. While doing so came as no surprise to insiders tracking the matter, the voter turnout fight, which has played out in courtrooms and in Congress since 2021,…

EXCLUSIVE — Incoming Trump administration officials and GOP lawmakers are contacting conservative nonprofit groups to facilitate research for the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, illustrating the wide scope of the new cost-cutting effort, according to 10 people familiar with the discussions. Ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, conservative groups are informally providing guidance to incoming…

EXCLUSIVE — Conservatives are sounding the alarm over how President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead NASA donated over $300,000 to Democrats while his companies promoted diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. Jared Isaacman, a billionaire astronaut and businessman, was tapped in late December of last year to be NASA’s next administrator. However, to some conservatives and…

A Federal Election Commission opinion in March that was thanks to legal pressure from Democratic attorney Marc Elias ended up giving an assist to the Trump campaign and is poised to reshape the campaign finance system. The FEC opinion put forth that political campaigns and outside political action committees may coordinate on canvassing get-out-the-vote efforts,…

The State Department sent a notification to Congress that it plans to terminate an agency accused of censoring conservatives after losing support from lawmakers, according to a court filing and a source familiar with the correspondence. In the filing, attorneys for the State Department said the agency told lawmakers on Friday of its plan to…

The Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump group that has been mired in controversy since its formation, routed millions of dollars this election cycle to companies owned by its leaders, according to federal records. Documents filed with the Federal Election Commission show that, over the last year, the Lincoln Project paid around $7 million to consulting firms…

EXCLUSIVE — Swiss billionaire Hansjörg Wyss, who some conservatives are seeking to brand as the “new George Soros” of the Left, cut a $1.1 million check last year to a Democratic dark money-linked umbrella group for state-focused news outlets. The donation to States Newsroom is just one example of the almost $150 million in grants…