Author: Mabinty Quarshie

The United States’s trade war with Canada took a series of dizzying turns on Tuesday with threats, posturing, and what appeared to be an eventual lowering of temperatures over electricity surcharges. The day started with President Donald Trump slapping a 25% levy against steel and aluminum imported from Canada, on top of a previous 25%…

Vice President JD Vance quickly moved past a protester who disrupted his address calling for lower immigration levels to help improve housing costs in the U.S. “When we talk about housing and why costs are so high, we don’t talk enough about demand. And one of the drivers of increased housing demand,” said Vance during…

President Donald Trump convened his Cabinet on Thursday to lay out how his administration will be handling cost-cutting measures and staffing moving forward after mounting criticism over Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. “As the Secretaries learn about, and understand, the people working for the various Departments, they can be very precise as to…

President Donald Trump is turning to the House Freedom Caucus, a small group of lawmakers known for their rebel-rousing tactics, to help usher in a stopgap measure to keep the government open. Reps. Andy Harris (R-MD), Chip Roy (R-TX), Scott Perry (R-PA), and Lauren Boebert (R-CO) met with Trump at the White House Wednesday afternoon, where…

President Donald Trump championed his first six weeks in office Tuesday night during a combative joint address to Congress in which Democrats attempted to rekindle their resistance to his presidency. Trump’s address to Congress, at nearly 99 minutes, broke the record for the longest presidential address, surpassing former President Bill Clinton‘s record of 89 minutes…

President Donald Trump is set to announce an investment of more than $100 billion from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing, a Taiwan chipmaker, a White House official confirmed to the Washington Examiner. Trump will announce the investment, which will occur over the next four years, in the Roosevelt Room on Monday afternoon. C. C. Wei, CEO of…

President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk presented a united front and defended their breakneck work revamping the federal government during a joint Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on Tuesday evening. The two men heaped praise upon each other, with Musk proclaiming his “love” for the president and Trump repeatedly touting Musk’s intelligence…

Some 75,000 federal employees accepted the Trump administration’s “Fork in the Road” deferred resignation offer, a White House official confirmed to the Washington Examiner. The figure represents less than 4% of the more than 2 million federal workers currently employed and is less than the 5% to 10% estimate officials were hoping to hit through…

President Donald Trump‘s quest to slash the number of federal government employees is likely to have a sizable impact on Virginia‘s gubernatorial race in November. The Old Dominion is home to nearly 145,000 government workers who are at risk of job loss if Trump, Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency, and Office of Management and…

President Donald Trump called for Congress to pass a new air traffic control system during the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday following last week’s deadly plane crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that killed 67 people. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) and Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) were both in attendance at the bipartisan…