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A DOGE of ones own: GOP-led states want to guide Musks cuts
Republican governors and state lawmakers are eager to embrace the Musk-driven cuts to Washington — and make sure some of that chaos doesn’t trickle down to their states.
10:00 AM on 02/07/2025 Politico Top Stories Vought wants to dismantle the deep state. As he takes office, its already happening.
The administration’s early moves to fire thousands of federal workers and dismantle entire agencies even before Vought took office reflect his influence at the White House.
04:45 AM on 02/07/2025 Politico Top Stories What does Trump really want from Canada?
"The current game is maximum chaos," one industry leader says of the current state of Canada-U.S. relations
05:00 AM on 02/07/2025 Politico Top Stories How Tucker Carlsons Nicotine Pouch Became the Latest Front in the Culture War
Naturally, we had to try them.
05:00 AM on 02/07/2025 Politico Top Stories Are We Detroit Now?: Trumps Cuts Panic Washington
In a town built on the predictability of federal work, people are facing an unfamiliar sense of existential uncertainty.
09:00 AM on 02/07/2025 Politico Top Stories After Trumps remarks on Gaza, some in Dearborn, Michigan think we screwed up
Trump’s plan to “take over” Gaza was met with outrage in Dearborn, Michigan, an Arab American enclave.
07:28 PM on 02/07/2025 Politico Top Stories Facing fire from DeSantis, agriculture says it doesnt rely on undocumented foreign workers
Immigrants — both documented and undocumented — play a large role in agriculture, but that represents a small portion of their overall employment in Florida.
05:53 PM on 02/07/2025 Politico Top Stories Former Trump Education secretary calls for department to be shuttered as cutting spree looks for next target
Betsy DeVos, Trump’s first secretary of Education, called for it to be abolished entirely on Thursday.
04:19 PM on 02/07/2025 Politico Top Stories Democrats zero in on Musk as a way to attack Trump
The billionaire's strategy of moving fast and breaking things isn't going over so well with the public.
10:20 AM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Musk aims to hobble federal workers ahead of buyout deadline
Countless staffers in the government are now grappling with what to do.
05:00 AM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Inside the Elon Musk-Jim Jordan mind meld shaking up Capitol Hill
Musk has a White House office and growing pull across federal agencies. Now he's burrowed into the House Judiciary Committee.
04:50 PM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories What Happened the Last Time a President Purged the Bureaucracy
The impact can linger not just for years but decades.
05:00 AM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Gambling man: Inside Howard Lutnicks scandal-tainted sports betting gambit
Cantor Gaming was years ahead of the mobile sports betting craze. But it repeatedly ran afoul of state and federal regulators.
05:00 AM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump dumped these farmers' water. Theyd rather not talk about it.
President Donald Trump followed through on his promise to unleash California’s water — only the water he released belonged to the very farmers he’d promised to help.
05:00 AM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps FEMA chief assailed the agency with untruths
Acting Administrator Cameron Hamilton amplified false charges that FEMA spent disaster aid on migrants and blocked help to North Carolina.
10:00 AM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump doubles down on kicking Palestinians out of Gaza
U.S. president claims no American soldiers will be needed for “one of the greatest and most spectacular developments of its kind on Earth.”
08:45 AM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories EPA funds still frozen despite agency memo, lawmakers pressure
The EPA's directive after a court ruling has still not yet unlocked all the funding mandated under the laws passed by Congress.
05:00 AM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Gavin Newsom tries buddying up to Donald Trump
A former leader of the anti-Trump resistance, Newsom said he had a productive meeting at the White House with the president on disaster aid for fire-ravaged Los Angeles.
09:01 AM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Colombias president: Legalize cocaine, its no worse than whiskey
Global drug trafficking could be “easily dismantled” if coke was “sold like wine,” according to the Latin American leader.
06:16 AM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Frankly Insane: Trumps Plan to Ship Migrants to Guantanamo Could Quickly Collapse
A reality check from a top lawyer who knows Guantanamo.
12:00 PM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | Notes to the American People and Government Workers on How to Stop Trump
Resistance to Trump can work. I’ve seen it happen.
10:00 AM on 02/06/2025 Politico Top Stories Could egg prices shake Democrats post-inauguration shell shock?
Democrats are trying to tie Trump’s attack on USAID to egg prices, which vexed them last year.
05:54 PM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories February 2025
Political cartoons from the desk of Matt Wuerker.
02:59 PM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump administration finalizing plans to shutter Education Department
An executive order — which President Donald Trump is expected to sign sometime this month — was expected to lay out a two-part strategy for shuttering the agency.
06:16 PM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump administration decrees union telework provisions unlawful
In a Monday memo, the Office of Personnel Management said allowing government employees to telework is a “management right” that lays outside of the bargaining table.
05:05 PM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Opinion | Will Donald Trump Make Karl Roves Dream a Reality?
Trump wants to replicate decades of Republican dominance — but he’s likely to fail.
10:00 AM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Shutdown anxiety rises on Capitol Hill amid Trump chaos
Washington is growing increasingly worried about the potential for a government shutdown — and what devastation it could bring.
04:45 AM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories 37 ways Project 2025 has shown up in Trumps executive orders
A side-by-side review by POLITICO found dozens of cases where the president’s early executive actions have aligned with portions of the 922-page policy document.
05:00 AM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Mike Johnsons budget plan is at risk of collapse
The Senate is itching to move as the speaker struggles to unify House Republicans.
05:30 PM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories 'They've done their homework': The unexpected power of Musk's digital assault on Washington
Almost overnight, banal-seeming federal IT systems have become an ideologically driven bulldozer
08:39 PM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump Is Turning Out To Be a Very Pro-China President
From tariffs on allies to gutting aid programs to mocking the rule of law, the president’s moves could be a dream come true for the Chinese.
05:00 AM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump puts USAID staff around the world on leave
The agency says it will arrange and pay for many to return to the U.S. within roughly one month.
10:33 PM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Global fury builds over Trumps plan to turn Gaza into the Middle East Riviera
U.S. president faces outrage from Arab countries and key European capitals over his “dangerous” proposal that Palestinians should be removed from the coastal enclave.
08:54 AM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories EPA lifts spending freeze on some environmental funding
EPA’s Office of Budget will follow up with a detailed list of the programs that should now receive disbursements.
05:00 AM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Mass deportations havent arrived but Trumps PR blitz has
The media grab speaks to the challenges the Trump administration faces as it tries to move quickly to fulfill the mass deportations promise.
06:30 PM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Kremlin says talks with US have intensified in recent days
“There are indeed contacts between individual departments,” says spokesperson for Vladimir Putin.
07:00 AM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Why some centrist Dems fear David Hogg could do more harm than good.
The activist’s election as vice chair of the Democratic National Committee was pilloried in conservative media.
08:49 PM on 02/05/2025 Politico Top Stories Donald Trump is remaking the government. It will set up a legal showdown.
All eyes are now on federal courts, where challenges to these decisions are slowly starting to take shape.
05:00 AM on 02/04/2025 Politico Top Stories Lindsey Grahams new challenge for Mike Johnson
Graham is ready and waiting if Johnson’s plan for the Trump agenda blows up.
04:45 AM on 02/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Hard-liner rebellion forces House GOP leaders to scramble for deeper cuts
Budget Committee conservatives rejected the minimum targets outlined at least week’s Republican retreat.
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