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Tracking Trumps Cabinet picks
Here's who has a seat at the table
10:49 AM on 02/25/2025 Politico Top Stories Its the Health Care, Stupid.
Forget DOGE. Republicans are playing with political fire as they move to gut Medicaid.
10:00 AM on 02/25/2025 Politico Top Stories How Canada Hopes to Thwart Trump
By wooing governors and cultivating cross-border bonhomie, Canada’s premiers aim to quell the calls for tariffs and annexation.
05:55 AM on 02/25/2025 Politico Top Stories How Gettysburg Became a Refuge for Conservatives Battered by Trump-Era Strife
It might take a mock battlefield to solve America’s political divisions.
04:00 PM on 02/25/2025 Politico Top Stories What Germanys Election Means for America and the World
The country's next leader will face pressure from both Trump and the far right.
08:24 PM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Germanys Merz vows independence from Trumps America, warning NATO may soon be dead
The election winner likens the Trump administration to Putin’s Russia as he bids to take Europe in a new direction.
05:38 PM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Who is Friedrich Merz? Meet Europes most powerful leader as US turns its back.
After winning the German election, the conservative leader must navigate new era without Washington as close ally.
01:14 PM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Alice Weidel took the German far-right to new heights. Here's how she did it.
One in five voters in the German election favored the far right. The Afd leader's dramatic rise terrifies many of the others.
04:23 PM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Progressives Say They Want Clean Energy. They Held Up This Hydro Project for Years.
An effort to bring clean energy to Massachusetts has languished in red tape.
02:00 PM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Zelenskyy offers to resign in exchange for peace, NATO membership
“If you need me to leave this chair, I am ready to do that; and I also can exchange it for NATO membership for Ukraine,” Ukrainian president says.
11:39 AM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories The whisper-network readies a state-level resistance to Trump
New Jersey and Virginia will be some of the first opportunities for Democrats to see if they can rely on an anti-Trump sentiment to notch some wins.
07:00 AM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Republican senator urges Musk to show compassion toward workers
Sen. John Curtis said: ‘These are real people. These are real lives.”
01:03 PM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump and Hegseth are politicizing the military, Sen. Jack Reed says
"It's the beginning of a very, very serious degradation of the military and politicization of the military," he said.
12:28 PM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Jan. 6 defendants wanted a defiant Capitol photo op. It ended with Enrique Tarrios arrest.
The Proud Boys leader was taken into custody after swiping at a protester’s hand after she put it close to his face.
03:26 PM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Email starts power clash between Musk and agency leaders even the Trump loyalists
The response to Elon Musk’s “What did you do last week?” threat is the first sign that even staunch White House allies are beginning to flex their political muscle against him.
05:14 PM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Before he became Trumps bulldog at DOJ, Emil Bove was nearly demoted for bellicose management style
When Bove worked in the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, some colleagues saw his conduct as abusive, prompting office leaders to open an internal inquiry.
05:18 PM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories Mayor Lurie Tries to Bloomberg-ize San Francisco
There’s decades-low crime, but outsiders remain skeptical about the city by the bay.
11:00 AM on 02/24/2025 Politico Top Stories If Trump Is Set on Toppling Washington Pillars, Heres a Possible Target
The State Sponsors of Terrorism List is more of a political weapon than a logical grouping of countries.
07:00 AM on 02/23/2025 Politico Top Stories JD Vance Aced His First Test. The Next One Will Be Tougher.
The vice president wrangled a few holdout senators. Now he’s faced with taming an unruly House.
10:00 AM on 02/23/2025 Politico Top Stories Musk says all federal employees need to explain their work immediately or be let go
Federal employees received an email Saturday afternoon, and gave them a deadline of Monday night.
03:22 PM on 02/23/2025 Politico Top Stories DOGE shared its receipts and some of them dont match
“Everyone is very well-aware they’re repeating the wrong numbers,” said one manager at a company on DOGE’s list of cuts.
10:00 AM on 02/23/2025 Politico Top Stories Republican governors defend DOGE even as they face looming deficits
As governors gathered in Washington, they stood by the president amid a brewing backlash.
02:13 PM on 02/23/2025 Politico Top Stories Inside RFK Jr.s health department takeover
Kennedy’s first week at HHS included dismissing the workforce, vaccine advisers and some longtime health priorities.
02:00 PM on 02/23/2025 Politico Top Stories 'Viciousness of Trumps climate attacks stuns even his critics
President Donald Trump has attacked nearly every aspect of the U.S. effort to confront rising temperatures.
12:00 PM on 02/23/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump and Hochul discuss Manhattan toll program in White House meeting
The federal government has rescinded approval for the controversial congestion pricing plan.
12:07 PM on 02/23/2025 Politico Top Stories As Eric Adams melts down, Andrew Cuomo forges ahead
The former governor has put together the structure of a campaign and is courting New York power players.
09:18 AM on 02/23/2025 Politico Top Stories Was 'Little House on the Prairie' Woke? The Answer Explains American Politics.
The cameras have yet to roll. But already, a planned remake finds itself at the center of controversy.
10:00 AM on 02/23/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump fires top military leaders in unprecedented shakeup
The Friday night terminations include Chair of the Joint Chiefs Gen. C.Q. Brown.
07:59 PM on 02/22/2025 Politico Top Stories Pentagon prepares to fire thousands of civilian employees in dramatic culling
More than 5,000 people will be eliminated from jobs next week who are not deemed “mission critical.”
05:10 PM on 02/22/2025 Politico Top Stories Precision is the priority? Trump administration pauses some mass firings
One White House official says there is now a reluctance to fire veterans.
04:54 PM on 02/22/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump administration launches probe into Maine's transgender sports participation policy
Launching a civil rights investigation is a key step in the process of yanking a school’s federal funding.
05:58 PM on 02/22/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps plan to rein in agencies sparks alarm for the Fed
The executive order is particularly challenging for the central bank because its insulation from short-term politics helps give it credibility in financial markets.
05:19 PM on 02/22/2025 Politico Top Stories Arbitrary and discriminatory: Judge blocks Trumps effort to deter DEI programs
U.S. District Judge Adam Abelson ruled that the policy likely violates the First Amendment.
07:38 PM on 02/22/2025 Politico Top Stories Judge lets Trump administration proceed with mass recall of USAID workers overseas
U.S. District Judge Carl Nichols said initial claims that agency staffers and their families could be in physical danger proved to be “overstated.”
06:40 PM on 02/22/2025 Politico Top Stories Supreme Court delays Trumps effort to fire federal ethics watchdog
The justices deferred ruling, for now, on the first test of executive power to reach the high court during Donald Trump’s second term.
09:35 PM on 02/22/2025 Politico Top Stories Newsom sends Congress $40 billion request for LA fire aid
The letter comes amid weeks of intense debate in Washington centered around whether the anticipated disaster aid for California would come with conditions
11:05 PM on 02/22/2025 Politico Top Stories Eric Adams sues Trump over missing $80M
In a surprise move, federal officials clawed back funds approved by Congress for immigrant services.
07:43 PM on 02/22/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump talks of a third term amid growing concerns about a constitutional crisis
The president is barred from being elected more than twice by the Constitution.
01:50 PM on 02/22/2025 Politico Top Stories Richard Grenell: There will be conditions on Los Angeles fire aid
The Trump administration special envoy said the White House is talking about what the conditions will be.
02:11 PM on 02/22/2025 Politico Top Stories Looks like that's that. Trump may have just ended the Florida governors race.
Trump’s endorsement helped propel Ron DeSantis in the 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary.
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