Politico Top Stories News55714 stories between 11/10/2009 at 18:33:04 and 01/26/2025 15:36:06
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.
09:12 PM on 02/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Musk on USAID: Time for it to die
His statement comes as signs increasingly point to the Trump administration folding the development aid agency into the State Department.
03:29 PM on 02/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Democrats scramble to make their immigration stand amid broader support for deportations
Party is hamstrung while Trump targets criminals — but is looking to protect families, farm workers and Dreamers.
03:34 PM on 02/03/2025 Politico Top Stories FBI agents, officials asked to detail their work on Jan. 6 cases
Leaders and agents at the bureau are bracing for a potential purge of those deemed disloyal to Trump.
07:01 PM on 02/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Florida Republicans just declared war on each other
So far neither side is backing down, and there’s a chance that the fight will drag on through the regular session that starts in early March and beyond.
10:00 AM on 02/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Stocks tumble and dollar surges as Trump unleashes trade war
The U.S. currency surged across the board, while stock futures plunged on the first full day of trading since Trump slapped tariffs on imports from China, Canada and Mexico.
06:18 AM on 02/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump hints Britain could duck tariffs as he clobbers allies
“Prime Minister Starmer has been very nice,” says U.S. president as he suggests trade disputes with the U.K. can be ironed out.
06:15 AM on 02/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Funding to fight fires not crime is new priority for many California cities
The state's voters are being asked to spend more on fighting fires. Will they say yes?
02:01 PM on 02/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Trumps talking about shutting down FEMA. Republicans hate that idea.
GOP lawmakers resisted the president's suggestion FEMA might need to "go away," but they support changes to the disaster response agency.
01:32 PM on 02/03/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump vows to cut off aid to South Africa
"South Africa is confiscating land, and treating certain classes of people VERY BADLY," Trump wrote.
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