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Trump holds Manhattan toll plan's fate in his hands
Gov. Kathy Hochul has been discussing the future of the controversial toll program known as congestion pricing.
10:06 AM on 02/10/2025 Politico Top Stories As Trump steamrolls Washington, courts flex their power to slow him down
Numerous federal district judges around the country have blocked major portions of Trump's early agenda — but Supreme Court showdowns loom.
07:00 AM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories The Real Significance of Trumps Tariffs
It represents another major effort to expand presidential authority.
10:00 AM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories Musk says Treasury, DOGE instituting reporting changes to all government payments
The payments will include a new categorization code and a “rationale” for the money spent.
04:52 PM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories 'Floodgates have opened': Sports betting markets bet big on Trump era
The backlash sets the stage for what could be a bruising fight over whether national prediction markets should be allowed into the world of sports.
02:00 PM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories Looking at Trump, Europes far right vows to 'reconquer' the continent
“Our friend Trump, the Trump tornado, has changed the world in just a couple of weeks,” Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán tells a far-right rally in Madrid.
07:11 AM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories How Democrats lost the DEI war
Conservatives won the culture war by riding the backlash to Black Lives Matter protests.
02:00 PM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories Shes in House GOP Leadership. Heres How She Responds to Trump Tweets.
Rep. Lisa McClain helps shape Republican messaging in the Trump era — and she’s eager to defend his “out-of-the-box thinking.”
04:00 PM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories We asked DeepSeek about geopolitics. It gave us Beijing talking points.
China’s AI revelation matches its censorship and propaganda playbook.
07:03 AM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories New York lawmakers moving to deny House GOP a key vote
A new proposal would allow New York Gov. Kathy Hochul to set a special election for later in the year.
10:04 AM on 02/09/2025 Politico Top Stories How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGEs crosshairs
Aides to the president and Elon Musk suspected USAID officials were trying to go around a funding freeze.
07:00 AM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories 19 states sue Trump, Treasury to halt DOGE access
New York leads the suit in Manhattan federal court alleging highly sensitive data is at risk.
07:24 PM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Judge denies union demand to block DOGEs access to Labor Department data
District Judge John Bates said the groups lacked the necessary standing to win a temporary restraining order.
09:42 PM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Judge orders sweeping restriction on DOGE access to sensitive Treasury payment systems
The judge limited access to “civil servants with a need for access" who have "passed all background checks and security clearances."
07:57 AM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories How JD Vance Is Helping Trump Win on Capitol Hill
The vice president wrangled a few holdout senators. Now he’s faced with taming an unruly House.
10:00 AM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Trump fires National Archives chief
The president has dismissed the top U.S. archivist after fuming about the agency’s role in the criminal classified-documents case against him.
11:15 PM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Reciprocal tariffs on every country to be announced next week, Trump says
President Donald Trump shifts from his previous threat to impose an across-the-board tariff on all imports from across the world.
04:58 PM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Musk says DOGE staffer who resigned following racist social media posts will be back
Both Trump and Vance said earlier in the day the staffer should return.
05:10 PM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories CFPB RIP: Elon Musk is already descending on his next target
Republicans have long criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Musk’s allies have entered the building and are embedded in the agency.
12:43 PM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Newsom approves $50M in Trump-proofing funds for California
The Democratic governor just returned from a 90-minute meeting with Trump at the White House.
07:30 PM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Hakeem Jeffries met privately with Silicon Valley donors in bid to mend fences.
The meeting comes as the tech world has lurched rightward in the second Donald Trump era.
04:45 PM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories Veterans Affairs carves out potentially hundreds of thousands of staffers from buyout offer
The exemption list includes more than 140 occupations.
06:22 PM on 02/08/2025 Politico Top Stories 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.
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