President Donald Trump has begun purging federal workers in diversity, equity and inclusion roles as part of his promised crusade on so-called “woke” culture. A memo from the Office of Personnel Management, first reported Tuesday night by NBC News, ordered agency and department heads to put DEI workers on paid administrative leave by the end … Read more
Andrew Cuomo walked into a conference room inside a Manhattan corporate office wearing a suit and tie and spoke for 30 minutes straight. “We are at a critical point in the city’s history. The city goes through cycles, but this one is different. People are leaving,” he said at the private event, according to a … Read more
Before November’s election, Elon Musk said the government efficiency commission he’d establish under a second Donald Trump administration would slash the federal budget by “at least two trillion” dollars. Now, as Trump prepares to take office and the time comes for the Department of Government Efficiency to start making good on those lofty promises, Musk … Read more
The law of the universe that says Donald Trump never has to face accountability for anything doesn’t necessarily apply to his henchman, as Rudy Giuliani continues to learn the hard way. The former New York City mayor and Trump attorney—who left what little dignity he had left in the Four Seasons Total Landscaping parking lot … Read more
Donald Trump wasted little time this week trying to use the deadly New Year’s attack in New Orleans as an opportunity to push his hardline border policies—even though the suspected killer, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, was a United States-born citizen from Texas. “When I said that the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we … Read more
Donald Trump endorsed Mike Johnson for House speaker this week, giving the Louisiana Republican a boost as he seeks to retain his gavel. But with an exceedingly slender GOP majority, and conference hardliners suggesting they may go against him—at least unless he is willing to make some concessions—his hold on the speakership remains uncertain ahead … Read more
Any hopes that two-time failed presidential candidate Marianne Williamson had left politics and returned to her roots as a spiritual guru were dashed Thursday. That’s when the vocal supporter of alleged sexual assailant and anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. announced via her Substack (of course) that she is launching a campaign to head up the … Read more
House Speaker Mike Johnson was already facing opposition from the conservative Freedom Caucus in his latest effort to pass a spending bill. But he’s overcome that in the past; he even got Marjorie Taylor Greene to blink earlier this year, after she spent more than a month threatening to oust him. So, even with the … Read more
Given the kind of year it’s been, it’s perhaps only fitting that 2024 would end with a chaotic fight over the funding of the government: After twelve months of upheaval and dysfunction, why not a final frenzy of shutdown politics to cap things off? As the nation careened toward a shutdown Friday, Republicans began their … Read more
Given the frequency with which Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been described as a Democratic “rising star” since her 2018 election to the House, it’s worth asking: When, exactly, will Democrats actually let her star rise? The 35-year-old New York progressive Tuesday lost her bid to head up the Oversight Committee, a panel that will play a … Read more
