When Donald Trump’s top trade official was in the middle of testifying to Congress on Wednesday, the markets seemed to be in a free fall. Jamieson Greer, the U.S. trade representative, was speaking to Congress only hours after Trump went on his social media platform and encouraged investors to buy stocks at low prices. As…
Tulsi Gabbard’s support for pardoning Edward Snowden made her one of Donald Trump’s more intriguing picks when she was nominated for director of national intelligence. It has also made her one of his most vulnerable. Gabbard is set to face pointed questioning from Republican supporters of government spying powers at her confirmation hearing Thursday, and…
Just hours into President Donald Trump’s second term, he has already blown his first deadline. During a 2023 CNN town hall, Trump bragged that he could end the war between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours. “I think in terms of getting it settled so we stop killing all these people,” he said. “I’ll get the…
In less than 30 minutes on Monday, Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency were hit with three different lawsuits over the legal status of the effort to find federal regulations to eliminate and federal employees to fire. The lawsuits landed as Musk rubbed elbows with fellow billionaires at President Donald Trump’s inauguration….
President Donald Trump was sworn into office at the U.S. Capitol rotunda on Monday in an unusually quiet affair for a presidential inauguration. Gone were the roaring crowds of years past, which had reached into the millions at their height. In their place was a small inner circle of some of the wealthiest and most…
A Philadelphia judge on Thursday paused a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s massive cash giveaways to voters in battleground states after the billionaire argued that questions about his political efforts should be resolved in federal court. Philadelphia’s district attorney claimed a $1 million-a-day sweepstakes sponsored by Musk and America PAC, his pro-Trump group, violated state lottery…