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White House eyes cuts to agency budgets of between 30% and 40%, Washington Post reports

13 Feb 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House officials are eyeing cuts to agency budgets of between 30% and 40% on average across the government, centered on significant staff reductions, the Washington Post reported on Wednesday, citing sources. The newspaper added that billionaire Elon Musk’s team has initiated sweeping layoffs of federal employees. (Reporting by Kanishka Singh in …

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Gabbard confirmed as US intel chief in latest victory for Trump

13 Feb 2025

By Patricia Zengerle WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Tulsi Gabbard, a former U.S. representative with little intelligence experience, was confirmed as the top U.S. spy on Wednesday, as Republicans lined up behind a nominee once seen as among President Donald Trump’s most controversial picks. The Senate voted 52 to 48, mostly along party lines, to confirm Gabbard to …

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White House correspondents protest access denial over ‘Gulf of Mexico’ naming issue

13 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – The White House Correspondents’ Association protested a decision by the White House on Tuesday to bar an Associated Press reporter from an event with President Donald Trump over the news agency’s decision to continue referring to the Gulf of Mexico.Trump signed an executive order in January directing the Interior Secretary to change the …

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Trump orders revamp of US diplomatic corps to ensure they follow his agenda

13 Feb 2025

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday issued an executive order directing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to revamp the foreign service to ensure “faithful and effective implementation” of Trump’s foreign policy agenda. The order, which follows upheaval at the U.S. Agency for International Development, comes as Trump institutes changes to ensure U.S. foreign …

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Transgender girls challenge Trump’s ban on them playing female sports

13 Feb 2025

By Jessica DiNapoli (Reuters) – Two transgender girls in New Hampshire on Wednesday set in motion the first legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s executive order that would ban them from participating in school sports for female athletes. Parker Tirrell, 16, and Iris Turmelle, 15, and their parents filed a lawsuit last year challenging a …

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Kennedy Center board, with Trump as the new chair, fires its president

13 Feb 2025

By Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump proceeded with an overhaul of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Wednesday, becoming chairman of the organization and firing its president, Deborah Rutter. The Kennedy Center said in a statement that its board of trustees, newly filled with appointees by Trump, had …

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Trump, allies ramp up attacks on judges as Musk calls for impeachments

12 Feb 2025

By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – Donald Trump and his supporters on Wednesday continued to ramp up their criticism of judges who they say have stymied the Republican U.S. president’s second-term agenda, with billionaire ally Elon Musk calling for “an immediate wave of judicial impeachments.” Those statements came a day after federal courts forced U.S. agencies …

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Trump’s Justice Department hits the brakes on anti-corruption enforcement

12 Feb 2025

By Andrew Goudsward and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department has sharply stepped back its anti-corruption efforts under President Donald Trump, from loosening enforcement of laws meant to stop companies from bribing foreign officials to directing its prosecutors to drop a criminal case against New York Mayor Eric Adams. It has …

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Analysis-Cutting moon rocket would test Musk’s power to slash jobs in Republican states

12 Feb 2025

By Joey Roulette and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is being urged to axe an over-budget, multi-billion dollar moon rocket, sources familiar with the discussions said, setting up a titanic struggle with Republican lawmakers whose districts depend on the program’s jobs. Six space industry representatives advising Elon Musk, the billionaire SpaceX CEO …

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CDC says person diagnosed with new mpox variant in New York is in isolation

12 Feb 2025

(Reuters) – The U.S Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday that a person diagnosed with clade1b mpox in New York was currently in isolation and that it was trying to identify people who might have come in contact with the patient. The CDC said the patient’s symptoms were improving, without taking any …

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