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(Reuters) -Some parts of the U.S. military are preparing lists of weapons programs they have long wanted to cancel in a bid to get ahead of what could be drastic cuts by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. Members of DOGE are expected at the Defense Department as …

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By Doina Chiacu WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Billionaire Elon Musk said on Thursday many federal government agencies must be eliminated as part of President Donald Trump’s push to radically overhaul the U.S. government. “We do need to delete entire agencies, as opposed to leave part of them behind. Just leave part of them behind. It’s easy. …

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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Trump administration has named Kathleen Sgamma, a vocal oil and gas advocate for Western states, to head up the Interior Department’s Bureau of Land Management, which manages the use of the country’s nearly 250 million acres of public lands. Sgamma heads the Western Energy Alliance, which represents oil and …

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By Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Two U.S. Democratic lawmakers pressed the secretary of energy on Wednesday whether members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have access to classified information on nuclear weapons, saying nuclear secrets need to be tightly safeguarded. WHY IT’S IMPORTANT U.S. Department of Energy sources have raised concerns about the …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump has nominated an Apple employee to serve as the nation’s top auto safety regulator overseeing a number of ongoing safety probes into Tesla. Jonathan Morrison, who served as chief counsel of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration during the first Trump administration and had previously worked for …

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By Nate Raymond and Daniel Wiessner (Reuters) -A coalition of U.S. cities and counties on Friday filed a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order seeking to force so-called sanctuary jurisdictions to cooperate with his immigration crackdown and mass deportations. Cities and counties led by San Francisco and the county of Santa Clara, California, said …

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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal judge on Thursday said he stood ready to enforce an order he issued blocking U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from freezing federal grants, loans and other financial assistance after Democratic-led states said billions of dollars in funding was still being tied up. U.S. District Judge John McConnell in …

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday praised President Donald Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to take over the war-torn Gaza Strip and said House Republicans would stand with Trump on his initiative. “The initial announcement yesterday I think was greeted by surprise by many, but cheered, by I think, …

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By Douglas Gillison WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Representative French Hill, a Republican who chairs the House Financial Services Committee, said on Tuesday lawmakers from both chambers of congress would form a working group to develop policy favoring development of digital assets. New legislation will deliver “clarity for a regulatory framework,” Hill said at a Capitol Hill …

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