The entire East Wing of the White House is being demolished as part of President Trump’s plan to add a massive ballroom to the White House. The teardown is reportedly expected to be completed by the ...

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers are not receiving paychecks due to the government shutdown, but the White House has promised to pay some favored categories of employees such as servicemembers ...

New week, same old shutdown stalemate. The Senate on Monday evening failed for an eleventh time to advance a Republican bill to fund the government and reopen federal agencies that have now been shut ...

The ongoing government shutdown is now the third-longest in modern U.S. history, topped only by a 34-day funding lapse in late 2018 and early 2019 and a 21-day fight in 1995 — and this shutdown, now ...

President Trump is pressing ahead in his effort to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, despite the emergence of documents calling into question his claim that Cook committed mortgage fraud and is ...

Good evening. More than 1,000 current and former Department of Health and Human Services employees signed a letter today saying that Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is endangering the nation's health ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency placed a group of employees on leave on Tuesday after they published a statement criticizing changes made at the agency under the Trump administration. In a ...

The White House said late Wednesday that Dr. Susan Monarez, the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has been removed from her post. A White House spokesperson said Monarez ...

Employees at DOGE – the Trump administration effort initially led by billionaire Elon Musk that aimed to slash public employment while bringing high-tech efficiency to the federal government – ...

Happy Monday! Politico's Brian Faler noted today that tax experts are struggling with an issue that has at times bedeviled us, too: Just how to refer to the recently passed Republican tax cut law. "In ...

The House narrowly passed a $9 billion package of DOGE spending cuts just after midnight on Friday, approving a White House request to cancel money that Congress had previously provided for foreign ...