It’s the latest step in an unprecedented initiative to pool confidential data that the Trump administration claims will help identify noncitizens on voter rolls and tighten immigration enforcement.
“We’re at an inflection point in history right now, and it’s frightening.”
Vought is the architect of President Trump’s broader plan to fire civil servants, freeze government programs and dismantle entire agencies. Here are some key things to know about the D.C. insider who wants to take a hatchet to the federal government.
“We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.” – Education Secretary Linda McMahon
“This is beyond my dreams,” Ayman Soliman told ProPublica on his release from an Ohio jail. In a case marked by errors and inconsistencies, DHS had accused the children’s hospital chaplain of providing material support to terrorists.
ProPublica has obtained the blueprint for the Trump administration’s unprecedented plan to turn over IRS records to Homeland Security in order to speed up the agency’s mass deportation efforts.
The administration’s lack of transparency about tariff exemptions has experts concerned that some firms might be winning narrow carve-outs behind closed doors. “It could be corruption, but it could just as easily be incompetence,” one lobbyist said.
If you post a lie that gets lots of engagement, you could actually make money.
A menu of options being circulated by congressional Republicans also includes new tax cuts for corporations and the ultrawealthy.
Some Republicans had said that election officials could decide on their own to not certify their county’s results. The judge ruled otherwise.
The far-reaching effects of this ruling are already being felt, from abortion, to overtime pay, to health care discrimination, to guns, and more.
Candi Miller’s family said she didn't visit a doctor “due to the current legislation on pregnancies and abortions.” Maternal health experts deemed her death preventable and blamed Georgia’s abortion ban.
Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, has spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it’s now facing hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects.
Witnesses in the various criminal cases against the former president have gotten pay raises, new jobs and more. If any benefits were intended to influence testimony, that could be a crime.
One goal was to drive a wedge between rural residents and their school district in an effort to build support for vouchers.
