What happens to Social Security, TSA and other programs if the federal government shuts down?

by admin | Mar 14, 2025 | Politics

(Gary Kemp Photography/Getty Images)(WASHINGTON) — As Republicans brand the impending lapse in government funding the “Schumer Shutdown,” hundreds of thousands of federal workers are on edge as the Senate struggles to reach a deal ahead of Friday...

‘Highly unusual’: White House halts FBI background checks for senior staff, shifts them to Pentagon: Sources

by admin | Mar 13, 2025 | Politics

Photo by Celal Gunes/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — The White House has quietly directed the FBI to halt the background check process for dozens of President Donald Trump’s top staffers, and has transferred the process to the Pentagon,...

Republicans use legislative sneak play to tie Democrats’ hands on tariffs

by admin | Mar 13, 2025 | Politics

Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — In a sneaky legislative maneuver tied into the effort to pass a funding bill and avert a government shutdown, House Republicans earlier this week successfully blocked Democrats from forcing votes and debate on...

Trump expected to invoke wartime Alien Enemies Act to carry out mass deportations: Sources

by admin | Mar 13, 2025 | Politics

Hulton Deutsch/Corbis via Getty Images, FILE(WASHINGTON) — As early as Friday, President Donald Trump is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act — a wartime law that allows the president to detain or deport the natives and citizens of an enemy nation...

Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene on blocks to his birthright citizenship order

by admin | Mar 13, 2025 | Politics

Photo by Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump’s administration has asked the Supreme Court to significantly narrow nationwide injunctions issued by three different federal judges blocking his executive order...

Judge orders thousands of fired probationary federal employees reinstated

by admin | Mar 13, 2025 | Politics

Robert Alexander/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) —  A federal judge on Thursday ordered the Trump administration to reinstate thousands of probationary employees fired last month from a half dozen federal agencies.U.S. District Judge William Alsup ordered the Trump...