Texas Democrats face $500 daily fines: What to know
Texas Democrats who fled their state on Sunday face $500 daily fines as they try to stall GOP efforts to redraw the Lone Star State’s congressional maps, along with Gov...
Bonta says millions spent, but billions saved, in California's legal war with Trump
California Atty. Gen. Rob Bonta said Monday that his office has spent more than $5 million fighting the Trump administration in court over the last six months, but save...
This DOGE project is still full steam ahead
Even as the influence of DOGE wanes across Washington, at least one initiative from the once-feared project is thriving.The effort to digitize the federal government’s...
Loomer tests influence as Trump's enforcer
The NewsThe social media activist Laura Loomer seems to show up whenever a Trump administration official’s career is nearing its end, and she’s helped end the tenure of...
CBS News analysis: DOGE says it's cutting costs but claims are exaggerated
The spotlight may have moved off the Department of Government Efficiency since the departure of Elon Musk, but the Trump administration's DOGE continues to post about c...
CBO projects ‘big, beautiful bill’ would add $5 trilllion to deficit if temporary tax cuts extended
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) informed Senate Budget Committee ranking member Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) in a letter Monday that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, Pres...
Ex-federal prosecutor: Jack Smith charges ‘last thing’ Trump would want
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Weissmann dismissed the likelihood that criminal charges would be brought against former special counsel Jack Smith, saying that would...
How Trump decided to fire a little-known statistician, sparking conspiracy theories about government data
President Donald Trump was fuming about the July jobs report signaling a significant slowdown in the economy when he recalled one of his simmering resentments: the stat...
Bondi moves forward on Justice Department investigation into origins of Trump-Russia probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Attorney General Pam Bondi has directed that the Justice Department move forward with a probe into the origins of the Trump-Russia investigation follo...
Economists blast Trump decision to fire BLS chief
Economists across the political spectrum are sounding the alarm over President Trump’s decision to fire the Labor Department’s top statistician in response to a stalled...