Dozens of influential divisions within the Trump administration‘s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are headed by holdovers from the Obama and Biden administrations, a Washington Examiner review has found. Those officials could complicate the Trump administration’s stated plans to ramp up a crackdown on fraud in the Medicare and Medicaid systems. A Washington Examiner […]
Welcome to Friday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Is it still only February? Today, we have our weekly assessment of Donald Trump’s week, a reminder that not all D.C. journalists are beta nerds (or at least, weren’t back in the day), and why Kristi Noem is not going to be fired any time soon (cut it […]
Former President Bill Clinton is set to testify Friday before the House oversight committee, where Republicans say they plan to press him about Jeffrey Epstein’s visits to the White House and his past travel aboard the late disgraced financier’s private plane. The closed-door deposition is scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Chappaqua Performing Arts Center […]
Rep. James Comer (R-KY) is expected to deliver remarks Thursday ahead of former President Bill Clinton’s testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee as part of the investigation into the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Clinton’s wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, testified Wednesday and denied having ever met the disgraced […]
President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address earlier this week attracted over 32 million television viewers, according to Nielsen data. Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday drew an audience of 32.6 million over 15 television networks, per Nielsen figures released on Thursday, which aggregated viewership across ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, […]
Global transport company FedEx says it will redistribute tariff money to its customers if it receives refunds following the Supreme Court’s decision last Friday to block the president’s “Liberation Day” tariffs. “At this time, no refund process has been established by the government or the court. If refunds are issued to FedEx, FedEx will then issue refunds […]
Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-TX) led Democrats on Thursday in urging the Trump administration to shut down an Immigration and Customs Enforcement center in Texas. Two dozen lawmakers cited concerns over mismanagement and poor living conditions at El Paso’s Camp East Montana. They pointed to the three deaths at the facility since December, which include one […]
President Donald Trump is touching down in Corpus Christi, Texas, on Friday, as the three candidates in the Texas Republican Senate contest gear up for primary election day next Tuesday. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), Attorney General Ken Paxton, and Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) are all headed to the Gulf Coast city on Friday to see […]
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee warned personnel at the American embassy in Israel on Friday to leave the country immediately if they wish to exit. “Those wishing to take AD should do so TODAY,” Huckabee wrote in an email to employees at Washington’s embassy in Jerusalem, using an acronym for “authorized departure.” The move […]
The State Department offered a $10 million reward on Thursday for information leading to the arrests or convictions of two brothers said to be in charge of the Sinaloa cartel in Mexico. Rene Arzate-Garcia and Alfonso Arzate-Garcia are believed to be leading the cartel from the Mexican state of Baja California, which sits below the […]
