District of Columbia Mayor Muriel Bowser has unveiled her priorities for the district’s fiscal 2026 budget, even as its 2025 budget faces cuts for the remainder of the fiscal year. Bowser outlined the top priorities for her proposal for next year’s budget on Thursday, centering on child care and early learning programs. The proposal calls […]

President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Thursday that will enable the government to fire probationary employees more easily. Instead of automatically gaining full status in one or two years, workers can only do so if their managers sign off on their performance. “The American people deserve a Federal workforce that is high-quality, efficient, […]

House Republicans are planning to hike defense spending by $150 billion in the GOP’s budget bill, $50 billion more than the target originally set by the lower chamber in a win for defense hawks. The GOP’s “one big beautiful” reconciliation bill, which will codify President Donald Trump‘s agenda on the economy, taxes, defense, and border […]

If Franklin D. Roosevelt became known for the New Deal, President Donald Trump is staking his second term on numerous deals. Trump is trying to conclude a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, telling reporters Thursday that he would “rather answer” questions about what he might do to extract concessions from the Kremlin “in a […]