As big US companies close their books for 2018, the top beneficiaries of Donald Trump’s tax cuts are becoming clear—the firms that reported big jumps in profits rewarded investors with dividends and more than $1 trillion in share buybacks. That means that corporate benefits from the tax bill mostly flowed to the wealthiest Americans, just like the benefits of the personal tax cuts.
The US will withdraw from a landmark nuclear-weapons treaty it signed with the Soviet Union in 1987 as the Cold War ended because Russia has built a cache of missiles and refuses to destroy them, officials said today (Feb. 1).
The county of Cambridgeshire in eastern England is known for its medieval college town, miles of marshy lowlands, and plethora of bird life. The latter poses some ongoing hazards for US Air Force pilots stationed there. According to a recently released federal-contracting document, the US military is looking to hire a wildlife-control expert for a four-year job that will “focus on eliminating or minimizing wildlife hazards for safe air and ground support operations” at two bases in Lakenheath and Mildenhall.
Donald Trump’s dispatch of military troops to the US border with Mexico is currently on track to cost American taxpayers over $600 million, Pentagon officials said Jan. 29, and that number is likely to climb much higher.
Congress members tasked with overseeing the US’s massive military grilled Pentagon officials today (Jan. 29) on one of Donald Trump most controversial orders—sending troops to the border with Mexico to handle a caravan of Central American immigrants.
The US’s historic 35-day government shutdown ended Friday (Jan. 25) with a whimper, after Donald Trump agreed to reopen it for three weeks to let Congress do the impossible—reconcile the president’s demands for a wall on the US’s southern border with Democrats’ refusal to fund vb one.
A fictional character makes an unlikely appearance in the 24-page indictment of Roger Stone, Donald Trump’s long-time friend and consultant: Frank “Frankie Five Angels” Pentangeli, a mobster from the silver screen.
The US government’s historic 35-day shutdown is coming to an end, after Donald Trump agreed to sign a short-term spending agreement with Congress that doesn’t include any money for the border wall that he wanted.
After Republican political consultant Roger Stone was arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation this morning (Jan. 25) on charges of obstruction, witness tampering, and making false statements, the White House’s response was swift.
After the failure of two Senate bills that could have ended the record-breaking US shutdown today (Jan. 24), a group of Senators proposed a last-ditch plan: the Senate’s leaders alone would craft a compromise with president Donald Trump.
US Customs and Border Protection, the 60,000-strong force that polices America’s borders, will award a $50 million contract to a British private security firm without first shopping around for a better price, as would normally be done.
The Republican-controlled Senate will vote for the first time since the new session of Congress started Jan. 3 on two measures to end the partial federal government shutdown, now in its 34th day.
A Republican state lawmaker from Arizona has come up with a novel way to fund part of the wall Donald Trump wants to build between the US and Mexico.
The US Senate will vote Thursday (Jan. 24) on a proposal that could end the stalemate over funding for a wall on the border with Mexico that has kept parts of the US government closed for 32 days.
Donald Trump made his first offer to settle the stalemate that’s shut the US government for more than four weeks today (Jan. 19)—temporary relief to about 1 million long-term American residents who the White House threatened with deportation earlier in his presidency.
As roughly 800,000 federal employees enter their fifth week of the US government shutdown, many are struggling to make ends meet by raising money on GoFundMe, pawning wedding rings, and working as Lyft and Uber drivers.
Updated Jan. 19 with the special counsel’s statement.
Updated Jan. 19 with the Special Counsel’s statement.
Donald Trump declared today (Jan. 17) he was grounding Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s upcoming trip to visit troops in Afghanistan “in light of the 800,000 Great American workers not receiving pay,” alluding to the expense of flying military aircraft there.
Donald Trump has made sure everyone knows what he wants in terms of border security: $5.7 billion for a border wall he says is going to protect the US and bring relief to overstretched Border Patrol agents.
A powerful Congressional committee charged with overseeing the Pentagon’s vast $700 billion annual budget is now stacked with female military veterans, after the landmark 2018 elections brought a wave of women to Congress.
Over 70 members of Congress are refusing their salaries or donating them to charities that are helping federal workers during the government shutdown, now in its 24th day. But that charitable (and politically savvy) impulse apparently hasn’t spread to White House officials or members of Trump’s cabinet.
At the stroke of midnight on Jan. 12, the partial government shutdown under Donald Trump became the longest in American history at 22 days. There’s no foreseeable end in sight.
Donald Trump’s threat to declare a national emergency at the US border with Mexico is being taken so seriously inside Congress that a powerful committee is preparing a bipartisan challenge to the move.
