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A dozen senators from both parties bluntly told President Donald Trump in a letter Tuesday to reverse a deal he announced last week to allow U.S. purchases of Russian diesel fuel. The proposed waiver of U.S. energy sanctions on Russia would permit the purchase of several hundred thousand tons of the fuel from that country, beginning […]

Kimberly Guilfoyle, the U.S. ambassador to Greece, stepped down Tuesday shortly after President Donald Trump asked her to resign her post. Guilfoyle’s ouster came on the heels of recent press reports that she had engaged in potentially improper or illegal behavior. Those actions reportedly included accepting improper gifts and services and offering to use her […]

The White House has been unable to describe how it could ensure over $1 trillion President Donald Trump has promised American citizens in exchange for their midterm election votes would be spent in the United States. During a GOP midterms convention in Dallas last month, Trump promised all U.S. adult citizens a $5,000 payout if they […]

A White House bid to address sky-high fuel prices by allowing temporary expanded use of untaxed diesel will have a limited impact on businesses and consumers feeling the pain at the pump, experts say. President Donald Trump signed an executive order while at a Nebraska campaign event on Monday allowing the sale of red-dyed diesel […]

President Donald Trump announced Monday night that taxpayers will no longer pick up the tab for political TV advertisements promoting himself and administration policies. Facing a public backlash from lawmakers of both parties, Trump said in a post on his Truth Social site that he would in part use money raised by a super PAC, […]

President Donald Trump, in a shift, has begun voicing some doubts about Republicans’ chances in the midterm elections as he heads to Nebraska Monday to rally for Sen. Pete Ricketts in yet another red state stop. Confidence is a hallmark of the 80-year-old chief executive’s presidential persona, so his willingness to acknowledge he and other […]

The National Urban League and several local housing nonprofits nationwide challenged part of the Trump administration’s last-minute cancellation of congressionally appropriated funds. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday night in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, focuses on one portion of the $810 million cancellation the Trump administration announced last week, a $56 million […]

The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Tuesday to continue to deport immigrants to countries other than those they came from, known as third-country removals, in an order that also set up a final legal fight over the practice. Tuesday’s order lifted a lower-court order blocking the practice, which the Trump administration has sought […]

The Government Accountability Office reaffirmed its opinion Tuesday that “pocket rescissions” are illegal, dealing a modest blow to President Donald Trump’s announcement last week of plans to cancel $810 million in spending without the approval of Congress. In a letter to congressional leaders, the GAO — the investigative arm of Congress — doubled down on […]

The White House is using Customs and Border Protection funding to run pro-Trump political advertisements, Democratic appropriators said Tuesday. The funding comes from last year’s massive GOP budget reconciliation law and was intended for CBP, said House Appropriations ranking member Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee ranking member Henry Cuellar, D-Texas. The […]