The Trump administration’s move to gut an agency that aims to support minority-owned businesses has alarmed Democratic lawmakers and nonprofits, who say the action could harm job growth and businesses that rely on the agency’s services. President Trump signed an executive order last month that would effectively dismantle seven agencies “to the maximum extent consistent
When President Trump’s cabinet secretaries clashed with Elon Musk this month over the billionaire’s chain saw approach to shrinking government, Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, made it clear where he stood. Mr. Musk had just traded barbs with Sean Duffy, the transportation secretary, and Marco Rubio, the secretary of state. Things
A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Friday blocking the Trump administration from carrying out mass firings or otherwise dismantling the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Calling the injunction “an extraordinary step,” Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the Federal District Court in Washington said she imposed it to prevent the agency from being “dissolved and dismantled.”
Demonstrators raise signs at a rally to protest the closing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau last month in Washington, D.C. Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Jemal Countess/Getty Images for MoveOn/Getty Images North America A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration from dismantling the Consumer Financial
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., temporarily blocked the shutdown of a U.S.-funded radio network. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth, who was appointed by former President Ronald Reagan, granted a temporary restraining order on the shutdown of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), a non-profit news organization originally founded in the 1950s by the Central Intelligence
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US President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Thursday that aims to dismantle the Department of Education, the White House says. The move, which he promised to do on the campaign trail, is already facing legal challenges from those seeking to block the department’s closure as well as the sweeping cuts to its
The head of Oklahoma’s public school system is backing President Donald Trump’s executive order to dismantle the federal Department of Education, saying that Trump will “go down in history as the president that saved education.” Earlier this month, the Trump administration announced a dramatic “reduction in force” of the federal Department of Education and detailed
President Trump plans to sign an executive order on Thursday instructing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to begin dismantling the agency, according to two White House officials. The department cannot be closed without the approval of Congress, which created it. But the Trump administration has already taken steps to narrow the agency’s authority and significantly cut
A federal judge found on Tuesday that efforts by Elon Musk and his team to permanently shutter the United States Agency for International Development likely violated the Constitution “in multiple ways” and robbed Congress of its authority to oversee the dissolution of an agency it created. The ruling by Judge Theodore D. Chuang of U.S.