Visiting Greenland, Vance Finds the Weather and the Reception Chilly

Visiting Greenland, Vance Finds the Weather and the Reception Chilly

President Trump has been less than subtle in his insistence that the United States will “get” Greenland one way or another, reiterating on Friday that the United States cannot “live without it.” By the time he uttered those words in Oval Office, the highest-level American political expeditionary force ever to …

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Big Law Firms Sue to Stop Trump’s Executive Orders Against Them

Big Law Firms Sue to Stop Trump’s Executive Orders Against Them

Years before President Trump returned to the White House, his budget chief, Russell T. Vought, began mapping out a plan to shrink the federal government. In Mr. Vought’s design, spending would be slashed by about $9 trillion over the next decade. Entire federal programs — from housing vouchers to student …

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Why Washington and Wall St Have Problems With Off-Channel Messaging

Why Washington and Wall St Have Problems With Off-Channel Messaging

Follow live updates on the Trump administration’s Signal war plans leak. A Signal leak By far the biggest story of the day is The Atlantic’s stunning revelation that Pete Hegseth, the defense secretary, discussed sensitive Yemen bombing plans with other senior Trump administration officials on a messaging app — in …

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