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1 week ago | 
csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek |Caitlin Babcock
Americans are waiting to see whether their country will correct what the Justice Department has called a mistake – a deportation that the Supreme Court has also called illegal.
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1 month ago | 
csmonitor.com | Francine Kiefer |Caitlin Babcock
As Democrats struggle to push back against a Trump tidal wave of government cuts and aggressive policy actions, a familiar, Brooklyn-accented voice is once again rising through the wilderness. “This country faces enormous crises. And how we respond to these crises today, will impact not only our lives, but the lives of our kids, future generations, and in terms of climate change, the very well-being of the planet,” Vermont Sen.
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1 month ago | 
csmonitor.com | Ali Martin |Caitlin Babcock
This week the tariff wars have been heating up – and the stock market has been going down. The United States imposed a 25% levy on steel and aluminum imports Wednesday, implementing a February order by President Donald Trump. The European Union and Canada, America’s largest steel supplier, responded quickly by raising tariffs of their own. China had already retaliated Monday against other new U.S. tariffs, with higher fees on American farm products. It’s classic trade-war behavior.
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1 month ago | 
csmonitor.com | Laurent Belsie |Caitlin Babcock
President Donald Trump and his new efficiency head, Elon Musk, are taking aim at government fraud as part of their campaign to reshape and streamline the federal bureaucracy. So far, the duo has hinted at widespread fraud without posting true evidence. For example, they have said that Social Security payments may be going out in the names of tens of millions of dead centenarians. Lee Dudek, the administration’s new head of the Social Security Administration, said that is not the case.
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2 months ago | 
csmonitor.com | Caitlin Babcock |Ish Mafundikwa |Ryan Brown
Outside the Bernice Elizabeth Fonteneau Wellness Center in Petworth, a historically Black neighborhood in Washington, D.C., bundled-up passersby swerve around piles of melting slush. But the small room on the center’s third floor radiates warmth. “So happy you’re here,” reads the mat on the doorway, welcoming visitors into the softly lit space.
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2 months ago | 
csmonitor.com | Sarah Matusek |Caitlin Babcock
Tom Homan, the “border czar” handpicked by President Donald Trump, has arrested, detained, and deported unauthorized immigrants since 1984. Friends call him loyal. Critics have likened him to a Nazi; he counters that the agency he once led deported real ones. Mr. Homan is positioned to play an integral role in shaping the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration.
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2 months ago | 
csmonitor.com | Caitlin Babcock |Sarah Matusek
As an engineer with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Michael Garrett says he has always known he could double his salary in the private sector. But when he became a federal employee over a decade ago, Mr. Garrett (not his real name), was thinking about more than money. “[I] chose the federal government because of job stability and to have a healthy work-life balance,” says the engineer, who asked to remain anonymous so he could speak candidly.
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2 months ago | 
csmonitor.com | Simon Montlake |Caitlin Babcock
As an investor, Elon Musk embraced the idea that business turnarounds require fast, drastic, and disruptive measures. Now he’s applying the same playbook to the country’s largest employer, the federal government, by seizing control of its payments system and its overseas aid department – and pushing aside civil servants who raise legal and ethical objections.
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2 months ago | 
csmonitor.com | Laurent Belsie |Caitlin Babcock
Wednesday’s midair collision of a civilian airliner and military helicopter at Reagan National Airport left no survivors and called into question whether the airport’s strained resources can handle all the demands put on it. There’s no question that airline safety has steadily improved worldwide. But in places, rising air traffic, new threats, and an aging infrastructure have made safety systems more complex and vulnerable.
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2 months ago | 
csmonitor.com | Simon Montlake |Caitlin Babcock |Richard Mertens
For months, President Donald Trump had promised to ramp up deportations of unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. as part of a restrictionist immigration policy. Now, federal agencies are beginning to fulfill that promise, backed by the White House and Mr. Trump’s executive orders.
