Jeff Mordock

1 week ago | washingtontimes.com | Jeff Mordock

Restaurants, stores and even shrimp festivals are importing cheaper foreign shrimp but telling customers they’re eating shrimp caught by U.S. fishermen in the Gulf of America. The deception is a major stab in the back for America’s shrimpers, who have watched their industry wither due to rising fuel costs and a flood of cheap imports from Vietnam, India, Ecuador and China.

1 week ago | washingtontimes.com | Jeff Mordock

President Trump on Thursday signed into law a bill that loosens cryptocurrency regulations by shielding decentralized finance (DeFi) exchanges from IRS requirements that such platforms be treated as brokers and that they track and report user activity. The bill reverses a rule implemented in the final weeks of the Biden administration, which required the IRS to strengthen its crypto tax reporting guidelines to expand to DeFi exchanges.

2 weeks ago | washingtontimes.com | Jeff Mordock |Mallory Wilson

Exclusive - The Washington Times - President Trump answered nearly 100 questions from the press during his first three Cabinet meetings this year — nearly 20 times the number answered by President Biden in the same setting during four years in office, according to data compiled by The Washington Times. Mr. Trump fielded roughly 20 questions from the press during his third Cabinet meeting Thursday.

2 weeks ago | go.shr.lc | Jeff Mordock |Mallory Wilson

Exclusive - The Washington Times - President Trump answered nearly 100 questions from the press during his first three Cabinet meetings this year — nearly 20 times the number answered by President Biden in the same setting during four years in office, according to data compiled by The Washington Times. Mr. Trump fielded roughly 20 questions from the press during his third Cabinet meeting Thursday.

2 weeks ago | washingtontimes.com | Jeff Mordock

President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing the Justice Department to investigate two officials from his first administration who have become some of his harshest critics. The order revokes the security clearances and orders a Justice Department probe for Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, and Chris Krebs, a Homeland cybersecurity official.