Jennifer Bendery

4 days ago | huffpost.com | Jennifer Bendery

WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump wants to make some pretty devastating cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services in his new 2026 budget request. But one of the cruelest is a line buried in HHS’ Budget in Brief: “The budget eliminates funding for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.”The federal block grant program, often referred to as LIHEAP, has been around for decades and helps millions of people in low-income households pay their energy bills.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Jennifer Bendery

WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump late Thursday bizarrely tore into a prominent figure of the conservative legal movement, Leonard Leo, and blamed him for a federal court ruling that briefly blocked most of his tariffs. Trump leaned heavily on Leo, a former leader of the conservative Federal Society, in his first term in office for picking people for lifetime federal judgeships.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Jennifer Bendery

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Pam Bondi on Thursday informed the American Bar Association that she is cutting off its access to nonpublic information about President Donald Trump’s judicial nominees because she thinks the nonpartisan organization is an “activist group.” “Unfortunately, the ABA no longer functions as a fair arbiter of nominees’ qualifications, and its ratings invariably and demonstrably favor nominees put forth by Democratic administrations,” Bondi said in a...

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Jennifer Bendery

WASHINGTON — In a pathetic act of cowardice last year, a handful of Democrats tanked one of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees, Adeel Mangi. Mangi, who was a veteran civil litigator in New Jersey, was an objectively impressive and qualified pick. He also happened to be Muslim, so Republicans subjected him to adisgusting monthslong smear campaign aimed at baselessly casting him as an antisemitic terrorist sympathizer.

1 week ago | huffpost.com | Jennifer Bendery

WASHINGTON — Democratic senators on Wednesday asked a top Trump administration official for details on the salaries of President Donald Trump’s political appointees and raised questions about the administration’s urging of agency leaders to max out the amount of taxpayer dollars allowed for these jobs while ignoring the standard hiring process.