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5 days ago | 
miamiherald.com | Hamed Aleaziz |NYT Washington
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump ordered the Department of Homeland Security on Friday to increase the deportation force of the United States by 20,000 officers, a move that would lead to an enormous expansion of immigration enforcement if realized.
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1 week ago | 
sanluisobispo.com | Charlie Savage |Julian Barnes |NYT Washington
FILE -- President Nicolás Maduro of Venezuela during a ceremony to swear in new members of the Bolivarian militia at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Jan. 7, 2025. A newly declassified memo released on Monday, May 5, 2025, confirms that U.S. intelligence agencies have rejected a key claim President Trump put forth to justify invoking a wartime statute to summarily deport Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador.
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3 weeks ago | 
miamiherald.com | Benjamin Mueller |NYT Washington
The Trump administration has replaced the government’s main portal for information about COVID-19 with a website arguing that the virus leaked from a lab, throwing its weight behind a theory of the virus’s origins that is so far not backed by direct evidence and that many scientists consider less likely than the idea that it emerged at a wild-animal market.
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4 weeks ago | 
myrtlebeachonline.com | Andrew Duehren |Eileen Sullivan |NYT Washington
WASHINGTON -- About 22,000 employees at the IRS have signed up for the Trump administration’s latest resignation offer, according to four people familiar with the matter, an exodus that could weaken the agency’s ability to collect taxes. The IRS had about 100,000 employees before President Donald Trump took office. Roughly 5,000 employees have resigned since January, and an additional 7,000 probationary employees were laid off, though those firings have been contested in court.
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1 month ago | 
mahoningmatters.com | Edward Wong |Karoun Demirjian |NYT Washington
The Trump administration could cut nearly 50% of the State Department’s funding next fiscal year, according to an internal memo laying out a downsizing plan being given serious consideration by department leaders, said two U.S. officials. The plan was drawn up as the White House pressures agencies to make significant budget cuts.
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | David Fahrenthold |Jeremy Singer-Vine |NYT Washington
Last week, Elon Musk indicated for the first time that his Department of Government Efficiency was falling short of its goal. He previously said his powerful budget-cutting team could reduce the next fiscal year’s federal budget by $1 trillion, and do it by Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year. Instead, in a Cabinet meeting Thursday, Musk said that he anticipated the group would save about $150 billion, 85% less than its objective.
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | Tim Balk |NYT Washington
The Trump administration appeared to deepen its standoff with a federal judge Saturday over the status of a man it wrongly deported to a Salvadoran prison, ignoring orders to provide a plan to return him to the United States. A State Department official said in a two-page court filing that the man, Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran migrant who had been living in Maryland before he was deported, was “alive and secure” in a terrorism confinement center in El Salvador.
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | Tim Balk |NYT Washington
The Trump administration said Friday that it had moved a portrait of former President Barack Obama in a White House hallway and replaced it with a pop-art painting of President Donald Trump pumping his fist after the assassination attempt last year on the campaign trail in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shuffling of decor is not uncommon at the White House, where portraits are rotated often.
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1 month ago | 
mahoningmatters.com | Alan Feuer |NYT Washington
The Trump administration on Friday defied a federal judge’s order to provide an explanation for how it intended to bring back to the United States a Maryland man who was unlawfully deported to El Salvador last month.
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1 month ago | 
mahoningmatters.com | Robert Jimison |Maya Miller |NYT Washington
WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump’s whipsawing tariff policy has prompted bipartisan alarm on Capitol Hill, where Democrats are outraged and Republicans are caught between their deep opposition to tariffs and fear of criticizing Trump.
