Tag: Washington D.C.

Anthony Tata, under secretary for personnel and readiness at the Department of Defense nominee for US President Donald Trump, during a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, May 6, 2025. Tata, a retired Army brigadier general and a Trump loyalist, served as the Pentagon's policy chief, the No. 3 official in charge, in an acting position during the first Trump administration.

Anthony Tata pledges to be ‘apolitical’ and apologizes for past comments

Mike Brest · May 6, 2025 12:20 pm

Migrants walk into Mexico after being deported from the United States at El Chaparral pedestrian border bridge in Tijuana, Mexico, Jan. 21, 2025.

Trump judge questions 24-hour removal notice for Venezuelan deportations

Kaelan Deese · May 6, 2025 12:17 pm

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rick Crawford (R-AR) left, confers with Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT), the ranking member, as the panel holds a hearing on worldwide threats, at the Capitol, in Washington, Wednesday, March 26, 2025.

House Intelligence finds FBI ‘failed’ in its investigation of 2017 congressional baseball shooting

Rachel Schilke · May 6, 2025 12:08 pm

This Aug. 2, 2018, file photo shows the U.S. Food and Drug Administration building behind FDA logos at a bus stop on the agency's campus in Silver Spring, Maryland. Regulators warned several companies to stop selling soaps, sprays and other concoctions with false claims that they can treat COVID-19 or keep people from catching it. The warnings were emailed Friday, March 6, 2020, to companies based in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom and were announced Monday. Nearly all the targeted companies had complied by Monday morning, with mentions of the virus or products to treat it taken off their websites.

Top FDA official resigns after agency shake-up under Trump: ‘It was time’

Emily Hallas · May 6, 2025 11:45 am

Michelle Bowman, governor of the Federal Reserve nominee for President Trump, speaks during a Senate Banking Committee confirmation hearing in D.C. on May 15, 2018.

Trump’s pick for top Fed bank regulator advances out of committee

Zach Halaschak · May 6, 2025 10:47 am

WATCH LIVE: House GOP leadership holds press conference

Jack Birle · May 6, 2025 9:46 am

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Homeland Security, appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee for her confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025.

WATCH LIVE: Kristi Noem testifies before House Oversight Committee

Elaine Mallon · May 6, 2025 9:39 am

Beltway Confidential

Democrats have learned nothing on immigration

Conn Carroll · May 6, 2025 9:22 am

Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, R-La., talks to reporters just after House Republicans narrowly approved their budget framework, at the Capitol in Washington, April 10, 2025.

Mike Johnson promises to fix DC budget gap ‘quickly’

Emily Hallas · May 6, 2025 9:13 am

Bessent becomes the Trump economic plan explainer

W. James Antle III · May 6, 2025 7:00 am

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, left, and White House border czar Tom Homan speak with reporters at the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025, in Washington.

Trump’s Cabinet to face DOGE scrutiny in flurry of budget hearings

Rachel Schilke · May 6, 2025 6:00 am

President Donald Trump says American children may make do with fewer toys, even while promising that his tariff regime will be a net benefit.

Trump’s austerity argument on tariffs may be ‘dangerous politically’

Haisten Willis · May 6, 2025 5:00 am