Moped delivery drivers disappearing from DC streets under Trump’s police takeover — which is looking more like an immigration crackdown than anything else www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Threatening federal probes, banning media organizations, freezing funding — a month in and Trump’s revenge tour is in full swing. “Retribution for Donald Trump is like breathing for him,” one Dem senator said www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

New: White House kicks out @huffpost.com reporter from press pool, breaking with decades of precedent www.huffpost.com/entry/white-...

More Republicans warning about Medicaid cuts This time it's the senators from West Virginia, which (not coincidentally) is among the states with the highest proportion of residents on Medicaid & CHIP Via @igorbobic.bsky.social & @delaneyrules.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/medica...

NEW: Elon Musk and his team have posted classified data on DOGE's new website www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

Bipartisan criticism for White House barring Associated Press reporters from events for 3rd day in a row today. Murkowski called it "pretty petty" while Murphy had a more blunt response “The freedom of the press is in the fucking Constitution," he said www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Tim Walz weighing a Senate bid, source close to the gov tells me. Tina Smith vacating her seat in blue Minnesota. story w/ @igorbobic.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...

Sen Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) says Trump is violating the law on firing agency watchdogs. Asked by HuffPost if he planned to alert Trump himself, Grassley said, “I just did, by talking to you.” www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Scientists say NIH cuts are an "atomic bomb" on life-saving health research & many are afraid of reprisal for speaking out. “Virtually everyone I know has scrubbed their institutional information from all social media...It feels like a dark time is ahead," one said www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Senate Republicans fold like little origami cranes to line up behind Trump's most disturbing cabinet picks www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-... w/ @igorbobic.bsky.social

Even some Republicans are a lil worried about DOGE. Story w/ @igorbobic.bsky.social www.huffpost.com/entry/elon-m...

Republicans are demolishing USAID as part of their quest to slash federal spending, but its $40 billion annual budget pales in comparison to their planned tax cut package that could total up to $11 trillion www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump issues freeze on federal spending for wide swath of government, could harm programs used by millions of Americans, including early childhood programs, and food and rent assistance.

“We believe in redemption. We believe in second chances,” Speaker Mike Johnson said this morning of people who assaulted police officers on Jan. 6 www.huffpost.com/entry/mike-j...

Normally, Congress passes a law and the administration then enforces it. Not in the case of TikTok, which is getting a pass from Trump and other one-time critics of the popular social media app.

A few lawmakers spoke out but most GOP senators give Trump a pass for pardoning violent offenders who assaulted police officers on Jan. 6, 2021. www.huffpost.com/entry/republ...