Federal Agencies
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Transportation Secretary says air traffic control recruiting pitch for gamers ‘wildly successful’
The Trump administration has dedicated resources for a surge in hiring for air traffic controllers amid persistent shortages.
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Trump to renominate FEMA acting director he fired last year: reports
The former acting director contradicted the president's position that the disaster management agency should be eliminated.
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Todd Lyons to leave ICE for private sector next month
"Thanks to his leadership, American communities are safer," Mullin said in a statement. "We wish him luck on his next opportunity in the private sector."
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FEMA requests September date for temporary sheltering program after Helene
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein: "Many of these families’ homes need long-term rebuilding and are not and will not be safe for some time"
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IRS commissioner becomes latest official to exit post on Inauguration Day
Other officials have also announced they will resign on Inauguration Day, including FBI Director Christopher Wray, Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler, and Federal Election Commission head Sean Cooksey.
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Trump demands FBI retain all information on the shuttering of its DEI office, alleges corruption
Trump claimed that the DEI office, which the FBI actually calls the Office of Diversity and Inclusion (ODI), should never have been opened and alleged that it was closed before his return because of corruption within the bureau.
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Judge upholds Trump protections for religious student groups that Biden waited too long to reverse
Biden's Department of Education delayed Secular Student Alliance lawsuit for three years as it developed regulation to erase Trump's, then threw presumptive ally under the bus by defending lawfulness of Trump's regulation.
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FBI says it closed down its DEI office in December
The bureau's closure comes as conservatives pressure the federal government and businesses to end their DEI practices, amid backlash over the Supreme Court's ruling on affirmative action in colleges.
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Scott Bessent to testify Trump has 'generational opportunity' to spark 'economic golden age'
If confirmed as Treasury Secretary, Bessent would be tasked with steering federal fiscal policies set by Congress and the White House. He would also be the main go-between of the White House and Federal Reserve, which sets monetary policies.
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Treasury Department recovers $31 million in Social Security payments that went to dead people
The recovery was part of a five-month pilot of the department's access to the Social Security Administration's master file. The SSA maintains the largest collection of people who have died, which includes 142 million records that date back as far as 1899.
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Bondi vows 'there will never be an enemies list' within the Justice Department
“There will never be an enemies list within the Department of Justice,” Bondi testified. “We all take an oath to uphold the law…So, will everyone be held to an equal, fair system of justice if I am the next attorney general? Absolutely.
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Stay-at-Home Bureaucrats: Congressional probe exposes billions in waste from federal telework gigs
"The Biden-Harris Administration has ceded too much authority to the federal union bosses, allowing their preference to work from home to take precedence over fulfilling agencies’ missions and serving the American people," Rep. James Comer said.
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SEC sues Elon Musk over alleged failure to disclose purchase of Twitter stock
“In total, Musk underpaid Twitter investors by more than $150 million for his purchases of Twitter common stock during this period,” the SEC said in a complaint reported by Politico. “Investors who sold Twitter common stock during this period did so at artificially low prices and thus suffered substantial economic harm.”