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White House eyes annual 8% cut to defense budget through 2030
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered senior military officials to develop a five-year budget plan that would slash defense spending by 8% annually, a dramatic cut which could reshape military end-strength and readiness for decades. In a memo first obtained by the Washington Post, Hegseth ordered the proposed cuts to be compiled by Feb. 24. Seventeen categories would be exempt from the budget reductions, including military operations at the southern U.S. border, nuclear weapons and missile def ...
NATO High-Readiness Forces on Ukraine's Doorstep 'Ready' To Deploy
NATO's British-led, rapid-response force is "ready" to be deployed if needed, a senior commander has said, after U.K. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer signaled he was "ready and willing" to put British troops on the ground to enforce a ceasefire in Ukraine. -snip- Sweden has indicated it would consider a similar move, although other European countries quickly ruled out contributing troops. Russia's Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, said the deployment of such peacekeeping for ...
Trump administration orders Pentagon to plan for sweeping budget cuts
February 19, 2025 at 2:45 p.m. EST Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and throughout the U.S. military to develop plans for cutting 8 percent from the defense budget in each of the next five years, according to a memo obtained by The Washington Post and officials familiar with the matter — a striking proposal certain to face internal resistance and strident bipartisan opposition in Congress. Hegseth ordered the proposed cuts to be drawn up by Feb. 24, ac ...
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley Warns Against 'Massive' Medicaid Cuts: 'I Don't Like The Idea'
Feb 19, 2025, 06:00 AM EST | Updated 6 hours ago WASHINGTON ― Republicans in the House are considering big cuts to Medicaid — and that isn’t sitting well with one Republican senator, who’s arguing they’d harm many people who voted for President Donald Trump. “I would not do severe cuts to Medicaid,” Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told HuffPost in an interview on Tuesday. He said he agreed with MAGA whisperer Steve Bannon, who warned over the weekend that the right “can’t just take a meat axe” ...
Trump declares New York 'saved' from congestion pricing: 'Long live the king!'
President Trump on Wednesday declared New York "saved" after his administration announced it would rescind the Biden-era approval of a congestion pricing plan. "CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD. Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED." Trump posted to his Truth Social. "LONG LIVE THE KING!" -snip- "New York State's congestion pricing plan is a slap in the face to working class Americans and small business owners," Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in ...
Trump: AP White House access restricted until they use "Gulf of America"
Updated 11 hours ago President Trump told Axios' Marc Caputo on Tuesday that he will continue to restrict the Associated Press' access to the White House "until such time as they agree that it's the Gulf of America." Why it matters: Trump has targeted the AP, which has said it will continue to use the 400-year-old Gulf of Mexico instead of Trump's preferred Gulf of America, as part of longstanding Republican complaints about the AP Stylebook's language guides around race, gender, an ...
Senate confirms Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary
February 18, 2025 / 7:57 PM EST The Senate confirmed wealthy financier Howard Lutnick as commerce secretary Tuesday, putting in place a staunch supporter of President Trump's hardline trade policies. At the Commerce Department, Lutnick, who was CEO at the investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald, will oversee 50,000 employees who do everything from collecting economic statistics to running the census to issuing weather reports. But he's likely to spend a lot of time — along with Jamieson Greer, M ...
KFC is leaving its ancestral home as parent company moves its corporate office to Texas
Tue, February 18, 2025 at 4:40 PM EST 3 min read LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Fried Chicken is being uprooted from its ancestral home state in a shake-up announced Tuesday by its parent company that will relocate the chain's U.S. corporate office to Texas. The food chain now known as KFC — launched by Colonel Harland Sanders and his secret blend of 11 herbs and spices — will be based in Plano, Texas, and about 100 KFC corporate employees will be relocated in the next six months, said Yum B ...
US consumers rush to buy as Trump tariffs fuel stockpiling, report finds
February 18, 2025 4:54 PM EST Updated 6 hours ago Feb 18 (Reuters) - One in five Americans have said they are purchasing more items than usual primarily due to concerns over President Donald Trump's tariffs, a CreditCards.com report showed on Tuesday, reflecting heightened consumer anxiety over potential price hikes and economic uncertainty. Tariffs tend to be inflationary because they raise the cost of imported goods, prompting businesses to either absorb the higher expenses or pass them on ...
Former Social Security commissioner flames Musk's 19-year-old DOGE 'nitwits'
Wednesday 19 February 2025 01:54 GMT The former commissioner of the Social Security Administration on Tuesday ripped into “co-presidents” Donald Trump and Elon Musk, along with DOGE’s band of “19-year-old nitwits,” and called them the “biggest threat” to the continued existence of the 90-year-old program so critical to millions of Americans. Martin O’Malley, a former governor of Maryland who ran the agency during the last year of the Biden administration, mocked Musk’s claims that millions of ...
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RecsSo he didn't like Musk's son's booger - 17
RecsI went to the grocery store today, lots of items had tags with "Made in Canada" along with a Maple leaf. - 17
RecsI felt a shift in momentum today. Saying Ukraine started the war was even too much for some Republicans - 12
RecsTHIS COMMENT PROVES HOW IGNORANT MAGAS ARE.
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RecsFAFO gets very real for my wife's trump-loving niece - 242
RecsA recent change to my credit card terms gobsmacked me - 195
RecsAccording to one laid off federal employee, - 180
RecsChris Murphy: "The game is clear. We can see it. They're not even hiding it. There is not a rule of law anymore. There - 148
RecsLaminectomy check and done! I had the
Trump administration yanks CDC flu vaccine campaign
37 min ago - The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stopping a successful flu vaccination campaign that juxtaposed images of wild animals, such as a lion, with cute counterparts, like a kitten, as an analogy for how immunization can help tame the flu. ... (NPR)
Trump can't end birthright citizenship, appeals court says, setting up Supreme Court showdown.
4 hrs ago - An appeals court will not allow the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship for certain children of immigrants, in a ruling that could propel the issue to the Supreme Court. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday declined an emer ... (CNN)
DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency
4 hrs ago - Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old engineer with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) known as “Big Balls,” is now on staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), WIRED has confirmed. H ... (Wired)
Trump must fork over his personal financials if he follows through with Kamala Harris '60 Minutes' lawsuit, CBS says
5 hrs ago - Feb 19th, 2025, 7:10 pm Lawyers for CBS say they plan to demand that President Donald Trump — who is allegedly letting DOGE pillage U.S. treasury data, according to multiple lawsuits — fork over his own personal finance information to the ... (Law & Crime)
Historic ocean liner departs on voyage to become the world's largest artificial reef
5 hrs ago - February 19, 2025, 2:19 PM The historic, aging ocean liner that a Florida county plans to turn into the world’s largest artificial reef departed from south Philadelphia’s Delaware River waterfront on Wednesday, marking the opening segment o ... (ABC News/AP)
Turkey to export 15,000 tonnes of eggs to US to ease bird flu disruptions
5 hrs ago - Turkey has begun exporting around 15,000 tonnes of eggs to the United States as a devastating outbreak of bird flu is slashing U.S. production and sending prices soaring, a leading sector official said on Wednesday. Deaths of millions of laying hens ... (Reuters)
On a U.S. deportation flight of 135 mostly Asian migrants to Costa Rica, half will be minors
5 hrs ago - Feb. 19, 2025, 7:06 PM EST A deportation flight leaving the U.S. Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children. The migrants, heading from San ... (NBC News)
Citing 'Biological Truth,' Kennedy Issues Guidance Recognizing Only Two Sexes
6 hrs ago - Citing 'Biological Truth,' Kennedy Issues Guidance Recognizing Only Two Sexes The new guidance follows President Trump's demand that the Health and Human Services Department align with his executive order barring transgender athletes from women's spo ... (New York Times)
A Frustrated Trump Wants His New Air Force One Planes Pronto
6 hrs ago - President Trump, furious about delays in delivering two new Air Force One jets, has empowered Elon Musk to explore drastic options to prod Boeing to move faster, including relaxing security clearance standards for some who work on the presidential pl ... (NYT)
Hobbs keeps promise - vetoes GOP election bill
6 hrs ago - Gov. Katie Hobbs delivered her promised veto Tuesday of a Republican bill to revamp the deadline to turn in early ballots. But Hobbs, in her message to lawmakers, chose to focus her objections to HB2703 on a lesser-known provision of the measure, one ... (Arizona Capitol Times)
Former CMS head warns DOGE acting too quickly
6 hrs ago - 02/19/25 3:19 PM ET Former Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure said she is concerned about the speed at which Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is scrapping federal programs ... (The Hill)
USDS Engineering Director Resigns: 'This Is Not the Mission I Came to Serve'
7 hrs ago - The director of data science and engineering for the United States Digital Service—which Elon Musk rebranded as the US DOGE Service—has resigned from her position. Anne Marshall, the now former director, spent more than a decade as an engin ... (Wired)
Trump's energy secretary admits to 'mistakes' after nuclear safety employee layoffs
7 hrs ago - Posted 12:46 PM, Feb 19, 2025 and last updated 2:34 PM, Feb 19, 2025 Chris Wright, secretary of the Department of Energy, admitted to mistakes after layoffs impacted employees of the National Nuclear Security Administration. Speaking with Scripps Ne ... (Scripps News)
U.S. designates Mexican cartels, Tren de Aragua and others as foreign terrorist organizations
7 hrs ago - The U.S. State Department has designated Mexican drug cartels as well as MS-13 and the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua as foreign terrorist organizations, according to a document that is set to be published Thursday in the Federal Register. Secretary ... (NBC)
Black faith leaders call for Target boycott for backing off diversity initiatives
7 hrs ago - Published 6:08 a.m. ET Feb. 19, 2025 | Updated 1:47 p.m. ET Feb. 19, 2025 WASHINGTON ‒ Black faith leaders called on pastors to urge their congregations Sunday to join a 40-day boycott of Target in a campaign to push back against companies that ... (USA Today)
DNA evidence will be allowed in Bryan Kohberger trial
7 hrs ago - DNA evidence will be allowed in Bryan Kohberger trial By Seth Ratliff today at 4:08 PM Published February 19, 2025 4:05 PM BOISE, Idaho (KIFI) - In a striking victory for the Prosecution, Ada County Judge Steven Hippler ruled against attorneys for Un ... (KIFI in Pocatello ID)
Fired federal workers will likely be eligible for unemployment -- which the government will cover
7 hrs ago - Thousands of federal workers fired over the past week by the Trump administration will likely be eligible for unemployment benefits, which the federal government is required to pay for, along with other federal assistance the workers may now be eligi ... (NBC)
Trump labor secretary nominee faces some GOP skepticism ahead of her hearing
7 hrs ago - Feb. 19, 2025, 5:00 AM EST / Updated Feb. 19, 2025, 12:46 PM EST WASHINGTON — A Republican-led Senate committee held a confirmation hearing Wednesday for President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer. "In every ... (NBC News)
An 11-year-old girl in Texas died by suicide after she was bullied about her family's immigration status, her mother say
8 hrs ago - . Jocelynn was bullied and taunted at school over her family’s immigration status, Carranza told KUVN. “They were going to call immigration so they could take her parents away and she would be left alone,” Carranza said. She did not a ... (CNN)
Rep. Goldman accuses Trump of 'dozens of impeachable offenses' amid executive order controversy
8 hrs ago - Posted 1:16 PM, Feb 19, 2025 In an interview with Scripps News, Rep. Dan Goldman, D-New York, expressed strong concerns about President Donald Trump's recent executive order that places independent government agencies under the executive branch's con ... (Scripps News)
