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This live coverage has ended. You can find the latest US politics news here. As Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk work zealously to slash tens of billions in federal spending by axing thousands of jobs and gutting some government agencies, Mu…
Memo says ‘service by these individuals is not in the best interests of the military’ in Trump’s latest attack on trans rightsUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has moved to fire transgender members of the military, with the defe…
Jeanne Shaheen discusses Trump’s demand that Kyiv grant US firms access to rare-earth reserves for helping end warDonald Trump may be pursuing a mineral rights deal with Vladimir Putin and Russia as well as with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukraine, a top S…
This blog is now closed. You can read our latest story hereThere has been reaction to Trump’s proposal for a “gold card” for wealthy foreigners (post 11.14am) which would give them the right to live and work in the US as well as a route to citizenship …
Internal memo and court filings reveal president to also eliminate $60bn in overall US assistance around worldThe Trump administration said it is eliminating more than 90% of the US Agency for International Development’s foreign aid contracts and $60bn…
Order calls for ‘transformation’ in US spending on contracts, grants and loans by requiring centralized payment systemDonald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive order meant to expand the power of Elon Musk’s governmental cost-cutting program, the so…
UK prime minister faces major diplomatic effort to get president on board after he said no plans for US ‘backstop’Keir Starmer has warned that Vladimir Putin could invade Ukraine again unless the US provides security guarantees as he arrived for critic…
Head of Federal Highway Administration informed New York that the traffic-calming program ‘must cease’The Trump administration has ordered New York City to end its congestion pricing program by 21 March.In a letter dated 20 February and publicized on W…
Special adviser showed instinctive feel for authoritarianism as he addressed the president’s first full cabinet meetingOn Tuesday, just over a mile from the White House, the classicist Mary Beard spoke to an audience about Roman emperors. “An autocrat …
Dozens of demonstrators laid down in government office building to warn against dismantling foreign aid agencyFired USAid employees and advocates for people with HIV staged a protest in a Capitol office building on Wednesday, warning that Donald Trump’…