Credit: Molly Adams from USA via Wikimedia Commons Topline: The Office of Refugee Resettlement spent $4.2 billion on grants in fiscal year 2024, bringing the agency’s five-year total to $22.6 billion since 2020, according to new findings from OpenTheBooks. Key facts: The Office of Refugee Resettlement, or ORR, is part of the Administration for Children and Families, and
Credit: Screenshot via Sky News Australia President Donald Trump danced on the remains of Joy Reid’s career at MSNBC after it was announced that the controversial host had been fired. Reid was given the bad news earlier this week, with her show set to air its final episode sometime in the coming days. Trump took
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement via Wikimedia Commons OXEN HILL, Md.—President Donald Trump slammed left-wing politicians for sending the American military abroad instead of protecting the southern border. “After years of politicians using our military to defend foreign borders while leaving our country defenseless, helpless, we deployed a group of people, active duty troops, to defend
Credit: G. Edward Johnson via Wikimedia Commons The U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration says that race-based decisions in education – including race-based hiring, admissions, and scholarships – are unlawful, and any institution that does not comply with the department’s antidiscrimination requirements will face loss of federal funding. “The Department of Education will
Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia President Donald Trump is well known for his America First agenda. Some have interpreted this as an isolationist stance of retreat from the world stage. If anything, the first few weeks have shown an energetic engagement on foreign policy. America First hasn’t meant disengagement with the world. Rather, it has
Credit: Screenshot via The Center Square Youtube President Donald Trump and adviser Elon Musk floated the idea of sending some the money that the Department of Government Efficiency saves directly back to taxpayers, but the checks aren’t in the mail yet. On Thursday, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said the White House is
Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons Republican Senator from Kentucky and long-time Republican Leader Mitch McConnell announced Thursday that he won’t seek reelection when his current term ends in 2026. The news closes his career as the longest-serving Senate party leader and longest-serving Kentucky senator in U.S. history. The 83-year-old lawmaker, first elected to office
Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons Let’s get something nice and sparkling clear right off the bat: What we have seen in the first month of the second Trump administration borders on revolutionary. It’s extraordinary. Unprecedented in modern times. There are no bugaboos or sacred cows. Unlike every President since Gerald Ford, our 47th Executive
Credit: Screenshot via Senator John Kennedy Sen. John Kennedy (R-LA) offered up some advice to the Democrat Party that, quite honestly, they should probably heed right now. And he did so in a fashion that only he can deliver. Kennedy might consider the stand-up comedy circuit when he retires from Congress. The senator responded to
United States Senate – Office of Dan Sullivan via Wikimedia Commons President Donald Trump sent a memo to all federal agency heads Tuesday directing them to release all details related to the cut grants, contracts and other federal spending deemed “wasteful.” Trump sent the “radical transparency about wasteful spending” memo to federal agency heads, the