Washington Times - Politics

• Trump orders reciprocal tariffs poised to hit EU and many other trading partners

  14-2-2025 Politics Washington Times - Politics 37

  President Trump signed an order Thursday that calls for reciprocal tariffs on friendly and rival nations alike, saying too many places are taking...

• Rep. Luttrell proposes legislation to evaluate terrorist threats from post-Assad Syrian regime

  14-2-2025 Politics Washington Times - Politics 22

  A Texas Republican lawmaker is pressing the Department of Homeland Security to evaluate potential terrorist threats to the United States from Syria...

• Pam Bondi personally takes down portraits of Biden, Harris, Garland

  14-2-2025 Politics Washington Times - Politics 27

  Attorney General Pam Bondi took charge at the Justice Department this week, personally removing photographs of the old team: Joe Biden, Kamala...

• Budget blueprint likely to pass committee with tweaks to spending, tax cut goals

  14-2-2025 Politics Washington Times - Politics 45

  House Republicans' budget blueprint will likely survive its first hurdle after GOP leaders agreed to a change driven by debt hawks that will...

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• USAID employees want a judge to keep blocking Trump's effort to pull most of them off the job

  13-2-2025 Politics Washington Times - Politics 44

  Employees at the U.S. Agency for International Development are asking a federal judge on Thursday to keep blocking an effort by President Donald...

• Vance is visiting the Dachau concentration camp memorial on eve of his big meeting with Zelenskyy

  13-2-2025 Politics Washington Times - Politics 46

  U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance will visit the Dachau concentration camp memorial Thursday, making a stop at one of the most powerful symbols of...

• Trump's agenda finally moving in Congress, but House and Senate not on the same page

  13-2-2025 Politics Washington Times - Politics 80

  House Republicans unveiled a long-awaited budget blueprint on Wednesday to tee up President Trump's entire legislative agenda, while a Senate GOP...

• Trump's 'wild proposal' to acquire Greenland gets some traction on Capitol Hill

  13-2-2025 Politics Washington Times - Politics 34

  President Donald Trump's repeated talk about acquiring Greenland from Denmark has prompted some eye-rolling and diplomatic blowback, but it got a...

• Trump makes it easier to fire government workers who don't implement administration policy

  13-2-2025 Politics Washington Times - Politics 24

  President Trump signed an executive order Wednesday making it easier to terminate or punish government workers who are not executing his foreign...

• Judge refuses to block Trump's plan to offer buyouts to federal workers

  13-2-2025 Politics Washington Times - Politics 32

  In a major victory for President Trump's plan to shrink the size and cost of government, a federal judge in Boston denied a workers union request...

• Trump to meet Putin for talks on ending war in Ukraine

  13-2-2025 Politics Washington Times - Politics 25

  President Trump said Wednesday that he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia as part of a series of talks aimed at ending...

• Telework employees claimed extra pay, ducked drug tests

  13-2-2025 Politics Washington Times - Politics 41

  Transportation Department employees were bilking the government for extra pay by claiming to work in high-cost cities but actually teleworking from...