As Trump’s minions eagerly try to derail liberal spending goals, Medicaid and school lunches get caught in the crossfire. From David Mastio:

New poll looks into how MA residents feel about Trump presidency, his cabinet picks, and if the country is on the wrong or right track.

Launched a few weeks back, Trump’s Empire is an evolution of earlier Telegram idle games like Hamster Kombat and X Empire (aka Musk Empire), tasking you with expanding the president’s various money-making efforts by growing your team, courting investors, and spending towards business upgrades.

Members of a far right militant group which "played a central role" in the 6 January 2021 riots in the US Capitol spent the first week of the Trump Administration vowing retribution, including against identifiable members of law enforcement.

To get a sense of what US President Donald Trump’s first week did to the federal government, talk to people who work in it. “I’ve been with the government for over 10 years, I lived through the first Trump administration, and nothing compares to this,” says one Treasury employee.

He was referring to dispute Trump’s executive order — one of a slew he has signed since taking office on Monday — that calls for the elimination of the “electric vehicle mandate.” Fanjoy and some market watchers feel government and industry investments in EV technology have moved too far along for Trump's order to have much influence on reining in sales over the long term.

On Tuesday, spokespeople in the Fort Worth, Arlington and Hurst-Euless-Bedford independent school districts said it was unclear whether or how their districts’ programs would be affected by the freeze.

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Trump lost more than two-thirds of the lawsuits filed against his rules in his first term. His win rate of 31% was lower than that of the three administrations prior, according to an analysis by the Institute of Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law.

The trio have expressed their anger after Donald Trump threatened Russia and said that Moscow helped the U.S. win World War II.

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said Donald Trump’s plans to impose mass deportations of immigrants would be a “disgrace,” as he weighed in on the incoming U.S. president’s pledges nearly a decade after calling him “not Christian” for wanting to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexican border.

President Donald Trump’s budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing spending on federal grants, less than two days after it sparked widespread confusion and legal challenges across the country, according to two people familiar with the matter.