Trump’s Purges Are So Chaotic, DOJ Lawyers Can’t Say Who’s Been Fired
The Trump administration doesn’t appear to have a clear idea of just how many federal staffers they’ve let go.During a rare emergency hearing on President’s Day, Judge Tanya Chutkan asked the...
View ArticleTrump’s Border Czar Pulls a Bizarre 180 on Eric Adams Deal
Border czar Tom Homan struggled to explain why New York City Mayor Eric Adams suddenly decided to comply with Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown in his sanctuary city, if not to have the public...
View ArticleTop Social Security Official Quits Amid Showdown With Elon Musk’s DOGE
A top official at the Social Security Administration decided she would rather quit than hand over the personal information of millions of people to Elon Musk and DOGE, according to The New York Times....
View ArticleEvery Ridiculous Thing Republicans Want to Rename After Trump
MAGA delegates around the country are offering local homages to Donald Trump, handing over the naming rights of everything from airports to mountains in an effort to curry more favor with him.On...
View ArticleTop Justice Department Official Quits After Trump Order on Biden
A senior prosecutor at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., resigned on Tuesday, citing an improper demand by Trump administration officials to freeze assets and launch a criminal...
View ArticleJudge Orders Trump’s DOJ to Explain Themselves on Eric Adams Reversal
A federal judge has ordered indicted New York City Mayor Eric Adams and Trump Justice Department officials to appear in court on Wednesday to explain why exactly the DOJ is conveniently dropping its...
View ArticleSteve Bannon Slams “Parasitic Illegal Immigrant” Elon Musk
Steve Bannon is not happy with Elon Musk, and revealed as much in an interview with the conservative website UnHerd Tuesday. The far-right commentator and former Donald Trump adviser told the outlet...
View ArticleKathy Hochul Sure Sounds Ready to Fire Eric Adams Over Trump Deal
Push may finally come to shove for New York City Mayor Eric Adams.Adams’s political boss—New York Governor Kathy Hochul—signalled that the mayor’s time in Gracie Mansion may be coming to an end...
View ArticleTrump Saved Eric Adams’s Bacon—and Put the Country Up for Sale
The ongoing saga of the cancelled prosecution of Eric Adams contains multitudes. Perhaps the most worrisome aspect is the way it highlights the new, renegade Department of Justice that Donald Trump is...
View ArticleTrump Press Secretary Hit With Embarrassing Fact-Check on Fraud Claim
Donald Trump’s White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt boosted billionaire Elon Musk’s fantastical allegations of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration (SSA)—and got called out...
View ArticleTrump Press Sec Tries Bizarre Argument on DOGE to Avoid Legal Trouble
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and the entire Trump administration are trying very hard to convince the public that Elon Musk—the man who has used the Department of Government Efficiency...
View ArticleTrump Guts Crucial OPM Team as Elon Musk Gains Even More Power
The Trump administration has fired members of the “privacy team” at the Office of Personnel Management, a move that will hinder public access and scrutiny over government records related to the...
View ArticleStephen Miller Crashes Out Trying to Defend DOGE
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller threw a temper tantrum on live television Tuesday while tunelessly singing the praises of Elon Musk’s disastrous Department of Government Efficiency....
View ArticleTrump Breaks Major Campaign Promise With Toothless IVF Executive Order
Promises kept? Not quite. Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday purporting to expand access to in-vitro fertilization, but the mandate falls short of his actual campaign promise to make IVF...
View ArticleRFK Jr. Names First Targets in Chilling Speech as Health Secretary
Now that he has been confirmed as secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. plans to put his frightening ideas about public health into action. Kennedy made a speech to HHS staff at...
View ArticleTrump Reveals Extreme Tariffs Plan Guaranteed to Make Things Worse
Trump on Tuesday announced he would unveil an aggressive set of tariffs, confirming the worst fears of manufacturers across the auto, semiconductor, and pharmaceutical industries.“It’ll be in the...
View ArticleStephen Miller Rages at CNN Host as Musk’s Latest DOGE Fiasco Implodes
On Tuesday, top White House adviser Stephen Miller unleashed a wild, angry rant on CNN after tough questioning from CNN’s anchor about Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency. This...
View ArticleHow to Save Public Health: Follow Labor’s Lead
It is a bleak time to practice public health in America. A leading purveyor of anti-vaccine misinformation, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, has been confirmed as the Secretary of the Department of Health and...
View ArticleThe Climate Policies That Trump Might Not Destroy
Five days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration last month, Ali Zaidi, the Biden administration’s domestic climate czar, told an audience at Harvard University that Biden’s signature legislation...
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The Dark Legacy of Reaganism
No one has been more baffled by Ronald Reagan than the scholars who have devoted their lives to making sense of his. The book still hailed as the most definitive biography, Lou Cannon’s 1991 President...
View ArticleThe U.N. Expert on Palestine Who Captured the World’s Attention
The day after the U.S. president announced his plan to turn the Gaza Strip into “the Riviera of the Middle East,” Francesca Albanese was asked about the idea at a Copenhagen press conference. Rolling...
View ArticleTrump’s Incompetence Is Botching His Own Deregulation Spree
A saving grace of President Donald Trump and the other goons wreaking havoc across the government is that they aren’t especially smart. This bare fact may shine brightest in the Trump administration’s...
View ArticleThe Latest Case Against Birthright Citizenship Is a Joke
The Trump administration is struggling to defend its executive order that purports to end birthright citizenship. Four different federal judges have now blocked the executive branch from carrying it...
View ArticlePresident Elon Musk Reveals He Has No Clue How the Government Works
Elon Musk won’t stop showing just how little he understands about the U.S. government. The billionaire technocrat joined President Donald Trump Tuesday night in an interview on Fox News’s Hannity, to...
View ArticleTrump Has a Wild New Excuse for Why Inflation Isn’t His Fault
Inflation is up, but Donald Trump would sooner find any other scapegoat than deal with the critical economic issue.“Inflation is back,” Trump said passively during an interview Tuesday night with Fox...
View ArticleUkraine’s Zelenskiy Hits Back After Trump Spouts Putin Propaganda
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy issued a stern warning to President Donald Trump on Wednesday after the latter blamed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Ukraine itself, incorrectly stating they...
View ArticleWhy the Hell Is Trump Media Suing a Brazilian Judge?
Donald Trump is attempting to interfere in Brazilian politics on behalf of his far-right ally Jair Bolsanaro. The president’s company Trump Media Group filed a lawsuit against Brazilian Supreme Court...
View ArticleUSDA Scrambles to Rehire Bird Flu Experts DOGE “Accidentally” Fired
Donald Trump’s administration can’t stop mis-firing. The Department of Agriculture is scrambling to rescind the terminations of “several” agency employees who were working to address the bird flu...
View ArticleTransportation Chief Insists FAA Purges Aren’t That Bad
The U.S. has experienced four serious aviation disasters since Donald Trump took office just last month—but his administration doesn’t want you to believe that the unprecedented uptick has anything to...
View ArticleRepublicans in Revolt as Elon Musk’s DOGE Continues Takeover
Infighting is brewing among the GOP’s congressional ranks, as Elon Musk’s takeover of the government and sweeping federal employee purge begins to hit red states. Multiple Republican members of...
View ArticleTrump’s New Executive Order Is His Most Blatant Power Grab Yet
Donald Trump is trying to extend his authority over government agencies that Congress made independent. The president issued an executive order Tuesday ordering these agencies to first send any...
View ArticleGOP Senators Are Having to Literally Beg Trump for Their Own Money
Republican Senators are being forced to grovel at the thrones of Donald Trump and Elon Musk to collect the very funding they appropriated in the first place. Amid Trump’s sweeping freezes on spending,...
View ArticleTrump Just Endorsed Sweeping Medicaid Cuts
Trump finally decided to end the GOP’s internal quarreling on how to pass his budget—and broke a huge promise on Medicaid in the process.For months, Republicans have been split on whether to split...
View ArticleOops: Trump-Musk Cuts Just Wrecked an NIH Org Championed by GOPers
With co-Presidents Donald Trump and Elon Musk now inflicting deep cuts on federal agencies that sponsor medical research, thousands of scientists, researchers, and medical professionals are getting...
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Putin Must Be Salivating Over This Trump Attack on Ukraine’s Zelenskiy
Donald Trump unloaded on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a Truth Social post Wednesday morning, accusing Zelenskiy of enjoying a “gravy train” from the United States and calling him a...
View ArticleTrump Slams Lindsey Graham Budget Bill, Setting Off Chaotic Fight
Lawmakers were taken aback Wednesday by the president’s clear stance on budget negotiations, seemingly shocked that Donald Trump had endorsed a House GOP bill that prioritizes his agenda over the...
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Elon Musk Is Faking DOGE Results to Hide His Incompetence
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency may be trying to inflate the numbers of its spending cuts. DOGE published an itemized list of canceled government contracts Monday accounting for an...
View ArticleTrump Attorney Begins Revenge Quest With First Target: Chuck Schumer
Washington D.C.’s interim MAGA U.S. attorney is coming after Chuck Schumer for supposedly leading an “attack” on Supreme Court justices. In a weirdly aggressive officewide email Wednesday, U.S....
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Trump Declares Himself King as He Kills Congestion Pricing in New York
Donald Trump claimed Wednesday that he has ended New York’s congestion pricing , boasting in all caps that he “SAVED” the city in a Truth Social post that ended with the declaration “LONG LIVE THE...
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Republicans Happily Roll Over as Trump Declares Himself King
Donald Trump called himself “THE KING” on Wednesday, and the rest of the White House was overjoyed to see the president was dropping the pretense of democracy. Trump announced in a post on Truth Social...
View ArticleJD Vance Warns Ukraine’s Zelenskiy to Shut up and Obey Trump
Vice President JD Vance issued a stark warning to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday, cautioning the war-battered leader against “badmouthing” Donald Trump even as the U.S. pushes...
View ArticleTranscript: Stephen Miller Rages on CNN as Musk’s DOGE Lie Implodes
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the February 19 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented...
View ArticleRepublicans Propose Creepy Bill to Track Pregnant People
Missouri Republicans are advancing an effort that would require pregnant people to register in a statewide database.House Bill 807, called the “Save MO Babies Act,” is intended to target people “at...
View ArticleTrump’s Defense Secretary Gives Pentagon Days to Plan for Massive Cuts
Donald Trump’s gutting of the federal government is coming to the Department of Defense. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth has told DOD and military leaders to make plans for cutting 8 percent of the...
View ArticleTrump’s Eruption of Rage at Zelensky Forces GOP into Inane Contortions
President Donald Trump unleashed a long, angry tirade on Wednesday that falsely blamed Volodymyr Zelenskiy for Russia’s invasion. Trump pushed many other lies that sounded unsettlingly like Russian...
View ArticleWhat Trump’s Firing Spree Means for the Next Public Health Crisis
President Donald Trump’s efforts to dramatically reshape the federal workforce and slash spending has brought chaos to Washington, D.C. and spawned a bevy of legal cases as newly unemployed members of...
View ArticleAmericans Are Heading for the Exits
In February 2023, I published an article in The New Republic about Americans, particularly from marginalized communities, who were looking to exit the country amid the rise of gun violence and...
View ArticleTrump Is the American President of Putin’s Dreams
As Donald Trump insisted this week that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was somehow responsible for his own country being invaded by Russia, and accused him of being a “dictator” responsible...
View ArticleSome Institutions Caved to Trump. Their Employees Are Fighting Back.
“Do not obey in advance,” the opening advice historian Timothy Snyder offered dismayed citizens following Trump’s first election, has become almost a cliché in the wake of Trump’s return to power. Now,...
View ArticleTranscript: Trump’s Ugly “Dictator” Rant Forces GOP into Contortions
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the February 20 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented...
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