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This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly promised to upend the federal government, and he has enlisted firebrands Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to help him do it. The two men are set to lead the Department of Government Efficiency and aim to trim $2 trillion from the US budget. That’s about one-third of all federal spending, and the pair also believe they can cut the government workforce by 75 percent.

This is a major victory against internet regulatory overreach under the outgoing Biden administration.

Scott Morgenstern, University of Pittsburgh Donald Trump has made clear his intent to supercharge his “America First” approach to foreign policy in his second term – and Mexico looks set to be at the tip of the spear. While many of Trump’s predecessors have also followed a “realist” strategy – that is, one where relative power is at the forefront of international relations, while diplomatic success is viewed through how it benefits one’s own nation – the incoming president has displayed an apparent unwillingness to consider the pain that his plans would inflict on targeted countries or the responses this will engender.read more

Ryan Walters has a career path. He's already that Oklahoma School Superintendent who wants to put Trump Bibles in the state's classrooms. And it turns out he's hired the Libs of Tik Tok psycho Chaya Raichik "to advise the state on school library policies." We can now assume she's also training him on how to be an influencer to the MAGA nutjob contingent. I assume she's the one who told him to make a video IN HIS CAR wearing an America First hat.

An investigation by House Republicans reportedly found "zero support" for MAGA conspiracy theories behind pipe bombs that were recovered by law enforcement near the U. S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The 79-page report released by the House Judiciary and House Administration committees cited information obtained from the FBI that determined two pipe bombs were planted at the headquarters for the Republican National Committee (RNC) and Democratic National Committee (DNC) on Jan.

By FATIMA HUSSEIN, JOSH BOAK and MARC LEVY WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden has blocked the nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase Pittsburgh-based U. S. Steel — affirming his earlier vow on the presidential campaign trail to prevent the acquisition of Steeltown USA’s most storied steel company. The proposed deal kicked up an election year political maelstrom across America’s industrial heartland and blocking it drew a threat of litigation from Nippon Steel. “We need major U.