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Millions of student-loan borrowers are in default. Lawmakers want the Trump administration to keep more from falling deeper into trouble. On Monday, Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Jeff Merkley, and Reps. Ayanna Pressley and André Carson, led over 60 of their...

A former Social Security executive said the plan, which was not carried out, would have used a death database to pressure immigrants to leave the country. The Trump administration had plans to classify 2.7 million living people — including some...

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and three other Democratic lawmakers again are pressing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to conduct a foreign ownership review of Paramount‘s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery. Such a review – via the Committee on Foreign Investment...

In a letter, a group of Democratic Congress members wrote that ProPublica’s reporting on the deal “reveals a staggering level of corruption and influence.” A group of lawmakers demanded answers from the White House this week following a ProPublica investigation...

Barely a day after President Donald Trump signed an order on advanced artificial intelligence technology, the industry pivoted to harder lobbying of Congress to address the patchwork of state and local laws it’s contending with. But AI giants are likely...

The GAO will conduct a review of options for free tax filing at the request of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Angus King (I-Maine). … Read the full story here.

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The GAO will conduct a review of options for free tax filing at the request of Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Angus King (I-Maine).

Read the full story here.




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The State Department did not task the U.S. Transportation Command, or TRANSCOM, with evacuating Americans who aren’t affiliated with the federal government from the Middle East after the start of the Iran war, according to responses provided by the military...

Outside estimates project the cost is up to tens of billions of dollars more than the Pentagon says. Senate Democrats are pressing federal budget investigators to examine the gap between the Pentagon’s stated cost for the Iran war – $29...

The Democratic senator said it’s a “major step forward” in protecting students. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., has triggered an investigation into the Trump administration’s transfer of student loan services to the Department of the Treasury, according to a Government Accountability...

Donald Trump’s pick to lead the agency spent more than a decade at GEO Group. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has a few questions for the head of ICE. On Wednesday, the Massachusetts Democrat sent a letter to David Venturella, the new...

Americans are hanging on by their fingernails in an economy that funnels wealth to the ultra-rich and leaves crumbs for working people. AI threatens to supercharge this divide: tech executives have warned that AI could lead to “a level of...