Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (New York) and four other Senate Democrats are urging the Social Security Administration’s inspector general’s office to investigate the impacts of the U.S. DOGE Service’s dramatic restructuring and sweeping cuts to the government agency....
Data shows the IRS’ Direct File free tax-filing tool has helped save taxpayers money. Now lawmakers want to know why the Trump administration may soon pull the plug on the program. The Trump administration is planning on ending Direct File,...
Members of the Massachusetts congressional delegation are asking the acting chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities to explain the agency’s recent decision to cancel NEH grants in Massachusetts and across the country. In a letter sent Monday to...
In a letter sent Thursday, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren demanded documentation from the federal government explaining its rationale for detaining Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts graduate student from Turkey who was apprehended by masked immigration enforcement agents while walking to dinner...
Dozens of Democratic lawmakers are warning that President Donald Trump’s tariff-heavy trade agenda is quickly starting to resemble a “corrupt scheme to enrich administration officials and those loyal to them.” The Trump administration’s tumultuous rollout of a spate of new...
Some Democratic lawmakers are accusing TurboTax owner Intuit of misleading taxpayers as the company advocates for shuttering the government’s free direct tax filing program. TurboTax, which currently dominates the tax preparation market, promises free tax filing services for eligible individuals....
As fire departments around the country report soaring prices and waiting times for new fire engines, two United States Senators are investigating the effect on public safety and the role that private equity investment has played in disrupting the firefighting...
Gutting Social Security isn’t “efficient” — it’s a broken promise. Democrats and Republicans should stand up and fight back to protect it. Social Security is not charity. Americans pay in, paycheck after paycheck, over a lifetime of hard work. When...
A new legislative push led by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Rep. Melanie Stansbury, D-N.M., is seeking to bar special government employees like tech billionaire and senior Trump adviser Elon Musk from communicating with government agencies that interface with their...
Several Democratic senators are demanding answers from the Social Security Administration following reports that the agency may make staff cuts to a significant department within the agency. The Social Security Administration is reportedly considering additional workforce reductions, including a potential...
When I caught up with Elizabeth Warren, the senior Democratic senator from Massachusetts, by telephone on Wednesday evening, it seemed like she didn’t know whether to laugh or scream. Hours earlier, Donald Trump had caved to pressure from the financial...
President Donald Trump’s nominee to oversee federal tax policy should take additional steps to sever his decades of tax lobbying from his next government job, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote to him in a letter obtained exclusively by Bloomberg Tax....