A group of 191 House and Senate Democrats sent a letter to Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, calling on them to reverse course on actions targeting the...
Two Democratic lawmakers want President Donald Trump’s education secretary nominee to come prepared with ideas to protect student-loan borrowers ahead of her appearance in Congress this week. Linda McMahon, Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Education, is scheduled to...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren is urging the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation to reevaluate the decision to rescind more than 200 job offers to bank examiners in the wake of President Donald Trump’s federal hiring freeze. The FDIC is already severely understaffed,...
Democrats led by Senate Banking Committee ranking member Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) called on Treasury and IRS watchdogs to probe federal payment system access granted to tech billionaire Elon Musk or his surrogates. Treasury has faced the ire of Democrats in...
Senate Democrats demanded answers from the Education Department on Thursday about the scope of Elon Musk’s data collection efforts at the agency, which appears to be a focus of the Trump administration’s cost-cutting initiative. The letter, by a coalition of...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent ethics concessions aren’t assuaging two Senate Democrats on the panels charged with vetting his nomination to be HHS secretary. Senate Finance member Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions member Tim Kaine...
Senate Finance Committee member Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) asked the nominee to lead the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer to explain President Donald Trump’s “chaotic and haphazard” approach to tariffs and trade in a letter sent Tuesday. Warren...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren said her office has identified thousands of examples of consumers losing access to their bank accounts. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Elizabeth Warren agrees with President Trump about something. The Democratic senator from Massachusetts told Trump on Tuesday...
The top Democrats overseeing the Treasury Department are calling on a congressional watchdog to investigate the Trump administration’s decision to give Elon Musk’s team access to the federal system that controls trillions of dollars in payments. Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)...
During his 11 years as a Marine, Brenden Taylor and his family have moved several times. But when they left Okinawa, Japan, in 2022 for Camp Pendleton in Southern California, finding an affordable home to rent using his military housing...
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) and Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) have issued a populist appeal to Commerce Secretary-designate Howard Lutnick to toughen chip export controls against China, in response to the country’s surprise DeepSeek AI breakthrough. “Multiple administrations have failed — at...
Two Democratic senators on the committee that will get to decide whether to advance Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination say his recent financial disclosure filing gave them “grave concern” about whether he should become the next health and human services...