Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) sent a letter Friday to President-elect Trump’s Defense secretary pick, Pete Hegseth, asking for his wife to divest from thousands of dollars worth of stock she holds in defense company stocks, calling it a conflict of...
The Massachusetts Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren has called on Donald Trump to institute new ethics rules to guard against scandals involving appointees such as Elon Musk, the SpaceX, Tesla and X owner who will jointly lead an effort to slash...
Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) are putting pressure on big tech firms to explain their motives for donating to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration fund. In letters to Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Uber, the lawmakers...
As some Republicans urge President-Elect Donald Trump to kill the IRS’s free direct tax-filing tool, Democrats are attempting to preserve it. In a letter to Treasury Secretary nominee Scott Bessent and IRS Commissioner nominee Billy Long, Democratic Sens. Elizabeth Warren...
Senator Elizabeth Warren is outlining a detailed list of her concerns with Scott Bessent in a new letter that runs for 31 pages and includes more than 180 questions that she wants the Trump Treasury secretary pick to answer before...
Rent price-fixing by computer algorithms and keeping real estate from being used for money laundering through shell companies are two issues that Scott Turner, the former professional football player picked to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development, will...
Billy Long, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the IRS, is facing questions about his qualifications to lead the tax agency from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Democrat from Massachusetts who serves on the Senate’s Finance Committee. While serving as a...
The record of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the Pentagon, should disqualify him for such a pivotal national security role, a Democratic senator told the former Fox News personality in a letter imploring him to address, before...
Massachusetts may run on Dunkin — but its colleges, universities, hospitals, and labs rely on federal cash to help pay for critical biomedical research efforts. With Congress headed into its final furlong for the year, U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass.,...
A bipartisan group of senators is calling out the auto industry for its “hypocritical, profit-driven” opposition to national right-to-repair legislation, while also selling customer data to insurance companies and other third-party interests. In a letter sent to the CEOs of...
A “faulty” transfer of student loan accounts from Nelnet to Mohela in 2023 led to “millions of consumer credit reporting errors,” lawmakers say in a new letter to government agencies reviewed by CNBC. The change in loan servicers caused nearly...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is urging top executives at troubled prison health-care provider Wellpath Holdings Inc. not to abuse the company’s bankruptcy proceedings by shortchanging incarcerated patients “harmed by medical malpractice.” H.I.G. Capital-backed Wellpath, one of the nation’s largest providers...