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Trump has signed into law a continuing resolution that averts a government shutdown.The bill keeps the government funded through late September.Democrats on Capitol Hill were deeply divided in their approach to the funding bill.President Donald Trump on Saturday signed the high-stakes government funding bill approved by the Senate a day…
Congress is voting to avert a shutdown, and DOGE is scrambling the calculus for both sides.Democrats are voting against the bill, arguing DOGE is already shutting down the government.Meanwhile, Republicans who usually hate voting for funding bills are changing tack because of DOGE.As lawmakers vote this week to fund the…
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he supports efforts to make the government more efficient.”The government is inefficient, not very competent, and it needs a lot of work,” Dimon said.Dimon also said the US has become a “highly bureaucratic, litigious, over-regulated society.”JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon said he has a “wait-and-see attitude”…
Warren Buffett published his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders on Saturday.The investor touched on Berkshire’s tax payments and urged the government to spend wisely.Buffett applauded Todd Combs for turning around Geico and praised Greg Abel’s decisiveness.Warren Buffett underlined the massive scale of Berkshire Hathaway’s tax payments, urged the government…
Elon Musk’s X — the thing we used to call Twitter — lost lots of advertisers after he bought it.Now he is trying to get them back and, reportedly, using the implied threat of government interference to do so.This seems like an opportunity for people concerned about government involvement in…
I couldn’t believe it when I learned that I could get 15 hours of free preschool in the UK.I’d spent thousands of dollars on childcare in the US that didn’t compare in quality to the UK’s.Saving $700 per month on childcare in the UK wasn’t just one of the many…
DOGE is one of the most ambitious efforts to reform the federal government in decades.Elon Musk is working closely with President Trump to slash spending across the government.Lawsuits have been filed to block some of DOGE’s biggest efforts to reshape the federal workforce.The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was…
The government runs out of funding on March 14, and lawmakers are having a hard time making a deal.DOGE’s actions in the federal government are contributing to that.”This DOGE bullshit has to end,” one House Democrat said.In a matter of weeks, the United States federal government could shut down for…
US government and military websites went dark last week after being purged of certain content.President Trump’s executive order directed all agencies to remove information related to gender ideology.Here’s what’s disappeared from the websites and public-facing communications.The Trump administration has been intensely scrubbing government and military websites clean.It has been tossing…
Lawmakers have said they plan to introduce a bill Thursday banning DeepSeek’s AI apps from government devices.One of the bill’s coauthors said it was designed to stop China from obtaining sensitive information.The bill is similar to early steps in the effort to ban TikTok from operating in the US.Lawmakers said…
