Freshman Sen. Elissa Slotkin of Michigan will deliver the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s first joint congressional address of his second presidency.

European and Asian shares are mostly lower after a new round of tariffs imposed by U.S. President Donald Trump took effect.

Last-minute problems have delayed the latest launch of SpaceX's mega rocket Starship.

Federal employees face a midnight deadline to comply with Elon Musk’s second demand for reports on their recent accomplishments.

The Senate has voted to confirm former wrestling executive Linda McMahon as the nation’s education chief, a role that places her atop a department President Donald Trump has vowed to dismantle.

President Donald Trump’s senior aides and allies lashed out at Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy from Washington as he attended a European summit in London to rally international support for his military’s fight against the Russian invasion.

Elon Musk appears be to turning off potential Tesla buyers with his embrace of far-right politicians around the world, analysts say, and the hit couldn't come at a worse time.

President Donald Trump is heading to Capitol Hill this week to deliver a speech to Congress.

President Donald Trump is preparing for his first big speech to Congress since returning to the White House.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic product.

There's a mid-March deadline to avoid a partial government shutdown, and hesitation is surfacing among congressional Republicans about potential cuts to Medicaid.

When President Donald Trump speaks to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, his words are bound to be far different from when he addressed lawmakers at the beginning of his first term.

Argentina’s libertarian president Javier Milei has signaled that a new and much-anticipated deal with the International Monetary Fund is imminent.

Demonstrators have gathered outside Tesla stores across the U.S. to protest the automaker’s billionaire leader, Elon Musk.

Democrats filled Republican town halls during the congressional break to protest President Donald Trump’s power grab in Washington.

During his first six weeks in office, President Donald Trump has worked to tear down the federal government and attack long-standing institutions.

Vice President JD Vance was dismissing Ukraine long before he upended an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The people who once ran the federal weather and oceans agency say it touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways and that massive firings there could cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy.

Negotiations to avoid a federal government shutdown in two weeks have not been going well.

Federal employees are starting to receive a new email requiring them to explain their recent accomplishments.

The timing of President Donald Trump’s endorsement of Republican Vivek Ramaswamy for Ohio governor has stunned and intrigued Ohio political observers.

Hundreds of weather forecasters and other federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees on probationary status have been fired, lawmakers and weather experts says.

The Social Security Administration is preparing to lay off at least 7,000 people from its workforce of 60,000 — and the final reduction in force number could be as high as 50%, according to two people familiar with the agency’s plans who are not authorized to speak publicly.

Civilian federal jobs are being cut by the thousands, as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency continues to shrink the government workforce at the behest of President Donald Trump.

A federal judge in San Francisco finds the mass firings of probationary employees were likely unlawful.

A Senate committee has advanced the nomination of President Donald Trump’s choice to head the Department of Labor.

Health groups and non-governmental organizations have expressed surprise and outrage and say many humanitarian programs will collapse after the Trump administration’s decision to cut 90% of USAID’s foreign aid contracts.

Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers from Elon Musk about whether Department of Government Efficiency staffers have shared national security secrets over insecure communication channels.

U.S. Agency for International Development workers, some in tears, are carting away belongings from a final visit to their now-closed headquarters.

The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions in contract cuts after an uproar that critical veterans health services were harmed, lawmakers and veterans service organizations said Wednesday.

Authorities say a Tennessee man has been charged with an act of terrorism after he threatened to burn down an xAI facility because he was upset with its founder, Elon Musk, and President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration’s demand that federal agencies plan to radically downsize is driven by a key figure in the conservative movement who has long planned this move.

Elon Musk has taken a star turn at the first Cabinet meeting of President Donald Trump’s new term.

Now that House Republicans have passed an ambitious budget blueprint for President Donald Trump’s agenda, it is time for hard work.

Some of America’s governors — mostly Democrats — have a message for the wave of fired federal workers: We want you.

The Trump administration believes a renewed emphasis on biosecurity can help in the battle against bird flu and ease egg prices.

The billionaire owner of The Washington Post is directing its opinion section to defend personal liberties and the free market in a shift that prompted the editor of that page to resign.

President Donald Trump's administration says federal agencies should begin planning to eliminate employee positions.

The tech outlet Wired set up a new politics team in time for the presidential election — but its most impactful work is coming after the election is over.

Several nonprofit groups launched fundraising campaigns last week to help organizations who have lost funding because of the Trump administration’s freeze on foreign assistance.

With a push from President Donald Trump, House Republicans have sent a GOP budget blueprint to passage, a step toward delivering Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”.

A freshman Democratic congressman is introducing a bill to protect the jobs of veterans working for the government amid mass firings by the Trump administration.

The acting administrator of the organization that is pushing for sweeping budget cuts across federal agencies is a low-profile executive who has expertise in health care technology and worked in the first Trump administration.

The turmoil that enveloped the federal workforce over the last few days is unlikely to cease anytime soon.

With a push from Trump, House Republicans have sent a GOP budget blueprint to passage.

House Republicans have muscled their budget blueprint to passage, with a push from President Donald Trump.

Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump’s administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s data shows.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says he is replacing the top lawyers for the military services because he doesn't think they are “well-suited” to provide recommendations when lawful orders are given.

Many federal employees across the country are back at agency offices under President Donald Trump's return-to-office mandate.

Conservatives who filled a ballroom a few blocks from the White House have lamented that the United States is abandoning the fundamental ideals that forged a great nation.

The Food and Drug Administration is reinstating some of the hundreds of staffers it fired last week.

A judge has agreed to temporarily bar two federal agencies from disclosing records containing sensitive personal information to representatives of Trump adviser Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

Elon Musk is vowing yet again to fire any federal workers who don’t respond to an email asking them to list five things they accomplished last week.

A group of young engineers is playing a vital role in billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk’s effort to slash the federal bureaucracy through his Department of Government Efficiency.

President Donald Trump is backing Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their recent accomplishments or risk getting fired.

A Republican who left the Department of Government Efficiency initiative on President Donald Trump’s first day has launched his bid for Ohio governor.

President Donald Trump’s real-time confrontation with Maine’s governor over transgender athletes captured the conundrum many Democratic governors are facing in the Republican’s second term.

At an annual gathering of conservatives, the emerging influence of billionaire Elon Musk on President Donald Trump was on display.

Key federal agencies such as the FBI, State Department and Pentagon have instructed their employees not to comply with Elon Musk’s latest demand that they explain what they accomplished last week or risk losing their job.

President Donald Trump’s week included rewriting U.S. policy toward Russia and firing the country's senior military officer.

When Bill Clinton came to Washington as president, his Democratic administration used corporate know-how and the new internet to streamline the federal bureaucracy as part of the “Reinventing Government” push.

Hundreds of thousands of federal workers have little more than 48 hours to explain what they accomplished over the last week.

President Donald Trump says “nobody has ever seen anything” like his administration’s sweeping effort to fire thousands of federal employees and shrink the size of government.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has made the case for Manhattan’s congestion tolling during an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump.

Argentina’s President Javier Milei is urging conservatives to keep supporting measures to shrink the size of government.

Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team is eliminating jobs at the vehicle safety agency that oversees Tesla and has launched investigations into deadly crashes involving his company’s cars.

President Donald Trump is moving with light speed and brute force to reshape America at home and abroad.

A federal judge in Manhattan has extended a ban on Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency accessing sensitive Treasury Department information, but rejected broader restrictions sought by 19 Democratic state attorneys general who sued over the issue.

A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has ordered the suspension of video-sharing platform Rumble in the South American nation for allegedly refusing to comply with court orders.

The Trump administration is restoring jobs for dozens of fired National Park Service employees and hiring nearly 3,000 additional seasonal workers, following an uproar over an aggressive plan to downsize the agency.

Job searches can be tough for anyone, but some of the federal workers flooding the market after widespread layoffs are finding it particularly tough.

Steve Bannon has been accused of making a Nazi salute at a conservative gathering where President Donald Trump is slated to speak this weekend, but says the gesture was merely “a wave.”.

President Donald Trump has been cutting probationary employees as part of his effort to downsize the federal workforce.

Argentine President Javier Milei is facing a corruption probe into his promotion of a meme coin, which is a highly speculative form of cryptocurrency that’s seen a recent surge in popularity after President Donald Trump and his wife launched tokens of their own.

The Trump administration’s proposal to layoff half of federal workers at the nation’s housing agency is targeting employees who support disaster recovery, rental subsidies, discrimination investigations and first-time homebuyers, according to two documents obtained by The Associated Press.

The budget resolution from Republicans was on the agenda in the Senate, but the nearly all-night debate encompassed so much more.

Billionaire Elon Musk has created a buzz waving a chainsaw in the air at a conservative gathering outside Washington.

Experts say the layoffs of roughly 7,000 IRS probationary workers likely mean the end of the agency’s plans to go after high-wealth tax dodgers and could spell disaster for revenue collections.

An idea first proposed on social media has bubbled up to the White House and received President Donald Trump’s enthusiastic endorsement: Take some of the savings from billionaire Elon Musk’s drive to cut government spending and return it to taxpayers.

President Donald Trump says Elon Musk will be looking at Fort Knox, the legendary depository in Kentucky for American gold reserves, to make sure the gold is still there.

As the Trump administration works on pledges to crack down on illegal immigration, the flurry of activity has stretched across the federal government.

A conservative nonprofit backed by billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk is getting involved in a race that will determine the political direction of the highest court in one of the country’s most important presidential battleground states.

Linda McMahon’s nomination to serve as President Donald Trump’s education secretary has advanced out of a Senate committee, bringing her closer to leading an agency the Republican president wants to abolish.

Pete Buttigieg is quietly contemplating his future from a small city in northern Michigan while talking to Democratic Party officials, labor leaders and top strategists.

A federal judge is refusing to temporarily block the Trump administration’s mass layoff of federal workers while a lawsuit brought by five unions moves forward.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune has teed up a vote on a budget plan that sets the stage for a massive boost in defense and border security spending, and leaves a looming tax cut fight for later this year.

President Donald Trump said Elon Musk would be checking out Fort Knox to make sure the gold is still there.

President Donald Trump says he likes the idea to give some of the savings from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency back to U.S. citizens as a kind of dividend.

Wall Street retreated from its record after a sharp slide for Walmart weighed on U.S. stock indexes.

President Donald Trump is throwing his support behind congressional efforts for a federal takeover of the nation’s capital, saying he approves putting the District of Columbia back under direct federal control.

The Agriculture Department is scrambling to rehire several workers it fired as part of President Donald Trump’s broad cuts because they were involved in the government’s response to the ongoing bird flu outbreak that has devastated egg and poultry farms over the past three years.

It’s been a lingering question since the election: How long can a partnership between two billionaires who love being the center of attention last.

About 300 protesters rallied outside the headquarters of the Department of Health and Human Services.

Although some parts of President Donald Trump’s agenda are getting bogged down by litigation, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is having better luck in the courtroom.

The new head of the Social Security Administration says deceased centenarians are “not necessarily receiving benefits."

A union says jobs eliminated at the Federal Aviation Administration had direct roles in supporting safety inspectors and airport operations.

Thousands of federal government employees have been shown the door in the first month of President Donald Trump’s administration.

President Donald Trump is going further than ever before to enforce his decisions.

President Donald Trump says his administration will continue to restrict The Associated Press' access to cover presidential events until the news agency goes along with his renaming of the Gulf of Mexico.

U.S. officials say Department of Government Efficiency staffers were at the Pentagon on Tuesday and receiving lists of the military's probationary employees.