• State Department unveils massive overhaul of agency, 15 percent staff reduction

    State Department unveils massive overhaul of agency, 15 percent staff reduction

    Apr 22, 2025 04:33 PM EDT

    ... eliminate some offices previously under the Undersecretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights, but the fact sheet says that much of their work will continue in other sections of the department. It is unclear if the reorganization would be implemented through an executive order or other means ...

  • Trump considers pausing his auto tariffs to give carmakers more time

    Trump considers pausing his auto tariffs to give carmakers more time

    Apr 14, 2025 08:59 PM EDT

    ... Greer. "The EU remains constructive and ready for a fair deal — including reciprocity through our 0-for-0 tariff offer on industrial goods and the work on non-tariff barriers," Šefčovič said. The U.S. president also said that he spoke with Apple CEO Tim Cook and “helped” him recently ...

  • Solution to U.S.-China trade war 'may take a while,' AEI's Derek Scissors says

    Solution to U.S.-China trade war 'may take a while,' AEI's Derek Scissors says

    Apr 10, 2025 10:50 PM EDT

    ... drive the prices up, imports, consumption of those goods here in the U.S. goes down, can that supply line, as you mentioned, can it shift to other nations where the tariffs are lower or could be negotiated lower, like Vietnam or Indonesia, for example? Derek Scissors: Absolutely. The Chinese ...

  • CDC officials start planning for the splintering of their agency

    CDC officials start planning for the splintering of their agency

    Apr 10, 2025 09:59 PM EDT

    ... prevention staff was decimated in the layoffs, with 160 people eliminated. What's left — the agency's HIV surveillance and lab operations, for example — would shift to the AHA under the realignment plan. Such a change would place that CDC work under the same organizational umbrella as HRSA's Ryan ...

  • FDA reverses course on telework after staff reductions threaten basic operations

    FDA reverses course on telework after staff reductions threaten basic operations

    Apr 10, 2025 09:45 PM EDT

    ... can afford for ‘user fees’ not to be reauthorized,” said Michael Gaba, an attorney who advises FDA-regulated companies.Whatever the reasoning behind the telework shift, former federal officials say it’s a sign that recently confirmed FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is trying to retain and rebuild agency staffing. Makary ...

  • WATCH: White House says Trump looking to strike 'tailor-made trade deals' with individual countries

    WATCH: White House says Trump looking to strike 'tailor-made trade deals' with individual countries

    Apr 08, 2025 03:02 PM EDT

    “These tariffs cannot both be an instrument to reshape the global trading order, to shift the U.S. economy away from services and toward manufacturing ... and also be a tool to negotiate lower trade barriers,” he said at a panel discussion at the Bipartisan Policy Institute. Sen. John Kennedy ...

  • Brooks and Capehart on the political reaction to Trump's tariffs

    Brooks and Capehart on the political reaction to Trump's tariffs

    Apr 04, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    ... domestic policy of my lifetime. The most -- of all the policies, they usually have some plausible argument. A group of experts say, yes, this could work. You really don't see that this time, with the confection of a few Trumpy -- I also think it's going to be a ...

  • Judge orders return of Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador mega-prison

    Judge orders return of Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador mega-prison

    Apr 04, 2025 07:54 PM EDT

    ... It’s a journey that no one ever should ever have to suffer, a nightmare that feels endless." The campaign to reunite the couple will shift to a courtroom in Greenbelt, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C. The White House has cast Abrego Garcia, 29, as an MS-13 ...

  • How automakers are navigating Trump’s tariffs on imported vehicles and parts

    How automakers are navigating Trump’s tariffs on imported vehicles and parts

    Mar 27, 2025 10:55 PM EDT

    ... the impact here. Amna Nawaz: Well, it was welcome news, we saw, to the United Auto Workers union. They called this -- quote -- "a long-overdue shift away from a harmful economic framework." And they said -- quote -- "Thousands of good-paying blue-collar auto jobs could be brought back to working ...

  • Finland's president says 'time to be hard' with Russia amid threats to Europe

    Finland's president says 'time to be hard' with Russia amid threats to Europe

    Mar 25, 2025 10:35 PM EDT

    And we are on track for the first delivery before the end of this year, and we will continue to work with the American military industry. Just a little gentle reminder, I think, two things. One is that military planning is always long term, so you don't make these ...