Author: Robert Jones
WASHINGTON — A Republican-led Senate committee is scheduled to hold a hearing Wednesday on President Donald Trump’s nominee for labor secretary, Lori Chavez-DeRemer.Chavez-DeRemer, a former congresswoman from Oregon who served one term, is an unconventional pick for a GOP president. She supported a bill called the PRO Act, a top priority of labor unions, and is endorsed by the Teamsters Union.“Working people need someone with her experience leading the agency that is tasked with protecting workers, creating good union jobs, and rebuilding our nation’s middle class,” Teamsters General President Sean M. O’Brien, who spoke at the Republican National Convention last…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
The Logoff is a daily newsletter that helps you stay informed about the Trump administration without letting political news take over your life. Subscribe here.Welcome to The Logoff. Today I’m focusing on DOGE’s attempt to access taxpayer information via the IRS’s most sensitive records — a push that raises concerns both for the privacy of millions of people and the potential for abuse at the highest levels.What’s the latest? The White House is pressing the IRS to grant a member of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency access to the system that contains taxpayers’ records, personal identification numbers, and banking…
For more than a decade, the West has faced off against the East again in what was widely called a new cold war. But with President Trump back in office, America is giving the impression that it could be switching sides.Even as American and Russian negotiators sat down together on Tuesday for the first time since Moscow’s full-fledged invasion of Ukraine nearly three years ago, Mr. Trump has signaled that he is willing to abandon America’s allies to make common cause with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.As far as Mr. Trump is concerned, Russia is not responsible for the…
A video showing a protester dragging a dummy of Elon Musk at what appears to be Monday’s 50501 protest in Washington D.C. has gone viral online.Newsweek has reached out to Musk via an email to X, formerly Twitter, and to 50501 via email for comment.Why It MattersYesterday’s protests and the dummy of Musk are reflective both of the criticism that he is facing and the broader state of division and polarization in American politics.Mass deportations and Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) federal cuts were cited as some of the key motivations behind the demonstrations. People protest against U.S. President…
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron painted a veneer of European unity by inviting a small number of handpicked European leaders to the Élysée Palace, while the Trump administration sidelined the continent by moving ahead with direct negotiations on Tuesday with Russia on the war in Ukraine. One question loomed: Could Europe take charge of its own security, or would it remain reactive to U.S. and Russian decisions?From Macron’s push for European-led defense to Keir Starmer’s “third way” diplomacy, Giorgia Meloni’s balancing act between Brussels and Washington, and Olaf Scholz ’s resistance to breaking with NATO, Europe remains divided…
US president claims DOGE will save hundreds of billions of dollars without cutting healthcare and welfare benefits.United States President Donald Trump and tech billionaire Elon Musk have defended their sweeping cost-cutting drive in a joint interview in which the two men lavished each other with praise. In an interview with Fox News that aired on Tuesday, Trump said he had tapped Musk to lead the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) as he wanted someone “really smart” to work with. “I respect him; I have always respected him. I never knew that he was right on certain things, and I…
CNN — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday to develop policy recommendations to expand access to and affordability of in vitro fertilization. The executive order states that within 90 days, the assistant to the president for domestic policy should submit a list of “policy recommendations on protecting IVF access and aggressively reducing out-of-pocket and health plan costs for IVF treatment.” “It is the policy of my Administration to ensure reliable access to IVF treatment, including by easing unnecessary statutory or regulatory burdens to make IVF treatment drastically more affordable,” the order also states. “I think the women and…
Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it’s investigating the financials of Elon Musk’s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, ‘The A Word’, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.The…
The Republican budget proposal could result in millions of Americans losing access to Medicaid if the program funding is cut by billions of dollars and working requirements are introduced, according to a report by The Associated Press.Newsweek has contacted the office of House Speaker Mike Johnson via email for comment.Why It MattersAs Medicaid’s main aim is to provide health coverage for those with limited incomes and resources, the plans to cut funding for the program have sparked significant anger. Should Medicaid lose funding, it could impact some 80 million people using the program, and many of them voted for President…