Trump fires USAID inspector general after critical report on funding freeze
President Trump has fired the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Top Watch Dog. This resurfaces as detailed that the controversial institution funded university education for al-Qaeda terrorists with ties to the 9/11 hijackers. Paul Martin, who has been an inspector since 2023, was notified in an email Tuesday by White House officials that his […]
Appeals court denies Trump’s bid to reimpose federal funding freeze
The federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration's efforts to temporarily suspend a lower court order to halt the president's fragile federal funding freeze. The court said the administration was unable to provide details about the potential harm caused by halting the freeze on federal payments for grants, loans and other programs. “[T]His […]
Appeals court denies Trump admin request to block judge's order to lift spending freeze
The federal appeals court on Tuesday refused to temporarily block a lower court order directing the Trump administration to freeze federal grants. The U.S. Court of Appeals in the First Circuit has already requested a suspension from the lower court judge John McConnell, the US District Judge who issued the order, but the appeal is […]
Federal Judge Threatening Trump Admin With Criminal Charges Over Spending Freeze Used To Be A Major Dem Donor
The federal judge who suggested Trump administration officials could face criminal contense over Monday's spending freeze is a Democrat donor. John J. McConnell Jr., Supreme Court Judge of the US District Court in Rhode Island; order The Trump administration “quickly recovers frozen funds” after officials violated previous restraint orders and suggested further opposition could lead […]
Wildfire mitigation projects caught up in Trump’s spending freeze
Among forest management projects aimed at mitigating the risk of Wildfee is one of those projects to freeze spending under President Trump's executive order. A letter to the Trump administration on monday14 Democrats wrote that “The Bureau of Land Management has listened to the “Rand Management Bureau's issue a halt work order” for a project […]
Sen. Schiff urges Trump admin to exclude firefighters from federal hiring freeze
Sen. D-Calif Sen. Adam Schiff has called on several federal agencies to exempt federal season firefighters from President Donald Trump's executive order to implement a federal employment freeze. In a letter to the Department of Agriculture, Interior and the Office of Management and Budget, Schiff said that Trump's employment freeze, issued on Jan. 20, could […]
Schiff calls for firefighter exemption from federal hiring freeze
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) urged the Administration (OMB) and the Department of Agriculture (USDA) on Friday to exempt federal season firefighters from President Trump's federal employment freeze. In a letter to both departments, he noted that the move has stagnated onboarding for thousands of seasonal firefighters. “This morning we notified that federal employment freezes had […]
Trump orders freeze of aid to South Africa, citing country’s land expropriation law
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Friday, freezing support for South Africa earlier this week for laws aimed at dealing with some mistakes from the South African racist apartheid era He officially signed his announcement that he would do so. The country's white minority. “As long as South Africa continues to support bad […]
BBC Media Action Charity Lost 8% Income After Trump’s USAID Aid Freeze
President Donald Trump's 90-day foreign aid freeze has dramatically impacted the budget of BBC Media Action, a standalone charity that uses media to promote global democracy along with the BBC's global services. I did. The BBC has covered Trump with negative news reports for many years, and has recently revealed thatHesitant to report “The Hunter […]
Columbia Journalism Review worries USAID freeze will hurt independent journalism abroad
The well-known Ivy League publications are US Organization for International Development (USAID) It could have a major impact on independent journalists around the world. Reporting on the “one impact” of his “mind” within the federal government, Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) Head Elon Musk and his “mind” within the federal government, the Columbia Journalism Review […]