Schumer’s ‘Apprentice’ praise of Trump goes viral: ‘Going to go places’

With President Donald Trump’s former reality TV show “The Apprentice,” streaming on Amazon Prime as of last month, politically astute viewers across the political spectrum have zeroed in on an episode from when Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., now one of the president’s biggest political detractors, praised his fellow New Yorker as a business prodigy. During … Read more

Education Department to resume collections on defaulted federal student loans for first time since 2020

The Department of Education is poised to resume collections on defaulted federal student loans in May for the first time since 2020.  While the first Trump administration paused referring federal student loans to collections in March 2020 at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the extended lapse has prompted Trump administration officials to worry that … Read more

U.S. government is ‘trying to evade’ court review in deportation plans, says ACLU deputy director

NBC News Senior Homeland Security Correspondent Julia Ainsley explains the latest legal challenges in the Trump administration’s deportation plan. NBC News Correspondent David Noriega reports from El Salvador on Kilmar Abrego Garcia. ACLU Immigrants Rights Project Deputy Director Lee Gelernt joins Meet the Press Now to discuss the next steps in challenging the Trump agenda.

State Dept defends human rights abuse report changes, says streamlined process eliminates ‘political bias’

The State Department is pushing back against criticism of its changes to the process of reporting human rights abuses.  NPR reported last week that the Trump administration was scaling back annual reports meant to inform congressional decisions on allocating foreign aid to countries, claiming the State Department was “changing its mind on what it calls … Read more