Dept of Ed spending soared 749% despite downsizing, new DOGE-inspired initiative reveals

FIRST ON FOX: A new initiative is tracking government agency spending in comparison to growth, and a conservative fiscal watchdog group has discovered what it deems to be an alarming trend.  According to OpenTheBooks, staff levels at the Department of Education have decreased since 2000, but the agency’s spending grew by 749%. OpenTheBooks says the … Read more

IRS reportedly set to fire 6,000 workers at the height of tax-filing season – US politics live

Probationary employees targeted for cuts thought to mainly be auditors and support staff; Vance due to give speech at CPAC How will Trump and Musk USAid freeze affect millions around world? ‘He’s taking a sledgehammer to it’: Trump voters’ view on first month Defense secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered senior leaders at the Pentagon and … Read more

Disputed DOD nominee is ‘best person’ to implement Trump and Hegseth agenda, key conservative group says

FIRST ON FOX: An influential conservative group is throwing its weight behind Elbridge Colby’s nomination to serve in a top position at the Defense Department.  The Heritage Foundation said, in a memo obtained by Fox News Digital, that Colby is “without question the most influential defense policy thinker in over twenty years.” “For far too … Read more

Hold your breath and look to Germany: its election could decide the fate of Europe – and the UK | Martin Kettle

If the country holds out against the Trump-assisted AfD, it shows rightwing populism can be resisted in Europe’s heartland Even in less stressed times, Britain always pays too much attention to the US and too little to Germany. In today’s torrid circumstances, that imbalance is perhaps excusable. After all, Donald Trump, it now turns out, … Read more

MAHA caucus member pledges hearings into ‘corruption’ of a public health sector ‘captured by Big Pharma’

FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., a member of the newly created Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) senatorial caucus, told Fox News Digital in an exclusive interview that one of the first hearings he wants to hold as chair of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations would focus on “the corruption of science” within the … Read more