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Two of Sen. John Fetterman’s longest-serving staff members are leaving his team as the senator takes a more open approach to President Donald Trump.

The Trump administration on Wednesday nixed federal approval of New York’s “congestion pricing” automobile tolls, which had been instituted just last month to raise funds for the region’s aging mass transit system.

Daily $9 fee designed to reduce traffic in heart of Manhattan and raise billions to upgrade subway train and bus systems The Trump administration announced on Wednesday it intends to rescind approval of New York City’s congestion pricing program that is designed to reduce traffic in the heart of busy Manhattan and, in the process, … Read more

Senate majority leader says he ‘did not see that one coming’ as GOP scrambles to save agenda before potential shutdown Donald Trump has derailed Senate Republicans’ budget strategy by endorsing a competing House option, leaving GOP leaders scrambling to save their agenda just weeks before a potential government shutdown. The president’s surprise intervention came just … Read more

Local paper says 170 of 299 people kept under watch in a hotel transported to dense and lawless region A group of immigrants deported from the US to Panama last week have been moved from a hotel in the capital to the Darién jungle region in the south of the country, according to a lawyer … Read more

FIRST ON FOX: Senate Republican conference Chairman Tom Cotton, R-Ark., is set to meet with an embattled Trump nominee for a key position in the Department of Defense (DOD) after Cotton faced backlash from some MAGA-aligned figures over the weekend. Cotton will meet with President Donald Trump’s nominee for Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, … Read more

The Justice Department on Wednesday offered a contradictory new explanation for why it is seeking to drop charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams.

FIRST ON FOX: The Housing and Urban Development (HUD) headquarters in Washington, D.C., is among the federal buildings that turned desolate like an off-season “Spirit Halloween” store as employees worked from home under the Biden administration and left offices relatively untouched since the first Trump administration, Fox News Digital has learned.  “For four years, the … Read more

Embattled New York City Mayor Eric Adams is getting support from an unusual corner this week — the Big Apple’s lone Republican in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, R-N.Y., warned New York Gov. Kathy Hochul against moving to oust Adams over the criminal charges he was recently facing. Hochul and Adams are … Read more

The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) said it has uncovered that the U.S. government currently has more than 4 million active credit cards on its books. “The US government currently has ~4.6M active credit cards/accounts, which processed ~90M unique transactions for  ~$40B of spend[ing] in FY24,” DOGE said in a post on X on Tuesday.  … Read more