GOP lawmaker seeks to slam brakes on Biden’s ‘woke and wasteful’ EV tax credit

FIRST ON FOX: House Republicans are taking steps to repeal the “climate-crazed” Biden administration’s tax credit for electric vehicles (EVs) that “ran up the bill on the American people to the tune of billions of dollars,” Fox News Digital learned exclusively. Rep. Jodey Arrington, R-Texas, on Friday will introduce the Eliminating Lavish Incentives to Electric … Read more

Trump chairing a major arts institution would be laughable if it weren’t so deeply troubling | Charlotte Higgins

Jokes about the president’s power grab at the Kennedy Center in Washington soon pale. This is a nakedly authoritarian move Donald Trump’s announcement that he was installing himself as the chair of the John F Kennedy Center, Washington DC’s temple to the performing arts, might have been mistaken for something petty or trivial – another … Read more

Trump administration sparks outcry as it continues to gut federal workforce – US politics live

Major union as well as federal worker advocacy group condemn moves to fire probationary employees as thousands told to leave The Associated Press reports that Donald Trump’s move to lay off federal employees in their probationary period won’t save much money, but could jeopardize a host of government projects. Among them: cancer research. Here’s more, … Read more

Five justice department officials resign over order to drop Eric Adams charges

Trump official’s attempt to bar ‘targeting’ of mayor also spurred departure of New York prosecutor Danielle Sassoon Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor and five high-ranking justice department officials have resigned amid a scandal over orders from above to drop corruption charges against New York City’s mayor, Eric Adams, in exchange for his cooperating with Donald Trump’s … Read more

‘In Alaska, it’s Denali’: senators move to counter Trump’s mountain name order

Republican senator Lisa Murakowski introduces bill to require peak’s name kept on US maps, laws and regulations The Alaska Republican US senator Lisa Murkowski has introduced legislation to officially rename North America’s tallest mountain as Denali, a counter to Donald Trump’s executive order to revert the peak’s name to Mount McKinley. Murkowski’s bill, which was … Read more

Gov. Newsom will veto California bill blocking prisons from cooperating with ICE: report

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is vowing to veto a bill that would block his state’s prison system from cooperating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a report says.  Assembly Bill 15 argues that “when California’s jails and prisons voluntarily and unnecessarily transfer immigrant and refugee community members eligible for release from state or local … Read more

Trump disrupting US bird flu response as outbreak worsens

Experts’ concern grows as communication breaks down among federal agencies responsible for tackling epidemic The Trump administration has disrupted the US response to bird flu as the outbreak worsens, leading to confusion and concern among federal staff, state officials, veterinarians and health experts, 11 sources told Reuters. Since Donald Trump took office on 20 January, … Read more

Vance says Trump wants productive Russia-Ukraine negotiations but notes ‘range’ of options

Vice President JD Vance on Thursday said President Donald Trump wanted productive negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, but noted that the U.S. had a “range of options” if President Vladimir Putin didn’t come to the negotiating table on a deal that would guarantee peace for Ukraine. In speaking with The Wall Street Journal, which was … Read more

Stephen A. Smith for President

If the Democratic Party has a problem drawing young men who believe that the excesses of wokeness have left them behind, could there be a more appealing figure than the guy they’ve been watching argue about sports for the past decade?