Author: Christian Datoc, Washington Examiner

The Trump administration announced a “comprehensive review” of over $9 billion in federal funding for Harvard University on Monday. The announcement follows a similar decision to cancel outright federal grants for Columbia University worth roughly $400 million after pro-Palestinian protesters took over and occupied a library at Barnard College, which is affiliated with the university.…

EXCLUSIVE — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said California‘s “waste” of a high-speed rail project is discouraging the advancement of the technology elsewhere in the United States, in a significant black-eye for liberal proponents. In one of Duffy’s first acts as a member of Trump’s Cabinet, the Federal Railroad Administration opened up an investigation into the California…

EXCLUSIVE — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy concedes that the early days of working with the Department of Government Efficiency were “bumpy,” but told the Washington Examiner in an interview that the Elon Musk-led task force has improved its relations with other federal departments following an explosive, closed-door Cabinet meeting earlier in March. Musk has been present…

EXCLUSIVE — Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy isn’t losing any sleep over not being invited to Washington, D.C.’s most exclusive club. Duffy sat for a half-hour interview with the Washington Examiner on Thursday, covering a range of topics such as the Department of Transportation’s push to innovate automated driver and delivery technologies, the Department of Government Efficiency,…

President Donald Trump’s support for national security adviser Mike Waltz, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, and the other participants in the Signal group chat signals that, unlike Trump’s first term, “loyalty” is now a two-way street, according to White House officials and allies. It’s a change from Trump’s earlier political and celebrity career, in which he…

President Donald Trump defended his national security team and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, in particular, on Wednesday amid the fallout from the Signal messaging app scandal. On Monday, the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg reported that he was inadvertently added to a Signal group chat by national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month. Vice President JD Vance, Hegseth,…

President Donald Trump announced new 25% tariffs on the auto industry Wednesday evening. “What we’re going to be doing is a 25% tariff on all cars that are not made in the United States,” Trump declared from the Oval Office, noting that cars produced by foreign companies in the U.S. would not be subject to…

President Donald Trump will announce new tariffs on the auto industry Wednesday evening. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt declined to preview the new barrier taxes during her Wednesday media briefing but said that the president would elaborate on the announcement during a “press conference” at 4:00 p.m. in the Oval Office. Trump has implemented…

President Donald Trump voiced renewed support for his national security adviser Mike Waltz on Tuesday, adding that Waltz does not need to “apologize” for his role in accidentally adding the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg to a Signal group chat with Cabinet officials planning airstrikes on Houthi rebels in Yemen. Goldberg’s report, published Monday, ignited immediate calls…

President Donald Trump signed a full pardon Tuesday for Devon Archer, a former business partner of Hunter Biden. Archer and Biden served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian energy company central to Trump’s impeachment trial during his first term in office. White House staff secretary Will Scharf presented the president with the pardon, along…