Author: Gabe Kaminsky

EXCLUSIVE — During President Joe Biden‘s last 20 days in office, his administration issued at least $1 billion in grants to hundreds of nonprofit groups scattered throughout the United States. A slice of that pie, $50 million, was awarded by the Department of Energy to a little-known charity in New Mexico called the Tribal Energy…

EXCLUSIVE — The Federal Emergency Management Agency, which is set to be a key target of Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency, is facing a complaint for reportedly deleting a group chat on the taxpayers’ dime. The complaint, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Examiner, was filed Tuesday by the Center to…

EXCLUSIVE — The White House will not release visitor logs during President Donald Trump‘s second term, a move that aligns with the policy of his first administration, according to a White House official. For months, transparency advocates have pressed Trump to disclose who he and his staff will be meeting with on a routine basis,…

A progressive watchdog group is calling for an investigation into whether President Donald Trump’s promotion of a meme coin violated federal law. In a complaint filed on Wednesday, Public Citizen asked the Department of Justice and the Office of Government Ethics to look into Trump’s repost on X in January of a cryptocurrency coin that…

The anti-Trump Lincoln Project, which spent millions of dollars on ads supporting former Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, finished out last year strapped with over $863,000 in unpaid invoices, Federal Election Commission filings show. The documents, released Friday, illustrate the hurdles the Lincoln Project continues to face as it increasingly navigates political…

A group suing over President Donald Trump’s cost-cutting effort across the government was awarded millions of dollars in federal diversity, equity, and inclusion grants that may be slashed under the new administration, records show. Last week, the American Public Health Association joined five others in accusing Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency of violating transparency…

A former lobbyist at an influential firm with close ties to Trumpworld has landed a high-ranking role at the White House‘s Presidential Personnel Office, according to three people briefed on the matter. The Presidential Personnel Office, which is responsible for recruiting and vetting political appointees, will count its deputy director as Trent Morse, the people…

In one of his first moves, President Donald Trump rescinded a Biden-era executive order that Republicans argued set aside federal funding to register Democrats to vote in elections. While doing so came as no surprise to insiders tracking the matter, the voter turnout fight, which has played out in courtrooms and in Congress since 2021,…

WASHINGTON — A sense of euphoria, and newfound influence, oozed at celebrations in Washington, D.C., on Monday, as the MAGA movement’s front lines rang in the second inauguration of President Donald Trump. At Butterworth’s, a restaurant on Capitol Hill, a sea of red MAGA hats packed in tight to drink in Trump’s swearing-in ceremony. Behind…

During the 2024 elections, political advertisers spent tens of billions of dollars trying to will their preferred candidates into office. The groundwork for this historic spending spree, however, was actually laid exactly 15 years ago. The U.S. Supreme Court, on Jan. 21, 2010, opened the floodgates of campaign spending by striking down a ban on…