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Bessent Takes Tricky Center Stage as Trade Wars Roil U.S. Economy
The Treasury secretary received counsel and criticism from some of his predecessors over President Trump’s policies.
What we know about the Social Security Administration listing thousands of living immigrants as dead
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration’s move to classify thousands of living immigrants as dead and cancel their Social ...
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Pentagon celebrates snipping a whole 0.58% from defense budget in IT, DEI cuts
B cancelations pitched as efficiency move, though costly Trump birthday parade mulled The US Department of Defense (DOD) has ...
Trump administration adds immigrant Social Security numbers to ‘death list’ in deportation push
The Trump administration directed the Social Security Administration (SSA) to place more than 6,300 migrants on its list for tracking dead people, blocking their ability to work in a move it hopes ...
Black Mountain continues budget talks, fire chief asks for disaster preparedness funds
The Black Mountain Town Council met with town staff April 9 to continue budget talks for the upcoming fiscal year.
Social Security classifies thousands of immigrants as dead, as part of Trump crackdown
The tactic is aimed at putting pressure on undocumented immigrants to leave the country.
US March deficit falls to $161 billion, customs revenue grows but still small
The U.S. government posted a $161 billion budget deficit for March, down 32%, or $76 billion, from a year earlier, a decline ...
IRS to lose billions in revenue if migrants stop filing taxes
The Internal Revenue Service is projected to lose more than $313 billion in revenue in the coming decade as undocumented ...
Inside Trump’s tariff retreat: How fears of a bond market catastrophe convinced Trump to hit the pause button
President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to reverse course on his sweeping tariff plan by announcing a three-month pause ...
Top IRS officials join chief in quitting following immigration data deal
The acting head of the Internal Revenue Service and other top officials are quitting the tax-collecting agency after it ...
IRS will share taxpayer data with DHS about immigrants illegally in US
The IRS and DHS have reached a data-sharing agreement to support the Trump administration's immigration enforcement agenda, ...
Boycott in Salem called over Avelo Airlines’ deal to operate deportation flights
Calls for a boycott of Avelo Airlines have come following the news the ultra-low-cost carrier will operate deportation ...