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President Donald Trump is expected to attend the NCAA men’s wrestling championship in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Saturday evening – his first return to the state since he won it in the presidential election.
“We’re going to the big fight. The reason I’m going is in Philadelphia. They have the NCAA, world, wrestling for college. And I’ve always supported the wrestlers,” Trump told reporters as he left the White House on Friday evening.
Trump’s right-hand man, Elon Musk, is reportedly going to attend alongside the president.
It is the second time in three years the president will attend the NCAA wrestling championships and the latest sports-related trip Trump has embarked on since he took office. Trump attended the Super Bowl in New Orleans and the Daytona 500 in Florida.
Trump is a fan of attending public sporting events and has often used them to bolster his political persona.
Before attending the fight in Pennslyvania, the president flew to New Jersey to spend time at his golf club in Bedminster. The president has used most of his weekends to play golf at his club in Mar-a-Lago
Tax officials are bracing for a sharp drop in revenue as the Internal Revenue Service faces budget and workforce reductions that alter taxpayer behaviors, the Washington Post reported.
Three people familiar with projections at the IRS say that President Donald Trump’s attempts to drastically reduce the IRS has led some individuals and businesses to reject paying, or flat-out filing, their taxes.
Treasury Department and IRS officials predict a decrease of more than 10 percent in tax receipts by April 15 – that would amount to more than $500 billion in lost revenue for the federal government.
Elon Musk is reportedly joining President Donald Trump in attending the NCAA wrestling championship in Pennsylvania, according to reports.
The president is expected to attend the match at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia tonight.
Federal workers stood by their decision to leak information about Elon Musk to the media following his threats to prosecute whistleblowers.
Their defiance follows Musk’s stark warning that Pentagon officials who leak would be prosecuted after reports that he was scheduled to receive a briefing Friday about the U.S. military’s top-secret war plans for China.
The DOGE mogul claimed that the information was “false” and derided the media for allegedly disseminating “propaganda” before issuing a thinly veiled threat to Pentagon officials.
His threats have not deterred everyone. Pushing back, federal workers told Politico that they are speaking out because of the billionaire’s “move fast and break things” approach via the Department of Government Efficiency.
“Leakers are patriots,” one Agriculture Department employee told the outlet and said that they were motivated by “a desire for greater transparency” – the same goal Musk claims through DOGE.
“We are public servants, not Elon’s servants,” a Food and Drug Administration staffer told Politico. “The public deserves to know how dysfunctional, destructive, and deceptive all of this has been and continues to be.”
The Russian president has figured out a way to get Trump’s attention and distract him to such effect it delivers what Russia really wants. By reducing Ukraine to business deals and minerals, there is something much deeper and darker going on, writes Owen Matthews.
Democratic lawmakers have reportedly grown fearful about the future of their party and the midterm elections as they confront frustrated constituents who are angry at what they perceive as Democrats’ lack of action against President Donald Trump and his administration.
Across the country, Democrat voters have expressed deep irritation with their leaders from protesting at town halls to leaving angry voicemails with Democrats’ offices.
Illinois Representative Sean Casten was grilled by constituents during a town hall about standing up to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer – who joined Republicans in passing a temporary funding bill. One voter asked Casten if he was “prepared for violence” because “nice and civility doesn’t work.”
After facing questions and repeated disruptions from protestors, Casten told Axios a colleague called him crying.
“They hate us. They hate us,” the colleague told Casten.
The Trump administration has cut three offices designed to help migrants saying they are a “roadblock” to immigration reform.
The offices were all part of the Department of Homeland Security, which is the agency responsible for pushing enforcement of President Donald Trump’s immigration policies.
DHS spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin said in a Friday statement that it was implementing a “reduction in force” for three offices: the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman, and the Office of the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman.
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Trump has issued a presidential memo asking Attorney General Pam Bondi to “take all appropriate action” against law firms to file challenges to the Trump administration’s actions.
In the memo, Trump said the lawyers and law firms engage in “unethical” behavior by filing frivolous lawsuits that seek to delay the president’s agenda – rather than challenge its legality.
He asked Bondi to investigate these and refer attorneys to disciplinary action whether it’s terminating a federal contract with a law firm, reassessing security clearances, bringing claims of unethical behavior and more.
Lawyers for Donald Trump’s administration are considering whether his invocation of an 18th-century wartime law allows federal law enforcement officers to enter homes without a warrant.
The president has deployed the Alien Enemies Act to rapidly deport, without due process, alleged members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua gang, designated a foreign terrorist organization. Officials, however, have admitted that many of the immigrants flown to a prison in El Salvador last weekend don’t have criminal records.
Trump is relying on the law for only the fourth time in U.S. history. It was most recently used to detain Japanese Americans, including U.S. citizens, during the Second World War.
“Terrorists don’t get to hide behind closed doors,” said an official with the Department of Justice in a statement to The Independent from the White House.
Companies that speak out about social justice or protecting the environment are under threat like never before, writes Alan Rusbridger. With Trump in charge, we need to celebrate dissenting voices – not silence them
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