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A new whistleblower complaint is alleging that employees of the Department of Government Efficiency put Americans' Social Security data at risk by uploading it to a cloud server that was vulnerable to hacking.

The whistleblower complaint, which was filed by the Government Accountability Project on behalf of Social Security Administration (SSA) chief data officer Charles Borges, alleges that Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials have been responsible for "serious data security lapses" that "risk the security of over 300 million Americans' Social Security data."

The Trump administration just betrayed the victims of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking crimes, a legal expert said in a new report.

President Donald Trump recently released the transcripts of interviews Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche conducted with Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell. The move was meant to placate the growing discontent within the MAGA base over the release of the Epstein files, but one expert suggests that it was really a betrayal of the victims.

President Donald Trump announced he's going after one of the governors of the Federal Reserve after charges were "manufactured" for him by William Pulte, who was appointed to run the Federal Housing Finance Agency, noted New Republic staff writer Greg Sargent.

Writing Tuesday, Sargent explained that the "staunch Trump loyalist" trumped up allegations that Fed governor Lisa Cook "fraudulently declared several principal or primary residences for mortgage purposes." Cook hasn't been charged with a crime or found guilty. Thus far, it's nothing more than a post on X from Pulte, who has no previous experience in the mortgage industry.

Republicans set out to eliminate "equity" programs as part of President Donald Trump's cultural agenda — but many of those programs, including the "neighborhood access and equity" initiative, turned out to be important infrastructure projects in their own states.

According to The New York Times, "Republicans in Congress pushed through a sprawling domestic policy bill that rescinded all money awarded through the Biden-era transportation program that had not yet been spent — $3.2 billion in total."

The Trump administration, with the help of Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is targeting a long list of federal government agencies for mass layoffs — from the Social Security Administration (SSA) to the National Weather Service (NWS) to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and the U.S. Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA). And Trump has contemplated eliminating the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) altogether — an idea that drew scathing criticism when areas of Central Texas were rocked by deadly floods over the 4th of July weekend.

But one agency that clearly isn't being defunded is U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). President Donald Trump's so-called "big, beautiful bill" contains $75 billion set aside for ICE during a four-year period.

Three states are at risk of losing some federal transportation funding because they are not enforcing President Donald Trump’s executive order that commercial truck drivers must be proficient in English, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said Tuesday.

New Mexico, Washington and California will have 30 days to comply with the order or risk losing funding from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration — among the smaller of the Transportation Department’s agencies — Duffy said, standing behind a lectern with an “America First” banner on it at the department’s Washington, D.C., headquarters.

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) took his trolling of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's life to a different level when he congratulated Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce on the recently announced engagement.

The couple announced they would tie the knot, leading to an explosion of well-wishes from Swifies, gleeful to see the singer-songwriter find happiness.

President Donald Trump bizarrely attacked California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) for what he called "strange hand action."

At the conclusion of a Tuesday cabinet meeting, Trump called Newsom an "incompetent governor" because he had not welcomed a military takeover of cities.

A woman accused of spitting on a zoo officer was ordered released from jail, but days later she remained locked up, caught in a bureaucratic tug-of-war that led her lawyer to plead at the end of a court filing: “HELP!!!!”

The Justice Department charged a woman who spat on a National Zoo police officer after she was removed from a staff-only area in the Bird House, wrote Reuters legal reporter Brad Heath. The woman was ordered to be released before trial, and the DOJ agreed with the request.

After militarized federal occupations of Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., President Donald Trump is threatening to do the same thing to other U.S. cities with Democratic mayors, including Chicago and Baltimore. But Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson are making it clear that they don't want to see U.S. troops marching up Michigan Avenue, and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore is stressing that law enforcement in Baltimore should be left up to the Baltimore Police Department — not the U.S. military or federalized National Guard troops.

Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner told CNN that Trump has no legal grounds for federalizing the city's police department, adding, "He better not try it in Philly."

President Donald Trump was confronted by reporters on Tuesday's Cabinet meeting over whether his move to oust Federal Reserve official Lisa Cook was a political abuse of power — and was not happy about it.

Trump announced the attempted firing Monday evening, using as justification an unproven allegation of mortgage fraud leveled by Bill Pulte, his director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. Pulte has made similar accusations against several of Trump's political opponents, including Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) and New York Attorney General Letitia James.

President Donald Trump is at work trying to rebrand his 2026 budget legislation, known as the "Big, Beautiful Bill," as a kind of tax cut not for billionaires but for the middle class.

Trump announced at his Cabinet meeting that he was changing the name because it's "not good for explaining to people what it's all about."