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The savings that have come from cuts in government staff and funding were being tracked online, but there was a substantial change in the numbers overnight, a new report said.

Before President Donald Trump was sworn into office, he and tech billionaire Elon Musk promised Americans they would cut $2 trillion in government spending to reduce the deficit.

The international trade war unleashed by Donald Trump’s massive set of tariffs on China is starting to present a growing dilemma for U.S. soybean farmers – and it could come at a political cost to the president.

That’s according to a new report in the Atlantic, which detailed Wednesday how Trump’s tariffs not only have the ability to weaken soybean production in the U.S., but also could “turbocharge deforestation in the Amazon” in the process.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has the tools to proceed with criminal contempt charges against President Donald Trump's administration — and can also enforce a sentence if they are found guilty, a legal analyst said Wednesday.

Slate senior writer Mark Joseph Stern addressed Boasberg's ruling regarding the government's response to his court order.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly boasted that his tariffs are collecting $2 billion in revenue per day — but that doesn't appear to be true, reported NBC News, and his own officials are contradicting the claim.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection told CNBC in a statement, “Since April 5, CBP has collected over $500 million under the new reciprocal tariffs, contributing to more than $21 billion in total tariff revenue from 15 presidential trade actions implemented since Jan 20, 2025,” per the report.

A former spokesman for Gov. Ron DeSantis, who until this week served as an administrator for his infamous "anti-woke" college, was arrested and relieved of his position for indecent exposure, the Tampa Bay Times reported on Tuesday.

Fred Piccolo, 47, is in jail as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the Manatee County Sheriff's Office, on charges of "exposure of sexual organs," which constitutes a third-degree felony under Florida law. After his communications role for the governor and some other state communications positions, he was hired as the Director of Marketing and Media for the New College of Florida in Sarasota; a spokeswoman for the college "confirmed that Piccolo was fired Wednesday after the school removed him from its website," according to the article.

President Donald Trump's administration, in consultation with the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), will reportedly shut down the free tax filing system known as Direct File.

The Associated Press reported on Wednesday that the Trump administration would eliminate the popular program developed under Joe Biden's presidency.

Andrew McCarthy, a legal analyst for the National Review, is criticizing Secretary of State Marco Rubio for his ‘disingenuous’ explanation for the deportation Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

The 29-year-old Maryland man was mistakenly deported to El Salvador last month. He was a topic of conversation on Monday during President Donald Trump's meeting with El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. Rubio, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and others were all present for the meeting and took questions from the media.

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) accused the Trump administration of blatantly lying about the whereabouts of wrongfully deported immigrant Kilmar Ábrego García on Wednesday.

After touching down in El Salvador to inquire about García's whereabouts, Van Hollen said that he was not able to see García nor even to have a phone call with him.

Two members of the National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) have been let go by the Trump White House, including one who was appointed by Trump during his first administration, according to a report from Reuters.

Tanya Otsuka and Todd Harper, who are both Democrats, were removed on Tuesday. They released separate statements on their termination.

President Donald Trump has bedazzled the White House in gold flourishes to go along with the changes he's made to the presidency since returning to office.

The president has used executive orders to make sweeping changes to the federal government and claimed expansive powers that are being challenged in courts, shaking up the global order and rattling the stock market. And while his transformation of the White House isn't quite as dramatic, it's not lacking in subtlety, reported the Wall Street Journal.

U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg ruled on Wednesday that "probable cause exists to find the Government in criminal contempt."

The issue involved deportation flights to El Salvador that the judge ordered turn around and return to the United States. The judge said at the time that the individuals deported did not have the due process to which they were entitled. They, however, landed in the Central American country and the occupants were transferred to a jail there.

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell predicted "significantly larger" inflation and slower economic growth due to President Donald Trump's tariffs.

"The level of tariff increases announced so far is significantly larger than anticipated, and the same is likely to be true of the economic effects, which will include higher inflation and slower growth," Powell told the Economic Club of Chicago on Wednesday. "Both survey and market-based measures of near-term inflation expectations have moved up significantly, with survey participants pointing to tariffs."