(Matt Lamb, Headline USA) A top official in Portland said the Oregon city may need to cut "equity" roles due to a pending budget deficit.
The city is forecasting a $27 million budget shortfall starting in the new fiscal year, according to its official website.
This has led city administrator Michael...
(Headline USA) Treasury Secretary-nominee Scott Bessent told his confirmation hearing Thursday that President-elect Donald Trump has an opportunity to unleash “a new economic golden age."
In testimony, Bessent said the U.S. must secure vulnerable supply chains, levy sanctions to address national security concerns “and critically, we must ensure that the...
(Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump tasked a New Jersey congressman and vocal critic of offshore wind with writing an executive order he could issue to halt wind energy projects.
Offshore wind is a major part of transitioning to an electric grid powered entirely by sources that don’t emit carbon dioxide...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Outgoing Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke at length about getting “high” Wednesday during an appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
Yellen, 78, giddily addressed the time she ate mushrooms that can have psychedelic effects during a state visit to Beijing in July 2023. Colbert asked...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre appeared on the verge of tears Wednesday as she made excuses for President Joe Biden’s dismal exit polls.
Jean-Pierre appeared on PBS NewsHour the night of Biden’s farewell address, where she was pressed by the anchor about the lame duck Democrat’s...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) President-elect Donald Trump revealed Wednesday the ill-famed 11 people he would never let have a hand in his incoming administration—and they all suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Trump said he had already hired 1,000 “outstanding” employees to work in his incoming administration before name-dropping several “Republican” turncoats...
(Julianna Frieman, Headline USA) Political analyst Mark Halperin said Wednesday that Defense Secretary-nominee Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing was a “template” for President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet to sail through Senate approval.
Hegseth did not flinch Tuesday as disgruntled Democrat senators tried to smear him with false allegations about women and drinking.
Halperin said...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) Outgoing President Joe Biden has made it known that he thinks he could have defeated Donald Trump in the 2024 election had his own party not ousted him in July.
In an interview with USA Today this month, Biden said that “based on the polling,” he had...
(Ken Silva, Headline USA) The Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office announced Thursday that prominent Washington Post cartoonist Darrin Bell has been arrested for possessing child pornography.
According to a press release, the Sacramento Valley Internet Crimes Against Children Detectives stated investigating Bell after receiving a tip from the National Center for...
(Ben Sellers, Headline USA) In what may be the most repugnantly hypocritical claim he has made since December, President Joe Biden used a farewell address to the nation to deliver an unhinged rant about the "oligarchy" taking root in America---just weeks after brazenly giving one of the nation's highest...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) President Joe Biden is pouring billions of dollars into unused office spaces despite allowing half of the federal workforce to work remotely years after the COVID-19 pandemic ended. Republicans affirmed that this is a glaring example of government waste.
According to a bombshell report by the House...
(Luis Cornelio, Headline USA) Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., went night-night during the historic confirmation hearing of Pam Bondi as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general on Wednesday—drawing widespread mockery and criticism on social media.
Schiff, who has served as California’s U.S. senator for less than two months, was caught on camera with...