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By Jeff Stein · The Washington Post (c) 2025 White House aide Peter Navarro claimed Sunday that President Donald Trump’s new tariffs would raise more than $6 trillion in federal revenue over the next decade, a figure that experts said would almost certainly represent the largest peacetime tax hike in modern U.S. history. Appearing on Fox News, Navarro […]

By Jeff Stein · The Washington Post (c) 2025 White House aide Peter Navarro claimed Sunday that President Donald Trump’s new tariffs would raise more than $6 trillion in federal revenue over the next decade, a figure that experts said would almost certainly represent the largest peacetime tax hike in modern U.S. history. Appearing on Fox News, Navarro […]

By Shira Ovide · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Four years ago, my colleague Jeremy B. Merrill wrote about Google directing people to websites that tricked small business owners into thinking they were on the Internal Revenue Service site. People on Reddit forums have also complained for years about being fooled by IRS look-alike websites. But Google keeps […]

By Shira Ovide · The Washington Post (c) 2025 Four years ago, my colleague Jeremy B. Merrill wrote about Google directing people to websites that tricked small business owners into thinking they were on the Internal Revenue Service site. People on Reddit forums have also complained for years about being fooled by IRS look-alike websites. But Google keeps […]

By Lauren Kaori Gurley, Emily Davies, Tobi Raji · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday evening abolishing union rights at more than two dozen federal agencies and offices, in a major expansion of the administration’s efforts to shrink the federal government. The White House cited national security concerns for terminating workers’ ability to […]

By Lauren Kaori Gurley, Emily Davies, Tobi Raji · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday evening abolishing union rights at more than two dozen federal agencies and offices, in a major expansion of the administration’s efforts to shrink the federal government. The White House cited national security concerns for terminating workers’ ability to […]

By Emily Davies, John Hudson, Abigail Hauslohner, Patrick Svitek · NATIONAL, WHITEHOUSE, CONGRESS · Mar 28, 2025 – 1:20 PM The Trump administration on Friday moved to formally collapse the U.S. Agency for International Development, notifying remaining employees that their positions will be eliminated and that residual functions will be folded into the State Department. The decision to unilaterally shut down an agency established by […]

By Emily Davies, John Hudson, Abigail Hauslohner, Patrick Svitek · NATIONAL, WHITEHOUSE, CONGRESS · Mar 28, 2025 – 1:20 PM The Trump administration on Friday moved to formally collapse the U.S. Agency for International Development, notifying remaining employees that their positions will be eliminated and that residual functions will be folded into the State Department. The decision to unilaterally shut down an agency established by […]

By Emily Davies, Jeff Stein · The Washington Post Federal officials are preparing for agencies to cut between 8 and 50 percent of their employees in the first phase of a Trump administration push to shrink the federal government, according to an internal White House document obtained by The Washington Post that contains closely held draft plans for reshaping […]

By Emily Davies, Jeff Stein · The Washington Post Federal officials are preparing for agencies to cut between 8 and 50 percent of their employees in the first phase of a Trump administration push to shrink the federal government, according to an internal White House document obtained by The Washington Post that contains closely held draft plans for reshaping […]