Author: Mike Nova

Also, Republicans eyed Medicaid cuts. Here’s the latest at the end of Tuesday.

House Republican leaders were expected to hold a vote on a sweeping budget resolution that faces headwinds partly because vulnerable California Republicans might oppose controversial cuts to Medicaid.

The acting administrator of the organization that is pushing for sweeping budget cuts across federal agencies is a low-profile executive who has expertise in health care technology and worked in the first Trump administration.

The acting administrator of the Department of Government Efficiency is a low-profile executive who has expertise in health care technology and worked in the first Trump administration. The White House on Tuesday afternoon identified Amy Gleason as the acting leader of DOGE, which has been pushing agencies to fire employees, cancel contracts and make other budget cuts. Although DOGE’s cuts have been championed by billionaire Elon Musk and his associates, the White House has insisted that Musk is overseeing the effort as a senior adviser to President Donald Trump, not a DOGE employee.

A group of staffers from the U.S. Digital Service, a White House office that was refashioned into Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, resigned on…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wants to come to Washington later this week to sign a critical minerals deal that is central to Kyiv’s push to win U.S. ongoing support of its war with Russia.