President Donald Trump backed Elon Musk's demand that federal employees explain their recent accomplishments by the end of Monday or risk getting fired, even as government agency officials were told that compliance with Musk's edict was voluntary.
Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump's administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration's own data shows.
House Speaker Mike Johnson will try against the odds to muscle a Republican budget blueprint to passage this week, a step toward delivering President Donald Trump's “big, beautiful bill” with $4.5 trillion in tax breaks and $2 trillion in spending cuts over stiff opposition from Democrats — and even some Republicans.
The state of South Carolina has frozen certain college tuitions for several years.
A proposed bill in South Carolina aims to give an unborn child human rights, which would make all abortions illegal if passed.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, on the third anniversary of the start of the Ukraine-Russia war, appeared to blame the Biden administration for the conflict while praising Donald Trump's Russian-friendly stance in seeking a peace agreement.
A federal scholarship aimed at boosting students from underserved and rural areas attending historically Black colleges and universities has been put on hold.
The Trump administration moved its fast-paced dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development toward what appeared to be its final phases, telling all but a fraction of staffers worldwide that they were on leave as of Monday and notifying at least 1,600 of the U.S.-based staffers they were being fired.
Attorneys for federal workers said Monday in a lawsuit that billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk had violated the law with his weekend demand that employees explain their accomplishments or risk being fired.
The U.S. Small Business Administration is reminding small businesses in Berkeley, Georgetown, Horry and Orangeburg counties that the deadline to apply for low interest federal disaster loans is approaching.
A showdown could be brewing between the SC Senate and House on School Vouchers to use public funds toward private school tuition.
A lawsuit filed by 17 states challenging federal rules entitling workers to time off and other accommodations for abortions may proceed, a federal appeals court ruled.
Republican senators pushed a $340 billion budget framework to passage early Friday, chugging through an all-night session and Democratic opposition in a step toward unleashing money the Trump administration says it needs for mass deportations and border security that top their agenda.
A federal judge in Washington has allowed President Donald Trump’s mass firings of federal workers to move forward.
President Donald Trump said that he likes the idea of giving some of the savings from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency back to U.S. citizens as a kind of dividend.
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