In September 2025, the Trump administration unveiled a bold and controversial proposal to create a new pathway to U.S. permanent residency-one that centers not on skills or jobs created, but on wealth. The initiative, known as the "Trump Gold Card," aims to offer foreign nationals the opportunity to obtain a green card in exchange for a $1 million "gift" to the U.S. government. If the gift comes from a sponsoring business entity, the amount rises to $2 million.
The new US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) policy has been issued to comply with president Donald Trump's "Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government" executive order, which directed airlines to disregard the "X" marker and ask for either "M" or "F" instead. The "X" non-binary marker was introduced in 2022, during Joe Biden's presidency, but has since been suspended for anyone applying for a new passport.
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, clearing the way for a deal to put TikTok in U.S. hands following a divestiture by its Chinese parent ByteDance. That avoids a total shutdown of the app in the U.S. that was required by law unless TikTok shed its China-based owner. Speaking as the president signed the executive order in the Oval Office, Vance pegged TikTok's worth at $14 billion-equal to Snapchat parent Snap.
On Sept. 19, Senior U.S. District Court Judge William E. Smith sided with the plaintiffs' first two claims, denouncing "a viewpoint-based standard of review to Plaintiffs that disfavors applications deemed 'to promote gender ideology'" - a catch-all dogwhistle describing depictions of gender and sexuality outside rigid heterosexual marriage. The court "vacates and sets aside Defendants' current plan to implement the Executive Order."
"I have many concerns about the AI Executive Order signed yesterday by President Trump," Taylor Greene wrote on X-formerly-Twitter, the day after Trump's " Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government" executive order. "My deep concerns are that the EO [executive order] demands rapid AI expansion with little to no guardrails and breaks," the Georgia representative continued. "This needs a careful and wise approach. The AI EO takes the opposite."
President Donald Trump's effort to rebrand the Department of Defense into the Department of War hit a major snag Tuesday when the GOP-controlled House Rules Committee rejected an amendment that would have codified the name change into law. The proposed name change has been controversial, both for the multi-billion dollar expense and the massive administrative undertaking redesigning and relabeling seals, uniforms, stationery, logos, signage, insignia, and other graphics throughout the more than 700,000 DOD facilities throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Trump and Hegseth have been publicly pushing for the rebrand for weeks, claiming the change would present the US military as more aggressive to the world by reverting to the name that was used when the US was victorious in the first and second world wars. Everybody likes that we had an unbelievable history of victory when it was the Department of War, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office last week. Then we changed it to Department of Defense.
WASHINGTON - Workers in the nation's capital are twice as likely to head into the office, rather than work from home, compared to the rest of the country, according to new data - and it is all thanks to President Trump. Trump's executive order targeting federal workers getting back into the office has skyrocketed the number of employees working on-site. The number of federal workers in DC who are in the office full-time stands at 46%, according to a Gallup poll released Wednesday.
The White House issued an executive order at the end of last week that added NASA to the National Security Exclusions list. Being on the list means that NASA employees no longer have the same protections under US federal labor laws. Union rights have been stripped away, meaning that collective bargaining and negotiation regarding potential cuts will not be possible under the order. The move also repudiates existing collective bargaining agreements.
