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State Department layoffs affect key Trump priorities like intelligence, energy and China
The roles of some of the State Department employees fired last week overlap with priorities that President Donald Trump has ...
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Senate passes $9 billion in spending cuts to public broadcasting, foreign aid
The Senate has passed about $9 billion in federal spending cuts requested by President Donald Trump, including deep ...
The Latest: House prepares to advance cuts on public broadcasting and foreign aid
The House is expected to approve President Donald Trump’s request to claw back about $9 billion in already appropriated ...
Opinion
Byron York | Looking Sensibly at Cuts to State Department
On Friday, the Trump administration laid off about 1,350 employees at the State Department. A number of news reports described the staff cuts as “devastating.” Others suggested the downsizing will […] ...
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Trump's soft-power retreat scrambles U.S.-China race
President Trump has set a radical new course in the U.S.-China rivalry, ceding ground to Beijing in pursuit of a far narrower ...