President Donald Trump has described the upcoming military parade using a familiar theme: its size. It will be a “big, beautiful” event, he told NBC’s Meet the Press last month. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. The parade will, however, objectively be big, from the contents of the parade itself—25 M1 Abrams main […]
In March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Education Secretary Linda McMahon to essentially abolish the department she runs. “Closing the Department of Education would provide children and their families the opportunity to escape a system that is failing them,” reads Trump’s order. “Ultimately, the Department of Education’s main functions can, and should, be […]
President Donald Trump and many of his allies in Congress are making grand claims about the economic growth they say will result from the recently proposed “One Big Beautiful Bill.” Trump has accused critics of not understanding the budget proposal, “especially the tremendous GROWTH that is coming.” A closer examination of the economic realities involved […]
Alvaro Bedoya, former commissioner at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), formally resigned on Monday after he and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter, the other Democrat-appointed commissioner, were fired by President Donald Trump in March. Bedoya and Slaughter have challenged the president in court, with Slaughter arguing that the firings violated “the plain language of a statute and […]
Terry Moran is a senior national correspondent for ABC News. Over the weekend, his employer suspended him over a statement he posted (and subsequently deleted) on X. In it, Moran described Stephen Miller, deputy White House chief of staff, as “richly endowed with the capacity for hatred.” “You can see this just by looking at […]