Some GOP lawmakers are grumbling over President Trump’s “Kitchen Cabinet” of billionaire allies such as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who

Billionaire tech CEOs Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta, Sundar Pichai of Google, Tim Cook of Apple, and Elon Musk got prime seats at President Trump’s inauguration in the Capitol

Despite President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to issue an executive order extending ByteDance’s chance to sell TikTok before a national ban, multiple Republican lawmakers seemed to relish in the app’s shutdown.

And Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said President Donald Trump’s actions are “well outside the purview of the executive office,” adding, “These are unprecedented attempts to defund childcare or to defund infrastructure projects.” Attorney Gen. Kwame Raoul, who was part of the lawsuit that stopped the funding freeze, said it’s about eggs.

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The dismissals target two independent agencies that oversee swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.

One of the inauguration’s most enduring images is that of tech billionaires — including Google’s Sundar Pichai, Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and Tesla’s Elon Musk — arrayed obediently behind Trump. It says a lot about how Trump will govern, effectively allowing CEOs to draft their own laws and industry regulations.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) is aiming to be the first Republican in decades to sponsor major, pro-union labor reform, Axios has learned. Why it matters: GOP leaders see an opportunity for a new, working-class coalition,

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The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, is overseeing a new Department of Government Efficiency. Billionaires or mega-millionaires are lined up to run the treasury, commerce, interior and education departments, NASA and the Small Business Administration, and fill key foreign posts.

Costco has 30 days to notify the states on its decision to repeal its DEI policies or provide the reasoning behind keeping them on board.

Donald Trump is back in the White House and Medicaid is in the spotlight. With a nearly $900 billion price tag, the program that serves 79 million low-income or disabled Americans is now a major target for cuts.