Small Business Administration cutting staff by 43%
The Small Business Administration on Friday said it is cutting more than 40% of its staff as part of the Trump administration's wider effort to shrink the federal bureaucracy.
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The Small Business Administration on Friday said it is cutting more than 40% of its staff as part of the Trump administration's wider effort to shrink the federal bureaucracy.
President Trump has taken aim at the Department of Education, but shutting down the department entirely would require an act of Congress.
The stiffer restrictions come as the Trump administration is trying to convince Russia to accept terms of a proposed 30-day ceasefire.
Ukraine said it would accept a 30-day ceasefire with Russia after talks with the U.S. in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday.
Completely eliminating the Education Department would require congressional approval and 60 votes in the Senate, which is unlikely given the current makeup.
The minerals deal with Ukraine was supposed to be signed last week, but an Oval Office spat scuttled the agreement.
President Trump announced that a leading Taiwanese semiconductor chip company plans to invest $100 billion in new manufacturing plants in the U.S.
The change comes amid President Trump's efforts to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.
The president's closest advisers, stunned after the debacle in the Oval Office, huddled on Saturday morning were still uncertain how to salvage a mining deal with Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials reached out to senior White House officials desperate to get the deal back on track, but President Trump was unwilling to talk to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy further today, officials said.
A second email asking government workers to detail what they did in the last week went out to some agencies on Saturday.
It rescinds a federal mandate that requires agencies and other recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance to non-English speakers.
In an Oval Office meeting, Vance and Trump accused Zelenskyy of being "disrespectful." Afterward, Zelenskyy and Ukrainian officials were told to leave.
Some of the athletes have publicly clashed with the White House's preferred messaging by openly criticizing the NCAA in social media posts and other public statements.
U.S. Secret Service Director Sean Curran discusses his unusual path to the agency's top job, telling CBS News, "I'm the unknown."