It Is Happening Every Day, Every Where
The House has voted to tell the Justice Department to release the Epstein files, after President Trump caved to pressure from fellow Republicans. Our congressional correspondent Annie Karni describes how Trump’s inability to head off the vote is a sign that his movement is fraying.
The variety of federal forces deployed to support President Trump’s mass deportation campaign and anticrime efforts continues to expand. Often, it can be difficult for the public to tell them apart, or to understand what powers each agency has.
Our investigative reporter Steve Eder provides context about Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship with President Donald Trump based on information from over 20,000 pages of documents from Epstein’s estate released by the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
President Trump is demanding about $230 million in compensation for the federal investigations into him by the Justice Department. Devlin Barrett, a New York Times reporter covering the Justice Department, describes what we know about who’s most likely to be making the decisions.
President Trump and his defense secretary, Pete Hegseth, have been reshaping the way the U.S. military works. David Sanger, who covers the White House and national security for The New York Times, explains how Trump has been using the military lately.
The threat of rising Obamacare premiums has been Democrats’ main focus in the public debate, but the president’s defiance of laws, norms and congressional constraints has helped hold them together in opposition.
By sending troops to U.S. cities that are not in active crisis, President Trump is breaking with military tradition. Helene Cooper, who covers national security issues for The New York Times, compares his recent actions with earlier domestic military deployments.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth faced a room of hundreds of generals and admirals whom he had summoned from across the globe, and made his case for shaking up a force that he said had gone soft and “woke.” Greg Jaffe, the Pentagon reporter for The New York Times, discusses Hegseth’s speech.
Coral Davenport, a New York Times reporter, explains how Russell Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, plans to circumvent Congress’s budgetary powers to advance the Trump administration’s agenda.
To President Trump, the veracity of statistics and scorekeepers turns on a dime. Linda Qiu, a New York Times reporter, explains Trump’s approach to government data.