Chuck Schumer says Senate Democrats won't provide votes to pass GOP funding bill as shutdown draws near  —  After meeting with his conference, the Senate minority leader said “Republicans do not have the votes” to advance the House-approved measure, which requires 60 to pass.

Social Security scraps far-reaching cuts to phone services after Post report  —  The agency will move ahead with a much narrower change eliminating direct deposit changes by phone amid DOGE fraud concerns.  —  just now  —  The Social Security Administration late Wednesday abandoned plans …

Trump's FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups  —  The FBI is moving to criminalize groups like Habitat for Humanity for receiving grants from the Environmental Protection Agency under the Biden administration.  —  Citibank revealed in a court filing Wednesday that it was told …

At Columbia, Tension Over Gaza Protests Hits Breaking Point Under Trump  —  There were protests, arrests, the departure of the school's president.  Then, a new administration arrived in Washington.  —  Days after immigration officers arrested a prominent pro-Palestinian campus activist …

Vandalize Tesla property and the White House will prosecute you as a domestic terrorist, Trump pledges  — The White House could bring the full force of the U.S. government to bear on anti-Elon Musk protestors found to have destroyed his carmaker's assets, following a spate of attacks large and small targeting Tesla.

New CNN poll: Americans are negative on Trump's handling of economy  —  Americans are not impressed with President Donald Trump's stewardship of the economy, according to a new CNN poll conducted by SSRS, putting him underwater on the nation's top issue even as he sees ratings among the best …

U.S. citizen child recovering from brain cancer deported to Mexico with undocumented parents  —  The Texas family was on their way to an emergency medical checkup, they said, when they were detained at an immigration checkpoint.  —  A family that was deported to Mexico hopes they can find …

Why I Left the Washington Post  —  Owner Jeff Bezos wants to transform the Opinions section of the paper, where I worked for forty years.  After the publisher killed my column disagreeing with that move—it appears here in full—I decided to quit.  —  I walked into the Washington Post building …

In reversal, NPR permits anchor to attend Pride event  —  The Scoop  —  National Public Radio dissuaded one of its most visible gay employees from attending a corporate LGBTQ Pride event, as the Trump administration and congressional Republicans put pressure on the public broadcaster.

EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History  —  Administrator Zeldin Announces 31 Historic Actions to Power the Great American Comeback  —  WASHINGTON - U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency will undertake 31 historic actions …

Judge says Trump penalties on law firm send ‘chills down my spine’  —  The Trump administration was ordered to halt, at least temporarily, parts of its executive order punishing the law firm Perkins Coie.  —  A D.C. federal judge on Wednesday ordered the Trump administration …

ICE Returns All Migrants From Guantánamo to Stateside Facilities  —  A court filing described strip searches and the use of restraint chairs on some of the 290 migrants the Trump administration has cycled through the base.  —  The Trump administration has abruptly cleared out a second group …

CEOs Don't Plan to Openly Question Trump.  Ask Again If the Market Crashes 20%.  —  Behind closed doors, business leaders air plenty of concerns about the administration and its policies  —  WASHINGTON—How business leaders talk about the Trump administration in private has been markedly different …

Putin orders swift expulsion of Ukrainian forces before peace talks  —  The Russian leader promised to treat captured forces as “terrorists.”  —  Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his troops to defeat Ukrainian forces occupying its Kursk border region as soon as possible …

Antisemitic and racist shock jock is back on the radio, 11 years after being fired for tirade  —  A conservative radio host who was fired a decade ago for calling a Black woman an “animal” and has since shared a host of racist and antisemitic content on social media has a new show on New York's WABC …

EU retaliates against Trump's trade moves and hits beef, whiskey, motorcycles with targeted tariffs  —  The European Union on Wednesday announced retaliatory trade action with new duties on U.S. industrial and farm products, responding within hours to the Trump administration's increase …

Yale Suspends Scholar After A.I.-Powered News Site Accuses Her of Terrorist Link  —  The deputy director of a liberal project at Yale Law School was put on leave over allegations that she is linked to Samidoun, a group the U.S. government has said funds terrorists.

Who's in Elon's ear — and DMs  —  Musk's most trusted advisers remain a tight-knit group of executives who have followed him from his companies but lack political experience.  —  Unlike traditional Washington power players, Elon Musk doesn't have a deep bench of policy wonks …

District Court Rules Trump Violated Constitution by Usurping Congress's Spending Power  —  On Monday, US District Judge Amir Ali ruled against the Trump Administration in an important case involving control over the spending power.  The court held the administration could not withhold payments …

Biggest Federal Employee Unions Says Shutdown is Preferable to Elon/Trump CR … Federal workers obviously don't like government shutdowns.  Most of them are furloughed.  Others are forced to continue working without pay.  But in a letter addressed to members of the Senate, which I obtained …

Judge appears likely to grant request to reinstate thousands of fired probationary workers  —  “Move fast, fine.  Break things?  If that involves breaking the law, then that becomes problematic,” U.S. District Judge James Bredar said at the hearing.  —  BALTIMORE — A federal judge …

Is Trump Taking a ‘Liquidationist’ Approach to the Economy?  —  The administration's view that damaging the economy now could help it later comes with little upside for investors  —  During President Trump's first term, stocks rode high on the belief that he would always pull back on policies that led to a selloff.

The 200+ Sites an ICE Surveillance Contractor is Monitoring  —  A contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and many other U.S. government agencies has developed a tool that lets analysts more easily pull a target individual's publicly available data from a wide array of sites …

Goodbye, Kevin Drum  —  “Take care of Donald Trump for me.”  —  Our friend and colleague Kevin Drum passed away on March 7.  He was 66 and had been living with multiple myeloma for 11 years, and being the extraordinary journalist he was, he had taken readers along on the journey, sharing health updates on his blog.

Document prepared for Kremlin outlines hard-line negotiating stance  —  The document, written in February by a Moscow-based think tank close to Russia's Federal Security Service or FSB, lays out Russia's maximalist demands  —  Russia should work to weaken the U.S. negotiating position …

Trump Officials Are ‘Pretending’ a Judge Didn't Bar His Anti-Diversity Orders  —  A judge blocked the administration from forcing organizations to accept anti-diversity contract terms.  Trump officials haven't let them know … Trump's Justice Department decided the fairly broad injunction only covered certain agencies.