About 100,000 federal workers officially came off the payroll this week, capping the first wave of President Trump’s deferred-resignation plan. The Office of Personnel Management says roughly 154,000 employees accepted the offer, with two thirds paid through September 30, the end of the fiscal year. The administration expects the federal workforce to end the year...
A Covert Push to End Venezuela’s Authoritarian Grip President Donald Trump has authorized the CIA to undertake covert operations against Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, a move designed to shatter the regime’s stranglehold on power and its deep entanglement in narcotics trafficking. According to U.S. intelligence officials, Trump signed a presidential “finding” empowering the agency to...
A Covert Push to End Venezuela’s Authoritarian Grip President Donald Trump has authorized the CIA to undertake covert operations against Venezuelan strongman Nicolás Maduro, a move designed to shatter the regime’s stranglehold on power and its deep entanglement in narcotics trafficking. According to U.S. intelligence officials, Trump signed a presidential “finding” empowering the agency to...
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is dramatically increasing its surveillance capabilities, using sophisticated new technologies to track what it calls radical antifa-linked agitators and immigration violators. Federal contracting records show a massive surge in new purchases over the past several months, signaling a shift toward building one of the largest domestic intelligence networks in the agency’s...