The Age-73 RMD Delay That Can Double Up Withdrawals
Delaying the first required minimum distribution until April can place two taxable withdrawals in the following calendar year.
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Hegseth Fired the Army’s Top General. Now Its Secretary Is Walking Out Too.
Dan Driscoll handed President Trump his resignation on Monday, closing an 18-month run as Secretary of the Army that opened with one of the friendlier confirmation votes of the second term and ended in a losing internal fight. The break was not over Iran, or the budget, or anything an enemy did. It was over…
A Biden Judge Blocked Trump on Birthright Citizenship. She Just Refused to Do It Again.
Federal courtrooms have not been kind to Donald Trump’s push to redraw the line on birthright citizenship. But on Friday, in a federal courthouse in Greenbelt, Maryland, something different happened. The same judge who tore up his first attempt at this a year ago sat across from the same coalition of immigrant-rights lawyers, heard the…
Trump Gave Lisa Cook Until Today to Keep Her Fed Seat. She Refuses to Go.
President Donald Trump set a hard deadline of Wednesday, August 26, for Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook to explain herself or lose her seat on the most powerful economic board in the country. Cook used the day not to plead but to plant her feet. Her attorney delivered a blistering rebuttal to the White House…
Todd Blanche Opens Gun-Rights Path for 30 Million Americans
Attorney General Todd Blanche has done something Washington left dormant for more than three decades: he has created a working route for Americans barred by federal law from possessing firearms to ask for their rights back. The move puts the Trump administration squarely on the side of individualized Second Amendment relief while keeping violent and…
Fauci’s Adviser Pleaded Guilty. Fauci Still Hasn’t Been Charged.
For six years, congressional Republicans have argued that the federal government’s own pandemic scientists worked to bury the question of where COVID-19 came from, and for six years those scientists have called the accusation a smear. On Tuesday afternoon, in a federal courtroom in Greenbelt, Maryland, one of them stopped arguing. David M. Morens, 78,…
Blanche Rejects a Pledge of DOJ Independence From the White House
Attorney General Todd Blanche sat for his first Sunday show interview since the Senate confirmed him, and he was handed the question every modern attorney general has learned to answer with a soothing yes. He refused to give it. Asked on NBC’s Meet the Press whether he could pledge that the Justice Department would always…
The Supreme Court Stopped Trump From Firing Lisa Cook. He’s Back for Round Two.
President Donald Trump’s fight to remove Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve is back on, six weeks after the Supreme Court told him he could not simply throw her out. In late June the justices temporarily blocked Trump’s first attempt to fire the Fed governor, stressing that the central bank should stay free of political…
Karoline Leavitt Is Leaving the White House. Trump Says She Isn’t Going Far.
Karoline Leavitt, the fast-talking conservative who turned the White House briefing room into a nightly brawl with the national press corps, is walking away from the most visible communications job in American politics. President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that Leavitt will leave her post as White House press secretary at the end of August,…
Two Republicans Defect. Todd Blanche Still Wins 50-49
Todd Blanche survived the kind of Senate vote that turns every empty chair and every party defection into a crisis. Two Republicans joined every Democrat and independent who voted against him, but President Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee still crossed the line, 50-49. The result gives Trump a Senate-confirmed leader at the Justice Department after…
