Justice Department appeals ruling that dismissed Trump’s IRS suit as collusive, 40 days after Attorney General Blanche killed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund to win confirmation.
Health Secretary Kennedy uses a $9,000-an-hour Air Force jet to campaign with Iowa Republicans, after Trump ousted his first-term health secretary over private-jet travel, Washington Post reports.
Trump gives $45,000 cash “holiday gifts” to 3 women aides aged 26 to 35, nearly a third of their $150,000 White House salaries.
Senate nominee Ken Paxton reports no rental income from 6 homes listed for rent and omits $1.3 million in golf resort mortgages, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune find.
Federal magistrate orders Justice Department to name who conceived its scrapped $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” for people claiming unfair prosecution, rejecting weeks of resistance.
Trump’s store starts selling $55 “Lake America” hats the same day he signs the order renaming Lake Ontario, as Gulf of America hats sit discounted to $37.50.
Labor Department watchdog finds ex-Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer presided over a “toxic, intimidating and humiliating” workplace and used government funds for personal travel.
Trump’s accounts keep trading oil and gas stocks 6 months into the Iran war, with energy holdings up as much as $15 million this year, congressional Democrats find.
UAE’s national security adviser backs a 49% stake in the Trump family’s new federally chartered crypto bank as the administration eases AI chip sales to his firm, the Journal reports.
Justice Department tells a court the Kennedy Center faces demolition unless Trump’s board renames and renovates it, months after judges forced his name off the building.
Trump signs the granite of his new $5 million helipad, paid by Marine One maker Sikorsky, saying guests could have cocktails there before ballroom events.
Federal regulator approves a bank charter for Trump family crypto firm World Liberty, letting it issue digital money convertible to dollars.
USDA undersecretary Michael Boren pressed Forest Service staff for more firefighting aircraft on a 7-acre blaze near his Idaho ranch, the Washington Post reports.
Trump’s White House construction will cost at least $927 million with taxpayers covering most of it through a maintenance account, a Post review shows.
Burke Law Group withdraws from the no-bid contract worth up to $150 million to represent migrant children after advocacy groups flagged the Trump-connected award.
The Intercept and Freedom of the Press Foundation sue Trump over Truth API, arguing the $100,000 monthly feed sells early access to official statements.
HHS awards $158 million for unaccompanied children’s legal services to a nonprofit led by an ex-ICE official, its first federal contract ever.
Trump Media signs high-frequency trading firms at up to $100,000 monthly for millisecond access to the president’s market-moving posts, its first customers.
Trump nominates Project 2025 workforce-section coauthor Dennis Kirk as Interior’s inspector general, the office fielding five congressional requests including the Reflecting Pool review.
The union for career IRS auditors sues to block the audit immunity acting AG Blanche granted Trump’s family, calling the settlement breathtakingly corrupt.
Senators demand the CFTC crack down on prediction markets offering wildfire bets, warning they could incentivize arson as Spokane burns.
HHS hands a 26-employee Texas firm with no listed immigration expertise up to $150 million a year to represent 24,000 unaccompanied children in court.
DOJ pays a 7-figure settlement to a pardoned anti-abortion activist whose clinic-blockade conviction was upheld on appeal, days after killing its weaponization fund.
Watchdogs demand ethics probes of FCC chair Carr and Commissioner Trusty for accepting luxury Paramount gala tickets hours before it launched a merger they must approve.
Senate GOP holdouts Cornyn and Tillis agree to advance Blanche’s attorney general nomination after DOJ puts the weaponization fund’s death in writing.
Capital One tells a court it closed more than 300 Trump Organization accounts after an anti-money laundering review, rejecting the family’s political-bias lawsuit.
Acting AG Blanche formally kills the $1.8 billion payout fund for Trump’s prosecuted allies to win two GOP holdouts, a day after Trump vowed to revive it.
Trump vows to revive the $1.8 billion weaponization fund he declared dead 2 days ago, even at the cost of Blanche’s confirmation.
Trump appeals a ruling that his $10 billion IRS lawsuit was a bad-faith vehicle for taxpayer funds and audit immunity, hours after calling the fund dead.
OPM chief Kupor sold up to $3.5 million in Robinhood stock after publicly touting the company’s federal partnership he oversees.
Interior Dept. asks Congress for $10 million more to cover Freedom 250 costs after promising private donors would fund events beyond the $150 million appropriated.
Senate Republican blocks a bill barring taxpayer money to retrofit Trump’s Qatari jet after he flew home from Turkey on the old Air Force One.
Trump says his Qatari-gifted Air Force One needs a month of upgrades after flying it without full anti-missile defenses during the Iran war.
Trump’s teleprompter operator faces a federal probe for allegedly winning nearly $100,000 betting on which words the president would say in speeches.
Trump’s media company will sell Wall Street firms high-speed access to his Truth Social posts, letting traders profit from presidential announcements before markets react.
U.S. Mint will produce $1 coins bearing Trump’s face despite a law limiting currency portraits to deceased individuals, Treasury Secretary Bessent announces.
Justice Department subpoenas 13 top law firms for their communications with Trump’s personal lawyer while asking a judge to shield the White House’s own records.
Trump’s company took $2 million from a top Korea Aluminium investor while the firm fought a Commerce Department case over dodging Chinese aluminum duties.
Judge voids Trump’s IRS settlement shielding his family from audits, ruling he sued the agency he controls for an improper purpose.
Sen. Whitehouse expands his Kennedy Center probe after whistleblowers describe no-bid contracts and rushed cosmetic work ordered to meet Trump’s FIFA Peace Prize deadline.
Park Service drains the Reflecting Pool a month after refilling it, as Trump’s $1.5 million beautification stands at $14 million with algae and peeling liner.
Palm Beach International becomes Donald J. Trump International, the first US airport named for a sitting president, with the FAA identifier now reading DJT.
Three more people plead not guilty to damaging the Reflecting Pool’s peeling $14.6 million liner as an Olympian faces a felony for pulling loose coating.
Secret Service urges Trump off the Qatari-gifted Air Force One for the leg near Iran, and he reboards it in England for the safe flight home.
Treasury Secretary Bessent scraps the decade-old plan to put Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill while his department designs a $250 note featuring Trump.
Trump says defense contractor Sikorsky will pay the full cost of a granite White House helipad because its new Marine One helicopters scorch the lawn.
Interior Secretary Burgum says the same Trump-linked contractor whose $14.6 million no-bid Reflecting Pool paint job peeled will repair it, blaming vandals for the damage.
Nearly 1 million buyers of Trump’s memecoin have lost a combined $3.8 billion while his disclosure shows the coin paid him $636 million in royalties.
Belgium’s diamond industry gifts Trump a ring jewelers value at up to $35,000 months after winning removal of U.S. tariffs on its $2 billion in exports.
Trump defends his $1.4 billion in 2025 crypto profits by saying he leaves investing to others and “everybody’s profiting” from rising stocks. 23 words
