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In the Senate, Collins Often Defies Trump but Rarely Stops Him

A New York Times analysis of Senator Susan Collins’s voting record shows that she frequently breaks with Republicans but more seldom changes an outcome.

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Steve Witkoff, Trump’s Special Envoy, Made More Than $250 Million While in Government

A disclosure shows that Steve Witkoff collected nearly $107 million in 2025 from a holding company that includes a crypto business owned by his family and President Trump’s.

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Steve Witkoff’s family, along with President Trump’s, founded the crypto business World Liberty Financial in the run-up to the 2024 election.
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For Fired DeSantis Campaign Staff Member, a Second Chance at State Dept.

The hiring of Nate Hochman, who lost his job amid an uproar over a video containing a Nazi symbol, underscores the administration’s willingness to overlook past transgressions.

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Nate Hochman is a deputy director in the State Department’s policy planning office, according to documentation reviewed by The New York Times.
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Homeland Security Paid $464 Million for Airplanes. Then It Parked Them.

The agency used a no-bid contract to buy 10 used jets, saying they were urgently needed for deportation flights. But the fleet has largely sat idle for months.

© Kathleen Flynn for The New York Times

A Boeing 737 passenger jet purchased by the Department of Homeland Security parked last month at Chennault International Airport in Lake Charles, La.
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How Trump Is Getting Richer as President

Since he came back to office, President Trump has made huge amounts of money from cryptocurrency and foreign investments, posing the question of whether he is using his power as president to enrich himself. Andrea Fuller, a Times data journalist, explains.
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Trump-Linked Firm’s Fees for Organizing Freedom 250 Events Remain Secret

Event Strategies, Inc., a longtime vendor to President Trump’s campaigns, is organizing the Great American State Fair and the July 4 celebrations.

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A company with deep ties to President Trump is organizing the Great American State Fair and the fireworks display planned for Saturday.
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The Key Ways Trump’s Financial Interests Intersect With Government Policy

President Trump’s business holdings, which garnered him more than $2 billion last year, create potential conflicts of interest surpassing any predecessor.

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President Trump’s financial investments have vastly escalated during this second term.
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Crypto Brought Trump a Huge Windfall, Even as Many Investors Lost Big

President Trump and his family reaped vast financial rewards from a memecoin that generated losses for hundreds of thousands of investors.

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President Trump amassed enormous wealth during the first year of his second term, with $636 million of it coming from his cryptocurrency.
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Trump Pulled In About $1.4 Billion From Crypto Ventures, Financial Disclosure Shows

The release of a mandatory financial disclosure for 2025 shows that the Trump family’s holdings, particularly the president’s crypto businesses, were stunningly lucrative.

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President Trump entering the White House on Sunday. His mandatory financial disclosure report for 2025 pulled back the curtain on his secretive business operations.
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Trump Administration Sees Striking Exodus of Legal Talent

The departure of more than 10,000 federal lawyers has left some agencies without sufficient staff and has boosted the ranks of state attorneys general offices and advocacy groups.

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Phil Weiser, the Colorado attorney general, with some of the 22 lawyers from across the federal government that he has hired since May of last year.
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Firm Building Trump’s Ballroom Got a Secret No-Bid Contract for a Nearby Job

The National Park Service increased the value of the contract several times over and then awarded it to Maryland-based Clark Construction, in a process that experts said was highly unusual.

© Allison Robbert for The New York Times

The National Park Service has said the fountains needed to be revamped by May 2026 to be ready for the country’s 250th birthday.
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Do You Have Questions About a No-Bid Federal Contract? Tell Us Here.

The government is supposed to let many vendors compete for contracts, to get the best deal for taxpayers. We are looking at cases where it did not.

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The White House this month. The New York Times is seeking information about no-bid contracts issued by the Trump administration.
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Firm That Planned Trump’s Jan. 6 Rally Received No-Bid Contracts

This administration has given the company, staffed by the president’s allies, multimillion-dollar contracts it was guaranteed to win.

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President Trump addressing the crowd at his rally on Jan. 6, 2021, that Event Strategies Inc. helped organize. Attendees overran the Capitol later that day.
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Veterans Affairs Department Cut Thousands of Roles for Doctors and Nurses

The Trump administration has eliminated health care positions left vacant after a wave of resignations and retirements at the V.A. last year.

© Zack Wittman for The New York Times

Dr. Katie Phelps, a psychiatrist who left the V.A. last spring, said the departure of medical staff was “very worrisome.”
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How The Times Analyzed the S.E.C.’s Cryptocurrency Enforcement

The New York Times set out to understand — and quantify — just how much things had changed within the agency after President Trump resumed office.

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A portrait array in the lobby of the Securities and Exchange Commission showing President Trump and Vice President JD Vance; its chairman, Paul S. Atkins; and Commissioners Hester M. Peirce, Caroline A. Crenshaw and Mark T. Uyeda.
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