The Trump administration’s campaign against wind power continued as it targeted funding for marine terminals and ports to support development of the industry.
Former Vice President Kamala Harris’s Secret Service protection would have ended in July, but President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had signed an order extending it for another year.
The Secret Service usually protects a former vice president for six months after they leave office, but President Joseph R. Biden Jr. had extended Ms. Harris’s protection beyond that.
The former vice president has been raising the funds to pay all of those expenses and to keep the party whole financially. But small donors making those contributions have been left in the dark.
There is no sign that the deal between Kamala Harris and the Democratic National Committee violated any campaign finance rules, though it helps to explain how the party simultaneously has had both a deteriorating cash situation and record fund-raising.
The president does not have the power to unilaterally change voting laws, and any executive order regarding elections is likely to see immediate legal challenges.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sought total control over the I.R.S., an agency where Mr. Long, the new commissioner, had started to put his own mark on the job.
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