Trump signs executive order creating new classification of non-career federal workers
The new classification will be for employees expected to leave their positions when the president who appointed them leaves office, White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said on X.
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The Independent
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- The Independent
White House boasts about Trump's golf score – days after he was accused of cheating on his own course
The White House on Saturday posted President Donald Trump 's winning golf score from a tournament at his New Jersey golf club, boasting about his win just days after he was accused of cheating on another course. 'Winning on and off the course,' the official White House Instagram page wrote, showing the final score card from the 2025 Men's Senior Club Championship tournament at Trump National in Bedminster. At the top of the card was Trump's gross score of 69 – representing the number of golf strokes the president took on each hole in the tournament. Adjusted with his handicap, the numerical measure of how well a person golfs by either adding or deducting strokes from the gross score, Trump's net score was 67. The score means the president has a handicap of around 2, which is considered very impressive for a non-professional golfer. But a number of commenters on the Instagram post did not appear excited about the president's score, many joking that just last week, reports accused Trump of cheating on his golf course in Scotland. 'Yo we saw the video from Scotland last week, he just throws the ball where he wants it and makes up a score,' one commenter wrote. 'I mean yeah, I'd win too if my caddy was dropping balls on the course for me,' another Instagram user wrote on the post. While on a trip to Scotland in July, a widely-circulated video of the president golfing at his course in Turnberry appeared to insinuate that Trump cheats at his beloved game. The president's caddy appeared to drop Trump's ball closer to the fairway – which some interpreted as a violation of the rules of golf, which generally says to play the ball where it lies. Allegations that Trump cheats at golf date back to before his first term. Some have accused him of using his caddies or Secret Service detail to move his ball. Others claim the president himself has kicked his ball to make it easier to hit. Trump has always denied the allegations. The cheating allegations have been so rampant that one sports writer, Rick Reilly, even wrote an entire book on it, titled Commander in Cheat. In response to the president's recent win, Reilly wrote on X, 'The 4 guys in Trump's group finished 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 5th. Trump has a magic pencil. #CommanderInCheat' However, some professionals who have played alongside the president say he is actually quite a good golfer. Jack Nicklaus, a hall-of-fame golfer, said in 2020 that Trump plays 'pretty well.' Tom Watson, a former professional golfer, said in 2017 that the president was a good hitter and 'can really get the ball out there.' Trump is passionate about golf; he famously played often during his first term in office and continues to play often now. According to a website that tracks the number of golf trips the president takes, he's golfed approximately 49 out of the 196 days he's been in office. Earlier this year, Trump said he won the golf club championship at his golf club in Palm Beach, Florida, as well.
The Independent
an hour ago
- The Independent
MTG hints that she might be finished with the GOP: ‘I don't know if the Republican Party is leaving me'
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a well-known far-right Republican and loyal ally to President Donald Trump, has expressed deep frustrations and a growing rift with her political party. Over the last few weeks, Greene has notably broken with her party and the president on several matters she cares deeply about. She condemned Israel's war in Gaza and called it a 'genocide,' opposed Trump's recent artificial intelligence executive order, and advocated for the administration to release the Epstein Files. The pattern, Greene said in an interview with The Daily Mail this week, represents her frustrations with the Republican Party, which she believes is abandoning policies geared toward regular Americans. 'I don't know if the Republican Party is leaving me, or if I'm kind of not relating to the Republican Party as much anymore,' Greene said. 'I don't know which one it is.' The Georgia congresswoman said she felt as if the party had given up on issues that she resonates with, such as stopping foreign aid, using the Department of Government Efficiency to make cuts across the federal government, and driving down inflation. Greene had long advocated for the U.S. to stop sending military aid to Ukraine amid the Russia–Ukraine conflict – something that has not ceased. She has also criticized the administration for involving itself in the Iran–Israel conflict. Since Elon Musk, the de facto head of DOGE, left the White House, the administration appears to be less focused on using DOGE to make cuts. While DOGE staffers are still present throughout the government, reports indicate they have less authority. 'Like what happened to all those issues? You know that I don't know what the hell happened with the Republican Party. I really don't,' Greene said. 'But I'll tell you one thing, the course that it's on, I don't want to have anything to do with it, and I just don't care anymore,' she added. Greene has said online that she believes Republicans are pushing away younger voters by continuing to push the same unpopular policies. But she told The Daily Mail that the GOP may also be unpopular with conservative women based on how it treats them. 'I think there's other women in our party that are really sick and tired of the way men treat Republican women,' Greene said. The Georgia congresswoman specifically referenced Elise Stefanik, the Republican Rep. from New York. Trump initially nominated Stefanik to serve as U.S. ambassador to the U.N., but then reportedly pulled her nomination to maintain a safe majority in the House of Representatives. Instead, he nominated former national security adviser Mike Waltz. Greene said Stefanik got 'screwed' by Speaker Mike Johnson and people in the White House – Greene specifically said she did not blame the president. While Greene expressed frustrations with the current state of the Republican Party she did not say she would definitely rescind her affiliation with it.
Telegraph
an hour ago
- Telegraph
Democrats turn to ‘hellcats' military veterans to win mid-terms
The Democrats are turning to military veteran candidates to help them win back the House of Representatives next year, including a group that calls themselves the Hellcats Democrats are already running in at least nine swing districts, but party officials are eyeing up more than 30 potential new veteran candidates for the House as part of a new strategy aimed at freshening up their image. 'We can't just have people who seem like tired old Democrats,' Representative Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat and former Marine, told the New York Times. 'It's a cycle when people are very frustrated with the Democratic Party – including Democrats.' Democrats are trying to rebuild in the wake of Mr Trump's sweeping election victory, in which Republicans won both the House and the Senate. The tactic to run military veterans reprises a strategy that helped deliver the House in 2018 and could be especially effective for making inroads into rural, Republican-leaning districts, according to Democratic political strategists. Jason Crow, a former Army Ranger who is assisting with candidate recruitment for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, said that veterans made effective candidates because they didn't come across as part of a ruling elite. 'What Americans are really thirsty for right now are leaders, not just politicians,' he told The New York Times. Among the military veteran candidates running for the Democrats are four women who have a group chat called the 'Hellcats' – named after the first female Marines who served in World War One. JoAnna Mendoza, 48, a single mother who said she joined the Marines because there were 'no job opportunities' in her rural community, is challenging for a Republican seat in southeastern Arizona. 'The system isn't designed for people like me,' she said. During Mr Trump's first term, the Democrats won the House in 2018 off the back of a slate of veteran and female candidates who had worked in national security, including Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey and Elissa Slotkin, who is now a Michigan senator. The focus on ex-servicemen and women forms part of the Democrats' push to reclaim the mantle of being the party of patriotism – a message trumpeted by Ms Slotkin, who has emerged as a leading voice in the party since Mr Trump's return to office. 'We need to take the flag back from the people who are spitting on our democracy,' she said in a recent post on X. It comes as Democrat lawmakers have turned on each other over the party's failure to stand up to the president's assault on US institutions from government departments, to universities and law firms. Cory Booker, the New Jersey Senator, warned that history would remember members of his party's 'complicity in 'bending the knee' to Mr Trump. 'What I want to see more people doing is not doing what some law firms have done, bend the knee to Donald Trump…That to me is outrageous,' Mr Booker told CNN. The Senator this week launched a fiery tirade against his colleagues on the House floor, bellowing that 'the Democratic Party needs a wake up call'. In an effort to destabilise Mr Trump's agenda, Senate Democrats blocked more than 50 of the president's nominees from being confirmed on Saturday, prompting a furious backlash from Mr Trump. Chuck Schumer, the Senate minority leader, refused to vote to confirm the low-level appointments unless federal funds were released and Mr Trump agreed not to push more cuts to federal funding, sources told CNN. As a result, just seven of the nominees were confirmed, while the remainder will not be voted on until lawmakers return from their summer recess in September. The president responded by telling Mr Schumer to 'go to hell'. 'Tell Schumer, who is under tremendous political pressure from within his own party, the Radical Left Lunatics, to GO TO HELL!' he wrote on Truth Social. 'Do not accept the offer, go home and explain to your constituents what bad people the Democrats are, and what a great job the Republicans are doing, and have done, for our Country. Have a great RECESS.'
