The White House Correspondents’ Association is reversing course and canceling its plans to have comedian Amber Ruffin headline this year’s annual fundraising dinner in Washington, DC.

Fiscal hawks in the Senate are upset that the House bill would add more than $3trn to the deficit over the next decade. Moderates, meanwhile, have been critical about changes to safety-net programmes.

White House and Elon Musk's DOGE begin review of federal agency plans for mass layoffs New plans will result in tens of thousands of job losses for federal government workers Trump is not involved ...

The White House and OPM declined comment. OMB and DOGE did not respond to a request for comment. So far, DOGE has overseen cuts of more than 100,000 jobs across the 2.3 million-member federal ...