The White House has sent its long-awaited spending cuts request to Congress as it seeks to formalize a slew of DOGE slashes to federal funding.

The so-called rescissions package would claw back $9.4 billion lawmakers had authorized the executive branch to spend. It would require only GOP votes to pass.

The White House on Tuesday officially asked Congress to claw back $9.4 billion in already approved spending, taking funding away from programs targeted by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.

The official portrait, released on Monday by the White House, features a somber Mr. Trump against a dark backdrop.

Few American presidents have leveraged self-images for political messaging — and sometimes personal gain — in the way Trump has throughout his political career.

Washington — The White House unveiled a new portrait of President Trump on Monday, showing him in a slightly different light than the portrait released ahead of his inauguration in January . In the latest portrait, Mr. Trump wears his signature red tie and his face is accentuated by deep shadowing.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw the nomination of billionaire commercial astronaut Jared Isaacman as his next NASA administrator. White House officials had previously raised concerns about Isaacman’s past donations to Democrats as justification for the president’s personnel move,