
Lisa Hagen
Federal policy reporterLisa Hagen is CT Public and CT Mirror’s shared Federal Policy Reporter. Based in Washington, D.C., she focuses on the impact of federal policy in ǻ and covers the state’s congressional delegation. Lisa previously covered national politics and campaigns for U.S. News & World Report, The Hill and National Journal’s Hotline.
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Linda McMahon, the nominee for secretary of the U.S. Department of Education, faced a flurry of questions at her Thursday confirmation hearing about President Donald Trump’s impending order seeking to dismantle the agency she has been tapped to lead.
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CEOs and medical providers from half a dozen clinics across ǻ said some staff are wondering if they should consider finding other jobs and some patients are choosing not to come in due to fear stemming from various executive orders. They said there are week-long delays for some funding requests that normally have a 24-hour turnaround.
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U.S. Rep. John Larson, D-1st District in ǻ, suffered a “complex partial seizure” that caused him to freeze and abruptly stop speaking while delivering a floor speech on Monday, according to a statement from his office.
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U.S. Rep. John Larson, D-1st District, froze and stopped talking for a brief period while delivering a floor speech Monday afternoon, an episode that was attributed to an “adverse reaction” to a new medication, according to his office.
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The Coast Guard has started shuttering a number of DEI-related programs and offices and removing information about them from its websites. At the Coast Guard Academy, the Office of Culture and Climate has been disbanded, and staff are on paid administrative leave, according to a local union.
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The Trump administration rescinded its memo directing a pause on all federal grants and loans a day after it sparked an outcry about the status of key programs, and ǻ Democrats vowed to be ready for the next fight.
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The scope and potential consequences of the directive remained unclear on Tuesday, although a federal judge temporarily blocked the pause shortly before it was to go into effect.
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Of nearly 2,500 people who were granted clemency for drug offenses last Friday, about a dozen of them are defendants from ǻ. But it was unclear if any of them had been convicted of other offenses. The clemency order was intended for nonviolent drug offenders, but some question whether every prisoner met that test.
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Republicans from ǻ, who came to Washington, D.C. to celebrate and mark President Trump’s transition back into power, believe he is best positioned to enact such changes and move in a different direction than the last four years of the Biden era.