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FILE - President Donald Trump listens as acting director of the Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought speaks during an event on "transparency in Federal guidance and enforcement" in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, Oct. 9, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
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Hiltzik: Exploring the moon while cutting NASA? Why Trump’s 2027 budget misfires

Trump’s budget plan takes aim at programs that make Americans smarter, healthier and safer. What’s his real agenda?

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 31: U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions after signing an executive order to limit mail-in voting in the Oval Office of the White House on March 31, 2026 in Washington, DC. President Trump has sought to restrict mail-in voting after claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him due to fraud. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
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Skelton: Trump’s cries of cheating on mail-in ballots defy logic

Kristi Noem, secretary of the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), from left, Pam Bondi, US attorney general, and US President Donald Trump during a memorandum signing in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Monday, Sept. 15, 2025. Trump approved a National Guard deployment to Memphis, expanding the federal government's efforts to crack down on what he has cast as out-of-control crime in Democratic-run cities. Photographer: Samuel Corum/Sipa/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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Chabria: Bondi and Noem were incompetent. But that’s not the only reason they’re gone

SACRAMENTO, CA APRIL 2, 2026 -- Profile of Jack Kavanagh, who for 30+ years has published a daily aggregation of California political news from around the state and country. Now retired, he does so from his Sacramento home.on Monday, March 30, 2026. (Sara Nevis / For The Times)
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Barabak: For more than 30 years — day in, day out — he’s chronicled California. One paragraph at a time

Olga Urbina and her 9 months son Ares Webster participate in a protest outside the US Supreme Court over President Donald Trump's move to end birthright citizenship as the court hears arguments over the order in Washington, DC, on May 15, 2025. Trump issued an executive order on his first day in office seeking to limit birthright citizenship for children whose parents are in the United States illegally or on temporary visas, but it has been blocked in multiple appellate courts. He appealed the case to the Supreme Court on March 13. (Photo by Drew ANGERER / AFP) (Photo by DREW ANGERER/AFP via Getty Images)
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Arellano: Birthright citizenship secured my family’s American dream. No wonder Trump hates it

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Hiltzik: Why isn’t the stock market freaking out more over the Iran war? Here’s why

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Arellano: Spencer Pratt is sharing a Miami sound machine ad. It won’t play in L.A.

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Commentary: From Columbus to Chávez: L.A.’s disappearing, disfigured and displaced statues

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Hiltzik: A proposed new ‘fix’ for Social Security that harms workers and protects the rich

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