President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Tuesday that would continue downsizing the federal workforce

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that would continue downsizing the federal workforce WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump made a rare appearance with Elon Musk , his most powerful adviser, in the Oval Office on Tuesday before signing an executive order to continue downsizing the federal workforce.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order meant to sharply reduce the size of the federal workforce.

The White House Correspondents' Association protested a decision by the White House on Tuesday to bar an Associated Press reporter from an event with President Donald Trump over the news agency's decision to continue referring to the Gulf of Mexico.

The Associated Press said it was blocked from covering President Donald Trump’s executive order signing today because it declined to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America in its editorial style standards.

The Associated Press says the White House blocked it from covering an official event on Tuesday because it did not refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

The federal judge in Rhode Island said the Trump administration had failed to comply with his order unfreezing billions of dollars in federal grants.

A U.S. judge on Monday ordered the Trump administration to fully comply with a previous order lifting its broad freeze on federal spending.