Editor's note: This story originally was published in the Southeast Missourian on March 4, 1993. Just after the dawn of the 20th century, a group of businessmen set out to mop up the swamp that was ...

He promised to do it in his first winning campaign, but then-President Donald Trump didn’t pull the plug to drain the Washington “swamp.” Now, in his second presidency, Trump has done what he pledged ...

Forget what you are seeing on the nightly news. Ignore the whining about Elon Musk and his cuts under the Department of Government Efficiency. Because amid all that noise, voters overwhelmingly agree ...

Note: The following contains excerpts from a Sept. 9, 2016, article in The News-Press entitled “History of flushing Lake Okeechobee dates back to 1800s” by Cynthia A. Williams. From Lake Okeechobee to ...

EXCLUSIVE: House DOGE Caucus founder Aaron Bean, R-Fla., will put forward the DRAIN THE SWAMP Act this week as part of continuing legislative attempts to target government waste. The bill aims to ...

If there was any question that President-elect Donald Trump is intent on fundamentally transforming the way the federal government operates once he takes office in January, that was quickly put to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – One of Donald Trump’s advisers says the president-elect is no longer interested in his rallying cry “drain the swamp.” “I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, ...