Elon Musk‘s so-called Department of Government Efficiency has spent the first month of President Donald Trump‘s second term in office working its way through the federal government like termites. DOGE has fired tens of thousands of employees, hollowing out everything from the Federal Aviation Administration to the Department of Veterans …
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Over the past month, Donald Trump and Elon Musk have framed their senseless, openly corrupt crackdown on federal employees as a war on faceless, unpopular bureaucrats and the dreaded “deep state.”Meanwhile, the workers they are terrorizing if not firing include health care workers, working-class nurses at Veterans Affairs facilities, and …
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As Donald Trump and Elon Musk prepare to bring their next round of arbitrary cuts to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, it seems like at least one employee is making their displeasure known. This morning, the first day of the Trump administration’s “return to office” ban on remote …
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President Donald Trump has let tech billionaire Elon Musk run rampant through government agencies, instituting mass firings and structurally destabilizing teams in the Federal Aviation Association, the Forest Service, and the Department of Veteran Affairs, among others. Musk’s latest attempt to gut the federal workforce through the so-called Department of …
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Last summer, Donald Trump gushed to Elon Musk about the billionaire’s propensity for firing people. “You’re the greatest cutter,” Trump said in a conversation with Musk on X, formerly Twitter. “I look at what you do. You walk in and say, ‘You want to quit?’ I won’t mention the name …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s administration has been firing federal workers en masse, pausing and shuttering whole federal agencies, and furiously hunting for examples of waste, fraud, and abuse that they can show their supporters to prove all the destruction is necessary and good. At the same time, Trump’s Department …
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Octavia Spencer has resurrected a famous scene from her 2011 film The Help in honor of DOGE. The actress took to Instagram to criticize Elon Musk‘s government department, offering to bake the iconic chocolate piefrom the film (which, for the record, contained poop). Spencer posted a photo of herself as …
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Multiple aid agencies have effectively ceased operations preventing the global spread of HIV and treating patients with AIDS in the wake of funding cuts by the Trump administration. That’s the result of Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appearing to take special aim at programs that …
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Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as the permanent top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia is promising to use the full breadth of his powers to “protect DOGE” and “hold accountable those who threaten workers.” In an email obtained by Rolling Stone, former “Stop the Steal” organizer turned interim …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was created under the guise of eliminating fraud, waste, and abuse in federal spending. But, like many of Musk’s grand pitches — Hyperloops, Mars colonization, Tesla robots, robotaxis, self-driving cars — DOGE is just another empty promise from one …
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