Kash Patel is set to become the latest of President Donald Trump‘s unfit and unqualified loyalists confirmed for a leadership role in Washington, with Senate Republicans ready and willing to install the QAnon promoter and 2020 election denier as the next director of the FBI. Once he becomes head of …
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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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Last week, 14 state attorneys general filed an audacious lawsuit seeking to have Elon Musk’s activities with the so-called Department of Government Efficiency declared unconstitutional and reverse them as null and void, because, they assert, the billionaire should have been confirmed by the Senate, and because DOGE is acting far …
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A veteran Social Security Administration official resigned after a dispute with Elon Musk and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) attempts to access the personal data of Social Security recipients. Acting Social Security Commissioner Michelle King stepped down from her post this weekend after refusing to provide representatives from …
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Donald Trump and Elon Musk fired hundreds of Federal Aviation Administration workers Friday night, amid a startling series of plane crashes and other air-related incidents in recent weeks. A few days later, the Trump administration is telling Americans not to worry, because they didn’t fire anyone too important. Musk posted …
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The Trump administration is looking to overturn a Biden-era rule limiting major banks’ ability to penalize customers with overdraft fees, a reversal that has major banking associations salivating at the mouth. Last week, House Financial Service Committee Chair French Hill (R-Ark.) and Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott (R-S.C.) introduced …
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The Trump administration has begun mass layoffs at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), even as the agency reels from a fiery mid-air collision just outside Washington, D.C., a deadly runway crackup, and mysterious crashes from Pennsylvania to Alaska. Hundreds of “probationary” FAA employees have received pink slips, amid an Elon …
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Demonstrators from New York to Atlanta to San Francisco have taken to the streets Monday in the largest mass-protests since the beginning of the second Trump administration. The Presidents’ Day protests — branded, cheekily, as “No Kings Day” — are evidence of a growing public backlash against the authoritarian executive …
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Sheryl Crow has had enough of Elon Musk. The singer shared a new Instagram post on Friday waving goodbye to her Tesla, confirming that she sold her car following Musk and President Donald Trump‘s efforts to gut government programs through the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). “My parents always …
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