Elon Musk and the Trump administration are attempting to dismantle the federal workforce and our intelligence agencies, but there’s just one problem: federal employees and veterans aren’t taking the bait. Despite repeated emails, misleading promises, and thinly veiled threats, the so-called “deferred resignation” program is flopping. Instead of persuading career …
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Just weeks after President Donald Trump took office, megadonor turned special government employee Elon Musk has penetrated deep into the heart of the federal administrative apparatus. His so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) now enjoys access to communication channels and sensitive information at agencies including the Treasury Department, the Office …
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Anat Shenker-Osorio is a political strategist and communications researcher for progressive campaigns. Since Donald Trump and Republicans seized control of the federal government, we’ve seen a flood of illegal executive orders plus a takeover of the Treasury Department and other government agencies by a billionaire who paid his way into …
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Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Fox News, Republican lawmakers, and countless prominent right-wing commentators across social media are pushing a ridiculous lie about the Biden administration funding the media. It started on Tuesday when staff at Politico reportedly didn’t receive their paychecks on time because of technical glitch. The right began …
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Three large unions sued the Treasury Department on Monday to block Elon Musk and his apparatchiks from accessing federal servers with sensitive member data and financial information — alleging a “massive and unprecedented” intrusion of privacy. Musk and his team at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) reportedly have …
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President Donald Trump and Elon Musk tore through much of the federal government over the past two weeks — effectively shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the government’s foreign aid department. Now that nearly all of the agency’s staff has been put on leave, USAID employees aren’t sure …
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As Elon Musk‘s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) continues to wreak havoc with the internal mechanics of the federal government in its efforts to gut and dissolve vital agencies, the White House is signaling that it has no problem with the richest man on the planet serving as his own …
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Donald Trump’s top federal prosecutor for the District of Columbia requested that a court withdraw charges against a Jan. 6 insurrectionist he personally represented — a move that experts decried as a clear ethical violation. Shortly after taking office, Trump pardoned 1,500 of individuals who were convicted of offenses or …
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Over the past two weeks, President Donald Trump and his billionaire patron Elon Musk have embarked on a frenzied MAGA purge of federal agencies and departments. The duo and their allies’ blitz across the government triggered a torrent of press leaks, coming from career officials and other personnel appalled by …
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On Monday, El Salvador’s president made a bizarre offer to the United States: We will take your prisoners. “We have offered the United States of America the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system,” President Nayib Bukele wrote on X. “We are willing to take in only convicted criminals …
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