March 5, 2025
"This Is Not Governance": Former lawmakers call on Congress to protect democracy from Trump-Musk power grab #DemocracyFirst #Accountability #DefendDemocracy #ResistTrump #PoliticalCorruption #CongressAction
March 4, 2025
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz is reaching out to voters whose GOP representatives are avoiding town hall meetings. #TimWalz #Townhall #Voters #MN #Politics #CommonDreams
March 3, 2025
Watchdog launches probe into Trump-Musk use of AI for mass firings of federal workers. #AI #Trump #Musk #investigation #federalworkers #probe
February 28, 2025
The Social Security Administration, now under the control of an official installed by U.S. President Donald Trump, began the process of gutting whole segments of the agency and firing a huge portion of its already diminished workforce, sparking alarm among advocates who say the move will almost certainly result in […]
February 27, 2025
‘The Chaos Is the Point’: Union Blasts Trump Mass Firings as Attack on All Taxpayers | Common Dreams
Everett Kelley, the national president of the American Federation of Government Employees decried the latest move by the Trump administration to drastically reduce the federal workforce, writing in a statement Wednesday that AFGE will not stand idly by as President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and their lackeys “run roughshod over […]
February 27, 2025
A U.S. conservation group sued the Trump administration in a Washington, D.C. federal court on Thursday to reveal details about the so-called Department of Government Efficiency and its apparent leader, billionaire Elon Musk. “The public has every right to know what kind of rogue agency Elon Musk and his tech-bro […]
February 27, 2025
The acting leader of the Social Security Administration reportedly instructed managers earlier this week to draw up plans for a 50% cut to the agency’s workforce, a push that advocates and lawmakers said would result in the gutting or total closure of local field offices—and likely benefit disruptions. The American […]
February 26, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his wholesale assault on the federal government and its workforce on Wednesday by ordering agencies to submit plans for mass firings by March 13 as the destructive impacts of the new administration’s onslaught ripple across the country. The president’s order came in the form […]
February 25, 2025
Over 20 U.S. federal tech workers who were forced into President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency resigned in protest on Tuesday, according to a joint letter obtained by The Associated Press. The 21 data scientists, engineers, and product managers were initially part of the […]
February 24, 2025
The U.S. Office of Special Counsel—the independent agency that protects government whistleblowers—has deemed “at least some” of the Trump administration’s mass firing of civil servants in their probationary periods to be illegal and recommended halting their termination, according to reporting Monday. Government Executive senior correspondent Eric Katz reported that […]
February 24, 2025
The president of the United States’ largest union of federal employees slammed the acting director of a key agency on Sunday for allowing unelected billionaire Elon Musk to make demands of the government’s workforce—and threaten them with termination if they don’t comply. After Musk posted to his social media […]
February 23, 2025
At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference on Saturday, U.S. President Donald Trump told his Republican supporters that, having overseen the firing of roughly 30,000 federal employees and backed proposals to slash the Medicaid and Medicare programs that millions of Americans across the political spectrum rely on, he has […]
