February 24, 2025

Union Leader Rips Agency Chief for Letting ‘Unelected and Unhinged’ Musk Threaten Workers | Common Dreams

  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

GOP Lawmakers Face Growing Backlash to Trump-Musk Agenda | Common Dreams

  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 […]
February 20, 2025

‘Serious Damage Has Been Done’: Dem Lawmakers Slam DOGE Nuclear Safety Purge

Decrying the Trump administration’s firing of hundreds of workers at the agency in charge of nuclear weapons safety, a bicameral group of Democratic U.S. lawmakers on Thursday asked Energy Secretary Chris Wright to provide assurances that members of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency cannot access classified systems or information. […]
February 19, 2025

‘Blatant Conflict’: Fired FDA Workers Were Reviewing Musk’s Neuralink

A U.S. watchdog group and other critics are responding with alarm to reporting that federal employees reviewing applications related to a brain implant developed by Elon Musk’s company Neuralink are among those fired as part of the billionaire and President Donald Trump’s sweeping mission to gut the government workforce. Despite […]
February 18, 2025

As Musk Attacks CFPB, GOP Lawmakers Take Aim at Overdraft Rule—A Gift to Wall Street

A U.S. watchdog group on Tuesday slammed Republicans in Congress for trying to kill the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s overdraft rule as U.S. President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk target the CFPB as a whole. The Accountable.US statement came in response to Senate Banking Committee Chair Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and […]
February 18, 2025

Emergency Suit Seeks to Block DOGE From Riffling Through Sensitive Taxpayer Data

Another day, another lawsuit targeting the so-called Department of Government Efficiency’s infiltration of the federal government. On Monday, four groups filed a complaint in federal court aimed at preventing DOGE from accessing sensitive taxpayer data at the Internal Revenue Service. Over the weekend, The Washington Post reported that DOGE—advisory body […]
February 18, 2025

Advocates Warn ‘Musk Is Stealing Your Personal Social Security Data’ as DOGE Infiltrates Agency

News that the acting head of the Social Security Administration left her post this past weekend after facing off with Elon Musk’s lieutenants over their efforts to access government records set alarm bells blaring, with advocates warning that the unelected billionaire is moving to seize highly sensitive data. “There is […]
February 16, 2025

‘Truly Dystopian’: Trump Administration Threatens Public Schools With Funding Cuts

Lawmakers and free expression groups voiced alarm Saturday after the Trump administration threatened to investigate and strip federal funding from public schools, including colleges and universities that don’t comply with its broad interpretation of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down affirmative action programs in admissions. In a letter […]
February 14, 2025

‘There’s Power in Fighting Back’: Court Battle Halts Purge of Consumer Agency

A federal judge in Washington, D.C. announced Friday that the Trump administration has agreed to halt its mass firings at a consumer protection agency, refrain from defunding it, and retain “vast troves” of data while a legal battle plays out. The National Treasury Employees Union, Public Citizen Litigation Group, and […]
‘There’s Power in Fighting Back’: Court Battle Halts Purge of Consumer Agency
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