February 27, 2025
Official Installed by Trump Moves to ‘Demolish’ Social Security Administration | Common Dreams
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Official Installed by Trump Moves to ‘Demolish’ Social Security Administration | Common Dreams

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 […]
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February 26, 2025
Dire Warnings as Trump Orders Mass Firing Plans Across Federal Agencies | Common Dreams
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Dire Warnings as Trump Orders Mass Firing Plans Across Federal Agencies | Common Dreams

  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 […]
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February 25, 2025
Refusing to Help DOGE ‘Dismantle Critical Public Services,’ 21 Tech Experts Resign | Common Dreams
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Refusing to Help DOGE ‘Dismantle Critical Public Services,’ 21 Tech Experts Resign | Common Dreams

  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 […]
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February 24, 2025
Internal Watchdog Ruling Indicates DOGE Mass Public Worker Firings ‘Unlawful’ | Common Dreams
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Internal Watchdog Ruling Indicates DOGE Mass Public Worker Firings ‘Unlawful’ | Common Dreams

  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 […]
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February 24, 2025
Union Leader Rips Agency Chief for Letting ‘Unelected and Unhinged’ Musk Threaten Workers | Common Dreams
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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 […]
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February 23, 2025
GOP Lawmakers Face Growing Backlash to Trump-Musk Agenda | Common Dreams
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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 […]
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February 20, 2025
‘Serious Damage Has Been Done’: Dem Lawmakers Slam DOGE Nuclear Safety Purge
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‘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. […]
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February 19, 2025
‘Blatant Conflict’: Fired FDA Workers Were Reviewing Musk’s Neuralink
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‘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 […]
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February 19, 2025
‘Outrageous Lies’: Claiming Fraud, Trump Floats Kicking Millions Off Social Security
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‘Outrageous Lies’: Claiming Fraud, Trump Floats Kicking Millions Off Social Security

U.S. President Donald Trump launched his latest threat against Social Security on Tuesday under the guise of combating fraud, floating the possibility of stripping benefits from “millions of people” as Elon Musk’s lieutenants infiltrate the agency that administers the nation’s most effective anti-poverty program. “The good thing about Social Security […]
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February 18, 2025
As Musk Attacks CFPB, GOP Lawmakers Take Aim at Overdraft Rule—A Gift to Wall Street
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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 […]
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February 18, 2025
Sanders Has a Message for Working-Class Trump Supporters: ‘They’re Going After You’
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Sanders Has a Message for Working-Class Trump Supporters: ‘They’re Going After You’

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, an independent who caucuses with Democrats, has multiple messages for supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump. For one, “focus not on what Trump says, but on what he does,” Sanders said in a clip of an interview that he posted on the platform X on […]
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Sanders Has a Message for Working-Class Trump Supporters: ‘They’re Going After You’
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