Elon Musk has shared that he got “carried away” during his time heading the supposed “Department of Government Efficiency,” or DOGE, in the early months of the second Donald Trump term — with the billionaire seeming to express only mild regret for the sweeping, illegal government cuts that are slated to kill millions of people across the world over the coming years. “I think I got a little…
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A federal judge ruled last week that millions of dollars in cuts made by the so-called “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE), a quasi-government entity led by billionaire Elon Musk, improperly targeted grants distributed by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) by targeting terminology relating to protected statuses. The NEH cuts by DOGE staffers “blatantly used” race, gender…
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A new report details multiple issues within the Social Security Administration (SSA) over the past year, including long delays for service to millions of beneficiaries, due primarily to changes and “reforms” imposed by the Trump administration in 2025. Social Security beneficiaries have faced backlogs and delays for years as the result of underfunding and other political obstacles.
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President Donald Trump’s order to rebrand the Department of Defense (DOD) as the “Department of War” this past summer will cost billions of dollars, a new report suggests. In September, Trump issued an executive order seeking to change the department’s name. Only a bill passed by Congress and signed into law by the president can make the change official, but the order requires all government…
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