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Trump administration will offer all 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign — An email is set to go out to federal workers beginning Tuesday. — President Donald Trump's administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a “deferred resignation” …
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Scoop: Trump offering buyouts to all federal workers, source says … We're five years past COVID and just 6 percent of federal employees work full-time in office. That is unacceptable," a senior administration official tells Axios.
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D.C. federal judge temporarily blocks Trump plan to pause federal aid spending — The order from Judge Loren AliKhan runs through next Monday, when further arguments in the case are scheduled. — Trump administration freezes nearly all federal grants and loans
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Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months' pay in effort to shrink size of government — The White House on Tuesday began offering buyouts worth seven months of salary to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by Feb. 6 — part of President Donald Trump's unprecedented overhaul of the U.S. government.
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White House incentivizes federal workers to resign — The email sent to the federal workforce is the most sweeping effort yet by the new Trump administration to shrink the ranks of government employees. — The White House's Office of Personnel Management sent an email blast Tuesday …
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Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans — The Trump administration's federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB Pritzker's office. The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people …
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Legal battle looms as Trump orders a funding freeze during a review of federal loans and grants — The White House is pausing federal grants and loans starting Tuesday as President Donald Trump's administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending …
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White House says Medicaid portal ‘will be back online shortly’ after Trump funding freeze blamed … Medicaid reimbursement portals were down Tuesday in every U.S. state on the heels of a funding freeze ordered by the Trump administration of federal grants and loans, Sen. Ron Wyden said.
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Trump's Attempt to Usurp Congress's Spending Power
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Medicaid, Head Start, health centers say they're locked out of federal funding website
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Trump expected to sign executive order prioritizing federal funding for school choice programs
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Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management — Sources tell WIRED that the OPM's top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir. One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
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Trump Hit With New Lawsuit for Funneling Sensitive Info to Elon Musk
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Caroline Kennedy warns senators of ‘predator’ RFK Jr. in searing letter — In a letter to lawmakers, the former U.S. ambassador to Australia and cousin of Trump's HHS nominee, questions Robert F. Kennedy's ethics and views on vaccines. — Caroline Kennedy on Tuesday warned senators …
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Caroline Kennedy warns senators that cousin RFK Jr. is a ‘predator’
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Caroline Kennedy calls her cousin, RFK, Jr., a “predator” ahead of his confirmation hearings
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Trump moves to fire members of EEOC and NLRB, breaking with precedent — The dismissals target two independent agencies that oversee large swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions. — President Donald Trump has moved to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions …
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‘Insane’: Legal experts blast Trump's ‘unbelievable’ new firings as ‘attack on the EEOC’
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Trump Ousts Top Labor Board Leaders Who Backed Broader Worker Rights
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Departing the New York Times — As many people reading this know, last month I retired from my position as an opinion writer at the New York Times—a job I had done for 25 years. Despite the encomiums issued by the Times, it was not a happy departure. If you check out my Substack …
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Pentagon pulling Gen. Milley's security detail and clearance ‘immediately,’ may face demotion in retirement — EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is “immediately pulling” retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News.
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Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: — Section 1. Policy and Purpose. Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming …
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Americans sour on some of Trump's early moves, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds — Americans have a dim view of some of President Donald Trump's early barrage of executive orders, including his attempt to do away with so-called birthright citizenship and his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
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Trump's Order on Transgender Troops Will Likely Ban Their Service, Again — In an executive order issued Monday night, the president said transgender service members “cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary” for the military. — Hours after President Trump signed …
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Live Updates: White House Defends Trump's Funding Freeze as Opponents Rush to Block It — Where Things Stand — Federal aid pause: The White House budget office ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, a sweeping move it said was necessary to bring …
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Trump briefing begins with pledge to boost outside media
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Special counsel prosecutors were fired on instructions of White House
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‘It was leaked to us:’ Army in chaos over Trump orders — Confusion around the new administration's spending freezes and executive orders has caused disarray inside the Pentagon. — The Army rushed to satisfy President Donald Trump's executive orders this week, sparking so much confusion …
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SCOOP: RFK Jr. Secretly Recorded Second Wife During Divorce and Acknowledged Being “Polygamous” — One recording might have violated state law. It was part of a messy saga that ended with her suicide. — In the early 2010s, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went through a contentious divorce with his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy.
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Republican congressman suggests some children receiving free school lunches should work at McDonald's instead — Rep. Rich McCormick said that the freeze on federal aid would allow the government to review all programs including ones that provide free school lunches to low-income children.
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Trump is holding hospitals ‘hostage’ in brazen ‘power grab’: AOC — Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unloaded on President Donald Trump in an escalation of the brewing Democratic opposition to the new administration as it unleashes a barrage of new executive orders.
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‘A 5 Alarm F-ing Fire’: Trump's Federal Funding Freeze Is Jolting Some Dems Into Fight Mode
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State Department Permits Distribution of H.I.V. Medications to Resume — for Now — Experts fear a resurgence of infections in low-income countries if the ban were to continue. The waiver remains in place, while officials review foreign aid programs. — The Trump administration …
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Trump administration may pull money from TSA, Coast Guard to help ICE afford costly deportations — The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News. — Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the principal agency tasked …
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Google reclassifies U.S. as ‘sensitive country’ alongside China, Russia after Trump's ‘Gulf of America’ comments … Google's maps division on Monday reclassified the U.S. as a “sensitive country,” a designation it reserves for states with strict governments and border disputes, CNBC has learned.
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STAT+: Private emails show RFK Jr. making false claims about Covid-19 shots, linking vaccines to autism — On the eve of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearings, his physician niece has shared a trove of private emails in the hopes of derailing his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Michigan's Gary Peters won't seek reelection to U.S. Senate. Here's why — Washington ― Gary Peters, Michigan's senior senator and a former congressman, said he won't seek reelection next year and will retire from the U.S. Senate when his second term ends in January 2027.
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Tuberculosis outbreak that has killed 2 in Kansas continues to grow — More than 60 people were being treated for the disease in the Kansas City area as of Friday, according to the state health department. — The number of tuberculosis cases linked to an outbreak in the Kansas City area continues …
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'Biden's Book Ban Hoax': Department of Education claims book bans are a ‘hoax’ and dismisses all complaints — The fear that book bans would worsen under Donald Trump's presidency has become a reality. The Department of Education announced it is dismissing book ban complaints as a hoax …
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Proton Mail Says It's “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party — The “privacy-first” company surprised its user base when CEO Andy Yen lauded Trump on social media. — PROTON, THE COMPANY behind the eponymous email provider Proton Mail, has won itself a loyal fanbase of dissidents …
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Some Trump voters are skeptical of his opening moves to embrace fellow billionaires — Enrique Lopez votes sporadically but bought into Donald Trump's vows to fight for everyday workers, helping the Republican flip Arizona last year. Then the home construction contractor watched …