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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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Compelling Mass Civil Servant Resignations Will Create Chaos — Elon Musk's role at Twitter represents a Rorschach test for how people think he will fare in restructuring government. For fans, he was able to cut the majority of the employees, and the site continued to run more or less as before.
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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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Trump offering federal workers buyouts with about 8 months' pay in effort to shrink government — The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next week — an unprecedented move to shrink the U.S. government at breakneck speed.
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Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government
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“Trump is trying to collapse our economy”: War on “woke” revealed as a war on all Americans — Christian nationalists behind the spending shutdown aim to punish everyone, not just imaginary Marxists — Initially, the most striking detail in the White House Office of Management and Budget memo …
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New Trump memo claims authority to ignore Congress — On Monday, the Trump administration issued an extraordinary memo ordering federal agencies to indefinitely freeze the “disbursement of all Federal financial assistance.” The freeze was scheduled to take effect at 5 PM on Tuesday …
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The Reason Why Donald Trump Shut Down His Government … Washington's newest pastime is counting the number of impeachable offenses Trump commits in his first 100 days. It's a parlor game rather than a government proceeding because you don't impeach a president less than three months into his term …
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Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny? The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them. — A Trump administration memo sent to U.S. federal agencies Monday night ordered temporary freezes in funding for programs across the government. It caused widespread confusion among agency officials …
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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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Trump is already acting like a king
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Throw Biden under the bus — Sleepy Joe landed us in this mess with bad, selfish decisions — When Joe Biden stepped aside in favor of Kamala Harris, the overwhelming majority of Democrats praised him for the decision and painted an overall flattering portrait of Biden's presidency and his career.
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Iowa Democrats flip Senate seat in special election to cut into Republican majority — Iowa Democrats have flipped a state Senate seat vacated earlier this year by Chris Cournoyer, who resigned to become the state's new lieutenant governor. — Democrat Mike Zimmer has defeated Republican Kate Whittington …
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Powerless, Democrats Debate Just How Deep in the Wilderness They Are
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White House Press Secretary Makes Steely and Unflinching Debut — Karoline Leavitt used her first briefing in the role to warn veteran reporters that they were increasingly irrelevant. — So much for respecting your elders. — Karoline Leavitt, the new White House press secretary …
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‘Written by children’: Critics slam New York Times' glowing coverage of Trump official
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RFK Jr.'s confirmation battle has turned politics upside down — The Senate Finance Committee will hear from Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump's nominee for health secretary, on Wednesday. — The scene Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to face in the Senate Wednesday not long ago would have seemed like something out of a bizarro world.
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Lara Trump: Caroline Kennedy's comments on RFK Jr. ‘disgusting’
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Caroline Kennedy Calls RFK Jr. a ‘Predator’ in Letter to Senators
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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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OpenAI says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its model to train competitor — White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft — OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company's proprietary models …
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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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Trump DOJ appointee in DC lashes out after flurry of ‘personally insulting’ leaks in his first week — The acting top federal prosecutor in Washington under President Donald Trump is furious about recent leaks to the press and also specifically directed staff to scrutinize a former official's work …
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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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Trump's White House Is Flooding the Zone With Legal Tests … - Copy — A sweeping executive action sowing confusion across the nation. The cry of “Wait, he can't do that!” from constitutional lawyers and the political opposition. A swift ruling from a federal judge temporarily restoring trillions …
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The Trump White House has no idea what the Trump White House just did
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DeSantis plans to veto Florida immigration bill passed by GOP Legislature — The veto decision represents further decay of the quickly deteriorating relationship between the governor and Legislature. — TALLAHASSEE, Florida — Gov. Ron DeSantis said he will veto a sweeping illegal immigration …
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Trump's chaos governance failed once. He's trying it again. — He's breaking eggs while ignoring their price. … ✈️ ⛈️ 🚁 — Pundits spent the past week expressing wonderment at how Donald Trump has lumbered back into the White House with a massive show of dominance and power.
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The best commute to Washington belongs to Jim Justice — Most days before the Senate starts its day, a privately-owned Cessna Citation V jet lands at Washington Reagan National Airport. — And most evenings, after the chamber is done with its business, the same jet takes off for Greenbrier Valley Airport in Lewisburg, W.Va.
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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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Trump Administration Scales Back Order To Stop Foreign Assistance — A new directive from Secretary of State Marco Rubio says medical and humanitarian operations can continue, though the precise meaning of what's allowed remains unclear. — LOADING — The Trump administration has dialed …
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How Trump's orbit used blunt force to squeeze Hegseth through — The aggressive posture, inspired by Trump, meant going after not only Democrats, the media and Hegseth's accusers — but also their own party. — Pete Hegseth seemed well on his way to becoming Trump's next Defense secretary …
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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 …