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1 day ago · In December, more than a month before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, The New York Times reported a blockbuster scoop: Elon Musk and his SpaceX company had repeatedly failed to meet federal reporting requirements designed to safeguard national security despite being deeply entangled with the military and intelligence bureaucracy.. These included a failure to provide details ...

2 days ago · The National Labor Relations Board is the main federal agency that enforces labor laws. People often think that job is done by the Labor Department (which is not an independent agency and predates the NLRB), but that’s mistaken. The Labor Department’s role regulating management-labor relations is more circumscribed, focusing on …

4 days ago · Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, has seized control of the Treasury Department. He is deciding who the government pays and who it doesn’t. The federal payment system he has access to contains the Social Security numbers and even the bank account information of nearly every American.

3 days ago · After days offline, USAID’s website was finally restored late Tuesday … with a notice announcing that all employees will be placed on administrative leave. “On Friday, February 7, 2025, at 11:59 pm (EST) all USAID direct hire personnel will be placed on administrative leave globally, with the exception of designated personnel responsible for …

4 days ago · While Democrats over the past 50 years or so have focused their efforts on winning elections (legislative and executive), the billionaires who own the GOP have directed their attention to using massive amounts of cash to seize control of the unelected branches (judiciary and press), a job that can be done with money, but doesn’t always require winning elections.

5 days ago · “The earliest iterations of prisons in this country included something called convict leasing, where prisons would actually loan out the labor of incarcerated people to farms,” says New Republic contributor Wanda Bertram of the Prison Policy Initiative, a criminal justice reform nonprofit.. The Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished slavery except for those convicted of a crime, created a ...

Jan 31, 2025 · The Trump loyalist has previously said he would shut down the FBI Hoover building and “replace it with a mausoleum of the Deep State,” sparking concern that Patel would use his power to weaponize the country’s national security organization.. In recent weeks, the FBI Agents Association urged Patel not to punish agents …

5 days ago · Trump falsely claimed in December that Mexico and Canada’s trade deficits with the U.S. were “subsidies,” rather than indicators that America’s neighbors are purchasing more goods from the U.S. than they sell to it. In 2023, that differential—or deficit, as Trump insists—was nearly $41 billion with Canada and $162 billion with Mexico, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Jan 21, 2025 · “We’re not looking backwards, we’re looking forward,” Thune continued. “I think they were case-by-case.” “I assume you’re asking me about the Biden pardons of his family,” said Senator Chuck Grassley, when asked by Semafor’s Burgess Everett. “I’m just talking about the Biden pardons, because that is so selfish.”