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Judge Puts Limited Freeze on Trump's USAID Job Cuts

Hearing was held on lawsuit by federal workers unions

(Newser) - A federal judge announced after a hearing Friday that he'll enter a "very limited" temporary restraining order before midnight to keep the Trump administration from implementing parts of its plan to dismantle the US Agency for International Development. US District Judge Carl Nichols said his order "will...

USAID Shutdown Efforts Are &#39;Chaotic,&#39; &#39;Tectonic&#39;
USAID Shutdown Efforts
Are 'Chaotic,' 'Tectonic'
THE RUNDOWN
Feb 7, 2025 9:19 AM CST

USAID Shutdown Efforts Are 'Chaotic,' 'Tectonic'

US farmers to lose out on sales; patients stranded with devices, experimental drugs in their bodies

(Newser) - The Trump administration is intent on dismantling the US Agency for International Development, which delivers food, medicine, and other humanitarian aid to the world's poorest. The stop-work order on USAID, which is now under the purview of Marco Rubio's State Department, immediately halted the agency's disbursement of...

Rubio Plans to Take USAID From 10K Positions to 290

A few programs are spared for now, though employees say they can't get to funding

(Newser) - The Trump administration told the remaining senior officials of the US Agency for International Development on Thursday that all but 290 of its more than 10,000 positions will be cut. The employees who are left would administer the few life-saving programs that the administration said will remain in place...

White House Readies Order Firing Health Agency Workers

Plan calls for action to be taken after buyouts are final

(Newser) - The next section of the federal workforce to face mass firings by the Trump administration could be health workers. White House aides are preparing an executive order to fire thousands of employees in the Department of Health and Human Services, the Wall Street Journal reports. Other agencies involved in health,...

Want an Easy Way Cut $2T? Think Nuclear
Want an
Easy Way
to Cut $2T?
Think Nuclear
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Feb 6, 2025 2:36 PM CST

Want an Easy Way to Cut $2T? Think Nuclear

Dan Vergano calls for ending nuclear weapons modernization

(Newser) - Elon Musk has an easy task in cutting $2 trillion from the federal budget in the view of Scientific American opinion editor Dan Vergano. But rather than going after the NOAA or the Labor Department , his Department of Government Efficiency should "recommend ending one of the most misguided, wasteful...

Rubio Snubs G20, Piles on South Africa

Top diplomat echoes Trump attacks, says he won't attend meeting over 'anti-Americanism'

(Newser) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio is refusing to attend this month's G20 meeting in South Africa, days after President Trump accused the country of "confiscating land" from white farmers. South African President Cyril Ramaphosa disputed the allegations, noting no private property has been expropriated (we have an explainer...

It Was the Longest Deportation Flight Yet

104 migrants have arrived in India after traveling a reported 24 hours

(Newser) - For the first time, the US has used a military plane to deport Indian nationals. A US military plane arrived in Punjab, India, on Wednesday, carrying more than 100 deportees on the longest such deportation flight yet of the current Trump administration, per the New York Times . Having left San...

Trump to Ban Trans Athletes From Women's Sports

President set to sign EO Wednesday barring trans females from competing in women's, girls sports

(Newser) - President Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday designed to prevent people who were biologically assigned male at birth from participating in women's or girls' sporting events. The order, which Trump is expected to sign at an afternoon ceremony, marks another aggressive shift by the president's second...

Trump All in Favor of Sending US Criminals to El Salvador

President says he's checking the legality, though experts say there's no question

(Newser) - President Trump says he'd like to accept El Salvador President Nayib Bukele's offer to house US criminals and deported migrants from any country in its notorious "mega-prison," which has spawned reports of torture. "If we had the legal right to do it, I would do...

Dems: DOGE Security Failures Could 'Break Our Government'

Federal workers sue over OPM's use of unencrypted email

(Newser) - Federal employees are attempting to block Elon Musk's DOGE associates from operating what they say is an illegal server at the Office of Personnel Management. Janes Does 1 and 2 allege the server, connected to a government network to harvest information on federal employees, violates federal law and could...

Senate Panel Backs RFK Jr. for Health Secretary

His nomination now goes to the full Senate

(Newser) - A Senate panel advanced the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to become the next health secretary on Tuesday morning, reports the New York Times . In the closely watched vote by the Senate Finance Committee, Kennedy prevailed in a 14-13 result along party lines, per the Hill . The pivotal vote...

Education Dept.'s Dismantling 'From Within' Is About to Begin

Sources say President Trump is set to sign EO to lay out path for shuttering agency

(Newser) - WWE founder Linda McMahon has yet to be confirmed as the new head of the Department of Education , but it's not yet clear what will be left of the department for her to lead. Sources say that President Trump is set to sign an executive order this month that...

Ontario Leader: See Ya, Starlink Contract

Doug Ford says he's 'ripping up' $69M deal with Musk company amid Trump tariffs against Canada

(Newser) - In November, the Progressive Conservative leader of Canada's most populous province announced a $69 million contract with Elon Musk's Starlink, in an effort to bring high-speed internet to thousands of homes and businesses in some of the more far-flung parts of Ontario. That contract is no more, according...

USAID Security Chiefs Who Refused Musk Are on Leave
Elon Musk:
Time for
USAID 'to Die'
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Feb 3, 2025 12:30 AM CST

Elon Musk: Time for USAID 'to Die'

He says Trump has agreed to 'shut it down'

(Newser) - Elon Musk says it's time for USAID, the federal agency that oversees foreign aid to civilians, "to die." Musk's post on X came soon after reports that two of the agency's top security chiefs are on leave after allegedly refusing access to classified material to...

Administration Removes Thousands of Web Pages

Information taken down covers diseases, taxes, hate crimes

(Newser) - Agencies working to comply with President Trump's executive orders targeting diversity programs and "gender ideology" have taken down more than 8,000 government web pages in the past few days. A New York Times analysis shows public information has been removed about topics including vaccines, teenage dating violence,...

Bessent Gives Musk Access to Payroll System

Top Treasury official, since ousted, had blocked the move

(Newser) - After the ouster of a top Treasury Department official who had resisted the move, Elon Musk and his team have received full access to a sensitive government system that handles trillions of dollars in federal payments. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted the unprecedented access late Friday, the New York Times...

Administration Offers Buyouts to Federal Workforce

Employees must resign by Feb. 6 to be paid through September

(Newser) - Civilian federal workers who don't want to return to the office, as demanded in an executive order signed by President Trump, can instead choose to take a buyout. The White House's Office of Personnel Management sent government employees an email containing the terms on Tuesday, the Washington Post...

Treasury Pick Wins Senate Confirmation

Democrats argue nominee's tax returns show how the wealthy profit under current system

(Newser) - Scott Bessent, a hedge fund manager, won Senate confirmation on Monday to become Treasury secretary, minutes after two Democrats criticized him in floor speeches over his handling of self-employment taxes involving his hedge fund. The 68-29 vote puts Bessent in place to steer President Trump's economic priorities, including extending...

Quaker Suit Fights End of Policy That Limited ICE Raid Locations
Quakers Sue
Homeland Security
Jan 27, 2025 5:26 PM CST

Quakers Sue Homeland Security

They don't want immigration raids on their property

(Newser) - A lawsuit filed Monday by a group of Quaker congregations challenges a policy change that allows Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to raid schools, hospitals, playgrounds, and houses of worship. Such "sensitive locations" had been off-limits without approval from supervisors since the 1990s, the suit against the Department of...

State Department Freezes Foreign Aid Spending

Order seems to go beyond Trump's and include Ukraine assistance

(Newser) - Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued a "stop-work" order on Friday affecting all existing foreign assistance and all new aid, an action that appeared to go further than President Trump's executive order issued this week and stunned the State Department's staff. The only exceptions are for emergency...

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