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Ways and Means Democrats will explore every possible path to challenge the severe overreaches by the DOGE team. We’re not backing down—our inquiries will continue until the American people hear the truth. Catch up on our latest inquiries: democrats-waysandmeans.house.gov/media-center...

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

How the Trump Administration spends its budget shows you what they value—and it’s not your data and it’s not your health. www.wired.com/story/depart...

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In 2022, the Administration for Community Living, just dismantled by Musk/DOGE, provided over 261 million meals to seniors, supported over 1.5 million family caregivers, and independent-living services to nearly 250,000 people with disabilities. www.urban.org/urban-wire/s...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

House GOP leaders move to quash vote on Trump’s global tariffs.

submitted 23 days ago • 26 comments

"Donald Trump's tariffs are so punishing that even the houses in Monopoly are going to get more expensive. And I do mean that literally." In the latest edition of The Breakdown, @citizencohn.bsky.social looks at one close-up example of how tariffs will play out: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-tari...

submitted 23 days ago • 9 comments

Trump’s tariffs do more than send the markets into a complete freefall. They carry devastating consequences for real people. @repstevenhorsford.bsky.social listened to how it’s impacting NV resident, Jamie:

submitted 24 days ago • 22 comments

Trump's tariffs are shattering supply chains, leaving small businesses with impossible choices and a historically volatile market. Small businesses and the American people are paying the price for his short-sighted recklessness. www.npr.org/2025/04/07/n...

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Andrew Chen, co-founder of one of my favorite denim brands, 3sixteen, breaks down how the tariffs affect his company IG 3sixteen

submitted 27 days ago • 311 comments

Tariffs will be lifted on penguins who surrender their eggs to the US market. by Howard Lutnick

submitted 27 days ago • 110 comments

“I think we’re all familiar with the old adage, 'When the going gets tough, the tough get going to Florida for a Saudi-backed golf event'...” www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 28 days ago • 591 comments

This is Trump's Golden Age for America

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Democrats, when you talk about today, use the original CNN headline

submitted 30 days ago • 5 comments

Here is the — entirely accurate — headline: Republican leadership just CANCELLED ALL VOTES FOR THE WEEK rather than allow a vote on a Republican member’s effort to allow proxy voting for new parents.

submitted 31 days ago • 4 comments

The Trump administration’s latest cuts to America’s health infrastructure underscores their commitment to leaving America’s seniors to fend for themselves. www.axios.com/2025/03/27/r...

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

“Are we going to break something?” acting Social Security Admin leader Dudek asked at one point, referring to what DOGE has been doing with Social Security data. “I don’t know.” (!!!)

submitted 51 days ago • 16 comments

Ranking Member @neal.house.gov and former Social Security Commissioner @martinomalley.bsky.social tell us what's at stake for Social Security:

submitted 52 days ago • 5 comments

Hi @johnfetterman.com @fetterman.senate.gov any thoughts? www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

submitted 56 days ago • 28 comments

New: DOGE sought access to a sensitive database kept by federal child-support office Powerful system contains income info, Social Security numbers for nearly all U.S. workers DOGE initially rebuffed by a career civil servant who questioned legal authority More TK w @jeffstein.bsky.social

submitted 57 days ago • 86 comments

Federal policy research firm - a major contractor - is laying off and furloughing 20% of staff this week, because of DOGE contract cancellations. Guess this is what happens when the federal govt no longer wants to figure out which policies work or not.

submitted 60 days ago • 17 comments

Corrupt? Sure. But also directly dangerous? And how! FAA has done careful, long testing /study of new tower-communication system. Now a rush to switch to system that just happens to be owned by Mr. Efficiency himself, Elon. (Has he even been to an ATC facility? Probably like Vance re Ukraine)

submitted 61 days ago • 89 comments

NEW @npr.org: When DOGE updated its savings tracker this week with new “receipts,” it quietly deleted errors worth billions, added new errors and still has little verified savings from cancelling contracts — about $2.3 billion (up from ~$2 billion) More digging:

submitted 62 days ago • 58 comments

W/ a $230 billion AG instruction, if they don't cut SNAP, that means they're cutting all US farm programs by ~75%. Do you think they're doing that, or do you think they're cutting SNAP, like Arrington's public document says they're doing? Have a modicum of shame & quit lying to the American public.

submitted 66 days ago • 10 comments

Even before Trump 2.0, the Social Security Administration’s staffing levels were at a 50-year low due to a decade of budget caps & cuts authored by GOP lawmakers. Further staff cuts and office closures can only make things worse for America's most vulnerable. New, @propublica.org

submitted 69 days ago • 21 comments

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submitted 73 days ago • 7 comments

The people Social Security staff denied access to our most personal information are the same people who accused Social Security recipients of fraud because the DOGE boys didn't know how to read COBOL (computer language) so they misunderstood what they were looking at.

submitted 73 days ago • 0 comments

King declined to give the Musk-led DOGE, access to a centralized database that includes information about income, addresses, retirement benefits and sometimes even medical records for any American with a Social Security number, people familiar with the situation told The 19th.

submitted 73 days ago • 13 comments

Musk accused Reuters of ‘social deception.’ The deception was his. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

submitted 76 days ago • 26 comments

A few more words about this story: We spent a lot of time rereading the NIH document rolling out this policy. The numbers in it do not add up. The language is vague. NIH would not answer our questions about it. These are recurring features of memos proposing sweeping change under the new admin.

submitted 77 days ago • 4 comments

Hey, GOP! I found some of that 'waste, fraud, and abuse' you've tasked Elon Musk with finding! www.npr.org/2025/02/13/g...

submitted 78 days ago • 17 comments

slate.com/podcasts/wha... I want you to imagine that your baby has been born with mysterious symptoms. A hospital data scientist is trying to figure it out with rare disease data from the CDC. But suddenly that information is deleted. Today’s show. With @jasonkoebler.bsky.social:

submitted 82 days ago • 21 comments

REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN SILENT AS THESE HACKERS DO AS THEY PLEASE! Where is their outrage over your privacy??? www.wsj.com/politics/elo...

submitted 86 days ago • 5 comments

I am here to DEMAND answers from Speaker Johnson at his meeting with Scott Bessent regarding sensitive taxpayer information being handed over to an unelected billionaire donor.

submitted 86 days ago • 38 comments

We are new here! Here's what you need to know: 🏛️Oldest committee in Congress. ✅The folks with the money that brought you stimulus checks, lower drug prices, the new green energy economy, Trump's taxes in 2022, and SO much more. 💸Fighting to give the American worker and family a fair shot

submitted 169 days ago • 5 comments