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Donald Trump and his Elon Musk are preparing to accelerate their purge of America’s federal bureaucracy, with the Department of Government Efficiency set make more staff cuts to the executive branches.
Over the past few days, the Department of Veterans Affairs said it had let go of more than 1,000 employees in their probationary period, while the U.S. Forest Service is set to terminate more than 3,000. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has been instructed to fire 1,300 staffers.
Elsewhere, more than 300 staffers at the National Nuclear Security Administration were reportedly fired Thursday night, with officials seemingly unaware that the agency oversees the U.S. nuclear stockpile.
Documents obtained by the Washington Post claim that DOGE also aims to target staffers who are not in DEI roles and employees who work in offices established by law to ensure equal rights.
The agency reportedly plans to cut staff from dozens of offices, including some that protect employees’ civil rights and others that investigate complaints of employment discrimination.
Dozens of government employees who do not work in DEI roles but who perform functions that DOGE has determined were related to DEI, will be placed on leave, and ultimately fired, the Post reported,
Trump Media lost more than $400m in 2024
Trump Media and Technology Group, the parent company of the president’s social media platform Truth Social, reportedly lost more than $400 million in 2024.
The company also reported a 12 percent decline in annual revenue to $3.6 million, which it blamed on an unnamed advertising partner according to the the latest earnings report, which was filed on Friday.
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Mike Bedigan15 February 2025 22:00
DOGE impersonators storm San Francisco city hall demanding sensitive documents
Deputies in San Francisco are looking for three men claiming to be from DOGE who walked into the city’s government center and demanded municipal records.
On Friday, three men claiming to represent Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” — which is not an official federal department — walked into San Francisco City Hall to demand sensitive government records related to “alleged wasteful government spending and fraud,” according to CBS News.
The men were wearing DOGE shirts and Donald Trump MAGA hats.
Mike Bedigan15 February 2025 21:30
Trump invokes Napoleon Bonaparte in Truth Social post
Donald Trump appeared to be making reference to Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte in a new Truth Social post.
“He who saves his Country does not violate any Law,” the president wrote on Saturday afternoon, a quote which is often attributed to the European conquerer.
It comes after several of Trump’s early executive orders and budget-slashing with Elon Musk’s new Department of Government Efficiency have been called into court by a string of lawsuits.
Mike Bedigan15 February 2025 21:00
MAGA influencer Ashley St. Clair claims she had son with Elon Musk five months ago
A conservative influencer claims she’s the mother of Tesla/X/SpaceX CEO Elon Musk’s 13th child, according to a post she made on X.
Ashley St. Clair, a 31-year-old MAGA writer, wrote in a post on X on Friday night that she and Musk share a five-month-old child.
Mike Bedigan15 February 2025 20:30
As Trump administration reforms the EPA, cleanups of America’s most toxic sites are uncertain
Mike Bedigan15 February 2025 20:00
Watch: Trump confirms call with Starmer to plan ‘friendly meeting’
Mike Bedigan15 February 2025 19:30
Next targets of DOGE cuts revealed
Documents obtained by the Washington Post have identified DOGE’s next targets.
The agency, headed by Elon Musk, aims to target staffers who are not in DEI roles and employees who work in offices established by law to ensure equal rights.
The Trump administration plans to cut staff from dozens of offices, including some that protect employees’ civil rights and others that investigate complaints of employment discrimination.
Among the groups targeted are a Veterans Affairs office that works to ensure all veterans receive equal access to care and an office within Health and Human Services that provides information about the health of minority populations, the Post reports.
Mike Bedigan15 February 2025 19:00
‘If they charge us, we charge them’: What is Trump’s goal with his trade war?
Donald Trump has been long fixated on the idea that tariffs could solve the country’s budgetary problems.
The concept has a lengthy history. Until 1913 saw the introduction of the 16th Amendment granting Congress the power to levy income taxes, tariffs were the sole source of revenue for the federal government.
Andrew Feinberg asks the question, what is the president’s endgame with regard to his recent trade wars?
Mike Bedigan15 February 2025 18:30
National Press Club president criticizes White House ban on AP reporters
The president of the National Press Club has issued a statement criticizing the White House Friday for barring the Associated Press from the Oval Office and Air Force One.
The decision was made in response to the AP continuing to use the name “Gulf of Mexico” for its global audience, while noting to readers that Donald Trump has announced the renaming of the body of water to “Gulf of America.”
“Freedom of speech is not a privilege the government grants or revokes — it is a right that belongs to the people,” NPC president Mike Balsamo said on Friday.
“The White House barring Associated Press journalists for not using government-imposed language is a blatant violation of the First Amendment and a brazen attack on press freedom.
Balsamo added that the barring of AP represented “a dangerous escalation of government interference in journalism and a direct threat to the public’s right to independent, fact-based information.”
Mike Bedigan15 February 2025 18:00
Full story: Energy Department scrambles to rehire nuclear bomb experts fired in major DOGE screw up, reports
The National Nuclear Safety Administration was struggling Friday to rehire some of the nation’s top nuclear specialists after they were fired by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency in an apparent massive mistake, according to reports that triggered security fears.
Sources told CNN that DOGE staffers apparently did not realize that the agency oversees America’s nuclear weapons stockpile when the employees were fired Thursday. The terminations were quickly rescinded Friday, CNN reported.
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Mike Bedigan15 February 2025 17:31
Read More: Trump’s DOGE ‘identifies next targets’ for job cuts as nuclear experts fired: Live
