Forgoing Oversight, Republicans Resort to Personal Appeals to Head Off DOGE Cuts
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Forgoing Oversight, Republicans Resort to Personal Appeals to Head Off DOGE Cuts

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma, learned that his district might lose a Social Security Administration field office and the National Weather Center’s primary storm prediction hub the same way many other Americans did: through a public webpage the Department of Government Efficiency…

Trump Moves to End Federal Union Protections Across Government
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Trump Moves to End Federal Union Protections Across Government

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump instructed a broad swath of government agencies on Thursday to end collective bargaining with federal unions, a major escalation in his effort to assert more control over the federal work force. Mr. Trump framed the order as critical to protect national…

As Trump Dismantles Voice of America, Some Broadcasts Are Replaced With Music
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As Trump Dismantles Voice of America, Some Broadcasts Are Replaced With Music

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For more than 80 years, Voice of America transmitted the news into countries, many of them authoritarian, where reliable sources of information about the outside world were often hard to come by. Now those broadcasts — long viewed as an important part of…

Trump Administration Live Updates: Hundreds of Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador in Face of Judge’s Order
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Hundreds of Venezuelans Sent to El Salvador in Face of Judge’s Order

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines A federal judge on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to cease use of an obscure wartime law to deport Venezuelans without a hearing, saying that any planes that had departed the United States with immigrants under the law needed to return. On Saturday,…

Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent
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Trump Orders Gutting of 7 Agencies, Including Voice of America’s Parent

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump signed an executive order on Friday seeking to dismantle seven additional federal agencies, including the one that oversees Voice of America and other government-funded media outlets around the world. Mr. Trump directed the heads of the agencies, largely obscure entities that…

Democratic Attorneys General Sue Over Gutting of Education Department
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Democratic Attorneys General Sue Over Gutting of Education Department

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines “All of President Trump’s executive actions are lawful, constitutional and intended to deliver on the promises he made to the American people,” a White House spokesman, Harrison Fields, said. “Partisan elected officials and judicial activists who seek to legally obstruct President Trump’s agenda…

Education Department Plans to Fire Much of Its Staff
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Education Department Plans to Fire Much of Its Staff

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Trump administration officials are planning to fire much of the staff at the Education Department, according to two people familiar with the decision. The move could come as soon as Tuesday and would gut the agency that manages federal loans for college, tracks…

Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency
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Chaos at the V.A.: Inside the DOGE Cuts Disrupting the Veterans Agency

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines At the Veterans Affairs hospital in Pittsburgh, researchers spent months preparing for a clinical trial of a new drug to treat advanced cancers of the mouth, throat and voice box. They were ready last month to start enrolling patients — veterans whose cancer…

State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas
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State Dept. Plans to Close Diplomatic Missions and Fire Employees Overseas

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Senior State Department officials have drawn up plans to close a dozen consulates overseas by this summer and are considering shutting down many more missions, in what could be a blow to the U.S. government’s efforts to build partnerships and gather intelligence, American…

C.I.A. Begins Firing Recently Hired Officers
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C.I.A. Begins Firing Recently Hired Officers

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines The government cuts ordered by the Trump administration have hit the C.I.A. Some officers hired in the last two years have been summoned to a location away from the agency’s headquarters in Langley, Va., and asked to surrender their credentials to security personnel,…