People Who Work

Not so fun fact: Elon Musk makes more money than every elementary school teacher in the country COMBINED.

This level of corporate CEO greed is unimaginable. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/musk-package-tesla-trillion/

Tech billionaires (the same people paying for his ballroom) gathered for dinner last week and now they’re trying to kill all state-level AI regulations.

Again, Trump is putting the interests of billionaires ahead of working people.

We would say losing 58,000 manufacturing jobs is definitely worse than "not where we want them to be." It's a reflection on how Trump's economic policies are hurting working families and our entire economy.

CDC changes website to promote RFK Jr.'s debunked vaccine-autism link The public health agency is publicly reversing its position on a link between vaccines and the condition.

RFK Jr. is destroying trust in the public health system that keeps working families safe across the country. https://www.axios.com/2025/11/20/cdc-website-rfk-vaccines-autism

The Trump administration isn’t “streamlining” the Department of Education. They’re gutting it — and hurting the millions of kids, teachers and parents across the country who depend on the department’s essential services and resources.

Trump saying he would bring prices down on day 1 was complete BS. He’s busy hanging out with soon-to-be trillionaire Elon Musk again, while leaving working people struggling to pay the bills and make ends meet.

Musk Is Back in Politics. Does He Want to Stay a While?

The American oligarchs are back together.

Elon being back in Washington, D.C. and meeting with DOGE officials again spells disaster for working families everywhere. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/us/politics/elon-musk-politics-trump-doge.html

Trump is really sticking to his guns on making things more affordable by… telling corporate bosses to fight against minimum wage increases?

The Trump admin fights for corporations while leaving working people struggling to make ends meet.

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“Its just kind of astonishing to me that the cost problem is somehow being blamed on us.”

The Trump administration promised to bring prices down on day 1. Now they’re deflecting blame because they have failed — and working families are paying the price.

This May Be the Cruelest, Most Senseless Thing Trump Has Done A conversation with Atul Gawande about the human toll of the dismantling of foreign aid.

DOGE recklessly pulled funding from USAID, the government agency responsible for providing humanitarian aid to those who need it around the world.

Now, an estimated 600,000 people have died, including 400,000 kids, because of DOGE’s cuts. https://bit.ly/4peeNpL

US drops Biden plan to require passenger compensation for delayed flights WASHINGTON () -President Donald Trump's ​administration said on Friday it ‌was formally withdrawing a plan by his ‌predecessor to require airlines to pay passengers cash compensation when U. flight di...

If Trump is trying to put money back in the pockets of working families, he’s doing it wrong. Actually, he’s doing the exact opposite of what he needs to do to achieve that. https://yhoo.it/4oG4kn8

‘This is Not a Drill.’ How the Peace Corps Prepared for a DOGE Visit The agency spent two months running through training exercises leading up to DOGE’s arrival in April.

Government agencies were given so little information about DOGE that many, including the Peace Corps, were guessing and conducting drills to figure out what to do if they showed up. In the midst of the chaos, they fired thousands of workers. https://bloom.bg/4r1Vz8B

Sure Eric Trump, very relatable.

We just want lower prices and don’t want our health insurance premiums to double.

We’re all trying to find the guy who did this.

The I.R.S. Tried to Stop This Tax Dodge. Scott Bessent Used It Anyway.

While working people try to make ends meet with rising costs and skyrocketing health insurance premiums, Trump administration officials are cashing in on sketchy tax loopholes. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/politics/scott-bessent-irs-loophole.html?smid=tw-share

These Wall Street titans are expected at Trump's White House dinner tonight The president is hosting some of the nation's top financiers for a White House dinner Wednesday as part of his effort to bring manufacturing back home.

Trump is hosting finance bros at the White House (even more funding for his $300 million ballroom?) while working families struggle to pay their bills and see their cost-of-living continue to rise. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-white-house-dinner-financial-industry-execs/

Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk The money will be awarded in a series of payments over 10 years if Tesla meets a series of performance benchmarks.

Elon’s $1 trillion contract got approved. ONE TRILLION DOLLARS. You have to turn your phone sideways for that number to fit on your calculator app.

After working to literally “traumatize” federal workers all year, he is cashing in. https://nbcnews.to/49r3WV5

Down to $1.18: How Families Are Coping With SNAP Cuts

The Trump administration’s political games are making people go hungry.

Now, millions of people are trying to figure out how to put food on the table, pay their bills and survive. It doesn’t have to be this way. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/snap-benefits-cuts-shutdown.html

Elon Musk spent his year inflicting as much pain as possible on America’s federal workers and breaking the essential services that working people rely on. 

And now he’s being handed a trillion-dollar paycheck on a silver platter.
 
Disgusting.

Kash Patel’s Private Jet Problem Is Even Worse Than It Looks This dude can’t stop flying to Nashville.

Hey DOGE: we’re eagerly awaiting your investigation into this obvious waste, fraud and abuse. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel-fbi-director-private-jet-problem-nashville

When you accidentally say the quiet part out loud. Very loud.

USDA Quietly Deletes Its Contingency Plan for Funding SNAP The 55-page “lapse of funding” document for USDA is no longer available online.

So the USDA *did* have a contingency plan for funding SNAP… but it’s been deleted from their website. 👀

Callers to Social Security wait for hours to get help. Hear their ordeals. Millions of seniors and disabled people call Social Security’s 1-800 number every month. What they experience is often maddening.

Do you have time to wait HOURS on the phone for help with Social Security or other essential services? Of course not. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s DOGE/Project 2025 is forcing people to go through.

They’re breaking our essential services. https://wapo.st/3Ld2viK

Trump administration won't tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says The Trump administration says it won't use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to keep food aid flowing in November amid the government shutdown.

The Trump administration is using hungry kids and families as pawns in their political games. It’s a disgusting and cruel attack on America’s most vulnerable working families. https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-assistance-government-shutdown-9cece00f9d6ef39fc5a0240ca2374696

With food stamps set to dry up Nov. 1, SNAP recipients say they fear what's next "Now we'll have to prioritize which bills we can pay and which can wait," said one mother of two about a looming freeze in food aid.

"Now we'll have to prioritize which bills we can pay and which can wait."

The Trump administration is playing political games with our lives and our budgets. Families need SNAP food assistance to survive. https://cbsn.ws/4hwxTVv

White House List of Donors for President Trump’s $300 Million Ballroom

The list of donors to Trump’s $300 million vanity ballroom is full of billionaires and giant corporations who are making donations to buy good will with the President.

Corruption in plain sight. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/trump-ballroom-donors-list.html

USDA cancels $1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to buy food from local suppliers The USDA said it is promoting wiser government spending, but schools say it will make it tougher to serve healthy meals.

DOGE - whose staffers are getting paid during the government shutdown - cut funding for schools and food banks.

SNAP food assistance is already about to run out of money, and now DOGE is trying to make it easier for even more people to go hungry. https://cbsn.ws/3L95Qzo

SNAP recipients told to buy shelf-stable food or go to food banks as funding deadline looms People who rely on the federal food assistance program might not receive their benefits for the month of November because of the ongoing government shutdown.

Just to recap: 42 million people are about to go hungry because the Trump admin shut down the government and won’t do anything to stop health insurance costs from doubling—and the President’s top priority is his $300 million ballroom.