Stephen Engelberg

SCOOP: The FDA secretly allowed overseas factories with safety violations to sell popular generic drugs to Americans. The agency kept its decisions secret to avoid what one official feared would be a "frenzy" if the public knew the truth. www.propublica.org/article/fda-...

Wondering why Salvador's President Nayib Bukele is so eager to help President Trump? It might have something to do with an ongoing US criminal investigation focused on secret dealings between Bukele's inner circle and MS-13 gang members. www.propublica.org/article/buke...

www.propublica.org/article/trum.... The State Department has long tried to assure that US businesses are treated fairly overseas. What the Trump Administration is doing to help Elon Musk's Starlink win contracts is in another category.

The Trump Administration Keeps Citing an Untrue Stat as It Targets Federal Workers A “survey of our niche audience for our niche audience” was the source for the claim that only 6% of federal employees are working full time in their offices. The number isn’t true. Why do administrat...

From @sengelberg.bsky.social at @propublica.org: debunking the claim that only 6% of Fed workers go to the office. "It was a survey of our niche audience for our niche audience,” Serbu said. “Nobody’s ever been confused about it before this.” www.propublica.org/article/fede...

In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law ProPublica’s reporting provides new details about what legal risk officials were prepared to take and what laws they may have violated on their way to creating a “constitutional crisis.”

Feeding USAID into the “woodchipper” was done by Trump appointees who said they had a high “tolerance for legal risk.” We will see tomorrow morning if the administration is prepared to up the ante and defy a court order as @JDVance urges.

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