Kat Burnham

Jobs at U.S.A.I.D. will drop from more than 10,000 to about 290, according to several people. Officials for the agency were notified of the planned cuts on the same day they learned that about 800 awards and contracts administered through U.S.A.I.D. were being canceled, three people said.

Breaking NYT:

The Trump admin will reduce the number of workers at USAID from more than 10,000 to only about 290 positions.

USAID officials were also told that about 800 awards and contracts administered through the agency were being canceled.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

A professor put it to me more simply:

The elimination of a federal agency without congressional approval renders Congress USELESS, which means the only form of representative government at the national level is useless.

Before the world shut down, there was the 2020 Iowa caucus. Wild to think it was 5 years ago today, both another lifetime and a blink. @warren.senate.gov’s message of determination and hope has stayed with me.

Cutting off Medicaid, cutting off heating for poor people in the deep of winter, cutting off states from disaster assistance — including Republican states. What Trump is doing is unconstitutional and illegal.

Perhaps Justice Scalia said it best when Nixon did the same thing.

Look ma, no tailpipe!

Fun tour today in Cumberland to celebrate 24 electric school buses coming online and hitting the road

Me: I’m well rested and caffeinated, ready for a productive start to the new year.

Also me: Time to join a new social network!

I’m fashionably late to the party, hello Bluesky