Alison Bucy

Interior Alaska’s plan to expand electric vehicle infrastructure hits a bump in the road Demand for electric vehicles is growing in Alaska, but a pause on federal funding for the chargers that power them could hold up key infrastructure projects.

A plan to install electric vehicle charging stations in the Interior is on hold after the Trump administration paused a $5 billion federal program intended to expand clean energy infrastructure.

Top Social Security Official Leaves After Musk Team Seeks Data Access The departure of the acting commissioner is the latest backlash to the Department of Government Efficiency’s efforts to access sensitive data.

Donald Trump is selling out our seniors to Elon Musk.

He is handing over control to sensitive Social Security information to an UNELECTED billionaire.

Is Trump too weak to tell Musk no?

Is he using Musk to cut Social Security so he doesn't have to take the blame?

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/u...

Dinner with a cute guy ❤️

It occurred to me that many Americans are experiencing for the first time a feeling that Black, brown, and Indigenous people have had since forever. Fear and distrust of this government.

Not a “gotcha” statement; it’s my observation.

I hope you have community to lean into. All of us.

New CFPB chief closes headquarters, tells all staff they must not do 'any work tasks' The edict comes as Russell Vought takes over at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Vought has ordered work to halt at the consumer finance watchdog and is cutting off new funding.

Staff and contractors at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have been told they cannot "perform any work tasks," according to an internal email obtained by NPR.

‘Catastrophic’ education cuts could hit Trump voters | CNN Politics Layoffs, bigger classes: GOP efforts to slash education funding could hit states that support Trump

They are finding out the hard way. Facts matter.

www.cnn.com/2025/01/16/p...

Not the Onion

To America’s 2.3 million federal employees:

Don’t accept a buyout.

Neither Musk nor even Trump has the legal authority to make such an offer.

And even if they did, would you trust them to follow through on it?

Sincerely,

Robert Reich
Former U.S.Secretary of Labor