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Household incomes below the 4th decile (<= $76,475) will be negatively affected. The top decile will be positively affected by 2.3%. A blatant transfer of income from the poor to the rich.

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'Hidden' provision in Trump's big bill could disarm US Supreme Court The provision would bar courts from enforcing contempt citations for violations of injunctions or temporary restraining orders unless a bond has been paid.

Robert Reich, wrote that the provision "makes Trump King." No congress and no court could stop him. Even if a future Congress were to try to stop him, it could not do so without the power of the courts to enforce their hearings, investigations, subpoenas, and laws.

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White House officials wanted to put federal workers ‘in trauma.’ It’s working. Federal workers describe struggling with panic attacks, depression, suicidal thoughts. “Why doesn’t anyone care?”

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How DOGE’s grand plan to remake Social Security is backfiring The agency is abandoning an initiative aimed at preventing fraud, the latest example of a failed effort by Elon Musk’s disruptive cost-cutting team.

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"The Global High Wealth unit, which investigates the taxes of the very richest people, was until recently slated for major expansion. It has instead lost 38 percent of its staff. The staffing reductions have interrupted ongoing audits on high earners."

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ICE’s Deportation Airline Hack Reveals Man ‘Disappeared’ to El Salvador Plus: A DOGE operative’s laptop reportedly gets infected with malware, Grok AI is used to “undress” women on X, a school software company’s ransomware nightmare returns, and more.

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DOGE aims to pool federal data, putting personal information at risk A centralized system with unprecedented access to data about Social Security, taxes, medical diagnoses and other private information would create vulnerabilities, experts say.

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Opinion | ‘I Wanted to Do Work That Was Helping People.’ Then Trump Fired Him — Twice. (Gift Article) The Trump administration saw them as villains. I saw something very different.

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Elon Musk, JD Vance, and the Onward March of Tech Fascism No, Elon Musk isn't leaving government. Yes, JD Vance is a Curtis Yarvin follower

"JD Vance Follows Curtis Yarvin
JD has long been a follower of Yarvin, the San Francisco programmer whose anti-democracy, pro-dictatorship blog posts have become sacred scripture in Silicon Valley. On Friday, JD made it official by following Yarvin on Twitter."
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On April 20th, 2025, the United States will Cross the Point of No Return. That’s the day Donald Trump’s advisory committee is expected to release its findings on whether he should invoke the Insurrection Act — a move that would allow him to deploy the military domestically…

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Elon Musk’s Goal Isn’t Efficiency — It’s a Liquidation Sale The Department of Government Efficiency isn’t bumbling through an ill-advised reform effort. It’s deliberately sabotaging federal agencies to make way for privatization.

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DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024.

Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

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March 24, 2025 Today the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, dropped the story that senior members of the Trump administration planned the March 15 U.S.

"...[T]his is what happens when you have basically Fox News personalities cosplaying as government officials.” ...“These guys inherited one of the most functional state apparatus in the history of the world and they are inhabiting it like a crack house.”
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Judge temporarily blocks DOGE from accessing sensitive Social Security data In a scathing ruling on Thursday, a federal judge wrote that DOGE “essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA, in search of a fraud epidemic, based on little more than suspicion.”

DOGE never identified even a single reason for which the DOGE Team needs unlimited access to SSA’s entire record systems, thereby exposing personal, confidential, sensitive, and private information that millions of Americans entrusted to their government
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From the fednews community on Reddit: Here’s something everyone can do, courtesy of Raskin Explore this post and more from the fednews community

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Inside Elon Musk’s ‘Digital Coup’ Musk’s loyalists at DOGE have infiltrated dozens of federal agencies, pushed out tens of thousands of workers, and siphoned millions of people’s most sensitive data. The next step: Unleash the AI.

"...a 25-year-old former X engineer named Marko Elez was granted the ability not only to read the code in the Treasury systems but also to write—or change—it."
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“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump In a recording obtained by ProPublica, acting Social Security Commissioner Leland Dudek portrayed his agency as facing peril, while also encouraging patience with “the DOGE kids.”

"He confirmed that the DOGE team members had broad access to Americans’ Social Security numbers and other personal data, but he claimed that if they were to do anything illegal with that information, he’d have them investigated and potentially prosecuted."

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Turmoil within DOGE spills into public view as Musk’s group confronts a PR crisis Facing weeks of negative headlines and growing pressure from within the Trump administration, the U.S. DOGE Service is racing to finish the first phase of its assignment - slashing the federal bureauc...

"USDS was often slowed down by... ...rules and restrictions that are key to protecting sensitive data. DOGE has been able to move faster, but only because it wields more political capital and ignores many of those safeguards."

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Judge orders urgent release of DOGE records, citing ‘unprecedented’ power and ‘unusual secrecy’ It’s the first significant ruling in a growing legal push to pierce DOGE’s secretive veil, a decision that undercuts Musk’s repeated insistence about the operation’s transparency.

"Cooper also offered some criticism of the way the Trump administration litigated the case, noting that its lawyers offered virtually nothing in the way of evidence about DOGE’s operations or management."

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Rubio and Trump Officials Clash With Elon Musk in an Explosive Meeting (Gift Article) Simmering anger at the billionaire’s unchecked power spilled out in a remarkable Cabinet Room meeting. The president quickly moved to rein in Mr. Musk.

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The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.

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How Elon Musk Executed His Takeover of the Federal Bureaucracy (Gift Article) The operation was driven with a frenetic focus by the billionaire, who channeled his resentment of regulatory oversight into a drastic overhaul of government agencies.

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From the fednews community on Reddit: Court filing shows DOGE accessed sensitive American consumer data with no vetting Explore this post and more from the fednews community

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From the fednews community on Reddit: This dashboard tracks P2025 implementation across agencies. As of Feb 23, 2025, it's 36% complete. Posted by CrJ418 - 75 votes and 9 comments

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Young Aides Emerge as Enforcers in Musk’s DOGE Team Efforts (Gift Article) Much of the billionaire’s handiwork — gaining access to internal systems and asking employees to justify their jobs — is being driven by a group of engineers operating in secrecy.

"Luke Farritor, in preparation to join the team, started learning COBOL, a coding language considered retrograde in Silicon Valley but common in government."
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DOGE staffer steps down after racist posts emerge | TechCrunch A 25-year-old Doge staffer resigned over racist posts on X.

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2026 Win Them Back Fund is launching a $50M investment & initial plan targeting 14 MAGA Republicans who narrowly won their seats in 2024

If you live in or near these 14 districts, LFG: