How some (but not all) VA unions became a national-security threat
federal employees
Posted inLaw and Justice
Hatchet Job on CFPB Even Worse in the Details
Declarations in a case reveal a haphazard hobbling of the consumer protection agency.
Posted inWorking in America
Worker Rights Threatened at the Department of Labor
Elon Musk and Donald Trump want to make federal employees miserable on the job. Their latest trick: threaten criminal penalties for exercising free speech.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Federal Judge Halts CFPB Purge Again
DOGE was apparently part of the effort to hobble the agency, along with Clarence Thomas pal Mark Paoletta. For the moment, the firing of 1,483 workers is on hold.
Posted inLaw and Justice
CFPB Slashed to the Bone, Threatening Financial Markets
The agency fired 1,500 workers on Thursday, which violates a court order and threatens a meltdown of mortgage markets and more.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Mad King Trump’s War on the Troops
The administration is vindictively hacking away at veterans’ benefits.
Posted inPolitics
No Personnel Is Policy
The Trump administration is accomplishing through layoffs what it couldn’t accomplish through Congress.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Rule by Contractor
DOGE is not about waste and efficiency—it’s about privatization.
Posted inWorking in America
Trump Stomps Workers
Stripping bargaining rights from most federal employees is one more way he’s converting a constitutional government into a monarch’s court.
Posted inPolitics
How to Use Your Power
Blue states have many options for progress, if they commit to actually governing.