Delays in funding and new procedures to justify budgets have led to temporary closures and massive uncertainty for programs, workers, and families who rely on child care.
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Posted inEnergy and the Environment
DOGE Is Obliterating American Industry
The Loan Programs Office is one of the most successful government agencies in history—or it was until Elon Musk arrived.
Posted inLaw and Justice
Public Records Wreckers
The consequences of gutting FOIA offices are both obvious and unknowable.
Posted inWorking in America
Inside the VA’s War on Unions
How some (but not all) VA unions became a national-security threat
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 inHealth and Social Policy
The Trump Administration Is Objectively Pro-Cancer
America used to have the best medical research system in the world. Elon Musk and RFK Jr. are ripping it to shreds.
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 inPolitics
Trump’s Orwellian Assault on Black History
How do you clean up the Black experience in America to gloss over the history of slavery and Jim Crow?