The American Federation of Government Employees says the Trump administration hid its plan to turn airport security over to private companies like Palantir.
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Posted inTransportation
TSA Privatization Returns Airport Security to a Dangerous Past
The Trump administration wants airport screening to revert to the way it was before 9/11, when private security companies were in charge.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
A VA Medical Center Meltdown
Persistent maintenance and staffing issues at a D.C.-based center reveal bigger problems with the VA health system.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
FEMA’s Summer Snowpocalypse
The Trump administration’s partisan warfare leaves the emergency management agency skidding into bureaucratic snowbanks and confronting angry Democratic lawmakers.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
How Donald Trump Created the Worst Diarrhea Outbreak This Century
The ‘MAHA Trots’ are what happens when Republicans implement their anti-government agenda.
Posted inPolitics
Trump’s Plan to Corrupt American Science
OMB’s Russell Vought would bring all federal research grants under direct political control, to align with ‘the president’s agenda.’
Posted inTechnology
Silicon Valley Needs Washington After All
The industry that spent 50 years insisting it didn’t need the state has discovered it can’t do without it.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Appeasing Trump Is a Futile Sugar High
How the American Diabetes Association tried to hide a critical editorial published in its own journal—to no avail
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Project Crypto Scheme
Forget deregulatory legislation; the SEC and CFTC are already working diligently to eliminate regulatory oversight of crypto at the behest of their president.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Crypto Industry Gets Its Way on GENIUS Act Rulemaking
The primary federal regulators of stablecoins are finalizing their rules for GENIUS Act implementation and, much to the chagrin of the banking industry, crypto firms are getting everything they want.