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These aid workers are still trying to get Afghan allies to safety

April 23, 2025 Capital News Service

The Taliban is targeting Afghans who worked with the U.S., including those who worked with the University of Maryland. Neighboring countries like Pakistan and Iran are cracking down on harboring Afghan refugees. At the same time, President Donald Trump is imposing a freeze on admitting refugees to the U.S.

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Education Department employees cheered as they leave, warn of impacts of cuts on the future

March 29, 2025 Capital News Service

Suitcases and large cardboard boxes rolled across the pavement outside the Department of Education’s offices this week as recently fired federal workers packed up their desks.

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Van Hollen and other Senate Democrats say Social Security nominee unfit

March 27, 2025 Capital News Service

Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen and some other Senate Democrats on Wednesday said President Donald Trump’s nominee to head the Social Security Administration, Frank Bisignano, could jeopardize benefits for seniors and Americans with disabilities. 

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At the Department of Education, protests – and warnings – over firings

March 14, 2025March 14, 2025 Capital News Service

The department closed its headquarters building in Washington as well as regional offices on Wednesday, but Newman sat on the stairs from 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. to protest her job loss. 

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Maryland lawmakers, unions denounce continued Trump firings of federal workers

March 5, 2025March 5, 2025 Capital News Service

Braving pouring rain, federal employees, union leaders, and lawmakers rallied on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to protest what they called a growing threat to the merit-based civil service as the Trump administration pushes efforts to weaken job protections across the government.

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Trump administration firings rock key climate and weather agency

February 28, 2025February 28, 2025 Capital News Service

The Commerce Department, parent agency of NOAA, gave fired employees less than two hours to pack up, turn in their badges and computers and exit the office by 5 p.m., according to a former NOAA employee who spoke to Capital News Service on the condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.

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Former USAID workers grieve the life-saving work they used to do 

February 28, 2025 Capital News Service

Glidden is just one of hundreds of D.C. area residents who have lost their jobs since the government froze funding across numerous agencies. In his first month in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order “reevaluating and realigning” U.S. federal aid distribution.

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Trump, Musk, and Authoritarian Lies

February 28, 2025February 28, 2025 Elisabeth Herschbach

In a recent Substack piece, Nobel Prize-winning economist and former New York Times columnist Paul Krugman discusses the “explosion of

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Fired federal workers descend on Senate to put human faces on Trump-Musk cuts 

February 26, 2025 Capital News Service

Nearly 40 recently terminated federal workers walked from Senate office to Senate office Tuesday, hoping to share their stories with senators and their staffs.

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Congress:  Good Men and Women Doing Nothing

February 20, 2025February 20, 2025 Les Cohen

Does President Trump care that he’s breaking the law?  Of course not.  The Supreme Court has ruled that a President is immune from prosecution as long as he breaks the law in the ordinary course of his Presidency.  What a crock. 

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