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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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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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Increases in our national debt should be reserved for economic or national security emergencies, neither one of which we are experiencing at the moment.
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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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Some of Maryland’s Democratic lawmakers say they are appalled by President Donald Trump’s comments blaming Ukraine for Russia’s invasion and calling Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator.
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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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President Trump is, as of this writing, on the verge of giving private citizen Elon Musk access to everyone’s IRS file, yours included. He says he’s doing this for reasons related to improving the efficiency of the IRS, but has stopped well short of telling what, precisely, those reasons might be.
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Laying people off is just the means or result of carefully identifying and correcting inefficiencies. And he’s cutting back because we can’t keep funding the government by borrowing and paying interest on so, so many trillions of dollars of debt.
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Yes, Kamala Harris lost the election to Donald Trump. An impressive 75 million Americans voted for her, but it wasn’t enough. Unfortunately, 77.3 million other Americans chose, for a variety of reasons, to re-elect Donald Trump.
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In one of Donald Trump’s first acts in office, he stripped away protections for schools, hospitals, and places of worship from immigration enforcement. These were once safe spaces where people could learn, receive health care, and pray without fear. Now they have been turned into targets for ICE raids.
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