It’s been a year since mass firings began at the CDC, the federal public health agency. Then came a shooting, and the government shutdown. Atlanta is still feeling the economic and emotional effects.
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The government is investigating new claims that DOGE misused Social Security data
The fallout from DOGE staffers’ efforts to access sensitive Social Security data continues as an agency watchdog disclosed a new investigation into “potential misuse” reported by a whistleblower.
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The government has long researched high school experiences. Then DOGE cut the effort
The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.
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A lawsuit tries to block the Trump administration’s efforts to merge personal data
A class action lawsuit argues that the administration’s efforts to combine databases of personal information on Americans violates privacy laws and the Constitution.
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A judge ruled their firings were illegal. The government got to do it anyway
A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.
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Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers
A whistleblower complaint says that the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.
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Federal judge rules cuts to humanities grants were ‘unlawful’
The ruling deems the government’s termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities “unlawful” and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.
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Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program
The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA’s workforce.
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U.S. senator wants DOGE out of sensitive payment system for farmers
Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., wants the USDA to revoke high-level access granted to the Department of Government Efficiency to a database that controls payments and loans to farmers and ranchers.
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DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data. Now, it can cut off billions to farmers
DOGE recently gained high-level access to a database that controls government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the U.S.
