Trump Corruption

The Hill reports: Mass firings are set to hit the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) “imminently,” a source with knowledge told The Hill. The person, who asked to speak anonymously due to fear of reprisal, said the agency had not yet been subjected to the steep cuts announced elsewhere due to the then-pending confirmation of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. …

The Bulwark reports: The Department of Energy spent this week trying to contain the fallout from its DOGE-directed firing and rehiring of a brace of nuclear safety officials by painting them as non-critical staff who “held primarily administrative and clerical roles.” But this wasn’t close to true, current and recently retired NNSA employees tell The Bulwark. In fact, one of …

The New York Times reports: The U.S. Justice Department said Thursday that it would dismiss a case against Elon Musk’s SpaceX, in which the rocket company had been accused of discriminating against people based on their citizenship status. In an unopposed motion filed with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, the Justice Department said it intended …

Gizmodo reports: Elon Musk is not happy with Community Notes, the crowdsourced fact-checking program that adds notes to correct misinformation on his social media platform X. And the billionaire says he’s now going to “fix” Community Notes so that it agrees with him, claiming without evidence that it’s being manipulated by governments and the media. Why is Musk upset? It …

“Scott Bessent actually went there and was treated rather rudely, because essentially, they told him no and Zelensky was sleeping and unavailable to meet him. He traveled many hours on the train, which is a dangerous trip, and we’re talking about the secretary of the Treasury. He went there to get a document signed, and when he got there, he …

The Independent reports: Despite promises on the campaign trail that his administration would not touch Social Security, and claiming that his Democratic rivals are the ones trying to end it, Trump and the world’s wealthiest man and his allies are trying to justify cuts to Social Security and federal health programs Medicare and Medicaid to come up with Musk’s target …

Politico reports: Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia vowed Thursday that he would not be “silenced” after receiving a letter from the Department of Justice demanding he explain remarks critical of Elon Musk. In a post on X, Garcia shared the letter he received from Ed Martin [photo], the top federal prosecutor in Washington, who has repeatedly threatened to investigate President Donald …

The Washington Post reports: President Donald Trump is preparing to dissolve the leadership of the U.S. Postal Service and absorb the independent mail agency into his administration, potentially throwing the 250-year-old mail provider and trillions of dollars of e-commerce transactions into turmoil. Trump is expected to issue an executive order as soon as this week to fire the members of …

Reuters reports: The Trump administration can for now continue its mass firings of federal employees, a federal judge ruled on Thursday, rejecting a bid by a group of labor unions to halt President Donald Trump’s dramatic downsizing of the roughly 2.3 million-strong federal workforce. The ruling by U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper in Washington, D.C. federal court is temporary while …

The New York Times reports: President Donald Trump phoned Team USA on Thursday morning to express his support ahead of the 4 Nations Face-Off championship game against Canada, after he had already stoked simmering political tensions that morning in a post to his Truth Social account in which he once again referred to Canada as the “Fifty First State” and …

The San Francisco Chronicle reports: The Presidio Trust, a federal agency charged with running and protecting the historic San Francisco park, should be “eliminated” because it is “unnecessary,” according to an executive order issued by the White House on Wednesday night. The order calls for cutting all federal funding to the Presidio Trust that is not legally necessary. The order, titled …

NBC News reports: A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late on Wednesday declined the Justice Department’s request to immediately reinstate President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting birthright citizenship, setting up a potential emergency application to the Supreme Court. Legal experts have said Trump’s order conflicted with the Fourteenth Amendment, which extends American citizenship to anyone …

“We’ve also required that all federal employees must once again show up to work. It’s a new phenomenon, you know, since COVID showed up, to work in person like the rest of us. So, I mean, it doesn’t work when you don’t show up. “And I see companies now are all going back to it. They’re all going back. It’s …

Yahoo Sports reports: Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested on Tuesday while protesting during a city council meeting in Huntington Beach, California. Kluwe, 43, was protesting the city’s approval of a public library plaque that was designed to use words to spell out “MAGA.” “’MAGA’ is profoundly corrupt, unmistakably anti-democracy and most importantly, ‘MAGA’ is explicitly a Nazi movement,” …

The Associated Press reports: While flying back to Washington aboard Air Force One on Wednesday night, a reporter asked President Donald Trump whether Elon Musk would pursue budget cuts at the Pentagon. His response might be confusing to anyone who hasn’t spent the last several days monitoring Musk’s account on X. Trump said Musk would be looking at Fort Knox, the legendary …

Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: President Donald Trump arrived at Miami International Airport Wednesday, went to Trump National Doral, and was set to go to the Faena Hotel in Miami Beach. Trump was set to be a guest speaker during Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund’s FII PRIORITY Miami 2025 conference attracting billionaires. A coalition of human rights groups released a statement …

Axios reports: Elon Musk plans to “check with” President Trump about a proposal to send Americans rebate checks with money saved through slash-and-burn DOGE cuts. The proposal is for $5,000 “dividend” checks, a number that comes from Musk’s original goal of saving the government $2 trillion via budget cuts. The idea came from James Fishback, CEO of investment firm Azoria …

The Independent reports: Days after suggesting he is above the law, Donald Trump declared himself “king” following his administration’s push to strike down new tolls for Manhattan drivers to raise funds for the city’s aging mass transit system. “CONGESTION PRICING IS DEAD,” he wrote on Truth Social on Wednesday. “Manhattan, and all of New York, is SAVED. LONG LIVE THE …

The Insider reports: President Donald Trump on Wednesday endorsed a House Republican budget plan that could cut billions from Medicaid, just hours after pledging that the healthcare program for millions of disabled and low-income Americans would not be touched. Republican leaders have called for massive spending cuts to finance trillions in tax cuts and other provisions. House conservatives won a …

Mediaite reports: President Donald Trump went ballistic on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday, blaming him for the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine as well as the death of “MILLIONS” in a post on Truth Social. Trump’s scathing, falsehood-ridden attack on the Ukrainian leader comes one day after he first blamed Ukraine for supposedly starting the conflict and claimed …