Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief told ProPublica.

One of our most-read investigations of 2025: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#DOGE #SocialSecurity #Government #ElonMusk #USPolitics #Musk #News

Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief told ProPublica.

One of our most-read investigations of 2025: https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#DOGE #SocialSecurity #Government #ElonMusk #USPolitics #Musk #News

"The cuts would cost countless lives... #Trump officials were told repeatedly. The team of aides pressed on...

By the third week in February, they were on track to wipe out 90% of USAID’s work. Created in 1961 to foster global stability and help advance American interests... the small band of appointees had set in motion its destruction."
- @ProPublica

https://www.propublica.org/article/usaid-cholera-deaths-trump-humanitarian-aid-cuts-south-sudan?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#USAID #DOGE #ElonMusk #DonaldTrump #GOP #Republicans #USPol #Politics #News #Press #US #USA #UnitedStates #America

What a horrible horrible sentence.

"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."

600.000!!!

#ElonMusk #Doge #DonaldTrump #Trump #Musk #USAID

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands

What a horrible horrible sentence.

"As of November 5th, it estimated that U.S.A.I.D.’s dismantling has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children."

600.000!!!

#ElonMusk #Doge #DonaldTrump #Trump #Musk #USAID

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-documentary/the-shutdown-of-usaid-has-already-killed-hundreds-of-thousands

Elon Musk was the face of DOGE, but records show that Russ Vought, Trump’s budget chief, played a key role in guiding DOGE behind the scenes.

Tomorrow at 6 p.m. ET, head to Reddit to ask our reporter Andy Kroll about Vought’s influence over the Trump presidency: https://www.reddit.com/r/fednews/comments/1o8zj92/im_andy_kroll_a_propublica_reporter_i_just/

#RussellVought #Trump #ElonMusk #DOGE #WhiteHouse #Government #USPolitics #Reddit

Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief reveals to ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#DOGE#SocialSecurity#Trump#Government#USPolitics

Ignoring urgently needed reforms in favor of fruitlessly trying to find evidence of fraud, DOGE descended on the Social Security Administration “thinking it should work like a McDonald’s,” the agency’s former acting chief reveals to ProPublica.
https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-doge-social-security-takeover-leland-dudek?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#DOGE#SocialSecurity#Trump#Government#USPolitics

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old #DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the #Taliban took his family. 🧵

On the left: Nate Cavanagh, a 28-year-old #DOGE staffer and college dropout.

On the right: Mohammad Halimi, a 53-year-old exiled Afghan scholar.

This is the story of how DOGE targeted Halimi on social media. Then the #Taliban took his family. 🧵

Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier.

https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-hospital-shortages-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Veterans#Health#Medicine#Trump#Government#DOGE

Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejections for the same period a year earlier.

https://www.propublica.org/article/veterans-affairs-hospital-shortages-trump?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Veterans#Health#Medicine#Trump#Government#DOGE

The Forest Service Claims It’s Fully Staffed for a Worsening Fire Season. Data Shows Thousands of Unfilled Jobs.
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DOGE cuts and voluntary resignations have severely hampered the agency as the nation enters the peak of fire season, with more than 1 million acres burning across 10 Western states.
https://www.propublica.org/article/forest-service-staff-fire-season?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News#Wildfires#DOGE#USPolitics#Forest#Fire

“ProPublica’s reporting revealed these cancelled contracts were delivering essential services … and exposed the cruel and dumb AI formulas DOGE bros used to cancel contracts,” Sen. Blumenthal said. “Veterans and all Americans deserve transparency.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/doge-veterans-affairs-ai-senator-investigation?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#DOGE#Veterans#AI#Health#Government #Technology #Journalism#Transparency