🇺🇸 The Damage Report: Trump Policy Updates

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Congress has passed and past presidents have signed laws as to how personnel are supposed to be handled. The spoils system was banned for a reason.

Spoils system - Wikipedia

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Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act - Wikipedia

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Trump: Musk’s Gen-Z DOGE Minions Should Run Air Traffic Control Towers

The group of young engineers are working from inside the White House, the president claimed Tuesday afternoon.

www.thedailybeast.com

Elon Musk Ally Tells Staff 'AI-First’ Is the Future of Key Government Agency

Sources say the former Tesla engineer now in charge of the Technology Transformation Services wants an agency that operates like a “startup software company."

www.wired.com

 

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Seven techies are helping Musk slash billions from government: Report

Recent college grads with no apparent government experience are tearing into Congress-approved programs, and may now have access to confidential information about hundreds of millions of Americans

www.independent.co.uk

 

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Senate Finance Committee advances RFK Jr.’s nomination for health secretary

Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician, was the key vote for Kennedy.

www.msnbc.com

 

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Trump administration weighs adding Shein, Temu to forced labor list

It would be a significant show of interest in cracking down on consumer imports from China.

www.semafor.com

 

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Kash Patel received a massive gift from Trump's media company before his hearing

The man Donald Trump nominated to be FBI director just received hundreds of thousands of dollars in stock from Trump Media.

www.msnbc.com

 

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Senate Finance Committee advances RFK Jr.’s nomination for health secretary

Louisiana Republican Sen. Bill Cassidy, a physician, was the key vote for Kennedy.

www.msnbc.com

Kennedy is going to get in because he's the worst thing possible for thus country and that's where we are now.

 

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Kennedy is going to get in because he's the worst thing possible for thus country and that's where we are now.

Which will make diseases run wild in this country once again.

 

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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats

Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’

www.theguardian.com

 

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Right out of the McCarthy playbook.

 

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Trump’s proposed EPA leadership stacked with lobbyists and attorneys

Guardian review of new political appointees also finds president is largely reappointing officials from his first term

www.theguardian.com

 

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Republicans Fold Like Little Origami Cranes To Back Trump's Contentious Nominees

After flashes of resistance from a handful of GOP senators, all of Donald Trump’s cabinet picks are now sailing forward on a path to confirmation.

www.huffpost.com

 

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Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper's security detail revoked

Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper's security detail, which was provided by the Defense Department, was pulled Tuesday night, a U.S. official told CBS News.

www.cbsnews.com

 

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