55 m. ago FDA moves to rehire medical device staffers fired only days earlier

The Food and Drug Administration is reinstating some of the hundreds of staffers it fired last week

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2 h. ago Scientists reviewing Musk’s Neuralink are fired – then rehired – from FDA following flurry of DOGE cuts

Around 300 FDA staffers have been asked to return to work after Musk’s DOGE axed thousands of jobs from the Department of Health and Human Services

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6 h. ago Confusion at US agencies over whether to comply with Elon Musk email demanding workers justify their jobs – US politics live

Government agencies give conflicting advice after email from Elon Musk demanding employees list accomplishments from past weekThe Trump administration has blocked a crucial step in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) process for funding medical research, likely in violation of a federal judge’s temporary restraining order on federal funding freezes.The NIH has stopped submitting study sections – meetings in which scientists peer review NIH grant funding proposals – to the Federal Register after the Trump administration paused health agency communications. By law, study sections must appear on the register 15 days in advance of meetings.Those who ignored President Trump’s executive order to return to work have now received over a month’s warning.Starting this week, those who still fail to return to office will be placed on administrative leave. Continue reading...

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25 h. ago DOGE has teased $5,000 stimulus checks amid mass spending cuts. Here’s what we know

Budget experts have weighed in as rumors swirl about $5000 checks being delivered to every taxpaying household

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27 h. ago Trump halts medical research funding in apparent violation of judge’s order

Health department orders NIH to hold Federal Register submissions – critical step in process for funding studiesThe Trump administration has blocked a crucial step in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) process for funding medical research, likely in violation of a federal judge’s temporary restraining order on federal funding freezes.The NIH has stopped submitting study sections – meetings in which scientists peer review NIH grant funding proposals – to the Federal Register after the Trump administration paused health agency communications. By law, study sections must appear on the register 15 days in advance of meetings. Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Council chiefs making fire and rehire threats should be sacked, union suggests

GMB Scotland secretary Louise Gilmour has spoken out after two local authorities allegedly made threat in pay negotiations.

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64 h. ago Trump triggers upheaval at Pentagon as top general pushed out and DOGE staff cuts to hit thousands: Live

President also directed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to solicit nominations for five additional high-level positions, which will be announced soon

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65 h. ago Trump ducks Putin ‘dictator’ question; GOP voters angered by DOGE purges as 1,500 FBI staff ordered out of DC: Live

Trump’s rhetoric on Russia’s war on Ukraine continues to rile allies as reality of DOGE cuts begins to sink in at home

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3 d. ago ‘Pennies!’ Financial reporter mocks minuscule DOGE savings amid Musk talk of ‘dividends’

People are realizing that what’s going on in the Trump administration ‘doesn't seem to be bearing fruit’ for them, said journalist

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3 d. ago Elon Musk praises Doge efforts to cut federal workforce after judge ruling – live

Musk claims Trump administration is ‘finding savings’ amid mass terminations; federal judge won’t block administration from laying off federal workersJudge rules Trump administration can continue mass firings of federal workersDonald Trump signed another round of executive orders onboard Air Force One last night, among them one aimed at ending federal benefits for people in the country illegally.The order seeks to end “all taxpayer-funded benefits for illegal aliens”, according to the White House, although it was not clear which benefits will be targeted. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Trump appears to agree to cut checks to Americans to share portion of savings from Doge cost

‘Department of government efficiency’ head Elon Musk suggested $5,000 checks to US households if targets metDonald Trump has appeared to embrace a proposal to share a portion of the cuts in US government spending made by Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) with all US households in the form of checks, intensifying concerns about inflation potentially rising again.Trump addressed the idea in a speech at an investment conference in Miami on Wednesday, telling attendees: “There’s even under consideration a new concept, where we give 20% of the Doge savings to American citizens, and 20% goes to paying down debt.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Agriculture Department tries to rehire fired workers tied to bird flu response

The Agriculture Department is scrambling to rehire several workers it fired as part of President Donald Trump’s broad cuts because they were involved in the government’s response to the ongoing bird flu outbreak that has devastated egg and poultry farms over the past three years

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4 d. ago Despite DOGE budget cut crusade, Trump has already spent $10.7 million of taxpayer money on golf trips: report

Since being sworn in for the second time on January 20, the president has reportedly spent all four weekends on the green, and played golf at his own properties on nine of his first 30 days in office

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5 d. ago DOGE claimed they had saved $8 billion by slashing one contract. The actual number was $8 million

DOGE, upon further inspection, appears to have overstated the value of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency contract

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5 d. ago Trump and Musk lavish praise on each other while defending DOGE cuts in Hannity interview: Live updates

President and billionaire ally tell Fox News’s Sean Hannity that Congress should codify ‘a lot of’ the former’s executive orders pertaining to the Department of Government Efficiency

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5 d. ago Trump and Musk awkwardly called ‘two brothers’ as they seek to justify DOGE cuts in joint Fox News interview

The president has previously been trolled with claims that he is only a co-president – or that Musk himself is the one really in charge

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6 d. ago FDA staff reviewing Musk’s Neuralink among latest federal firings, sources say

About 20 people working on medicine devices at Food and Drug Administration dismissed amid government purgeUS Food and Drug Administration employees reviewing Elon Musk’s brain implant company Neuralink were fired over the weekend as part of a broader purge of the federal workforce, according to two sources with knowledge of the matter.The cuts included about 20 people in the FDA’s office of neurological and physical medicine devices, several of whom worked on Neuralink, according to the two sources, who asked not to be identified because of fear of professional repercussions. That division includes reviewers overseeing clinical-trial applications by Neuralink and other companies making so-called brain-computer interface devices, the sources said. Continue reading...

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