2 h. ago Federal workers have begun to receive new emails after Musk’s bullet

First message ordering government employees to account for their time resulted in widespread confusion

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4 h. ago Second Musk email arrives ordering all federal employees to justify their roles

New round of emails from ‘Doge’ department begin appearing as early as Friday

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14 h. ago Federal workers might get email requiring response after Trump and Musk praise efforts to investigate workforce – live

Employees may again be asked to explain recent accomplishments, AP reports, days after Musk argued the aim was to ‘pulse check’ US governmentUS aid cuts have forced the UN children’s agency Unicef to suspend or scale back many programmes in Lebanon, with more than half of children under the age of two experiencing severe food poverty in the country’s east, a Unicef official said on Friday.“We have been forced to suspend or cut back or drastically reduce many of our programmes and that includes nutrition programmes,” Unicef’s deputy representative in Lebanon, Ettie Higgins, told reporters in Geneva via video link from Beirut, Reuters reports. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago Federal workers will receive another email after Musk’s bullet

First message ordering government employees to account for their time resulted in widespread confusion

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60 h. ago Trump says 1 million federal workers who haven't responded to DOGE email may be FIRED

Donald Trump says there are 1 million people with their jobs on the line after they refused to respond to his buddy Elon Musk's email demanding what they 'accomplished' at work.

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62 h. ago Musk: Anyone who doesn’t respond to productivity email either dead or fraudster

Elon Musk has declared that federal workers who have not responded to his email asking for a response about their weekly accomplishments or risk termination are presumed to be dead or “not real people.”

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63 h. ago Trump live updates: President gives warning to federal workers yet to reply to Musk’s email at Cabinet meeting

President said of million federal workers yet to respond to DOGE email, 'maybe they're gonna be gone’

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64 h. ago Elon Musk gearing up for WAR with Ashley St. Clair over child support

Ashley St Clair has asked a judge to send Elon Musk legal documents via email - the MAGA influencer St Clair says she has had the world's richest man's 13th child

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69 h. ago American Airlines flight discontinues landing to avoid departing plane at Washington National

The Federal Aviation Administration says an American Airlines plane arriving at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport discontinued its landing, performing a go-around to avoid getting too close to another aircraft departing from the same runway

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2 d. ago #AltGov: the secret network of federal workers resisting Doge from the inside

Government employees fight the Trump administration’s chaos by organizing and publishing information on BlueskyAfter seeing Elon Musk’s X post on Saturday afternoon about an email that would soon land in the inboxes of 2.3 million federal employees asking them to list five things they did the week before, a clandestine network of employees and contractors at dozens of federal agencies began talking on an encrypted app about how to respond.Employees on a four-day, 10-hours-a-day schedule wouldn’t even see the email until Tuesday – past the deadline for responding – some noted. There was also a bit of snark: “bonus points to anyone who responds that they spent their government subsidy on hookers and blow,” one worker said. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago DOGE could use AI to assess federal employees’s responses to Musk’s productivity demand email: report

Musk denied claims responses would be fed through a large language model artificial intelligence system

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3 d. ago Trump live updates: 21 federal tech workers resign from Elon Musk’s DOGE as feud erupts over his Canadian citizenship

Big tech billionaire grants extension to initial deadline as administration’s Office of Personnel tells agencies that answering mailout is ‘voluntary’, sowing confusion

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3 d. ago Trump live updates: Elon Musk gives federal workers second chance to respond to email after pushback

Big tech billionaire grants extension to initial deadline as administration’s Office of Personnel tells agencies that answering mailout is ‘voluntary’, sowing confusion

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3 d. ago Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Doge are expected to produce no savings – live

Almost 40% of federal contracts canceled as part of Doge’s cost-cutting efforts aren’t expected to save government any money, Trump administration’s own data showsIt’s coming down to the wire for beleaguered House speaker Mike Johnson, who is trying to rally GOP holdouts behind his budget plan for enacting Donald Trump’s agenda before the showdown vote this evening.Amid Republican opposition threatening to derail his bill, Johnson was up late last night locked in talks with holdouts from across his party who remain skeptical of his outline plan for tax and spending cuts - as well as border security, energy and defense policy - via a single reconciliation bill. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Musk says failure to respond to achievements email will result in sacking – US politics live

US office for personal management, which manages federal workforce, says that responding to Musk is not mandatoryThe Kremlin appeared to contradict Donald Trump’s assertion that Russia was open to European peacekeepers being deployed in Ukraine, and referred reporters to an earlier statement that such a move would be unacceptable to Moscow.Russia has repeatedly said it opposes having Nato troops on the ground in Ukraine, with foreign minister Sergei Lavrov saying last week that Moscow would view that as a “direct threat” to Russia’s sovereignty, even if the troops operated there under a different flag, Reuters reports.There is a position on this matter that was expressed by the Russian foreign minister, Lavrov. I have nothing to add to this and nothing to comment on. I leave this without comment. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Musk’s latest email threat to federal workers contradicted by Trump administration as chaos reigns: Live

Big tech billionaire earlier claimed mass mailout last week was mostly a ruse to see if government employees at DOGE-targeted agencies ‘had a pulse’

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4 d. ago Trump live: Chaos reigns as Musk threatens more workers by email but agencies told responding is ‘voluntary’

Big tech billionaire earlier claimed mass mailout last week was mostly a ruse to see if government employees at DOGE-targeted agencies ‘had a pulse’

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4 d. ago ‘It’s bedlam’: Musk renews federal agencies showdown with ominous new firing ultimatum

The DOGE boss jumps past his midnight deadline to fight another day

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4 d. ago Trump live: Musk threatens more federal workers with termination over email after Macron visits White House

Musk claimed that mass emails last week were mostly a ruse to see if government employees at DOGE-targeted agencies ‘had a pulse’

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4 d. ago Bedlam! Musk triggers new showdown with federal agencies with ominous new firing ultimatum

The DOGE boss jumps past his midnight deadline to fight another day

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