Grifters Grifting

‘Despicable’: Trump Official Threatens Total Social Security Shutdown Over DOGE Ruling

“Rather than comply with a lawful court order, he wants to see millions of families, retirees, and disabled individuals go hungry, suffer, and potentially lose their homes all to curry favor with anti-worker billionaires.”

Defenders of the Social Security Administration on Friday blasted acting Commissioner Leland Dudek’s threat to shut down the agency in response to a federal judge cutting off the Department of Government Efficiency’s access to SSA data.

U.S. District Judge Ellen Hollander wrote Thursday that “the DOGE team is essentially engaged in a fishing expedition at SSA.” She issued a temporary restraining order targeting affiliates of the government-gutting entity created by Republican President Donald Trump and led by Big Tech CEO Elon Musk, the richest person on the planet.

Team finding kidnapped Ukrainian children scrapped by Doge

Funds to help find kidnapped children? Nah, cut it!

A taskforce which helped find hundreds of Ukrainian children abducted by Russia has been scrapped by Elon Musk’s Doge.

The Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL), which was based at Yale University is the latest organisation to fall victim to the tech billionaire’s evisceration of the federal budget.

It is estimated that more than 20,000 Ukrainian children have been kidnapped by the Russians since the 2022 invasion.

“Researchers at the Humanitarian Research Lab (HRL) were notified recently that government funding for their work on the war in Ukraine has been discontinued,” a Yale spokesman said.

‘Ongoing destruction of evidence’: Trump admin shredding and burning ‘classified’ USAID docs with info that’s ‘essential’ for rehiring unlawfully fired workers, unions say

I am surprised they hadn’t been doing it all along…

The Trump administration is shredding and burning “classified” employee documents at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) with personnel info that would be “essential” to rehiring unlawfully fired federal workers, according to labor groups suing the president, should it be required as a result of their litigation.

‘A disruptive effect’: How slashing staff at the Social Security Administration is sparking fears the system could collapse

When it collapses T-Rump will say ‘See, I told you so’

(CNN) — Millions of Americans could soon feel the impact of the deep staffing cuts being planned at the Social Security Administration, which is undergoing a massive reorganization that the acting commissioner has acknowledged is being steered by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.

The loss of experienced employees who manage Social Security’s fragile and interdependent web of computer systems will likely leave the agency vulnerable to technical outages and, potentially, interrupt the benefit payments that are sent to more than 73 million retirees, people with disabilities and others, Martin O’Malley, who served as commissioner under the Biden administration, told CNN.

The former Maryland governor predicted a meltdown could occur within 90 days, though other employees and experts were unsure of the timing even as they agreed the risk exists.

A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA’s List of US Properties for Sale

The GSA’s effort to sell hundreds of US government properties is part of a blunt reshaping of the federal government and its workforce led by Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Staffed in part by young engineers with no prior experience in government, DOGE’s efforts have resulted in mass reductions in force, the effective shuttering of entirely independent agencies, and a flurry of lawsuits that seek to mitigate DOGE’s razing of the government over the past six weeks.