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February’s inflation report looks good at first glance. But dig deeper and you’ll see that Musk making flying dangerous is the cause.

Musk Connections: Human Resources at SpaceX
Other Corporate Affiliations: Client relations specialist at CMG Financial
DOGE Deployment: Office of Personnel Management

Musk Connections: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: Partner at Brewer Attorneys & Counselors, Counsel at Bailey and Ehrenberg PLLC
DOGE Deployment: Senior Advisor, Office of Personnel Management (OPM)

“Bird Flu” is the colloquial term for Avian Influenza A (H5N1) which is a viral infection that primarily infects birds but has been known to spread in some mammals, including cows, cats, and humans. H5N1 is known to be highly contagious between birds, and 2024 saw the first highly pathogenic strain of H5N1 spreading amongst U.S. cattle, as well as dozens of infections of humans.

Measles is a highly-contagious respiratory virus that infects as many as 90 percent of non-immune people exposed to its pathogens, which can exist in the air for up to two hours after exposure. 

Even on the brink of a shutdown, the GOP remains committed to shutting down the federal government.

The SSA has been in the midst of a severe staffing crisis for years. Even though SSA staffing had already been decreasing under Biden, Trump’s cost-cutting administration has moved to slash its staff even more than it has already been reduced. This blog overviews why the SSA needs more staff.

Corporate profiteers want to ransack an institution older than America itself.

The public and the courts alike need to know that the U.S. Congress does not accept Donald Trump and Elon Musk shredding the core precepts of our Constitution’s separation of powers.

HUD’s enforcement power and ability to carry out federal programs have been weakened for years by staffing shortages. This blog overviews the key reasons why HUD needs more staff.

Even under a friendlier administration, the FTC has not been given a budget that would fully allow the agency to fulfill its mission. This blog overviews some of the enforcement responsibilities the FTC could better fulfill with more staff.

During the Biden administration, EPA workers reported a staffing crisis at the agency. The Trump administration now wants to drastically decrease its work force. This blog overviews the impacts of an understaffed EPA on the health and wellbeing of our environment and communities.

Trump’s hollowing out of the public service isn’t just about the massive illegal removals of workers – career officials are walking out of agencies of their own accord, as the Trump admin forces them to choose between following the law or following Trump’s illegal orders.

Musk Connections: 8 years at SpaceX, currently the Senior Human Resources Manager

Other Corporate Connections: HR at Amazon from 2013 to 2016; 1 year in HR at Target

DOGE Deployments: OPM

Musk Connections: HR Director at SpaceX

DOGE Deployments: OPM

Other Affiliations: 

She appears to own a metal working company called MB Custom Metal LLC. The Better Business Bureau lists her as a “managing member”.