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March 12, 2025
Federal Understaffing Spotlight: Environmental Protection Agency
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.
March 12, 2025
Federal Understaffing Spotlight: Social Security Administration
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.
March 12, 2025
Measles Tracker
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.
March 12, 2025
Bird Flu (H5N1) Tracker
“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.
March 12, 2025
DOGE Agent: Noah Peters
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)
March 12, 2025
DOGE Agent: Stephen Duarte
Musk Connections: Human Resources at SpaceX
Other Corporate Affiliations: Client relations specialist at CMG Financial
DOGE Deployment: Office of Personnel Management
March 12, 2025
How Secretary Of Transportation Sean Duffy Is Crashing Inflation
February’s inflation report looks good at first glance. But dig deeper and you’ll see that Musk making flying dangerous is the cause.
March 10, 2025
The Would-Be Pawns Sacrificing Their Own Civil Service Jobs
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.
March 10, 2025
DOGE Agent: Christina Hanna
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
March 10, 2025
DOGE Agent: Bryanne-Michelle Mlodzianowski
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”.
March 10, 2025
DOGE & Co Set Their Sights on Americans With Disabilities
Cuts to the Social Security Administration will hurt Social Security beneficiaries, particularly the most vulnerable among them.
March 07, 2025
Trump’s Attacks on Weather and Climate Science Put Us All In Danger
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is the backbone of climate and weather research and information in the United States. Its annual budget is under $7 billion, and the value of the weather information that it shares with the public is estimated to be over $100 billion annually. That means the American taxpayer gets a more than fourteen-fold return on investment. (Now that’s government efficiency, contrary to the claims of DOGE and its sympathizers about eliminating government bloat.)
March 06, 2025
Former Schumer Staffer Spins Crypto Revolving Door
Jen Brown, Senator Chuck Schumer’s former Banking Counsel, joins the cryptocurrency investment firm Paradigm in a clear conflict of interest.
March 04, 2025
DOGE Agent: Greg Hogan
Musk Connections: Unknown
Other Corporate Affiliations: Andreessen Horowitz-backed start up Comma.ai, Dupont Pioneer
DOGE Deployment: Chief Information Officer, Office of Personnel Management