By Lisa Rein, Holly Bailey, Jeff Stein, Jacob Bogage · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, three people familiar with her departure said Monday. Michelle King, who spent several decades at […]
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Top Social Security official exits after clash with Musk’s DOGE over data
By Lisa Rein, Holly Bailey, Jeff Stein, Jacob Bogage · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration left her job this weekend after a clash with billionaire Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service over its attempts to access sensitive government records, three people familiar with her departure said Monday. Michelle King, who spent several decades at […]
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High-ranking D.C. federal prosecutor resigns in protest
By Carol D. Leonnig, Spencer S. Hsu · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The head of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. resigned Tuesday morning after declining to comply with a Trump administration demand to freeze the assets of a multibillion-dollar Biden administration environmental grant initiative, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Veteran […]
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High-ranking D.C. federal prosecutor resigns in protest
By Carol D. Leonnig, Spencer S. Hsu · The Washington Post (c) 2025 The head of the criminal division in the U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. resigned Tuesday morning after declining to comply with a Trump administration demand to freeze the assets of a multibillion-dollar Biden administration environmental grant initiative, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Veteran […]
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As Trump vents about covid, experts worry his moves could worsen next threat
By Dan Diamond, Lena H. Sun · The Washington Post (c) 2025 In Atlanta, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was told Friday to lay off an estimated 10 percent of its staff, including nearly an entire class of “disease detectives” – the infectious-disease experts charged with helping spot the next epidemic. In West Texas, local officials warned […]
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As Trump vents about covid, experts worry his moves could worsen next threat
By Dan Diamond, Lena H. Sun · The Washington Post (c) 2025 In Atlanta, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was told Friday to lay off an estimated 10 percent of its staff, including nearly an entire class of “disease detectives” – the infectious-disease experts charged with helping spot the next epidemic. In West Texas, local officials warned […]
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SEC rule suspension is early gift for Trump’s oil and gas supporters
By Peter Whoriskey · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump’s energy secretary and two of his major donors won a key victory last week when the Securities and Exchange Commission moved to back off a rule requiring large companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and any plans to reduce them. The rule has been a […]
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SEC rule suspension is early gift for Trump’s oil and gas supporters
By Peter Whoriskey · The Washington Post (c) 2025 President Donald Trump’s energy secretary and two of his major donors won a key victory last week when the Securities and Exchange Commission moved to back off a rule requiring large companies to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions and any plans to reduce them. The rule has been a […]
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Trump officials ask CDC, FDA to use gender notice on restored websites
By Lena H. Sun, Rachel Roubein, Salvador Rizzo · The Washington Post The Trump administration has directed the nation’s premier health agencies to place a notice harshly condemning “gender ideology” on agency webpages that a federal judge ordered be restored online this week. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were asked […]
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Trump officials ask CDC, FDA to use gender notice on restored websites
By Lena H. Sun, Rachel Roubein, Salvador Rizzo · The Washington Post The Trump administration has directed the nation’s premier health agencies to place a notice harshly condemning “gender ideology” on agency webpages that a federal judge ordered be restored online this week. Officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were asked […]