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Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service

by Hannah Natanson, Lisa Rein, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Faiz Siddiqui (c) 2025 , The Washington Post Under pressure from the U.S. DOGE Service team to root out alleged fraud, the Social Security Administration is considering dramatically curtailing the phone services that 73 million retired and disabled Americans rely on to apply for and access their earned […]

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Social Security, facing pressure from DOGE, weighs big cuts to phone service

by Hannah Natanson, Lisa Rein, Elizabeth Dwoskin, Faiz Siddiqui (c) 2025 , The Washington Post Under pressure from the U.S. DOGE Service team to root out alleged fraud, the Social Security Administration is considering dramatically curtailing the phone services that 73 million retired and disabled Americans rely on to apply for and access their earned […]

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Effort to deport Columbia student rests solely on Rubio determination

by Cate Brown, Maria Sacchetti, John Hudson (c) 2025 , The Washington Post NEW YORK – A determination by Secretary of State Marco Rubio is so far the Trump administration’s sole justification for trying to deport Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, according to the first official government document detailing the civil charges he is facing […]

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Effort to deport Columbia student rests solely on Rubio determination

by Cate Brown, Maria Sacchetti, John Hudson (c) 2025 , The Washington Post NEW YORK – A determination by Secretary of State Marco Rubio is so far the Trump administration’s sole justification for trying to deport Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, according to the first official government document detailing the civil charges he is facing […]

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Supreme Court to hear challenge to ‘conversion therapy’ ban for minors

by Ann E. Marimow (c) 2025 , The Washington Post The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a Christian therapist’s challenge to a state law barring “conversion therapy” that attempts to change a young person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Kaley Chiles, who practices in Colorado, says the state law banning such treatment […]

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Supreme Court to hear challenge to ‘conversion therapy’ ban for minors

by Ann E. Marimow (c) 2025 , The Washington Post The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to take up a Christian therapist’s challenge to a state law barring “conversion therapy” that attempts to change a young person’s sexual orientation or gender identity. Kaley Chiles, who practices in Colorado, says the state law banning such treatment […]

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Trump declines to rule out recession amid tariffs’ effects on markets

by Michael Birnbaum, Mariana Alfaro, Yeganeh Torbati (c) 2025 , The Washington Post WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Donald Trump declined to rule out a recession this year as the economy stutters from his efforts to impose tariffs and rebuild the U.S. manufacturing sector, acknowledging in an interview broadcast Sunday that “it takes a […]

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Trump declines to rule out recession amid tariffs’ effects on markets

by Michael Birnbaum, Mariana Alfaro, Yeganeh Torbati (c) 2025 , The Washington Post WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – President Donald Trump declined to rule out a recession this year as the economy stutters from his efforts to impose tariffs and rebuild the U.S. manufacturing sector, acknowledging in an interview broadcast Sunday that “it takes a […]

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Former Social Security official describes hostile takeover by Musk team

by Lisa Rein (c) 2025 , The Washington Post They came in aggressively, a former official who witnessed Elon Musk’s team take over the Social Security Administration said, demanding access to sensitive taxpayer data and refusing briefings on how the agency ensures the accuracy of its benefit systems. They recklessly exposed data in unsecured areas […]

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Former Social Security official describes hostile takeover by Musk team

by Lisa Rein (c) 2025 , The Washington Post They came in aggressively, a former official who witnessed Elon Musk’s team take over the Social Security Administration said, demanding access to sensitive taxpayer data and refusing briefings on how the agency ensures the accuracy of its benefit systems. They recklessly exposed data in unsecured areas […]