FYI: The stories in this week’s data dumpster fire appeared within the last five days- jp
Elon Musk makes baseless claim about large number of dead people on government payroll
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-baseless-claim-dead-people-government-payroll/
Elon Musk is wrong about dead people on social security. Here's the real problem
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outlook/article/elon-musk-social-security-fraud-dead-people-20189313.php
Fact check: Eight ways Elon Musk has misled Americans about government spending
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/23/politics/government-spending-elon-musk-doge/index.html
A look at the misleading and incorrect claims on DOGE’s ‘wall of receipts’
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-the-misleading-and-incorrect-claims-on-doges-wall-of-receipts
How DOGE uses data visualization to create false transparency
https://www.yellopolitics.com/p/how-doge-uses-data-visualization
DOGE Secretly Changes Its Website After Being Caught in Huge Lies
https://newrepublic.com/post/191973/doge-changes-website-savings-mistakes-lies
DOGE says it's now saved $65B in federal funds, but that's still impossible to verify
https://abcnews.go.com/US/doge-now-saved-65b-federal-funds-impossible-verify/story?id=119174949
'Flat out wrong': Ga. federal workers respond to DOGE email
https://www.wrdw.com/video/2025/02/25/flat-out-wrong-ga-federal-workers-respond-doge-email/
Fraud or Fearmongering? 7 Big Consequences of Trump & Musk’s Corruption Claims
https://www.moneytalksnews.com/slideshows/fraud-or-fearmongering-big-consequences-of-trump-musks-corruption-claims/
Violent threats followed DOGE fraud allegations against Granite School District
https://www.fox13now.com/news/local-news/northern-utah/violent-threats-followed-doge-fraud-allegations-against-granite-school-district
A teen with autism and his mom were getting help planning for college. Then came DOGE.
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2025/02/26/trump-doge-cuts-to-education-research-hit-classrooms-and-students/
US Universities Reduce PhD Admissions in Response to Federal Funding Cuts
https://www.the-scientist.com/us-universities-reduce-phd-admissions-in-response-to-federal-funding-cuts-72734
Stanford University announces hiring freeze amid concerns about federal funding cuts
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/stanford-university-2025-26-hiring-freeze-concerns-federal-funding-cuts-endowment-tax/
USC scrubs DEI from some webpages as Trump cracks down on campus diversity programs
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-28/usc-scrubs-dei-websites-trump-campus-diversity-programs
‘It’s a complete wrench’: St. Thomas, UMN lose teacher training grants due to Trump DEI cuts
https://sahanjournal.com/education/st-paul-schools-special-ed-dei-grant/
C.D.C. Suggests Terms Like ‘Race’ and ‘Health Equity’ Are Off-Limits, Then Backtracks
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/us/politics/trump-dei-cdc-language.html
As Abortion Bans Drive Up Maternal, Infant Mortality, Trump Admin. Shutters Key CDC Program
https://www.jezebel.com/as-abortion-bans-drive-up-maternal-infant-mortality-trump-admin-shutters-key-cdc-program
Iowa has high cancer rates. Trump's cuts to CDC and NIH are already hitting the state
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5312108/trump-budget-cuts-nih-cdc-cancer-iowa
Trump administration ends funding for UN program fighting HIV/Aids
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/trump-un-hiv-aids-funding
US aid cuts send South Africa's HIV treatment 'off a cliff'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c77887npl2mo
A 4-Year-Old Boy Dies of Ebola in Uganda as U.S. Pulls Back on Help
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/28/health/ebola-elon-musk-doge.html
Trump administration struggles to rehire fired bird flu employees
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/27/trump-fired-bird-flu-hires-00206334
FDA moves to rehire medical device, food safety and other staffers fired days earlier
https://apnews.com/article/fda-layoffs-trump-doge-rehired-medical-devices-85d4743e4ce88dbe3b99c813bad4b702
Trump admin backtracks on Forest Service firings
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-admin-backtracks-on-forest-service-firings/
Cuts to wildland firefighter force – how have you been affected?
https://wildfiretoday.com/2025/02/24/cuts-to-wildland-firefighter-force-how-have-you-been-affected/
His IRS job in Kansas City was going to change his life. Trump fired him after a month
https://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article301049784.html
She hoped Trump’s victory would change her life, but not like this
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/27/fired-federal-worker-trump-voter/
They voted for Trump, but now they’re losing their U.S. government jobs
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2025-02-26/federal-job-cuts-hit-trump-supporters
Fired in Trump's chaotic purge, an Army vet says he's never felt more betrayed
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5305717/trump-layoffs-federal-workers-chaos
Longtime Army veteran fired from Bronx VA under Trump federal workforce cuts
https://www.bxtimes.com/longtime-army-veteran-fired-from-bronx-va/
10 federal workers, including at least 3 veterans, fired at the VA Medical Center in Milwaukee
https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/25/10-milwaukee-va-employees-fired-in-trump-administration-cutbacks/80248531007/
VA pauses billions in cuts lauded by Musk as lawmakers and veterans decry loss of critical care
https://apnews.com/article/doge-veterans-affairs-cuts-health-services-contracts-9a726b744e402da01d711023b0fc49a1
DOGE cuts 2,400 VA jobs, Illinois veterans lose access to services
https://www.wandtv.com/news/doge-cuts-2-400-va-jobs-illinois-veterans-lose-access-to-services/article_b7e54534-f575-11ef-9fd1-57a21ce38ff1.html
National parks in turmoil: why rangers hung an upside-down American flag at Yosemite
https://www.fastcompany.com/91283708/yosemite-national-park-upside-down-flag-nps-rangers-protest-job-cuts-doge
He oversaw public works projects in rural Arizona. Trump's DOGE cost him his job
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2025/02/24/trumps-doge-layoffs-hit-usdas-arizona-rural-development-office/79470232007/
Commendations, cash awards, positive reviews. Then they were fired for poor performance.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/27/federal-employees-firing-letters-claim-poor-work/80269905007/
'People are scared to death' | Employee describes what it's like to be a federal worker right now
https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/employee-describes-what-its-like-to-be-federal-worker-right-now/287-fef06c83-06f5-4645-be9d-bcc6dd667bd6
White House clarifies: Trump meant 65% EPA budget cut, not workforce reduction
https://smartwatermagazine.com/news/smart-water-magazine/white-house-clarifies-trump-meant-65-epa-budget-cut-not-workforce
Trump fires hundreds working on weather forecasts, satellite data and radar systems
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/27/noaa-nws-mass-firings-trump-administration/
Trump fires NOAA scientists helping whales and offshore wind coexist
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/trump-fires-noaa-scientists-helping-whales-and-offshore-wind-coexist
This animal is on the edge of extinction. Trump just fired the people trying to save it.
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/401389/trump-doge-fish-wildife-service-black-footed-ferret
There’s one key rule that’s been keeping pollutants out of the air—and Trump might get rid of it
https://www.fastcompany.com/91286042/theres-one-key-rule-thats-been-keeping-pollutants-out-of-the-air-and-trump-might-get-rid-of-it
The FDIC's goal is to prevent another banking crisis. It's now also a Trump target
https://www.khsu.org/2025-02-27/the-fdics-goal-is-to-prevent-another-banking-crisis-its-now-also-a-trump-target-
Trump administration, Musk’s DOGE plan to fire nearly all CFPB staff and wind down agency, employees say
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/02/28/cfpb-leaders-and-elon-musk-doge-planned-to-fire-nearly-all-staff.html
DOL Contractor Watchdog Plans to Cut Staff by 90%, Memo Says
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/dol-contractor-watchdog-directed-to-cut-staff-by-90-memo-says
It Looks an Awful Lot Like Elon Musk Is Awarding a Huge Government Contract to Himself
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-faa-spacex-contract
‘This Is Crazy!’ Colby Hall Goes Off on Elon Musk’s Conflict of Interest Getting Ignored
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/this-is-crazy-colby-hall-goes-off-on-elon-musks-conflict-of-interest-getting-ignored/
Elon Musk says upgrade of FAA’s air traffic control system is failing and SpaceX needs to take over Verizon’s contract
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/27/business/elon-musk-faa-air-traffic-control-failing-spacex/index.html
Elon Musk's Starlink in line for deal with FAA, raising potential ethical concerns
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/starlink-faa-contract-elon-musk-conflict-of-interest/
CNN’s Honig Shreds Musk’s ‘Flagrant’ Attempt to Award Federal Contract to SpaceX: ‘It Actually Is a Federal Crime’
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnns-honig-shreds-musks-flagrant-attempt-to-award-federal-contract-to-spacex-after-yanking-it-from-verizon/