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Is Elon Musk’s war on fraud just cover for a power grab?
That is, until February 16th, when the Washington Post revealed that Gavin Kliger, a 25-year-old software engineer associated ...
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Musk and Trump Are Cutting Popular Programs. That’s Deliberate.
One particularly sadistic aspect of Elon Musk’s and Donald Trump’s rampage through our government is that they’re cutting programs that are popular. To some observers, that might seem like bad ...
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The Republican Party’s NPC Problem — and Ours
Agreement with Trump’s policy aims need not mean agreement with his power grab. But the most powerful branch of government — the branch with the power to check the others — is supine. It is not that ...
Trump is pushing boundaries to cut federal spending. So did Nixon.
The U.S. shrugged when Thomas Jefferson blocked funding for a program he hated. Richard Nixon did the same with programs he didn’t like.
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House Republicans plan bill to define EPA’s authority
Rep. Morgan Griffith (R-Va.), chair of the Environment Subcommittee, told POLITICO’s E&E News he is in the early stages of ...
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Trump is freezing climate funds. Can he do that?
The two signature achievements of President Joe Biden’s administration were a pair of bills that together pumped close to a trillion dollars toward clean energy and disaster resilience. The bipartisan ...