SO MUCH WINNING... Not. Trump and Musk are the idiots of the month ( and obviously daily, based on what they did every day for just one week alone in February).- They've successfully been dismantling our country every day. Hurting an unlimited number of people - from federal employees, to farmers, educators, construction trades, auto and home industries, food safety, our entire health system and so much more. Below are the links to all the highlights of stupidity from just one week as a sample.
Idiots of the Month: Trump and Musk- Hurting Millions, Dismantling our country every day (CLICK Headlines to go to stories)
Feb 17, 2025
- Dismantling of federal efforts to monitor election interference creates opening for foreign meddling
- Justice
Department fires 20 immigration judges from backlogged courts amid major
government cuts
- · As Trump administration reforms the EPA, cleanups of America’s most toxic sites are uncertain
Feb 18, 2025
- · Republicans consider cuts and work requirements for Medicaid, jeopardizing care for millions - Republicans are weighing billions of dollars in cuts to Medicaid, threatening health care coverage for some of the 80 million U.S. adults and children enrolled in the safety net program
· Elon Musk’s DOGE seeks access to taxpayer data at IRS: AP sources
· · Trump nominates Ed Martin, an ally who defended Jan. 6 rioters, to stay as top DC federal prosecutor
FEB 19, 2025
FEB 20
- IRS
plans to lay off 7,000 probationary workers beginning Thursday, AP source
says
- Agriculture
Department tries to rehire fired workers tied to bird flu response
- Trump
signs order aimed at ending federal benefits for some immigrants
- Trump
says federal government should ‘take over’ DC, backing congressional GOP
push
- Trump
wrongly says Ukraine started the war that’s killing its citizens.
- Some
of the 400 jobs that were cut at the FAA helped support air safety, a
union says
FEB 21
·
DELAYED TAX RETURNS As the Trump administration
moves forward with reportedly firing over 6,000 employees at the Internal
Revenue Service, tax policy experts and Democratic lawmakers are warning most
Americans to brace for the negative consequences to come.
·
IRS
layoffs could hurt revenue collection and foil efforts to go after rich tax
dodgers, experts say
·
Huge
cuts in National Institutes of Health research funding go before a federal
judge
·
Kids’
disability rights cases stalled as Trump began to overhaul Education Department
·
Trump
administration halts legal aid for migrant children, leaving some to navigate
courts alone
·
Trump administration looks to slash HUD workers
tackling the housing crisis
The
Trump administration’s proposal to cut half of federal workers at the nation’s
housing agency is targeting employees who support disaster recovery, rental
subsidies, discrimination investigations and first-time homebuyers, according
to two documents obtained by The Associated Press
FEB 24
- Hegseth
defends Trump’s firings of Pentagon leaders and says there may be more
dismissals
- The
Trump administration is putting USAID staffers on leave worldwide and
firing at least 1,600
- Musk’s
cost-cutting team is laying off workers at the auto safety agency
overseeing Tesla
- Trump
says he may take control of the US Postal Service
FEB 25
- President Trump has frozen the $4 billion that President Biden set aside to keep the Colorado River flowing. The river supplies around 40 million people with drinking water, is the foundation for a massive agricultural economy across the Southwest, and generates significant hydroelectric power.
- Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by DOGE are expected to produce no savings Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that the Trump administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren’t expected to save the government any money, the administration’s own data shows.
- National Park Service withdraws Black community in Louisiana from historic landmark consideration
- Judge blocks Trump immigration policy allowing arrests in churches for some religious groups
FEB 27
- USAID projects for advocates to try to save in ongoing court battles with the administration. President Donald Trump and ally Elon Musk have hit foreign aid harder and faster than almost any other target in their push to cut the size of the federal government. Both men say USAID projects advance a liberal agenda and are a waste of money.
- Trump cuts financial lifeline for Venezuela’s government by ending permit to export oil to US
FEB 28, 2025
·
Trump’s permanent USAID cuts slam humanitarian programs
worldwide
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· These assholes Fired Meteorologists WHO KEEP US SAFE.Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in latest wave of DOGE cuts Just fired by Musk and Trump - There are about 375 probationary employees in the National Weather Service — where day-to-day forecasting and hazard warning is done.