Idiots of the Month: Trump and Musk- Hurting Millions, Dismantling our country every day

 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

• Trump administration cuts reach FDA employees in food safety, medical devices and tobacco products

• Dismantling of federal efforts to monitor election interference creates opening for foreign meddling

• Consumer watchdog agency called ‘vicious’ by Trump seen as a ‘hero’ to many it aided

• 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 begins firings of FAA staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash

·          ·         Trump nominates Ed Martin, an ally who defended Jan. 6 rioters, to stay as top DC federal prosecutor

FEB 19, 2025

•  Trump administration fires 1,000 workers at National Park Service

• Kennedy says panel will examine childhood vaccine schedule after promising not to change it

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

• Ex-Secret Service agent and media personality Dan Bongino picked as FBI deputy director

• 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

• In lawsuit filing, Pentagon says transgender troops can’t serve unless they meet a warfighting need

• Texas says this doctor illegally treated trans youth. He says he followed the law

• Republican lawmakers look for ways to weaken state judges 

FEB 28, 2025

• Social Security Administration could cut up to 50% of its workforce

·         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.  

•   RFK Jr. describes major measles outbreak as ‘not unusual’ during Cabinet meeting (Measles is one of the world’s most contagious viruses. Here’s what to know and how to avoid it)