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DOGE’s Only Public Ledger Is Riddled With Mistakes

The figures from Elon Musk’s team of outsiders represent billions in government cuts. They are also full of accounting errors, outdated data and other miscalculations.

February 21, 2025

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Axed USAID employees smile as they haul personal belongings — with messages for Trump — out of DC office

“We are abandoning the world,” read a note scrawled on the box carrying one ex-federal employee’s belongings.

February 21, 2025

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Pete Hegseth Fires Adm. Lisa Franchetti, Navy’s Top Officer

Adm. Lisa Franchetti spent roughly half of her 40-year career at sea, commanding a destroyer, two carrier strike groups and the U.S. Sixth Fleet.

February 21, 2025

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Defense Department to Cut Over 5,000 Workers

The firings are the first of what is expected to be a vast wave of layoffs by the Pentagon.

February 21, 2025

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Dan Caine, Trump’s Joint Chiefs Pick, Had Unusual Path to Command

The general made an impression on the president in 2018 when he said the Islamic State could be defeated in a week, according to the president.

February 21, 2025

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Trump’s executive orders ending federal support for DEI programs largely blocked by judge

A federal judge on Friday largely blocked sweeping executive orders from President Donald Trump that seek to end government support for programs promoting diversity, equity and inclusion.

February 21, 2025

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Trump fires Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

President Donald Trump abruptly fired Air Force Gen. CQ Brown as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Friday.

February 21, 2025

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Trump Fires Joint Chiefs Chairman Amid Turmoil at Pentagon

The decision to fire Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. reflects the president’s insistence that the military’s leadership is too mired in diversity issues and has lost sight of its combat role.

February 21, 2025

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Acting ICE director demoted as Trump admin remains unsatisfied with pace of migrant arrests, deportations

Vitello will now oversee “all field and enforcement operations,” including “finding, arresting, and deporting illegal aliens,” according to a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson.

February 21, 2025

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