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Trump administration cuts teams that fight foreign election interference

By Colby Itkowitz, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Sarah Ellison and Patrick Marley
Feb 08, 2025 5:16 pm - The Trump administration this week eliminated much of the federal government’s front line of defense against foreign interference in U.S. elections. The move, which follo...
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately

By Dan Diamond, Carolyn Y. Johnson and Lena H. Sun
Feb 08, 2025 5:08 pm - The Trump administration is cutting billions of dollars in biomedical research funding, alarming academic leaders who said it would imperil their universities and medical...
Elon Musk’s DOGE has swept into 14 federal agencies. Here’s what to know.

By Washington Post staff
Feb 08, 2025 4:54 pm - Staffers and allies of Elon Musk’s U.S. DOGE Service have fanned out across Washington in recent days, seeking access to sensitive data and disrupting operations in at le...
Illinois, 18 other states sue to stop DOGE from accessing Americans’ personal data

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
Feb 07, 2025 7:06 pm - Nineteen Democratic attorneys general sued President Donald Trump on Friday to stop Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department rec...
Gutting USAID threatens billions of dollars for US farms, businesses

By Daniel Wu
Feb 07, 2025 6:34 pm - The Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, which officials have said is intended to rein in wasteful spending, has lef...
Treasury was warned DOGE access to payments marked an ‘insider threat’

By Joseph Menn, Jeff Stein and Ellen Nakashima
Feb 07, 2025 6:29 pm - The Treasury Department was warned in a confidential assessment that U.S. DOGE Service access to a sensitive payment network represented an “unprecedented insider threat ...
A federal judge weighing whether to block DOGE access to the US Labor Department

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Feb 07, 2025 6:23 pm - WASHINGTON — A federal judge heard arguments Friday over whether to block Trump adviser Elon Musk's team from accessing systems at the Labor Department, which has investi...
Judge says he will temporarily block Trump from placing thousands of USAID workers on paid leave

By ELLEN KNICKMEYER and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Feb 07, 2025 6:20 pm - WASHINGTON — A federal judge on Friday dealt President Donald Trump and billionaire ally Elon Musk their first big setback in their dismantling of the U.S. Agency for Int...
Senate GOP unveils $340B budget plan with Trump’s deportation and defense funds, as House stalls

By LISA MASCARO and KEVIN FREKING
Feb 07, 2025 4:06 pm - WASHINGTON — As House Republicans missed another deadline Friday to produce a massive budget package of tax cuts and slashed spending, Senate Republicans jumped ahead, un...
Vance says the DOGE staffer who resigned after a report of racist postings should be brought back

By MICHELLE L. PRICE
Feb 07, 2025 2:09 pm - Vice President JD Vance said Friday that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency should rehire a staff member who resigned after he was linked to social media posts that espoused racism, with President Donald Trump later endorsing his vice president's view.

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