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Elon Musk joined Lara Trump on her show “My View” Saturday night on FOX News. During their conversation, Elon revealed that the DOGE Team found 100,000 federal employees collected uninsurance benefits while they were still at work. Collecting insurance benefits while still working is considered unemployment insurance fraud. Many states classify unemployment fraud as a misdemeanor or felony. Jail time is a significant risk and can range from several months to several years. Elon Musk says 100,000 government employees have committed this dishonest act. Elon Musk: We’ve actually found there’s a lot of people who are federal government employees. They’re...

Since opening in 2022, Herb Banks’ Waldorf-area distillery has served as a gathering spot for federal workers, including four men who used to reconnect over cocktails in the tasting room every Friday evening. Lately, the group hasn’t stopped in as often. Nor have other regulars. Many in Waldorf, a booming, majority-Black bedroom community in Charles County, are scaling back their spending amid the Trump administration’s aggressive cuts to the federal workforce. “The revenue has decreased significantly,” Banks said of his business, Copper Compass Distillery. Charles and Prince George’s counties, Maryland neighbors with intertwined histories, are the nation’s richest majority-Black counties,...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mary Glantz was in her room at a Hampton Inn in Columbia, South Carolina, last Friday night during a trip visiting friends when her phone began pinging furiously with messages at 9:30 p.m. They were from panicked colleagues at the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent, congressionally funded organization in Washington that had found itself in the crosshairs of billionaire Elon Musk's cost-cutting Department of Government Efficiency. At 10:09 p.m., Glantz's own termination notice arrived in an email telling her she was being fired, effective immediately. Most of USIP's 300 staff were laid off that night. Glantz...

As more details emerge about the deep state’s coordinated efforts to undermine President Donald Trump during the 2020 election, it’s clear that not only is Trump right to overhaul our bloated bureaucracy, but that more federal employees need to be shown the door. Trump has offered a buyout to millions of federal employees, ended remote work, and has cut foreign aid to millions around the world in an effort to drain the swamp. By slashing unnecessary slush funds, he’s reducing the bloated federal workforce that’s been leeching off taxpayers.Like clockwork, the propaganda arm of the Democrat Party released a series...

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and Elon Musk’s sweeping federal layoffs aren’t just wreaking havoc on tens of thousands of employees across the country. Lawmakers in both parties are warning the cuts will harm the government’s ability to recruit young people out of college — as well as highly skilled candidates from the private sector — causing a ripple effect that could be felt for years or even decades. “The recruiting challenge they’re creating for themselves is enormous,” Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., whose state is home to hundreds of thousands of federal workers, said of the Department of Government Efficiency’s...

Every morning, one federal employee wakes up and wishes she had not. She has lost 20 pounds and says she is traumatized. Another employee, an Iraq War veteran with PTSD at the Department of Veterans Affairs, says he has gone from loving his work to considering taking his life. A third is struggling to sleep and has stress headaches, fearing the loss of a job he once thought was guaranteed as long as he met his targets. The three are among a growing number of federal employees who say their mental health is suffering as President Donald Trump's administration seeks...

As Twitchy reported, Elon Musk emailed all federal workers asking them to list in five bullet points what they had worked on the previous week. It's brilliant actually, as it shows who actually reads their emails or if that person exists at all. Federal workers didn't have the five minutes it would take to write the email but they found time to appear on cable news to describe how terrifying the request was. That was a week ago, but federal workers are still suffering from PTSD. They held a protest outside the Capitol on Monday to express just how frightening...

In interviews with NBC News, many federal workers shared stories of overwhelming stress, personal crises, rapid weight loss, panic attacks and more. ...NBC News spoke with 20 federal employees across agencies. Spanning the country, these workers lost their jobs, watched co-workers lose them or endured what amounted to a Goliath joyously stomping on David. In interviews, federal workers — many of whom are veterans — told of overwhelming stress, personal crises, suicidal ideation, rapid weight loss, prolonged lack of sleep, panic attacks and visiting the emergency room after a mental breakdown. They’re facing bombardment from every angle, some showing screenshots...

NEW YORK — (AP) — Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some laid-off federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their firing. The country's bitterly tribal politics are spilling into text chains, social media posts and heated conversations as Americans absorb the reality of the government's cost-cutting measures. Expecting sympathy, some axed workers are finding family and friends who instead are steadfast in their support of what they see as a bloated government's waste

Democrats have been doing all they can to protest President Donald Trump's address to a joint session of Congress Tuesday night. Some have made the courageous decision not to attend at all. Democrat congresswomen will be wearing pink to show their support for women, even though Senate Democrats voted down a bill Monday night that would have kept men out of girls' sports and locker rooms. .. A very small group of Senate Democrats gathered on the steps of the Capitol holding photographs of women who've been raped and murdered by illegal immigrants. No, sorry, they were holding photographs of...

Instead of boycotting President Trump’s address Tuesday to a joint session of Congress, Democrats took a different approach — bringing guests who are laid off federal workers. .. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Massachusetts Democrat, is joining her Democratic colleagues in the House by bringing another federal worker who lost his job as her guest — Doug Kowalewski, who worked at the National Science Foundation for three-and-a-half years. “I’m bringing Doug to force Trump to confront the federal workers he fired – the people who make this country run,” Ms. Warren said in a statement. She said cutting the NSF “isn’t efficient...

President Donald Trump has long warned about an entrenched “deep state” of malevolent bureaucrats working to thwart his agenda. Many actual employees of the federal government have scoffed at this characterization, proud of the apolitical nature of the civil service and its ability to work across Republican and Democratic administrations. This time might have been no different — if Trump and Elon Musk hadn’t come in and declared war on them. While there were conflicts between Trump and civil servants in his first term, Trump may now be creating the broad resistance within the federal government he thought was there...

In his ruling, Alsup ordered OPM to rescind a January 20 memo and a February 14 email directing agencies to identify probationary employees who are not "mission-critical" and terminate them... "Probationary employees are the lifeblood of our government. They come in at a low level and work their way up. That's how we renew ourselves," said Alsup, an appointee of Democratic former President Bill Clinton.

Georgia Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene stated in a house committee meeting that federal employees do not deserve their employment or compensation, leaving fellow representatives shocked. The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform met on Tuesday to discuss recent developments occuring within the government, including the Trump administration's decision to terminate thousands of federal employees and cut funding from various federal departments in an effort largely spearheaded by the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi brought up the administration's stated goals of privatizing the United States Postal Service, citing a report from the Washington Post...

… How many federal workers are there?That depends on who you’re counting.In November 2024, the federal government employed just over 3 million people, or 1.87% of the entire civilian workforce, according to BLS data. That figure doesn’t count the roughly 1.3 million active-duty military personnel, who aren’t typically considered “employees.” It does include the more than 600,000 people who work for the U.S. Postal Service, an independent federal agency with semiautonomous status that operates somewhat like a private business.Set aside the Postal Service and you have a bit more than 2.4 million federal workers. That makes the federal government the...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of current and former federal employees rallied Wednesday outside the Department of Health and Human Services headquarters, protesting recent firings and their effect on public health, and directing much of their ire at Elon Musk and his agency’s efforts to cut spending. Amid frigid temperatures and light snow, attendees chanted slogans such as “Funding, not freezes” and “Stand up, fight back.” They carried signs proclaiming, “Protect civil servants because they protect you!” and “In science we trust.” Many said they were there to fight the work of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and the confusion its...

NEW YORK (AP) — Workers across the country responded with anger and confusion Friday as they grappled with the Trump administration ‘s aggressive effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce by ordering agencies to lay off probationary employees who have yet to qualify for civil service protections. While much of the administration’s attention was focused on disrupting bureaucracy in Washington, the broad-based effort to slash the government workforce was impacting a far wider swath of workers. As layoff notices were sent out agency by agency, federal employees from Michigan to Florida were left reeling from being told that...

Boston — A federal judge in Massachusetts allowed the Trump administration's bid to offer "deferred resignations" to federal workers who voluntarily leave government service to continue and lifted a previous court order pausing the program's deadline. Judge George O'Toole, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, ruled Wednesday that the plaintiffs in the case — unions that represent federal employees — lacked standing to bring the case in the first place. He also ruled he did not have the jurisdiction to stop the program from proceeding. The judge initially paused the original Feb. 6 deadline for workers...

This. Is. Crazy. We've heard a ton about how Democrats 'fortified' the 2020 election, but this thread from Millie Weaver about far-Left US Government employees working to basically steer the 2020 election is just ... we have no words. Vile. Underhanded. SHOULD be illegal. There are some words. Thread: 1. Far-Left US Government Employees Conspired To Subvert President Trump, Gum Up Bureaucratic Processes, Strike, and Leak To The Media A network of radical marxist bureaucrats conspired in secret meetings, plotting how to use their official positions inside the US… pic.twitter.com/WCpZsETLNj — Millie Weaver 🇺🇸 (@Millie__Weaver) January 24, 2024 We'll let...

Government workers are reeling after President Donald Trump’s administration presented a “payout” to federal employees refusing to return to the office on a full-time basis. The U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sent an email to millions of government employees on Tuesday, offering eight months of pay if they resigned by Feb. 6. In response, federal employees and Democratic representatives have lodged anonymous complaints to media outlets. This followed Trump’s executive order forcing government workers to return to the office on a full-time basis on Jan. 20. “It was the batshit craziest email I’ve ever read,” one anonymous employee told...