The Paper Trail: April 11, 2025
SCOTUS Allows Purges to Continue; ICE Envisions Deportations “Like Amazon Prime”; Payouts for Opioid Victims Fall Short; And More.
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SCOTUS Allows Purges to Continue; ICE Envisions Deportations “Like Amazon Prime”; Payouts for Opioid Victims Fall Short; And More.
DOJ Lawyers Feeling Squeezed; DOGE Using AI to Snoop on Federal Workers; iPhone Quirk Blamed for Signalgate; And More.
Pentagon IG to “Evaluate” Signalgate; DOGE Happily Existing in the Murky Middle; No Toilet Paper or Privacy: Federal Workers Return to the Office; And More.
Trump Cleared to Fire NLRB, MSPB Members; USAID Cuts Hamper Myanmar Earthquake Relief; Companies Pay X to Stay off Musk “Naughty List”; And More.
White House War Plans Accidentally Texted to Journalist; Trump Revokes More Security Clearances, Declares War on “Lawfare”; Dr. Oz’s Conflict of Interest; And More.
Federal Workers in Limbo; Trump Mixing Foreign Policy, Family Business in Serbia; What’s in the New JFK Files?; And More.
White House, Court Fight Over Deportation Flights; Who’s Really Running DOGE?; Rich Homeowners Exploit Flood Insurance Program; And More.
Tesla’s New White House Showroom; Combat Care's Uncertain Future; Campuses React to Trump Threats; And More.
Layoffs Nearly Wipe Out Entire GSA Offices; Enola Gay a Victim of Anti-DEI Purge; Federal Officials' Financial Ties to Musk; and More.
The Big Contracts DOGE Hasn’t Cut; Dine With the President for $5 Million; EEOC Walking Away from Transgender and Nonbinary Workers; and More.
Inside Trump’s Federal Worker Firings; Will DOGE Tackle $2 Trillion in Pentagon Waste?; Treasury Won’t Enforce Beneficial Owner Disclosure; and More.
Elon Musk’s Government-Funded Empire; “Trump Gaza” Video Sparks Outrage; Organ Transplant System “In Chaos”; and More.
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