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  • Education

The government has long researched high school experiences. Then DOGE cut the effort

The federal government has long surveyed high schoolers to help track how their academic choices may have influenced the course of their lives. The Trump administration put an end to that effort.

October 07, 2025
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By:
  • Carmela Guaglianone
A portrait of President Donald Trump hangs on the Labor Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. on Aug. 25, 2025. The agency is bringing back some workers who took the government's deferred resignation offer. Still other employees whose jobs were eliminated received notices that they would be assigned to new positions.

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  • Politics

Federal agencies are rehiring workers and spending more after DOGE's push to cut

Eight months after the Department of Government Efficiency effort to shrink the federal workforce began, some agencies are hiring workers back – and spending more money than before.

October 01, 2025
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By:
  • Stephen Fowler,
  • Shannon Bond,
  • and 1 more
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem speaking at the Department of Homeland Security headquarters in January 2025.

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  • Politics

A lawsuit tries to block the Trump administration's efforts to merge personal data

A class action lawsuit argues that the administration's efforts to combine databases of personal information on Americans violate privacy laws and the Constitution.

September 30, 2025
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By:
  • Jude Joffe-Block
Jessie Beck was a fisheries biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. She lost her job in the Trump administration's mass purge of probationary employees early this year.

Tagged as: 

  • Politics

A judge ruled their firings were illegal. The government got to do it anyway

A judge ruled the firing of thousands of federal employees was illegal. But he stopped short of ordering the government to reinstate them, predicting the Supreme Court would overturn it.

September 25, 2025
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By:
  • Andrea Hsu
A closed entrance to the Social Security Administration headquarters sits empty in Woodlawn, Md., on March 20.

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  • Politics

Whistleblower says Trump officials copied millions of Social Security numbers

A whistleblower complaint says the personal data of over 300 million Americans was copied to a private cloud account to allow access by former members of the Department of Government Efficiency team.

August 27, 2025
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By:
  • Geoff Brumfiel
Jeremy Robinson (center) and Aliyah Hill perform last checks on packets of Mana Nutrition emergency food supplements for children before packaging them in the nonprofit’s factory in Fitzgerald, Ga. “We save lives,” Robinson said of his part of the work that has saved millions of children globally.

Tagged as: 

  • Economy

Georgia factory making food for starving kids expecting new government order

Mana Nutrition in Fitzgerald, Ga., was among the first places to feel the downstream effects of DOGE cuts. Now the nonprofit is looking forward to new orders from the U.S. State Department.

August 14, 2025
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
The National Endowment for the Humanities building on April 11, 2025 in Washington, D.C.

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  • Arts & Life

Federal judge rules cuts to humanities grants were 'unlawful'

The ruling deems the government's termination of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities "unlawful" and allows a lawsuit brought by humanities groups to move forward.

August 07, 2025
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By:
  • Elizabeth Blair
President Donald Trump is pictured walking to Marine One to depart the White House in May, with the Washington Monument in the background.

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  • Politics

After an ex-DOGE staffer's assault, Trump threatens to federalize D.C. Can he?

Trump told reporters on Wednesday evening that he is considering taking over the D.C. police force and sending in the National Guard after a former DOGE staffer was hurt in an attempted carjacking.

August 07, 2025
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By:
  • Rachel Treisman
Workers on scaffolding repaint the NASA logo near the top of the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., May 2020.

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  • National

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program

The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

July 26, 2025
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By:
  • Chandelis Duster
Along Glacier National Park's Going to the Sun Road, tourists admire the view from one of the park's vintage red buses

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  • National

Trump's cuts to National Parks are real but many visitors aren't seeing them yet

DOGE cuts to the National Park Service spawned fears of widespread problems for park visitors during peak summer season, as parks continue to see record visit numbers. The cuts are real, but mostly invisible.

July 24, 2025
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By:
  • Kirk Siegler
Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin from Wisconsin wants to revoke DOGE's high-level access to a database that controls payments and loans to American farmers.

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  • Politics

U.S. senator wants DOGE out of sensitive payment system for farmers

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., wants the USDA to revoke high-level access granted to the Department of Government Efficiency to a database that controls payments and loans to farmers and ranchers.

July 15, 2025
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By:
  • Jenna McLaughlin
Researchers put on a "science fair for canceled grants" on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday to highlight cuts to federal funding for science.

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  • Science

Canceled grants get the spotlight at a Capitol Hill 'science fair'

On Tuesday, scientists held an event organized by House Democrats in which they stood in front of posters outlining their work — and the federal cuts that now threaten it.

July 10, 2025
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By:
  • Scott Neuman
The Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, recently gained high-level access to a database that controls government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

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  • Politics

DOGE keeps gaining access to sensitive data. Now, it can cut off billions to farmers

DOGE recently gained high-level access to a database that controls government payments and loans to farmers and ranchers across the U.S.

July 10, 2025
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By:
  • Jenna McLaughlin
KERRVILLE, TEXAS - JULY 04: Trees emerge from flood waters along the Guadalupe River on July 4, 2025 in Kerrville, Texas. Heavy rainfall caused flooding along the Guadalupe River in central Texas with multiple fatalities reported. (Photo by Eric Vryn/Getty Images)

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  • Weather

How good was the forecast? Texas officials and the National Weather Service disagree

As searchers continue to look for victims in the deadly flash flooding in Texas, officials are answering questions about the weather forecasts ahead of and during the storm.

July 06, 2025
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Elon Musk receives a key from President Trump in the Oval Office on May 30, 2025 to thank him for his work with the Department of Government Efficiency. Days later, the pair were feuding online, though Musk has since apologized.

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  • Politics

Elon Musk may be gone but DOGE isn't done remaking the federal government

Even though the billionaire is no longer leading the Department of Government Efficiency effort, many key staffers — and DOGE ideas — are now more permanently embedded in the federal government.

June 16, 2025
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By:
  • Shannon Bond and
  • Stephen Fowler
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