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Representatives Demand Housing Agency Halt Any Cryptocurrency Experiments

Following reporting by ProPublica, three Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee have warned HUD against using crypto, which they said could be “dangerous, speculative, and harmful to working families.”

The Trump Administration Used Its Food Aid Program for Political Gain, Congressional Investigators Find

The Food to Families program, touted by Ivanka Trump, gave tens of millions of dollars to unqualified firms and was also used to promote then-President Trump.

Coronavirus

Documents Show Trump Officials Skirted Rules to Reward Politically Connected and Untested Firms With Huge Pandemic Contracts

House Democrats investigating the COVID-19 response say Trump adviser Peter Navarro pressured agencies to award deals worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

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486 stories published since 2016

Labor Department Official Warns That Staff Who Speak With Journalists Face “Serious Legal Consequences”

The Trump Administration’s War on Children

Earthjustice President Describes a “Fundamentally Different” Era of Hostility Toward Environmentalists

Politically Connected Firms Benefit From Trump Tariff Exemptions Amid Secrecy, Confusion

Trump Laid Off Nearly All the Federal Workers Who Investigate Firefighter Deaths

Trump’s War on Measurement Means Losing Data on Drug Use, Maternal Mortality, Climate Change and More

Trump Team Eyes Politically Connected Startup to Overhaul $700 Billion Government Payments Program

Two Months After Trump’s Funding Cuts, a Nonprofit Struggles to Support Refugees and Itself

NOAA Scientists Are Cleaning Bathrooms and Reconsidering Lab Experiments After Contracts for Basic Services Expire

Beyond Showerheads: Trump’s Attempts to Kill Appliance Regulations Cause Chaos

From Lollapalooza to Detention Camps: Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trump’s Deportation Plans

Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Collecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Data From Most Polluters

“They Don’t Care About Civil Rights”: Trump’s Shuttering of DHS Oversight Arm Freezes 600 Cases, Imperils Human Rights

No, President Trump, the Income Tax Wasn’t A Mistake. But It Was an Accident.

Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires.

Microsoft Hooked the Government on Its Products With Freebies. Could Elon Musk’s Starlink Be Doing the Same?

Representatives Demand Housing Agency Halt Any Cryptocurrency Experiments

How Investigative Journalists Actually Find Fraud, Waste and Abuse

The CDC Buried a Measles Forecast That Stressed the Need for Vaccinations

Did You Work on a Terminated NIH Grant? ProPublica Wants to Hear From You.

A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education

Fend for Yourself: Under Trump, Consumer Protection Bureau’s Probes of Big Tech and Finance Firms Freeze Up

How Elon Musk’s SpaceX Secretly Allows Investment From China

Federal Investigators Were Preparing Two Texas Housing Discrimination Cases — Until Trump Took Over

Under Pressure From Trump, ICE Is Pushing Legal Boundaries

NIH Ends Future Funding to Study the Health Effects of Climate Change

Killing Grants That Have Saved Lives: Trump’s Cuts Signal End to Government Work on Terrorism Prevention

The October Story That Outlined Exactly What the Trump Administration Would Do to the Federal Bureaucracy

Tổng thống Trump đã dừng hoạt động xử lý chất độc da cam. Việc làm này khiến cho hàng trăm nghìn người gặp nguy cơ bị nhiễm độc.

Emails Reveal Top IRS Lawyer Warned Trump Firings Were a “Fraud” on the Courts

Some Americans Have Already Been Caught in Trump’s Immigration Dragnet. More Will Be.

Trump Halted an Agent Orange Cleanup. That Puts Hundreds of Thousands at Risk for Poisoning.

How a Push to Amend the Constitution Could Help Trump Expand Presidential Power

Who’s Running the DOGE Wrecking Machine: The World’s Richest Man or a Little-Known Bureaucrat?

Parents Sue Trump Administration for Allegedly Sabotaging Education Department’s Civil Rights Division

Washington Blues: A Government Town Faces a Gloomy Future

Trump’s Pressure on Countries and International Organizations Erodes Protections for Asylum-Seekers

Massive Layoffs at the Department of Education Erode Its Civil Rights Division

“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump

The Office That Investigates Disparities in Veterans’ Care Is Being “Liquidated”

Two Transgender Girls, Six Federal Agencies. How Trump Is Trying to Pressure Maine Into Obedience.

National Cancer Institute Employees Can’t Publish Information on These Topics Without Special Approval

U.S. Housing Agency Considers Launching Crypto Experiment

How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency

NASA Official Warns Staff About Publicly Displaying Their Badges Amid Reports of Harassment

The Trump Administration Said These Aid Programs Saved Lives. It Canceled Them Anyway.

Mother Speaks Out Against Trump’s Detention of Her Son at Guantanamo

A Study of Mint Plants. A Device to Stop Bleeding. This Is the Scientific Research Ted Cruz Calls “Woke.”

DOGE Gains Access to Confidential Records on Housing Discrimination, Medical Details — Even Domestic Violence