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CURRENT EVENTS May 22 - July 5

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Which explains why the Trump Administration is rushing to rehire a number of those useless government workers that DOGE wholesale fired?
 
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In win for Trump, Supreme Court blocks disclosure of DOGE operations​


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In win for Trump, Supreme Court blocks disclosure of DOGE operations

A watchdog group wants to learn more about DOGE's role in President Trump's efforts to dramatically downsize and reshape the federal government.
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“The Department of Government Efficiency doesn't have to turn over records and answer questions about its operations for now, the Supreme Court said on June 6, intervening in a dispute between the Trump administration and a watchdog group over DOGE's role in slashing federal jobs and remaking the federal government.

In response to an emergency request from the administration, the court's conservative majority ordered a lower court to narrow the information DOGE needs to disclose.

In a brief, unsigned order, the majority said "separation of powers concerns counsel judicial deference and restraint" when directing the executive branch to hand over internal communications.

… A federal judge had said Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington is allowed to question the head of DOGE and receive certain documents to help make its case that DOGE must comply with the nation's premier public disclosure law. …”

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So in back to back decisions, the six conservative justices of SCOTUS tell Americans that DOGE can have our personal data but we can’t get data on who DOGE is and what they are doing (for now) …
 
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“… After dismissing thousands of probationary employees for fabricated “performance” issues, the IRS reversed course and told them to show up to work in late May.

And some staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development, dismantled in the first days of the Trump administration by a gleeful Elon Musk and his cost-cutting team at the U.S. DOGE Service, checked their inboxes this month to find an unexpected offer: Would you consider returning — to work for the State Department?

… Trump officials are trying to recover not only people who were fired, but also thousands of experienced senior staffers who are opting for a voluntary exit as the administration rolls out a second resignation offer. Thousands more staff are returning in fits and starts as a conflicting patchwork of court decisions overturn some of Trump’s large-scale firings, especially his Valentine’s Day dismissal of all probationary workers, those with one or two years of government service and fewer job protections. …”
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I remember in these forums people actually debating if indiscriminately firing government workers en masse was a good approach to downsizing.
 


Really interesting story. I did not realize that American Samoans do not get birthright citizenship. They cannot vote in federal elections but can vote in local elections in Samoa, which apparently has tripped up some Samoans who move to a State and assume they can vote in local elections there.
 

Cards in deck: Trump keeps stack of orders ready to play as needed​

Trump has a large stack of executive orders prepared and ready — some written before he took office — that he can release whenever the mood strikes.


“… The [travel ban] announcement was the latest example of how the Trump administration has dipped into its large reserve of proclamations and executive orders — many of which have been long in the making — to drive its chosen narrative, push the president’s priorities and sometimes change the subject when news coverage focuses on topics that Trump officials prefer to downplay.

Throughout Trump’s second term, White House staff have maintained a stash of executive orders and proclamations they can deploy depending on the themes of the moment and the narratives they want to shape, a senior White House official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity to talk frankly about internal strategies.
Some orders are put into the calendar well in advance, the official said. Others are teed up the night before they are signed depending on impulse, political strategy and the overall mood within the White House, the official said.…”
 
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