DOGE Catch-All

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BlooVooDoo said:

Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers Funded by Federal Aid​

The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.

Johns Hopkins University, one of the country’s leading centers of scientific research, said on Thursday that it would eliminate more than 2,000 workers in the United States and abroad because of the Trump administration’s steep cuts, primarily to international aid programs.

The layoffs, the most in the university’s history, will involve 247 domestic workers for the university, which is based in Baltimore, and an affiliated center. Another 1,975 positions will be cut in 44 countries. They affect the university’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, its medical school and an affiliated nonprofit, Jhpiego.

Nearly half the school’s total revenue last year came from federally funded research, including $800 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Johns Hopkins is one of the top university recipients of the funding that the administration is aiming to slash. And it appears to be among the most deeply affected of the major research institutions that are reeling from cuts — or the threat of cuts — to federal money that they depend on for research studies and running labs.

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Federal Cuts Prompt Johns Hopkins to Cut More Than 2,000 Workers

The university, a leader in scientific research, has been hard hit by the Trump administration’s cuts, which will slash at least $800 million from its budget.
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From a CNN story about this:

"This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally,” the Maryland-based university said, adding that it was proud of the work its employees have done “to care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water, and advance countless other critical, life-saving efforts around the world.”

IMO, these type of activities are best provided by non-profit orgs with private donations.
 
ZenMode said:
From a CNN story about this:

"This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally,” the Maryland-based university said, adding that it was proud of the work its employees have done “to care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water, and advance countless other critical, life-saving efforts around the world.”

IMO, these type of activities are best provided by non-profit orgs with private donations.
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That’s because you see it as no more than simple charity.
 
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ZenMode said:
From a CNN story about this:

"This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally,” the Maryland-based university said, adding that it was proud of the work its employees have done “to care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water, and advance countless other critical, life-saving efforts around the world.”

IMO, these type of activities are best provided by non-profit orgs with private donations.
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JFC
 
ZenMode said:
From a CNN story about this:

"This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally,” the Maryland-based university said, adding that it was proud of the work its employees have done “to care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water, and advance countless other critical, life-saving efforts around the world.”

IMO, these type of activities are best provided by non-profit orgs with private donations.
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IMO your opinion is worthless.
 
ZenMode said:
From a CNN story about this:

"This is a difficult day for our entire community. The termination of more than $800 million in USAID funding is now forcing us to wind down critical work here in Baltimore and internationally,” the Maryland-based university said, adding that it was proud of the work its employees have done “to care for mothers and infants, fight disease, provide clean drinking water, and advance countless other critical, life-saving efforts around the world.”

IMO, these type of activities are best provided by non-profit orgs with private donations.
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They are definitely not best provided that way. That's been one of the lessons of the past 25 years. NGOs are not the way to go. They end up stepping over themselves because they have competing agendas. Haiti is the result of trying to do everything through NGOs.

This is an empirical question and the evidence is pretty clear.
 
So I take it that Silence doesn't like LGBTQ people then? And as someone else noted, these are university grants approved by experts in their fields. What does Musk or DOGE know about such things? Nothing, nada. They just cancelled all of these studies because they had "transgender" or "lesbian" or "gay" in their titles, which tells you all you need to know about their real agenda.
 
sringwal said:
Do you think that we shouldn’t be studying the impact of drug and social media use on teens?
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Not if they're LGBTQ teens, apparently. Even if they're straight teens they probably would still rather spend the money on tax cuts, but if they're LGBTQ? Forget it.
 

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.​


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“As the world’s richest men slash American aid for the world’s poorest children, they insist that all is well. “No one has died as a result of a brief pause to do a sanity check on foreign aid funding,” Elon Musk said. “No one.”

That is not true. In South Sudan, one of the world’s poorest countries, the efforts by Musk and President Trump are already leading children to die.

Peter Donde was a 10-year-old infected with H.I.V. from his mother during childbirth. But American aid kept Peter strong even as his parents died from AIDS. A program started by President George W. Bush called PEPFAR saved 26 million lives from AIDS, and one was Peter’s.

Under PEPFAR, an outreach health worker ensured that Peter and other AIDS orphans got their medicines. Then in January, Trump and Musk effectively shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, perhaps illegally, and that PEPFAR outreach program ended. Orphans were on their own.

Without the help of the community health worker, Peter was unable to get his medicines, so he became sick and died in late February, according to Moses Okeny Labani, a health outreach worker who helped manage care for Peter and 144 other vulnerable children.

The immediate cause of death was an opportunistic pneumonia infection as Peter’s viral load increased and his immunity diminished, said Labani.

“If U.S.A.I.D. would be here, Peter Donde would not have died,” Labani said. …”

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If folks want to argue whether even a small fraction of US taxpayer dollars should be used to keep children elsewhere alive and/or whether doing so serves a legitimate government interest, then fair play. But Musk should not be allowed to pretend there are not consequences small to immense from the sudden cuts (that didn’t follow any process to asses value or give others and opportunity to step in to replace the most impactful).
 

‘‘Delete’ is one of their favorite terms’: Inside DOGE’s IRS takeover ahead of tax season​



“… Within minutes of showing up, a twenty-something software engineer dispatched from DOGE began demanding access to the tax collection agency’s most protected internal databases – first the IT systems and then one containing the personal and financial data for millions of American taxpayers and another system housing IRS contracts.

… Another DOGE staffer sought to shut down nearly all of IRS’s congressionally funded programs and initiatives planned for this fiscal year – many aimed at modernizing the agency and improving the tax filing process.

As DOGE has set up shop inside the IRS over the past month, the agency has fired thousands of workers and auditors and set out to shutter more than 110 taxpayer assistance offices across the country. Widespread layoffs are in the works, with plans to cut nearly 20% of all IRS employees by May 15.

The barnstorming, which has played out at multiple agencies, has thrown the IRS into turmoil at the height of tax season. While the business of processing returns and issuing refunds has been ongoing, sources say these DOGE actions could undermine the long-term operations of the IRS, which handles nearly all accounts receivable for the federal government. …”
 
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