DOGE expected to take aim at DHS with staffing cuts, including at US Secret Service
- DHS is bracing for potential significant layoffs across agencies, including the Secret Service.
- Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is expected to target DHS for personnel reductions.
- Customs, Immigration, and FEMA could face cuts; the Secret Service spent $2 million on recruiting.
- A senior DHS official stated they will eliminate government waste and non-mission critical positions.
- Layoffs may impact administrative staff and new hires, but core missions are not expected to be immediately impacted.
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DOGE Poised to Nix WMD Office at DHS
DOGE is on the verge of shuttering the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office at the Department of Homeland Security. This is the office charged with preventing chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons inside the United States. This is through a mix of intelligence, technology, preparedness, liaising with state and local policy, etc. (There’s more details on it here.) It’s an office with just over 250 federal employees and a…
DOGE makes cuts to mine safety agency as administration seeks mining expansion
As the Trump administration seeks to increase mining in the U.S., the agency charged with mine safety is seeing staffing cuts from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE.
The Case Against a DOGE Tax Rebate - The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
Elon Musk and his DOGE team have been taking a chainsaw to the federal bureaucracy over the past couple of months with a remarkable degree of success. DOGE deserves high praise for identifying vast government waste, but the savings generated by its work should be used to cut the deficit and limit the federal government rather than to fund a tax rebate skewed toward taxpayers who already pay very little in federal income taxes. It makes absolutel…
Letter: It’s a tragedy
As we know, immigrants and refugees, so vital to our country’s culture, are among the huge “cutbacks” Donald Trump and his so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have implemented — to paraphrase the song: Trump’s dreaming of a White Country/Just like the one he used to know. There have been mass arrests of immigrants in large cities across America, but the story is local, too: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have…
What Agencies Will DOGE Cut Next? FEMA, DHS & ICE, Says CNN
AP Photo/Makiya Seminera The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is on the verge of making major cuts to the Secret Service and FEMA — a new report says. According to CNN, the Secret Service and FEMA are among the next targets for Elon Musk’s cost-cutting agency. Further, the Department of Homeland Security is “bracing for what could amount to significant layoffs,” CNN reported Sunday. In the article written by CNN’s Betsy Klein, Jamie Ga…
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