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Musk and Ramaswamy want to force federal workers back to the office. Economists aren’t convinced.

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Workers in these states just got a pay raise

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CNN — The corks have been popped, the calendar pages turned and a day that promised fresh starts also brought with it some pay bumps for millions of Americans. “These additional earnings are critical for ensuring workers don’t lose ground due to rising prices, but the minimum wage level may still be too low, especially if the minimum wage was …

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21 States To Raise Minimum Wage For 2025

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LOADING ERROR LOADING Millions of workers can expect a raise in the new year as state and local governments around the country increase their minimum wages. Looming minimum wage increases, as compiled by EPI: The federal minimum wage is just $7.25 per hour and prevails in any state that doesn’t mandate a higher minimum. The city recently approved an ordinance …

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3 weeks ago

The Latest: Schumer says Senate on course to pass bill before funding lapses at midnight

Live Mint

With hours to go before a midnight government shutdown, the House approved a new plan from House Speaker Mike Johnson that would temporarily fund federal operations and disaster aid, but dropped President-elect Donald Trump’s demands for a debt limit increase into the new year. Leader Jeffries says Democrats stopped ‘extreme MAGA Republicans’ Hakeem Jeffries, whose support would make or break …

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3 weeks ago

Deal spares federal workers before Christmas but there’s concern about possible job cuts under Trump

Associated Press

— Johnny Zuagar said he tried to hide his worries about a potential government shutdown from his three boys as he weighed how much to spend on Christmas presents. “You’re just trying to take that worry off of your family.” Like thousands of federal workers, Zuagar had been navigating the holidays with the spirit of the season overtaken by an …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

America’s maxing out its bah-humbug energy

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New York CNN — Look, fam. Trump’s team has sought to play down the Musk of it all, with a spokesperson for the transition team telling The Hill: “As soon as President Trump released his official stance on the CR, Republicans on Capitol Hill echoed his point of view. “Truly, I don’t know what’s going on,” Maine Republican Sen. Susan …

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4 weeks ago

How many people work for the federal government?

CNN

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. Close to 3 million federal civilian workers for decades There were about 2.96 million civilians, including postal workers, getting full-time paychecks from the federal government at the end of 1984, before Ramaswamy was born, and there are a hair over 3 million working for the federal government today, according …

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1 month ago

Biden Values Public Unions Above Public Service

Live Mint

On his way out the door and just before the holidays, President Joe Biden has presented some 42,000 federal workers with a generous gift: a five-year contract that protects their right to work from home for at least part of the week. This the endgame to a saga that has been playing out for most of Biden’s tenure: the tension …

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1 month ago

Ramaswamy hopes firing federal workers will be 'good' for them: report

Raw Story

Billionaire tech entrepreneur turned Donald Trump loyalist Vivek Ramaswamy is already making it known what he thinks needs to be done to improve the federal workforce even before the proposed “Department of Government Efficiency” has formed. Ramaswamy – who along with fellow billionaire Elon Musk was tapped to lead the new agency known as “DOGE” – hopes to significantly slash …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

How Musk and Ramaswamy's DOGE can save over $1 trillion

Daily Mail

A top senator is laying out 22 ways Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy can use their new agency DOGE to trim down the federal government. Ernst's other top priorities include cutting taxpayer dollars going to 'sketchy' Chinese labs and exposing government 'boondoggle' projects wasting millions. Trump pledged that the pair would help him 'dismantle' government bureaucracy and 'slash excess regulations, …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Musk, Ramaswamy want federal workers in the office full time. There’s a hitch.

Live Mint

The nation’s largest workforce could soon be ordered back to the office full-time. “If federal employees don’t want to show up, American taxpayers shouldn’t pay them for the Covid-era privilege of staying home," Musk and Ramaswamy wrote in a Wall Street Journal opinion piece published Wednesday. The National Federation of Federal Employees, which represents 110,000 federal workers, has been consulting …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

'Betrayal of our flag': Lawmaker says federal workers are 'embarrassed' by Trump's Cabinet

Raw Story

Rep. Eric Swalwell tore into Donald Trump's Cabinet nominations on MSNBC's "The ReidOut" Wednesday, saying the government could fall apart simply by virtue of the people below them not taking them seriously. He took particular aim at Trump's nomination to lead the Pentagon, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, whose sexual misconduct allegation has caused the Trump team to scramble — …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit

CNN

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, a nongovernmental entity helmed by billionaire Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, is expected to make a push for an end to remote work across federal agencies as a way to help reduce the federal workforce through attrition. A source familiar with early discussions …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

'Apprehensive and fearful': Federal workers await a dismantling under Trump

NPR

'Apprehensive and fearful': Federal workers await a dismantling under Trump toggle caption Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images North America President-elect Donald Trump has vowed once again to "drain the swamp". He's tapped two billionaires, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to help him "dismantle government bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure federal agencies" through a commission Trump is calling the …

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1 month, 4 weeks ago

How quickly could the Trump administration shrink the federal workforce?

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How quickly could the Trump administration shrink the federal workforce? The election has many federal workers on edge, as President-elect Trump has renewed his vows to rid Washington of "rogue bureaucrats" and to "dismantle the deep state." So how quickly could the new Trump administration start getting rid of federal workers? ANDREA HSU, BYLINE: President-elect Trump has a message for …

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2 months ago

US federal agency fires manager who told staff to skip homes with Trump signs

Hindustan Times

A Federal Emergency Management Agency employee who ordered workers to bypass homes with yard signs supporting President-elect Donald Trump has been fired, the agency’s head said Saturday. FEMA fires employee for telling other workers to avoid houses with Trump signs “This is a clear violation of FEMA’s core values and principles to help people regardless of their political affiliation,” FEMA …

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2 months ago

'I need you to stand up': Simone Biles asks Biden to 'make some things shake' before 2025

Raw Story

President Joe Biden is getting some encouragement from legendary gymnast Simone Biles to use his last days in the White House wisely. While Trump has the power to undo executive orders, Biden can still make efforts to frustrate Trump's attempts to reshape the federal government, as he did by strengthening protections for federal workers this spring. One key component of …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Weekly Shift

Politico

How the EEOC could change under Trump With help from Nick Niedzwiadek QUICK FIX MUSICAL CHAIRS: The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission took a rightward shift under former President Donald Trump’s time in office, opting for structural changes that slowed the pace of litigation and pushed the commission away from some its work on gender identity discrimination. A Republican chair on …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Federal workers around nation’s capital worry over Trump’s plans to send some of them elsewhere

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Worries of being uprooted from their jobs have returned for Laura Dodson and other federal workers, who have long been the economic backbone of the nation’s capital and its suburbs. The Republican’s proposals stir anxiety in the midst of an unusually competitive U.S. Senate race in heavily Democratic Maryland that could determine control of the Senate, with even …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Trump’s vow to fire thousands of ‘crooked’ federal workers prompts alarm

LA Times

Donald Trump has said he’ll rid the federal workforce of thousands of “dishonest” civil servants if he’s elected again, prompting concerns from good-government groups. “You’re now talking about 140 years of presidential administrations — Republicans and Democrats — who all supported the proposition that the best way to get an effective government was to have a career, professional, merit-based civil …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

This Project 2025 goal is on a fast track despite Trump and Vance distancing themselves

Raw Story

WASHINGTON — As the Trump-Vance ticket attempts to pivot toward the middle to try and convince independent voters they’re not as radical as portrayed, Donald Trump is doing all he can to distance himself from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025. “I will immediately reissue my 2020 Executive Order restoring the president's authority to remove rogue bureaucrats,” former President Donald Trump …

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5 months ago

Sushi Bay owner and companies fined $15.3 million by Federal Court for 'deliberately' exploiting migrant workers

ABC

The owner and companies behind a chain of sushi restaurants have been hit with a record $15.3 million in fines for exploiting and underpaying vulnerable migrant workers. The Federal Court found Sushi Bay outlets in New South Wales, Darwin and Canberra underpaid 163 workers more than $650,000 between February 2016 and January 2020. Ombudsman will pursue those who exploit workers …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans

LA Times

Tom Jones, a political activist and former Capitol Hill aide to Republican senators, is pictured in Bardstown, Ky. From his home office in small-town Kentucky, Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are quietly investigating scores of federal employees suspected of being hostile to the policies of Republican former President Donald Trump, an effort that dovetails with broader conservative preparations for …

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6 months, 2 weeks ago

MAGA spy network of gov't workers feeds names of colleagues who might resist Trump: report

Raw Story

Legal experts have raised red flags repeatedly about Project 2025, a plan backed by the extreme-right Heritage Foundation to help Donald Trump — or any other future Republican president — purge the federal government of rank-and-file employees who will follow the law over the orders of the president and institute Christian nationalist principles, among other things. "With a $100,000 grant …

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Musk and Ramaswamy want to force federal workers back to the office. Economists aren’t convinced.

Workers in these states just got a pay raise

21 States To Raise Minimum Wage For 2025

The Latest: Schumer says Senate on course to pass bill before funding lapses at midnight

Deal spares federal workers before Christmas but there’s concern about possible job cuts under Trump

America’s maxing out its bah-humbug energy

How many people work for the federal government?

Biden Values Public Unions Above Public Service

Ramaswamy hopes firing federal workers will be 'good' for them: report

How Musk and Ramaswamy's DOGE can save over $1 trillion

Musk, Ramaswamy want federal workers in the office full time. There’s a hitch.

'Betrayal of our flag': Lawmaker says federal workers are 'embarrassed' by Trump's Cabinet

Remote work crackdown: How Trump’s DOGE could push federal workers to quit

'Apprehensive and fearful': Federal workers await a dismantling under Trump

How quickly could the Trump administration shrink the federal workforce?

US federal agency fires manager who told staff to skip homes with Trump signs

'I need you to stand up': Simone Biles asks Biden to 'make some things shake' before 2025

Weekly Shift

Federal workers around nation’s capital worry over Trump’s plans to send some of them elsewhere

Trump’s vow to fire thousands of ‘crooked’ federal workers prompts alarm

This Project 2025 goal is on a fast track despite Trump and Vance distancing themselves

Sushi Bay owner and companies fined $15.3 million by Federal Court for 'deliberately' exploiting migrant workers

Conservative-backed group is creating a list of federal workers it suspects could resist Trump plans

MAGA spy network of gov't workers feeds names of colleagues who might resist Trump: report