Then Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley testifies before the Senate Committee on the Budget on Sept. 11, 2024. Anna Rose Layden | Getty Images News | Getty Images Social Security has never missed a benefit payment since the program first began sending individuals monthly benefits more than eight decades ago. …
Elon Musk and President Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House, Feb. 11, 2025. Andrew Harnik | Getty Images News | Getty Images As the so-called Department of Government Efficiency looks to cut federal spending, Elon Musk and President Donald Trump have floated the idea that some …
In the weeks since President Trump’s return to office, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, long a target of conservatives, landed in the crosshairs of Elon Musk’s DOGE, or Department of Government Efficiency. As a watchdog agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, or CFPB, is tasked with protecting consumers from financial …
Protesters demonstrate in support of federal workers outside of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Feb. 14, 2025 in Washington, DC. Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images On Feb. 11, Elizabeth Aniskevich, an attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, received a notice that she was being terminated …
While the debate over the ideal workweek has been ongoing for decades, it has intensified over the last few months. In 2023, Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy‘s statement about the need for India’s work culture to change, and for youngsters to be prepared to work 70-hours per week sparked a controversy …
A US Postal Service worker outside a Signature Bank branch in the Brooklyn borough of New York, US, on Wednesday, March 15, 2023. Angus Mordant | Bloomberg | Getty Images Anchorage Digital CEO Nathan McCauley wants everyone to know what happened to his crypto company in 2023 during the Biden …
Probational federal employees who lost their jobs on Thursday as part of the Trump administration’s mass firing of government workers expressed shock and anger at the terminations, which they contend will hurt the government’s ability to provide services. President Trump is moving quickly to shrink the U.S. federal government — the nation’s …
Priscilla Chan, left, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, and Lauren Sanchez are among guests attending Donald Trump’s inauguration as the 47th U.S. president in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, D.C., Jan. 20, 2025. Saul Loeb | Afp | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg kicked off 2025 with an Instagram video that outlined …
Workers picket in front of an Amazon Logistic Station on December 19, 2024 in Skokie Illinois. Scott Olson | Getty Images Italo Medelius-Marsano was a law student at North Carolina Central University in 2022, when he took a job at an Amazon warehouse near the city of Raleigh to earn …
Until recently, Elon Musk seldom posted about the U.S. Agency for International Development on X, where he is wont to share his thoughts on nearly every subject. Then on Sunday came a flurry of posts wherein the world’s richest person, the Trump-appointed head of the new Department of Government Efficiency, …
