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Medicaid and Social Security Face Budget Cuts. What’s Ahead for America’s Social Safety Net.
House Republicans aim to cut federal spending by $2 trillion, hitting Medicaid and other programs. How the cuts could impact ...
How DOGE Could Impact Your Social Security Benefits and What You Need to Know
Staff cuts, stricter repayment rules, and office closures are straining Social Security. Here's how the Elon Musk-led DOGE ...
DOGE drops one more Mississippi federal property lease from office closures, savings list
The newest cost savings estimates from DOGE took another federal property in Mississippi off list of real estate leases. Here's what we know so far ...
CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the ...
Big changes to Social Security have some people worried. What to expect.
Controversial changes at the Social Security Administration ramped up worries from Yahoo Finance readers. Here are some of ...
Social Security reminds workers about ‘resurrecting’ people wrongly declared dead
Spurred by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, the Social Security Administration is combing through its ...
Elon’s Boring Company Is ‘Helping’ the Government With an $8 Billion Amtrak Tunnel Project
The New York Times reports that Musk’s company is helping the government assess “the costs and progress” of the Frederick ...
Minnesota woman stole $360K from Social Security by passing as her dead mother — does this prove Elon right?
Mavious Redmond of Austin, Minnesota, has pleaded guilty to theft of government funds after more than 25 years of ...
Is Social Security an Exemplar of Efficiency?
It isn’t crazy to ask why administrative costs have increased over a seven-decade period of massive technological improvement ...
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Judge pauses much of Trump administration's massive downsizing of federal agencies
A California judge has ordered the Trump administration to halt much of its massive downsizing of the federal workforce.
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Your Social Security number is in the middle of DOGE’s massive tech system overhaul. Are payments, private data at risk?
in an Thursday letter to the Social Security Administration’s assistant inspector general for audit. The letter, first reported by Axios, calls for an investigation into DOGE’s information ...