As the Social Security Administration prepared to cut phone services for beneficiaries, the acting administrator admitted: “The reason that we’re on this timeline is because we received a request from the White House.” The Trump administration’s massive cuts to the agency that oversees Social Security benefits that are the primary source of income for 40% […]
“Social Security needs a commissioner whose loyalty is to beneficiaries, not Elon Musk,” said one advocate. As Democrats on the U.S. Senate Finance Committee grilled financial services executive Frank Bisignano at his confirmation hearing to oversee Social Security on Tuesday, a progressive think tank reported that the Trump administration’s cuts to the popular program have […]
President of the American Postal Workers Union says any effort by the Trump administration to seize control of the USPS Board of Governors “is unlawful and only makes clear their goal of breaking up and selling off the Postal Service to private corporations.” Postmaster General Louis DeJoy officially left office on Monday, but defenders of the U.S. […]
“Good lawyers, regardless of ideology or party, will remain undeterred in the honorable pursuit of our profession,” wrote the national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Legal advocacy groups have issued a sharp rebuke to U.S. President Donald Trump’s directive aimed at holding “accountable” law firms and lawyers that, according to him, “engage […]