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‘Prelude to #privatization:’ #SocialSecurity confirms #workforce reduction targets, continues to shutter offices. Despite most of the agency being exempt from deferred resignations and the government-wide #hiring #freeze, early #retirement and Voluntary #Separation Incentive Payments are now available to the entire agency workforce. govexec.com/workforce/2025/03/ No social security for all of us who paid into the system all our working lives. Where is the outcry or even any push back? Crickets

Government Executive‘Prelude to privatization:’ Social Security confirms workforce reduction targets, continues to shutter officesDespite most of the agency being exempt from deferred resignations and the government-wide hiring freeze, early retirement and Voluntary Separation Incentive Payments are now available to the entire agency workforce.
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Nina Bernstein

At last, vocal pushback.
“I am alarmed that as one of your first acts as secretary, you appear to have handed over a highly sensitive system responsible for millions of Americans’ private data — and a key function of government — to an unelected billionaire and an unknown number of his unqualified flunkies,” wrote Ms. Warren, who also sits on the Senate Finance Committee. #freeze #Musk #money #data nytimes.com/2025/02/03/us/poli

The New York Times · Warren Questions Bessent Over Musk Access to Treasury Payment SystemBy Alan Rappeport
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Nina Bernstein

Every paragraph of this story adds another dimension to this horror. #children #malaria #freeze
“You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause,” the scientist said.
More than 50 million children received preventative drugs before the rainy season last year. nytimes.com/2025/02/01/health/

The New York Times · Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign AidBy Stephanie Nolen
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