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After a week of rumors that the Trump administration was planning to implement severe cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), it happened—though the White House reportedly denied that it would. This past Friday, senior officials were informed that 5200 relatively recent hires would be fired across multiple agencies at HHS, with 1300 at the CDC specifically. 

Since the start of the Trump administration, there have been no less than 154 aviation disasters, killing a total of 330 people. The American Airlines crash on January 29, 2025 at Reagan National Airport marked the first fatal commercial crash in the United States since 2009. This tracker will be continuously updated to reflect any further cuts to these federal agencies, as well as any aviation-related disasters. 

Elon Musk is ignoring laws he doesn’t like at DOGE. This is a strategy he learned from the world of business.

Unelected billionaire Elon Musk and his DOGE demolition crew have infiltrated the Treasury Department’s payments system. We’re tracking this crisis as it unfolds.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was asked about the Elon Musk-led DOGE team’s meddling in the Treasury Department’s payments system. His answers raise additional questions.

With rumors growing that Trump plans to sign an executive order which would effectively dismantle the Department of Education, this factsheet highlights the likely deleterious effects for millions of students across the country.

Jay Parsons, the economist and price-setting software cheerleader who left RealPage right before it started getting sued by tenants and state AGs across the country for allegedly colluding with landlords to raise rents, joined JPI last week. If JPI rings a bell, perhaps it is because it is the development company that Scott Turner just left before his improbable nomination and confirmation as Secretary of HUD.

On January 27 the Trump administration issued a memo ordering a freeze of federal grants and loans, which crippled critical services across the country. Judge Loren L. AliKhan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge John McConnell of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island have since blocked the spending pause from going into effect, but there are still numerous examples of shuttered programs and services. We are tracking notable examples.

While members of Congress try to obtain an official list of personnel working for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), the media have been keeping tabs on Musk and his team as they sweep through the federal government. Along with our list of individuals reportedly affiliated with DOGE, we’ve compiled a list of the agencies reportedly visited by DOGE in the first weeks of the Trump administration.

On January 20 2025, President Trump issued a memorandum ordering a 90-day freeze on the hiring of federal civilian employees. This blog post will break down the memorandum, compare it to the 2017 hiring freeze and discuss implications for government capacity, corporate crackdown, and the American public.

We won’t know the full scope of what went wrong to cause the horrific in-air collision at DCA until the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) completes its investigation. That could take up to two years. Oh, and that’s assuming the investigation is independent–which didn’t previously need to be specified, but, well… look around. Given all of that, the opposition to Musk and Trump, including but not limited to Democrats, must not wait to assign blame.

Elon Musk isn’t the only billionaire puppetting the federal government. Sam Altman also has staff in his pocket. All it cost was $100,000