Voices, The Peoples News
February 28, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Panama And Costa Rica Turning into a ‘Black Hole’ For Migrants and Deportees From US
https://apnews.com/article/panama-costa-rica-migrants-trump-53cb0449a29880e5e6aba8d9b7328416
The order directs Virginia State Police, corrections officers statewide to cooperate with ICE.
https://www.vpm.org/news/2025-02-27/glenn-youngkin-ice-executive-order-immigration-vadoc-vsp
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
The DOGE Takeover Is Worse Than You Think. What’s happening to the US government right now is bad. What comes next is worse.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-worse-than-you-think/
Turns Out, Trump and DOGE Haven’t Actually Saved Any Money
https://newrepublic.com/post/192036/donald-trump-elon-musk-doge-saved-money
Elon Musk’s conflicts of interest ‘should scare every American’, experts say
https://www.thecentersquare.com/south_carolina/article_4c0a6c4a-f557-11ef-92f9-abe4f5cc5560.html
A look at the misleading and incorrect claims on DOGE’s ‘wall of receipts’ Elon Musk claims his campaign to fire tens of thousands of federal workers and cancel government contracts is in the name of rooting out “fraud”
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-look-at-the-misleading-and-incorrect-claims-on-doges-wall-of-receipts
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Trump Takes Aim at Social Security in Dreadful New Layoffs Order
https://apnews.com/article/social-security-layoffs-doge-musk-trump-93efbed33957af5ec8ac37744d0592de
Trump says ‘its 10 plus 10’ as he doubles down by imposing another tariff on Chinese imports. Wall Street worried that new tariffs will turn the Trump bump into a slump—analysts warn the bulk of action is yet to come
https://fortune.com/2025/02/28/wall-street-trump-bump-tariffs-slump-china-trade/
Sanders reintroducing measure increasing Social Security benefits
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5167583-sanders-reintroducing-measure-increasing-social-security-benefits/
Republicans Plan To Hide Cost Of Tax Cuts With 1 Weird Trick. The plan involves “hocus-pocus” math and potentially changing the rules of the Senate. The House Republican budget calls for $4.5 trillion in tax cuts over 10 years. Trump, however, wants to make those cuts permanent, which would make their actual cost, and the damage they would do to the already $36 trillion federal debt, much, much bigger.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/tax-cuts-trump-senate_n_67bf6f7fe4b0f92b3ac82a0b
Republicans consider major budget change to obscure deficit impact of extending Trump’s tax cuts
https://www.aol.com/news/republicans-consider-major-budget-change-100000156.html
Lies, Cuts, Closures: Trump and Musk Ravage Social Security Administration. 10 Local Social Security Offices to Close After DOGE Cuts
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-musk-social-security-administration-lies-cuts-closures-1235283161/
Ax falls at Social Security Administration. Beneficiaries will need patience, some say. Offices and employees doing work not specifically mandated by law may be first on the chopping block, it warned.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/personalfinance/2025/02/28/social-security-administration-layoffs-what-to-expect/80843682007/
Sanders and others introduce Social Security Expansion Act to protect seniors, people with disabilities and surviving dependents
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/02/28/sanders-and-others-introduce-social-security-expansion-act-to-protect-seniors-people-with-disabilities-and-surviving-dependents/
# Education / Schools
SC House votes to approve bill that would send thousands of SC students to private school
https://scdailygazette.com/2025/02/27/sc-house-passes-bill-to-revive-k-12-vouchers-as-deadline-for-next-school-year-approaches/
# Food General News
China To Buy 70% of Argentina’s Beef Exports, Including Live Cattle, as U.S. Inventory Shrinks Again
https://www.newsbreak.com/2paragraphs-news-308815884/3832229759265-china-to-buy-70-of-argentina-s-beef-exports-including-live-cattle-as-u-s-inventory-shrinks-again
‘It’s been a lifesaver’: millions risk going hungry as Republicans propose slashing food stamps. Snap helps more than 42 million people, and is considered the country’s most effective tool to fight hunger
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/27/snap-foodstamps-republicans-propose-cuts
# General News
Gene Hackman, wife deaths’ mystery deepens, mummified bodys, scattered pills found: Shocking details emerge
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/global-trends/us-news-gene-hackman-wife-betsy-arakawa-deaths-mystery-deepens-as-mummified-body-and-scattered-pills-found-shocking-details-emerge/articleshow/118623880.cms?from=mdr
NATO’s Plan to Defend Arctic from Putin Faces Trump-Shaped Hurdle. Need to know: Citing unnamed U.S. officials, Bloomberg reported that Moscow and Washington were discussing economic cooperation in the far north, which could “drive a wedge” between Russia and key trading ally China.
https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/nato-s-plan-to-defend-arctic-from-putin-faces-trump-shaped-hurdle/ar-AA1zW3ff
Trump Aide Reportedly Threatens to Redraw U.S.-Canada Border
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-aide-reportedly-threatens-redraw-182756952.html
Billionaires earning $10 billion per day in January are suddenly watching their net worth get wiped out—Elon Musk has lost $90 billion alone
https://fortune.com/2025/02/28/tech-billionaires-wealth-wipeout-deepseek-musk-zuckerberg-huang/
# Gov / Politics
Trump’s Resort Mentality Pushes Middle East to Rethink Failed Strategies
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-resort-mentality-middle-east-strategies-2036216
World leaders react to Trump’s plan to turn Gaza into “Riviera of the Middle East”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXCsV_KIjAc
Breaking Down the U.S.-Ukraine Minerals Deal
https://www.csis.org/analysis/breaking-down-us-ukraine-minerals-deal
Donald Trump and Elon Musk aren’t just inflicting pain on poor people abroad or imagined “enemies within.” Their parade of cruelty is coming for MAGA country too.
https://www.aol.com/news/republicans-consider-major-budget-change-100000156.html
Trump Is Really Screwing Over Some of His Core Supporters
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/12/trump-gop-rural-supporters/680981/
AOC: Everything Feels Like a Scam. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez perfectly summed up how we’re all feeling right now.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/28/nx-s1-5306406/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-politics-interview
Trump Hit by Brutal Poll on Economy as Panicked GOPers Nix Town Halls
https://newrepublic.com/article/192129/transcript-trump-hit-brutal-poll-panicked-gopers-nix-town-halls
Murphy: Trump administration focused on ‘stealing from all of us’
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5167427-murphy-trump-administration-focused-on-stealing-from-all-of-us/
Authoritarianism Expert Unmasks Trump’s ‘Diabolical’ Move That Broke Republicans
https://www.yahoo.com/news/authoritarianism-expert-unmasks-donald-trump-091208923.html
‘We may be heading towards the next World War’ after Trump’s ‘lie’ warns Rep. Jasmine Crockett
https://www.themirror.com/news/politics/we-heading-towards-next-world-1002911
‘Walking into a political buzzsaw’: GOP warned latest move could push voters over edge
https://www.rawstory.com/gop-2671224385/
Raging Trump boots ‘disrespectful’ Zelensky OUT of White House after extraordinary clash as talks collapse
https://www.the-sun.com/news/13633225/keir-starmer-donald-trump-ukraine-meeting/
Trump and Vance ‘doing Putin’s dirty work’ says Chuck Schumer as senators left disgusted. President Zelensky had a ‘really good’ morning meeting with a bi-partisan group of senators before his explosive clash with Donald Trump and JD Vance.
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/trump-vance-doing-putins-dirty-34773712
‘Blind loyalty to a wannabe dictator’: Trump’s third-term talk leads lawmaker to call on Congress to reaffirm support for 22nd Amendment and two-term limits
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/blind-loyalty-to-a-wannabe-dictator-trumps-third-term-talk-leads-lawmaker-to-call-on-congress-to-reaffirm-support-for-22nd-amendment-and-two-term-limits/
# Gov / Politics / Global
US intel shows Russia and China are attempting to recruit disgruntled federal employees, sources say
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/28/politics/us-intel-russia-china-attempt-recruit-disgruntled-federal-employees/index.html
What A Trump-Putin Detente Means for Russia and Iran. Need to know
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/24/nx-s1-5304271/trump-russia-putin-history
Is a Deal in Ukraine Remotely Possible? From the future of U.S. support to battlefront momentum, many of the conflict’s elements are in flux.
https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-s-3-year-war-on-ukraine-still-unresolved-/7986355.html
# Law Enforcement / ATF / FBI / CIA
Firing squad execution scheduled next week in South Carolina
https://www.thecentersquare.com/south_carolina/article_4c0a6c4a-f557-11ef-92f9-abe4f5cc5560.html
# Media
Rachel Maddow warns Trump may ‘effectively declare war’ on US after looming ruling. “How is the Supreme Court going to deal with it now that it’s real?”
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-foreign-aid-2671237677/
U.S. Forest Service chief resigns, tells federal workforce to brace for ‘unsettling’ times
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/us-forest-service-chief-retires-doge-layoffs-letter-1235281480/
Trump Threatens to Sue the Media Over Stories He Doesn’t Like
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-threatens-sue-authors-media-130745129.html
# Medicare / Medicaid
Goodlander Votes to Block Trillions in Tax Breaks to Billionaires, Big Corporations Paid for By Largest Medicaid Cuts in History
https://indepthnh.org/2025/02/25/goodlander-votes-to-block-trillions-in-tax-breaks-to-billionaires-big-corporations-paid-for-by-largest-medicaid-cuts-in-history/
Republicans pushing forward on Medicaid changes, despite potential political fallout
https://ktbb.com/post/?p=1393070
Medicaid Isn’t the Only Popular, Lifesaving Program the GOP Will Cut. Programs projected to prevent thousands of deaths and even more illnesses are on the chopping block, while Republicans propose handing $4.5 million to millionaires and billionaires.
https://newrepublic.com/article/192109/jeffries-democrats-gop-budget-cuts-medicaid-ira
Republicans’ plans for Medicaid have a political problem. GOP lawmakers expected to vote soon on slashing the insurance program for low-income people represent tens of millions reliant on it.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/24/medicaid-gop-cuts-republicans-congress-00205542
Republicans Are Starting a War Over Medicaid Cuts
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/medicaid-cuts-gop-budget-2025-rcna193805
Proposed cuts for Medicaid and Medicare
https://www.ktvu.com/video/1600266
The Debate Over Federal Medicaid Cuts: Perspectives of Medicaid Enrollees Who Voted for President Trump and Vice President Harris
https://www.kff.org/report-section/the-debate-over-federal-medicaid-cuts-perspectives-of-medicaid-enrollees-who-voted-for-president-trump-and-vice-president-harris-methodology-10598/
# Medical / Health News
Trump administration mum amid deadly measles outbreak: On measles outbreak, the Trump administration’s messaging strikes some as off-key. Experts fear tepid statements reflect hesitancy to endorse importance of vaccination
https://www.statnews.com/2025/02/27/trump-administration-measles-outbreak-response-breaks-with-past/
Measles Cases Spread in Texas and New Mexico as Trump Purges Federal Health Workers. The U.S. is grappling with multiple outbreaks of disease as the Trump administration purges federal health workers.
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/02/25/nx-s1-5307117/cdc-firings-infectious-disease-response
There has been something of a scandal afoot in Alzheimer’s research.
https://news.uchicago.edu/where-has-alzheimers-research-gone-wrong
RFK Jr. Takes a Sledgehammer to Two Major Vaccine Developments
https://www.newsbreak.com/the-new-republic-1991457/3832268871640-rfk-jr-takes-a-sledgehammer-to-two-major-vaccine-developments
# Military / DOD / General News
Navy Secretary Nominee, a Trump Donor with No Military Experience, Glides Through Confirmation Hearing.
https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/27/navy-secretary-nominee-trump-donor-no-military-experience-glides-through-confirmation-hearing.html
Army pilot turned congressman presses military to use anti-collision tech after deadly crash. Barrett says that equipping military aircraft flying in U.S. airspace with traffic collision avoidance could prevent future tragedies.
https://justthenews.com/government/congress/army-chopper-pilot-turned-congressman-tom-barrett-works-anti-collision
# Military / General News / Global
Israel To Resume War in Gaza and ‘Eradicate Hamas,’ Cutting Off Aid and Bombarding Strip with Troops
https://freebeacon.com/israel/exclusive-israel-to-resume-war-in-gaza-and-eradicate-hamas-cutting-off-aid-and-bombarding-strip-with-troops/
China’s 22,370-mile declassified spy satellite alarms US after 18-month secret reveal
https://interestingengineering.com/military/china-radar-satellite-declassified
# NOAA / Weather
Global backlash after mass terminations at NOAA and National Weather Service. NOAA, which includes the National Hurricane Center and the Tsunami Warning Center, is the latest in a string of federal agencies targeted for cuts by billionaire Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-02-27/mass-firings-noaa-national-weather-service-ignite-fury
U.S. Judge Says Trump & Musk’s Mass Firings Are Illegal as New Wave of Layoffs Hits NOAA. NOAA’s central weather forecasting models scrambled in to transfer access to employees who remain at NOAA.
https://www.vpm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2025-02-27/trump-administration-layoffs-hit-noaa-agency-that-forecasts-weather-hurricanes
# Technology / Artificial Intelligence / Cybersecurity
Elon Musk edges closer to gaining $2.4bn Starlink contract as FAA looks to cancel Verizon deal
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/elon-musk-edges-closer-to-gaining-2-4bn-starlink-contract-as-faa-looks-to-cancel-verizon-deal/ar-AA1zW4mU?ocid=EMMX&apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1
Alex Karp’s War for the West: How Alex Karp helped make Palantir into the West’s AI arms dealer. The CEO says his aggressive stance on AI—and so much else—is aimed at peace: The goal is to “scare the daylights out of our adversaries.”
https://www.fastcompany.com/91237322/how-alex-karp-helped-turn-palantir-into-the-wests-ai-arms-dealer
# Veterans / VA
‘Stop eating the Cheetos’: Republican says veterans must ‘contribute’ to get food stamps
https://www.rawstory.com/food-stamps-2671226629/
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