Voices, The Peoples News
February 27, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
Contractors pitch private force for deportations. The president has urged authorities to speed up deportations.
https://www.newsnationnow.com/us-news/immigration/contractors-private-forces-deportations/
Former acting ICE director: Private immigration enforcement plan ‘plainly unlawful’: Allies of the president have toyed with the idea of privatizing the deportation process, a move that could run afoul of long-set laws.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/25/private-mass-deportations-illegal-022717
Trump Orders Undocumented Immigrants to Register and Get Fingerprinted
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/26/trump-immigrants-registry-jail-fine-threat
Federal judge denies Trump’s request to unblock birthright citizenship order. A federal judge in Massachusetts rejected Trump’s request to pause an injunction blocking his birthright citizenship executive order while the case is in the appeals process.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/federal-court-blocks-trump-birthright-citizenship-executive-order
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
Musk’s cost-cutting drive quietly deletes billions in claimed savings from website
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world/doge-s-savings-claims-unravel-as-musk-s-cost-cutting-drive-faces-backlash-12951388.html
DOGE Staffers at HUD Are From an AI Real Estate Firm and a Mobile Home Operator
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hud-systems-access-ai-proptech-real-estate-mobile-home/
DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica. Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-antarctica-science-research-china-russia/
DOGE says Texas nonprofit collected millions of dollars each month to operate an empty facility
https://nypost.com/2025/02/27/us-news/texas-nonprofit-collected-millions-of-dollars-each-month-to-operate-an-empty-facility-doge-says/
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
What House Republicans’ Budget Means for People’s Taxes. The House Republican budget passed today calls for massive cuts in health coverage, food assistance, and help paying for college, among some other areas, to pay for huge tax giveaways for wealthy households and businesses.
https://www.cbpp.org/press/statements/house-budget-would-increase-costs-and-hardship-for-many-while-providing-huge-tax
President Trump says U.S. can pay off $36 trillion debt by selling wealthy immigrants $5 million ‘gold card’ visas and eventual citizenship
https://fortune.com/2025/02/26/trump-gold-card-visa-national-debt-plan/
Trump’s Finance Guru Reveals Wild Number of People Seeking ‘Gold Card’
https://www.thedailybeast.com/commerce-secretary-howard-lutnick-reveals-wild-number-of-people-seeking-trumps-gold-card/
It’s time we asked: what is the cost not just to the budget, but society, when the rich are helped to get richer?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/grogonomics/2025/feb/27/its-time-we-asked-what-is-the-cost-not-just-to-the-budget-but-to-society-when-the-richest-are-helped-to-get-richer
Elite investor Ray Dalio warns the US may suffer a financial ‘heart attack’ if the debt problem isn’t tackled
https://fortune.com/2025/02/13/trump-national-debt-fiscal-deficit-economic-heart-attack-ray-dalio-bridgewater-hedge-fund/
Trump administration says it’s cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2025/2/27/us-cutting-foreign-aid-budgets-by-more-than-90-trump-administration-says
Trump Takes Aim at Social Security in Dreadful New Layoffs Order. Remember when Donald Trump promised he wouldn’t touch Social Security? This is the newest wave of DOGE’s purge.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192074/trump-social-security-layoffs
# Education / Schools
‘Trampling the First Amendment’: Teachers ask judge to block Trump admin funding threat targeting schools that promote diversity and ‘race-consciousness’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/trampling-the-first-amendment-teachers-ask-judge-to-block-trump-admin-funding-threat-targeting-schools-that-promote-diversity-and-race-consciousness/
# Employment / Labor / Unions
Next phase of mass federal layoffs: Federal agencies must develop plans to eliminate employee positions under a directive from the Trump administration, setting the stage for a major restructuring of the federal government.
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-orders-federal-workforce-cuts-gives-agencies-new-deadline-2036664
USDA layoffs are wasting public money and decimating popular programs
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/usda-departement-agriculture-layoffs-waste-money-kill-popular-programs-ars-eqip/
A presidential memo from Donald Trump has indefinitely suspended the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s efforts to establish national heat safety regulations, leaving millions of workers at risk.
https://www.ehn.org/trump-administration-halts-federal-workplace-heat-protections-2671225616.html
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is coming to the White House Friday, where he will sign a rare minerals deal. Trump says its a way for Ukraine to pay back US for war aid. Zelenskyy wants US security guarantees
https://www.newsnationnow.com/world/russia-at-war/ukrainian-president-zelenskyy-expected-sign-minerals-deal-friday-trump/
Trump Tariff Plan Spotlight’s America’s Dirty Little Energy Secret: Crude Oil From Canada, Millions of them rely on Canadian oil to keep warm.
https://dcjournal.com/trump-tariff-plan-spotlights-americas-dirty-little-energy-secret-crude-oil-from-canada/
# Environment / Climate / Infrastructure / EPA / BLM
As layoffs and budget cuts hit federal agencies, lawmakers explore taking over some public land
https://www.yahoo.com/news/layoffs-budget-cuts-hit-federal-010906740.html
EPA urges White House to eliminate key climate rule
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/26/epa-endangerment-finding-trump-climate/
EPA chief Zeldin is planning on gutting the agency by 65%, Trump says. The news was a surprise to union leadership, saying it had not received advance notice about the desired cuts from EPA chief Zeldin.
https://www.fastcompany.com/91286384/epa-chief-zeldin-planning-gutting-agency-65-trump-says
# General News
How we’ve failed the promise of making “genocide” a crime. The lawyer Raphael Lemkin hoped to use international law to curb abuses of power. But his efforts were curtailed from the start.
https://www.gmu.edu/news/2024-06/how-weve-failed-promise-making-genocide-crime
Elon Musk’s billionaire welfare: How the world’s richest man built his empire on government funds while attacking public workers. An extensive investigation has revealed a very different reality, one where Musk’s business empire has been deeply dependent on taxpayer money.
https://www.nationofchange.org/2025/02/27/elon-musks-billionaire-welfare-how-the-worlds-richest-man-built-his-empire-on-government-funds-while-attacking-public-workers/
# Gov / Politics
Pare Back Presidential Power. Congress rightly has sole legislative and spending power, not the president. To restore constitutional government, Congress must either codify Trump’s executive orders in legislation or repeal them outright, on a case-by-case basis. If America’s Founders had one overriding principle, it is this: Don’t put too much power in one place.
https://dcjournal.com/point-pare-back-presidential-power/
Judge Orders Trump Admin to Comply With Previous Order Restoring USAID Funds. If the White House does not comply with the judge’s order, it could spark a constitutional crisis.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/judge-usaid-state-department-foreign-assistance-funding-contractors-grants/
Trump Calls for Ethnic Cleansing and Using US Troops to “Own” Gaza. “The US will take over the Gaza Strip, and we will do a job with it, too.”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/trump-gaza-own-ethnic-cleaning-us-troops-middle-east-israel-palestine-gaza-netanyahu/
MTG erupts as Democratic Congresswoman Stansbury says kings have no place here, while also giving a pep talk to federal workers and others around the world impacted by Trump’s “reckless and heartless and harmful and disgusting cuts.”
https://newrepublic.com/post/192033/marjorie-taylor-greene-democratic-congresswoman-trump-king-threat
Elon Musk attends Trump’s first Cabinet meeting, describes DOGE as ‘tech support.’ It was impossible to tell how much some of the Cabinet members agreed or disagreed with Musk’s comments through their facial expressions and body language, though any public disagreements with Trump would be unexpected.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/musk-dominates-disparages-federal-workers-at-first-trump-cabinet-meeting/ar-AA1zQYtV?apiversion=v2&noservercache=1&domshim=1&renderwebcomponents=1&wcseo=1&batchservertelemetry=1&noservertelemetry=1
Trump Insults All Americans. The difference in style between Trump’s first and second go-round in the Oval Office was on full display Wednesday when the president called the United States a “bloated, fat, disgusting” country and bashed predecessor Joe Biden during the first meeting with his Cabinet.
https://www.salon.com/2025/02/26/bloated-fat-and-disgusting-paints-bleak-picture-of-united-states-in-first-cabinet-meeting/
This Is the Biggest Trump-Musk Scandal That No One’s Talking About. Donald Trump and Elon Musk are ushering in a new age of bribery, graft, and corruption to American politics.
https://newrepublic.com/article/192008/trump-musk-scandal-corruption-crypto
# Gov / Politics / Global
North Korean hackers pull off the biggest heist of all time, stealing $1.5 billion in crypto
https://www.ic3.gov/PSA/2025/PSA250226
North Korea sends more soldiers to Russia as new images reveal troop transfer by sea. South Korea said it was working to determine how many more troops North Korea has deployed to Russia, after up to 12,000 were sent there last year.
https://www.the-express.com/news/world-news/164909/north-korea-russia-ukraine-war-troops-sent
Vladimir Putin’s Investment in Donald Trump Pays Off Bigly. After secretly helping Trump’s last three presidential campaigns, Russia is getting its money’s worth from him.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/02/vladimir-putin-donald-trump-elon-musk-ukraine-russiagate/
# Legal / DOJ / ICJ / International Criminal Court [ICC]
Kansas Senate Republicans take up plan to rewrite constitution to elect Supreme Court justices
https://kansasreflector.com/2025/02/26/kansas-senate-republicans-take-up-plan-to-rewrite-constitution-to-elect-supreme-court-justices/
Judge continues to block Trump’s firing of federal watchdog: A Washington, D.C. federal judge extended the halt on President Donald Trump’s attempted dismissal of watchdog agency head Hampton Dellinger. Dellinger’s agency has been working to reverse the unlawful dismissals of workers impacted by the mass firings of Trump and Elon Musk.
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-extends-halt-trump-firing-watchdog-agency-headfor-federal-workers/
Trump defying a court order would trigger a constitutional crisis. As federal courts continue to issue injunctions blocking President Trump’s efforts to seize new extra-constitutional powers, the Trump administration seems on the verge of a making the radical claim that it may disregard court orders.
https://www.theusconstitution.org/news/trump-defying-a-court-order-would-trigger-a-constitutional-crisis/
DOJ Set to Release Epstein-Related Flight Logs and Names, Attorney General Says
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/jeffrey-epstein-files-names-live-updates-b2705855.html
# Medicare / Medicaid
Medicaid insures 1 in 5 Americans. This is how the GOP budget could impact coverage.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2025/02/26/how-house-republicans-budget-impact-medicaid/80475087007/
# Medical / Health News
New research finds medical doctors awash in drug industry money: Billions in drug and medical device company payments to medical specialists may compromise patient care, reports show
https://usrtk.org/healthwire/billions-in-drug-and-medical-device-company-payments-to-medical-professionals/
# Military / DOD / General News
Space Force will play ‘central role’ in Iron Dome, service chief says. The Space Force is evaluating what systems it already has in development to support President Trump’s order and what capabilities it would need to build.
https://www.defensenews.com/space/2025/02/24/space-force-will-play-central-role-in-iron-dome-service-chief-says/
# Military / General News / Global
Vendors flock to the United Arab Emirates to sell naval drones. The emphasis on uncrewed maritime systems serves to plug manpower shortages and capability gaps
https://www.defensenews.com/global/mideast-africa/2025/02/26/vendors-flock-to-the-united-arab-emirates-to-sell-naval-drones/
# Veterans / VA
‘Surgeries are being canceled!’ Senator sounds alarm on Trump’s veteran health care layoff
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tammy-duckworth/
The Supreme Court denied a request for the justices to review a ban on service members suing the military for medical malpractice that was submitted by a veteran who was paralyzed during a surgery at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-02-24/walter-reed-airman-surgery-lawsuit-feres-supreme-court-16942345.html
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