
Arthur Delaney
Politics Reporter at HuffPost
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1 week ago |
huffpost.com | Arthur Delaney
The Social Security Administration hasn’t posted a press release on its website since March 27 after having put out releases nearly every day for the previous month. What gives? According to a report in Wired, the agency is shifting communications to X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and the person President Donald Trump put in charge of seeking “efficiency” at federal agencies.
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1 week ago |
huffpost.com | Arthur Delaney
Americans have a really bad feeling about the economy thanks to President Donald Trump’s trade war against the rest of the world. Consumer sentiment fell nearly 11% from March to April and 34% from this time last year, according to new data from University of Michigan’s authoritative survey, released Friday.
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2 weeks ago |
huffpost.com | Arthur Delaney
WASHINGTON ― House Republicans adopted a budget resolution on Thursday after conservatives received symbolic assurances from party leaders that they would support deeper spending cuts. About a dozen far-right House members balked at the Senate-approved resolution on Wednesday evening, forcing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to put off a planned vote.
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2 weeks ago |
huffpost.com | Arthur Delaney
Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) got a big response when he said ‚Äúfire Elon Musk‚ÄĚ into a bullhorn at a rally outside the U.S. Department of Labor in February. It was cold, cloudy and several other Democrats had already spoken, but the crowd of worried federal workers cheered loudly for the idea of firing Musk, the architect of President Donald Trump‚Äôs efforts to gut the federal workforce, and did a little call-and-response chant with Casar.
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2 weeks ago |
nz.news.yahoo.com | Arthur Delaney |Igor Bobic
WASHINGTON ― House Republicans adopted a budget resolution on Thursday after conservatives received symbolic assurances from party leaders that they would support deeper spending cuts. About a dozen far-right House members hadbalked at the Senate-approved resolution on Wednesday evening, forcing House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to put off a planned vote.
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The Trump administration renamed Social Security's "Death Master File" as "Ineligible Master File" to cancel benefits for living people. Acting SSA chief Leland Dudek said in an email it's so their "financial lives" can be "terminated," per NYT https://t.co/R91coT11HL

The House GOP deficit hawks have caved - a win for the speaker and the president https://t.co/4ee6rpAY8P

RT @igorbobic: Thune is notably less committal about a number for savings, doesn't mention 1.5T "Our ambition in the Senate is we are alig…