Brett Murphy

5 days ago | brettmurphyx.com | Brett Murphy

/cdn-cgi/scripts/5c5dd728/cloudflare-static/email-decode.min.js The Department of Government Efficiency announced Wednesday that it had deactivated more than 500,000 government-issued credit cards as part of a rapidly-expanding audit that is expected to result in additional deactivations. “The program to audit unused/unneeded credit cards has been expanded to 32 agencies. After 10 weeks, more than 500K cards have been de-activated,” DOGE announced in an X post.

1 month ago | omahadailyrecord.com | Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Brett Murphy |Lê Van |Lê Hồng Vân |Lê Anh Văn |on Mon

In mid-February, Trump administration leaders received a desperate warning from their diplomats posted in Vietnam, one of the most important American partners in Asia. Workers were in the middle of cleaning up the site of an enormous chemical spill, the Bien Hoa air base, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly halted all foreign aid funding.

1 month ago | propublica.org | Abrahm Lustgarten |Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Brett Murphy |Sharon Lerner

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. For Chris Wright, there may be no simple truths. At his Senate confirmation hearing on Jan. 15, the man poised to take control of the U.S. Department of Energy and its vast apparatus of technological research and development sat behind a walnut desk wearing a gray suit and a crisply knotted red tie.

1 month ago | propublica.org | Andy Kroll |Nicole Foy |Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Brett Murphy

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. On Feb. 20, nearly 7,000 probationary employees at the Internal Revenue Service began receiving an unsigned letter telling them that they had been fired for poor performance. Trump administration lawyers insist that the IRS and other federal agencies have acted within their authority when they ordered waves of mass terminations since Trump took office.

1 month ago | propublica.org | Anna Maria Barry-Jester |Brett Murphy |Lê Van |Lê Hồng Vân |Lê Anh Văn |Phoebe Petrovic

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In mid-February, Trump administration leaders received a desperate warning from their diplomats posted in Vietnam, one of the most important American partners in Asia. Workers were in the middle of cleaning up the site of an enormous chemical spill, the Bien Hoa air base, when Secretary of State Marco Rubio abruptly halted all foreign aid funding.