Eli Hager

1 day ago | thecurrentga.org | Eli Hager |Jake Shore

ProPublica is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Sign up for The Big Story newsletter to receive stories like this one in your inbox. The clear-cutting across the federal government under President Donald Trump has been dramatic, with mass terminations, the suspension of decades-old programs and the neutering of entire agencies. But this spectacle has obscured a series of moves by the administration that could profoundly harm some of the most vulnerable people in the U.S.: children.

3 weeks ago | popularresistance.org | Eli Hager

Above photo: The Arthur J. Altmeyer Social Security Administration building. Stefani Reynolds / Bloomberg / Getty Images.

3 weeks ago | portside.org | Eli Hager

“The President Wanted It and I Did It”: Recording Reveals Head of Social Security’s Thoughts on DOGE and Trump Published March 29, 2025 Since the arrival of a team from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, Social Security is in a far more precarious place than has been widely understood, according to Leland Dudek, the acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration.

3 weeks ago | angeladenker.substack.com | Syra Ortiz Blanes |Verónica Egui Brito |David Catanese |Eli Hager

The wartime legislation grants the president extraordinary powers to detain, deport, or remove non-citizens from countries deemed hostile to the U.S. during times of war or invasion, without going through the normal judicial processes. The law, known for its role in interning Japanese immigrants during World War II, has only been used three times, during times of war. It would allow Trump to arrest, relocate, or deport any men over 14 who are deemed to be from an enemy country.

1 month ago | propublica.org | Anjeanette Damon |Eli Hager |Annie Waldman |Lisa Song

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. If you ask a National Park Service ranger how the Trump administration’s cost cutting will affect your next park visit, you might get talking points instead of a straight answer. A series of emails sent late last month to front-line staff at parks across the country provided rangers with instructions on how to describe the highly publicized staff cuts.