Emily Badger

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Emily Badger |Aatish Bhatia |Asmaa Elkeurti |Steven Rich |Ethan Singer

The Trump administration's threat to block Harvard from enrolling international students would remove more than a quarter of the university's student body, a share large enough to rock its campus and, potentially, its tuition revenue. The move, frozen within 24 hours on Friday by a federal judge, also highlights the risk other universities face from an administration that has shown deep hostility toward higher education.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Alicia Parlapiano |Josh Katz |Margot Sanger-Katz |Emily Badger

The tax and spending bill passed by House Republicans early Thursday includes hundreds of provisions and would add an estimated $3.3 trillion to the national debt as written. Below is a table that lists the 10-year cost or savings for nearly every provision, as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office. The C.B.O. evaluation does not include several last-minute changes to the bill made by House Republicans to secure the support of some holdout members. We've highlighted the substantive changes.

1 month ago | nytimes.com | Emily Badger

His team found cases of seemingly fake people receiving unemployment benefits. But that fake data exists for a reason. Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency announced this week that they had found something especially startling in their government-wide hunt for fraud: tens of thousands of people claiming unemployment benefits who were over age 115, under age 5 or with birth dates in the future.

1 month ago | virginislandsdailynews.com | Emily Badger

The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name and your bank account number. The student debt you hold. Your disability status. The company that employs you and the wages you earn there. And that’s just a start. These intimate details about the personal lives of people who live in the United States are held in disconnected data systems across the federal government — some at the Treasury, some at the Social Security Administration and some at the Department of Education, among other agencies.

1 month ago | rsn.org | Emily Badger |Sheera Frenkel

Elon Musk’s team is leading an effort to link government databases, to the alarm of privacy and security experts. The federal government knows your mother’s maiden name and your bank account number. The student debt you hold. Your disability status. The company that employs you and the wages you earn there. And that’s just a start.