
Hannah Allam
Reporter at ProPublica
DC-based reporter @ProPublica. Okie via Egypt. Signal: HannahAllam.08
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2 weeks ago |
govexec.com | Hannah Allam
Skip to Content Insights & Reports When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year with a degree in politics, he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus life in Texas. “Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space. His career blastoff came quickly.
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3 weeks ago |
homelandsecuritynewswire.com | Hannah Allam
NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism PreventionPublished 6 June 2025One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism.
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3 weeks ago |
propublica.org | Brandon Roberts |Vernal Coleman |Eric Umansky |Hannah Allam
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. When an AI script written by a Department of Government Efficiency employee came across a contract for internet service, it flagged it as cancelable. Not because it was waste, fraud or abuse — the Department of Veterans Affairs needs internet connectivity after all — but because the model was given unclear and conflicting instructions.
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3 weeks ago |
propublica.org | Brandon Roberts |Vernal Coleman |Eric Umansky |Hannah Allam
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. As the Trump administration prepared to cancel contracts at the Department of Veteran Affairs this year, officials turned to a software engineer with no health care or government experience to guide them.
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3 weeks ago |
minnesotareformer.com | Hannah Allam
This story was originally published by ProPublica. When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year with a degree in politics, he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus life in Texas. “Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space. His career blastoff came quickly.
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