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3 weeks ago | 
data-is-plural.com | Jeremy Singer-Vine
2025.05.14 edition Deportation records, European workforces, California ghost guns, US dams, and what the nose knows. Deportation records. The Deportation Data Project, run by a team of academics and lawyers, “collects and posts public, anonymized U.S. government immigration enforcement datasets.” These include data from border apprehensions, deportations, Title 42 expulsions, ICE arrests and detentions, ICE-operated flights, and more.
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3 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | David Fahrenthold |Jeremy Singer-Vine
NowCNN — For months, President Donald Trump has falsely claimed that egg prices are tumbling. It wasn’t true then, but it’s true now. Egg prices fell 12.7% last month, the biggest monthly decline since 1984, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Tuesday. And they could continue to fall this month, …
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3 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | David Fahrenthold |Jeremy Singer-Vine
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency is no longer claiming credit for killing dozens of federal contracts after The New York Times reported last week that they had already been reinstated. The Times had identified 44 revived contracts, and 43 of them were still featured on the group's online "Wall of Receipts" as of last week.
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4 weeks ago | 
seattletimes.com | David Fahrenthold |Jeremy Singer-Vine
WASHINGTON — At least 44 of the government contracts canceled on the orders of Elon Musk’s cost-cutting initiative have been resurrected by federal agencies, wiping out more than $220 million of his group’s purported savings, according to a New York Times analysis of federal spending data. But Musk’s group continues to list 43 of those contracts as “terminations” on its website, which it calls the “Wall of Receipts.” The group even added some of them days or weeks after they had been resurrected.
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4 weeks ago | 
flipboard.com | David Fahrenthold |Jeremy Singer-Vine
1 hour agoRemember when Elon Musk pushed the FAA to give his company a multibillion-dollar contract at the same time he was firing hundreds of FAA staffers? Air traffic controllers at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey were without radar for around a minute and a half Friday morning, leaving …
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4 weeks ago | 
nytimes.com | David Fahrenthold |Jeremy Singer-Vine
The Times found that federal agencies have revived dozens of contracts that Elon Musk's group still publicly listed as canceled, inflating what it has saved. At least 44 of the government contracts canceled on the orders of Elon Musk's cost-cutting initiative have been resurrected by federal agencies, wiping out more than $220 million of his group's purported savings, according to a New York Times analysis of federal spending data.
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1 month ago | 
flipboard.com | David Fahrenthold |Jeremy Singer-Vine
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1 month ago | 
bostonglobe.com | David Fahrenthold |Jeremy Singer-Vine
Last week, Elon Musk indicated for the first time that his Department of Government Efficiency was falling short of its goal. He previously said his powerful budget-cutting team could reduce the next fiscal year’s federal budget by $1 trillion, and do it by Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year. Instead, in a Cabinet meeting Thursday, Musk said that he anticipated the group would save about $150 billion, 85% less than its objective.
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1 month ago | 
myheraldreview.com | David Fahrenthold |Jeremy Singer-Vine
Last week, Elon Musk indicated for the first time that his Department of Government Efficiency was falling short of its goal. He previously said his powerful budget-cutting team could reduce the next fiscal year’s federal budget by $1 trillion, and do it by Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year. Instead, in a Cabinet meeting Thursday, Musk said that he anticipated the group would save about $150 billion, 85% less than its objective. kAmtG6?
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1 month ago | 
miamiherald.com | David Fahrenthold |Jeremy Singer-Vine |NYT Washington
Last week, Elon Musk indicated for the first time that his Department of Government Efficiency was falling short of its goal. He previously said his powerful budget-cutting team could reduce the next fiscal year’s federal budget by $1 trillion, and do it by Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year. Instead, in a Cabinet meeting Thursday, Musk said that he anticipated the group would save about $150 billion, 85% less than its objective.
