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NEW: Sleep apnea is a treatable condition affecting million of Americans. VA refuses to adjust its disability payment apnea to keep up with modern medicine. w/Craig Whitlock and
@caitlingilbert.bsky.social
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Why VA pays more in disability for sleep apnea than it does for some lost limbs
VA vowed to modernize its disability benefits system. As criticism from veterans and their advocates has mounted, efforts to move forward have stalled.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/va-disability-sleep-apnea-rating-payout/
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Here at
@washingtonpost.com
, we've been reporting and writing on the
@deptvetaffairs.bsky.social
disability system. We found that exaggerated claims are common. Here's our latest w/ Craig Whitlock,
@caitlingilbert.bsky.social
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@aaronschaffer.com
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www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...
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The unregulated industry that coaches veterans to pile on benefits
The number of vets receiving 100 percent disability ratings has surged in recent years. For-profit firms, influencers and the VA play a large role in the trend.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/va-disability-ratings-profit-consultants/?itid=hp-top-table-main_p001_f018
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RIP
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@socialsecurityworks.org
, please clarify ASAP for all of the retirees and disabled folks out there
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7 months ago
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.@SocialSecurity nominee falsely claims no DOGE contacts, Democratic senator says. Frank Bisignano has had regular contact with Musk's cost-cutting effort, according to one Senate whistleblower and two others interviewed by The Post, by @FedGirlWaPo
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Social Security nominee falsely claims no DOGE contacts, Democratic senator says
Senators of both parties criticized customer service problems that have worsened under the Elon Musk cost-cutting effort at the agency.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/25/frank-bisignano-social-security-doge-musk/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=wp_politics
8 months ago
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DHS union-busting attempt sends message in and out of government via @JoeDavidsonWP
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Column | DHS union-busting attempt sends message in and out of government
The gutting of TSA’s agreement denies “the sanctity of contracts” and could lead to “real aggression” by private sector employers against their labor unions.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/21/dhs-union-busting-attempt-sends-message-out-government/
8 months ago
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Lot going on at @SocialSecurity, a place few thought would come under Musk’s hammer. But it is happening
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8 months ago
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A lot of activity for an acting commissioner. Wonder how Frank Bisignano, Trump’s nominee for the permanent job , feels about an acting led by DOGE turning the agency upside before he gets there?
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8 months ago
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Marisa Kabas
8 months ago
When we look back at this period of time, Leland Dudek will be the face of gutting social security.
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Social Security Administration closes offices, cutting nearly 200 employees
The moves come after the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, entered Social Security last week.
https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/economy/social-security-close-civil-rights-doge-A3WNRL67JFBBDJABPOQIAUBHYE/
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Exclusive: Over the years, Elon Musk and his businesses have received at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies and tax credits, often at critical moments, a Post analysis has found, helping seed the growth that has made him the world’s richest person.
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Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding
Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/interactive/2025/elon-musk-business-government-contracts-funding/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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NEW: In Trump’s first month, a relentless effort to remake the presidency. In the initial stretch of his second term, Trump has pursued a different vision than virtually any of his 44 predecessors, by @NaftaliBendavid
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In Trump’s first month, a relentless effort to remake the presidency
In the initial stretch of his second term, Trump has pursued a different vision than virtually any of his 44 predecessors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/20/trump-executive-power-expand/
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NEW: As Musk reshapes the government, some ask: Where are the guardrails?
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As Musk reshapes the government, some ask: Where are the guardrails?
As Elon Musk upends the government, the White House has taken advantage of rules with weak enforcement and loopholes -- or simply declared it can outweigh other laws.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/16/musk-doge-government-guardrails-safeguards/
9 months ago
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Trump’s urgent push to rewrite American history: The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn he misrepresents and tells falsehoods about the country’s past, by @NaftaliBendavid
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Trump’s urgent push to rewrite American history
The president freely deploys phrases from the history books, but many scholars warn he misrepresents the country’s past.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/02/trump-history-rewrite/
9 months ago
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The Washington Post
9 months ago
Breaking news: The White House has removed two top security officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development, the world’s largest provider of food assistance, after they refused to let representatives of Elon Musk access restricted spaces.
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USAID security officials on leave after refusing access to Musk allies
Billionaire and Trump ally Elon Musk has been denigrating USAID, which is the world’s largest provider of food assistance.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/02/02/usaid-trump-musk/?utm_campaign=wp_main&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
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NEW: How Trump is stretching the law to make the federal government more political, from paid leave to firings to removal of all job protections under the civil service law passed by Congress in 1978
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How Trump is stretching laws to make the federal government more political
The White House is exploiting, and sometimes outright ignoring, the arcane laws, rules and regulations that have long protected the civil service of 2.3 million from a political takeover.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/29/trump-federal-government-laws-schedule-f/
9 months ago
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A majority of those ousted were watchdogs at big Cabinet agencies. And the majority are Trump appointees from his first term
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10 months ago
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NEW: Hours after retaking power, Trump reinstates plan to strip protections from federal workers:
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Trump reinstates plan to strip protections from federal workers
President Donald Trump has reinstated a policy from his first term that could strip employment protections from tens of thousands of federal workers.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/20/trump-schedule-f-reinstated/
10 months ago
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A fight for control of vast swaths of public lands looms. States like Utah, leading the charge, say they would be better managers of that terrain, and they expect the next Trump administration to agree. @karinbrulliard on what's at stake.
wapo.st/42lINIm
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Land grab or land rights? Utah eyes millions of acres of public terrain.
At stake is control of public lands in Western states, and conservationists fear increased efforts to roll back protections under the next Trump administration.
https://wapo.st/42lINIm
10 months ago
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Trump Org. issues ethics plan for second term. Critics say it’s not enough, via @marianne_levine
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Trump Org. issues ethics plan for second term. Critics say it’s not enough.
The Trump Organization announced Friday that the company will not enter into new agreements with foreign governments while Donald Trump is in office.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/10/trump-org-issues-ethics-plan-second-term-critics-say-its-not-enough/
10 months ago
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Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-quitting-the-washington-post
10 months ago
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.@DylanByers surely you can find something more accurate and less snotty to say about Matea Gold. Try a little harder please.
10 months ago
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In Texas, a state with one of most restrictive abortion bans and some of the worst access for women's health care, newborns have been abandoned this year in dumpsters, an industrial ditch, a Whataburger restroom. “Women don’t know what to do." @mollyhf
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‘Baby in a dumpster.’ A spate of abandoned newborns unsettles Texas.
Critics say these cases are no coincidence in a state with one of the nation’s most restrictive abortion bans and near-bottom rankings on women’s health care.
https://wapo.st/3ZXDbks
10 months ago
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Joe Biden's lonely fight to sell his vision of American democracy @tylerpager
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Joe Biden’s lonely battle to sell his vision of American democracy
In his presidency’s final chapter, Biden has mused about whether he should have handled some decisions differently
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/28/bidens-lonely-battle-to-sell-american-democracy/
10 months ago
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NEW: Trump wants
#federalworkers
back in the office. Can he do it? He’s on one side of the culture war over the federal workforce: fhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/26/trump-return-to-office-federal-workers-resistance/
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Trump wants federal workers back in the office. It may be a tall task.
President-elect Donald Trump’s plans for a return-to-office mandate for federal workers will face stiff resistance and union contracts that guarantee remote work.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/26/trump-return-to-office-federal-workers-resistance/
11 months ago
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NEW: Biden pardoned his son while leaving hundreds seeking clemency in limbo, via @BethReinhard @AMarimow @PerryStein
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Biden pardoned son while leaving hundreds seeking clemency in limbo
President Biden’s historic one-day clemency act included commutations that sparked outrage, in part because the White House skipped normal vetting procedures.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/22/biden-clemency-petitions-hunter-pardon/
11 months ago
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NEWS:
#Federalemployee
groups prepare to fend off attacks by Trump and allies. The efforts are aimed at resisting what is expected to be a severe Trump administration assault on public servants, w/ @michaelscherer @jocwapo
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Federal employee groups prepare to fend off attacks by Trump and allies
The efforts are aimed at resisting what is expected to be a severe assault on public servants beyond the intimidation many federal employees felt during Trump’s first term.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/18/federal-employees-trump-schedule-f/
11 months ago
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How Pam Bondi boosted Trump's election fraud claims in a key swing state, via @BethReinhard
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How Pam Bondi boosted Trump’s election fraud claims in a key swing state
As Trump seeks to elevate Pam Bondi to attorney general, her work battling to overturn the 2020 vote in Pennsylvania is drawing new scrutiny.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/16/pam-bond-attorney-general-2020-pennsylvania/
11 months ago
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Trump allies pressure Republican senators to back Cabinet picks — or else. Their holiday message: “Don’t get on Santa’s naughty list here, because we will primary you.” Latest from @lizcgoodwin.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Trump allies pressure GOP senators to back Cabinet picks — or else
As some key Trump cabinet picks falter, Republican senators face fresh pressure to back them, or else.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/13/trump-cabinet-picks-republican-senators/
11 months ago
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David Folkenflik
11 months ago
NEWS: When it became clear Wash Post managing editor Matea Gold was heading to the NYT, a veteran WaPo reporter prepared a story. Acting Executive Editor Matt Murray killed it, saying the paper shouldn't be covering itself. "Pin it on me," he said. My story:
www.npr.org/2024/12/09/n...
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https://www.npr.org/2024/12/09/nx-s1-5222807/washington-post-editor-kills-article-times-bezos
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NEWS: Federal employees scramble to insulate themselves from Trump's purge, via @ReinLWapo @JStein_WaPo
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Federal employees scramble to insulate themselves from Trump’s purge
Career civil servants are scrubbing social media, changing job titles and looking for private sector work over fear that Trump may fire them.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/08/federal-employees-trump-fear-purge/
11 months ago
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Pete Hegseth's history with alcohol shadows his Pentagon selection, via @PostKranish @DanLamothe @SarahEllison @John_Hudson
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Hegseth’s history with alcohol shadows Pentagon selection
A review of Pete Hegseth’s writings and interviews shows that he has been blunt about what he called his use of alcohol.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/04/pete-hegseth-drinking-defense-secretary-nomination/
11 months ago
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Is Kristi Noem ready to run FEMA? South Dakota flood victims doubt it. From @PeteJamsion @isaacstanbecker
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Is Kristi Noem ready to run FEMA? South Dakota flood victims doubt it.
Trump has picked Noem as Homeland Security secretary, a job that includes overseeing FEMA. But some residents of her home state say she bungled the response to June floods.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/04/noem-fema-south-dakota-floods/
11 months ago
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Tracy Jan
11 months ago
The role of CMS administrator could pose other potential conflicts of interest after more than a dozen years headlining “The Dr. Oz Show,” where Oz mixed entertainment & medicine with product placement & corporate branding — sometimes without clear boundaries or sound science.
tinyurl.com/2vt3xucr
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Potential conflicts of interest may haunt Dr. Oz’s confirmation to run Medicare, Medicaid
Dr. Oz has extolled Ozempic’s promise for weight-loss. Now Medicare, which Trump wants Oz to oversee, may cover it.
https://tinyurl.com/2vt3xucr
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Tracy Jan
11 months ago
Oz’s website displays snippets from his iHerb-sponsored newsletter, incl a section titled “Are Semaglutide drugs like Ozempic or Wegovy Right for You?” In June, iHerb launched three supplements co-developed by Oz to treat common side effects of GLP-1 drugs.
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Potential conflicts of interest may haunt Dr. Oz’s confirmation to run Medicare, Medicaid
Dr. Oz has extolled Ozempic’s promise for weight-loss. Now Medicare, which Trump wants Oz to oversee, may cover it.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/12/02/dr-oz-medicare-medicaid-ozempic-conflicts/
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Dr. Oz comes with many financial conflicts of interest in health care.. My colleagues
@washingtonpost.com
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11 months ago
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Decades after events of ‘Erin Brockovich,’ this town is less than half the size, and some water is still contaminated. From @SilviaElenaFF
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In the town ‘Erin Brockovich’ made famous, residents still fear dirty water
An ongoing struggle in Hinkley, California, to remove dangerous chemicals from drinking water demonstrates how difficult contamination can be to clean up.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/12/01/erin-brockovich-town-dirty-water/
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