Bad DOGE: Firing IRS workers will fuel tax cheating and cost billions
The US loses its estimate $1 trillion unpaid taxes each year. This only gets worse if you cut staff at Internal Revenue Services. Supporters who reduce the IRS Make a claim Reducing the bureaucracy is saving taxpayers dollars, and the reality is that weakening the IRS broadens tax gaps, widens tax gaps, and the burdens […]
Deadline for Musk’s ultimatum to federal workers hits, but consequences remain vague
The deadline for federal workers to respond to Elon Musk's request to check weekly work output on Monday nights, but the outcome of reducing response remains vague. Shortly before the deadline on Monday, Musk confirmed that federal workers will be given another opportunity to respond, and that failure to do so would “contribute to firing.” […]
Department of Veterans Affairs announces dismissal of more than 1,400 workers
According to a news release Monday, the Veterans Affairs Bureau (VA) is cutting more than 1,400 probation workers who have “non-mission critical positions.” “What was rejected today is a negotiation prosecutor who has served less than a year in a competitive service appointment or who has served less than two years in an excluded service […]
DoorDash to pay New York delivery workers $16.75M for subsidizing wages with tips
Please see what you are clicking on foxbusiness.com. Doordash is a settlement that instead of allowing food delivery platforms to use customer tips to maintain tips in addition to guaranteed salaries to subsidize wages for delivery workers in New York Paying the dollars, New York State Attorney General Letitia James announced. Monday. “This is fundamentally […]
Elon Musk warns fed government workers who don’t respond to a second ‘what you accomplished’ email will face ‘termination’
Doge chief Elon Musk teased Monday that federal workers could receive a second email asking them to list their weekly achievements. Tesla and SpaceX founders warnings remove a list of five bullet points by the Human Resources Office (OPM) detailing the responses to emails sent on Saturday achieved in the last five business days It […]
Governors Ask President Trump to Let Them Import Low-Wage Workers
Jared Police, a Democrat in Colorado, and Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt, of Oklahoma, are asking President Trump to let the governor manage the core part of the country's immigration policy. Police, one of the nation's leading supporters of illegal aliens, and Stadt, who is often softened by illegals, say they want Trump to allow illegals […]
Fed worker claims Elon Musk, Doge trying to ‘bully’ government workers with email
A federal employee argued that the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) demand for accounts of what she accomplished last week was a “evident attempt to harass the workforce.” Doge Chief Elon Musk has announced that federal employees could report their performance last week or lose their jobs. On Monday afternoon, MT Snyder, field examiner for […]
DoorDash to pay NY delivery workers $17M for using their tips to cover wages
The ubiquitous food delivery app Doordash pays nearly $17 million to resolve allegations that drivers unfairly used wages of New York delivery workers, rather than letting them maintain tips above their guaranteed salaries . I said on Monday. James used the wage model between May 2017 and September 2019, according to Doordash. The company guarantees […]
Elon Musk’s ultimatum email to federal workers sets up power struggle in DC, among top Trump officials
Elon Musk is a top-ranking administration official last week over a explosion of blue emails to federal workers on Saturday, demanding they list their professional achievements or risk being fired. He finds himself trapped in a power struggle with him. Multiple Trump-appointed agents and department heads, including the Department of Defense, the State Department and […]
Trump defends Musk’s ‘genius’ email to federal workers
President Trump on Monday listed high-tech billionaire Elon Musk over his email demanding federal workers five achievements since last week, increasing the risk of losing his job by doing so. . “There were a lot of geniuses in sending it. We're trying to find out if people are working, so we're sending letters to people. […]