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Dorothy Robyn
February 18, 2025
Stephanie K. Pell
February 18, 2025
Shaun Ee, Jam Kraprayoon
February 14, 2025
Elaine Kamarck
February 14, 2025
The problem with the [USAID] dismantling… is that it that ignores Congress altogether, essentially arguing for the complete irrelevance of a coordinate branch of government.
Elaine Kamarck was interviewed on MSNBC about a judge’s temporary halt of the Trump administration’s federal buyout program.
Rachel Perera explained that executive orders taking aim at federal workers could spur concern, prompting many of the Education Department’s 4,000 staffers to leave, weakening expertise...
President Trump’s executive order declaring the federal government would recognize only two sexes could amount to ‘removing protections from some of our most vulnerable..."
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