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AFGE Locals Warn Trump’s HHS Staffing Cuts Will Make America Sick Again

April 07, 2025

AFGE locals representing employees at health agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services warned that Trump’s plan to cut a total of 20,000 employees will significantly diminish our country’s ability to fight diseases and respond to outbreaks.

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Categories: The Insider

Chaos and Corruption Weekly Digest: Week 11

April 07, 2025

Week 11 saw Trump’s attack on the free press, our country’s economy and ability to fight diseases and find cures. But the American people pushed back against his attacks in four elections.

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Categories: The Insider, USAID

Trump Tragedies: VBA Portland Employee Tells Their Story

April 07, 2025

Trump Tragedies features American workers whose lives were destroyed by Trump and his extremist policies. Testimonies submitted to AFGE are edited for clarity and length.

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Categories: The Insider

AFGE Will Challenge Trump’s Illegal Directive Outlawing Federal Unions

March 31, 2025

AFGE will challenge the Trump administration for illegally attempting to strip over one million federal workers of collective bargaining rights and rip up union contracts.

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Categories: The Insider, USAID

Chaos and Corruption Weekly Digest: Week 10

March 31, 2025

Week 10 saw Trump’s biggest attack on the labor movement in history: his illegal attempt to outlaw federal unions and end union contracts.

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Categories: The Insider, USAID

GOP Lawmakers Push Through Legislation That Would Let Trump Abolish Any Agency without Congressional Oversight

March 31, 2025

President Trump has many willing partners in Congress, and it was evident on March 25 when Republican members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee marked up four anti-federal worker bills.

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Categories: The Insider, USAID

Trump Tragedies: USAID Employee Tells Their Story

March 31, 2025

Trump Tragedies features American workers whose lives were destroyed by Trump and his extremist policies. Testimonies submitted to AFGE are edited for clarity and length.

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Categories: The Insider, USAID

AFGE Continues to Represent TSA Officers, Protect Their Workplace Rights

March 24, 2025

TSOs made enormous progress at their agency with a union contract, but the Trump administration earlier this month illegally terminated the negotiated contract with AFGE, prompting our union to file a lawsuit.

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Categories: The Insider

Chaos and Corruption Weekly Digest: Week 9

March 24, 2025

Week 9 saw President Trump attacking our country’s last line of defense against dictatorship as he ignored a court ruling and demanded the judge’s impeachment in his latest abuse of executive power and assault on America’s rule of law.

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Categories: The Insider, USAID

Judge Rules DOGE’s Dismantling of USAID Unconstitutional

March 24, 2025

A federal judge March 18 ruled that Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) violated the Constitution by shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

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Categories: The Insider, USAID

Trump Tragedies: HUD Employee Tells Their Story

March 24, 2025

Trump Tragedies features American workers whose lives were destroyed by Trump and his extremist policies. Testimonies submitted to AFGE are edited for clarity and length.

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Categories: The Insider

AFGE Wins! Judge Orders Trump to Rehire Fired Probationary Employees, Stop Planned RIFs

March 17, 2025

In a major victory for AFGE, allies, and federal workers, a judge in California ordered the Trump administration to reinstate probationary employees fired at six agencies.

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Categories: The Insider, USAID

AFGE Sues Trump Administration for Illegally Terminating TSA Officers’ Union Contract

March 17, 2025

AFGE and allies last week filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration for unlawfully and unilaterally terminating a negotiated union contract, which protects approximately 47,000 Transportation Security Officers (TSOs) across the country.

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Categories: The Insider

Chaos and Corruption Weekly Digest: Week 8

March 17, 2025

Week 8 saw the economy in chaos while Trump and Musk attacked the Education Department, Environmental Protection Agency, Social Security, and Medicare.

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Categories: The Insider, USAID

Trump Education Cuts Are Attacks on American Students, Access to Education, Civil Rights Protections

March 17, 2025

The Trump administration last week announced a mass layoff of Department of Education employees as part of his plan to dismantle the department, a blatant attack on American children’s equal access to education and civil rights protections.

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Categories: The Insider