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Federal workers with the U.S. Agency for International Development, the first government department targeted by DOGE, have locked down their credit, shut off their Alexas and turned to the secure, encrypted Signal app for communications — just as they’d operate in foreign, autocratic countries. CBC | World News
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Hundreds of weather forecasters fired in U.S. federal cuts
Hundreds of weather forecasters and other U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration employees, including meteorologists who do crucial local forecasts in the National Weather Service, were fired on Thursday, lawmakers and weather experts said. CBC | World News
Read More »Elon Musk vows to fire U.S. federal workers who fail to report what they’ve accomplished in past week
The threat, issued in a post on the social media site X, was made just hours after U.S. President Donald Trump posted on his own social media network Truth Social that DOGE should get more aggressive in its attempts to downsize and reshape the federal workforce. CBC | World News
Read More »Ottawa removing half of federal internal trade barriers: source
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Read More »It’s barely 2025 and Trump’s project to overhaul federal civil service is well underway
A 19th-century presidential assassination was a signature event in helping the U.S. establish a meritocratic system for filling federal government jobs. Now, Donald Trump and Republican loyalists appear to be making good on promises in recent years to make radical changes to the civil service. CBC | World News
Read More »U.S. Federal Reserve expected to hold rates steady
The U.S. Federal Reserve is expected to hold interest rates steady on Wednesday as it awaits further inflation and jobs data and more clarity on the economic impact of President Donald Trump’s policies before deciding whether to cut borrowing costs again. CBC | World News
Read More »Trump offers buyouts to U.S. federal workers as judge blocks his grants, loans freeze
The White House began offering buyouts worth seven months of salary to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs. The move is the latest effort to overhaul the U.S. government by Trump, whose recent proposal to pause federal grants and loans was blocked by a federal judge. CBC | World News
Read More »Trump administration directs all federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees be put on leave
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration moved Tuesday to end affirmative action in federal contracting and directed that all federal diversity, equity and inclusion staff be put on paid leave and eventually be laid off. CBC | World News
Read More »Luigi Mangione extradited to New York to face federal murder, stalking charges
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Read More »U.S. Federal Reserve cuts interest rates by another quarter point
The Federal Reserve cut its key interest rate Wednesday by a quarter-point — its third cut this year — but also signalled that it expects to reduce rates next year more slowly than previously thought, with inflation still well above the central bank’s two per cent target. CBC | World News
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