Zhi Zhu 🕸️ (@ZhiZhu@newsie.social)

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Top broadband official exits Commerce Dept with sharp #Musk warning

“Stranding all or part of rural #America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Evan Feinman warned.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/16/official-exits-commerce-department-musk-warning-00232278

" #Trump administration is poised to unduly enrich #ElonMusk ’s satellite #internet company w/money for #rural broadband.

The #technology offered by #Starlink, Musk’s company, is inferior"

#Corruption #News

Headline from Politico:
Top broadband official exits Commerce Department with sharp Musk warning

“Stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so that we can make the world’s richest man even richer is yet another in a long line of betrayals by Washington,” Evan Feinman warned.

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Some Federal Office Leases Restored After Pushback to Musk Team’s Cuts

The chaotic effort to reduce the govt’s real estate portfolio is another example of the setbacks the admn has faced as officials try to carry out Trump’s agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/musk-doge-lease-terminations.html

"turnabout comes after [ #Doge]... released a list of... 440 fed properties that could be sold off, incl several HQs for cabinet-level depts, before removing the entire inventory the next day w/little explanation."

#Musk #News #USPol #USA

Headline and photo with caption.

Headline:
Some Federal Office Leases Restored After Pushback to Musk Team’s Cuts

The chaotic effort to reduce the government’s real estate portfolio is another example of the setbacks the administration has faced as officials try to carry out President Trump’s agenda.

Photo:
Men wearing hard hats stand on a metal platform while working on a large silver container.

Caption:
The potential cancellation of the lease for a Department of Energy office in Carlsbad, N.M., raised alarms among some lawmakers because the office is responsible for the nation’s only permanent underground repository for nuclear weapons waste.
Credit: Michael Stravato for The New York Times

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DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers & Safety Experts

Firings & buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Safety Admn amid a major effort to upgrade America’s #nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting the federal work force.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/federal-job-cuts-nuclear-bomb-engineers-scientists.html

"Officials had initially expected that the nuclear agency’s #NationalSecurity mission would protect it from layoffs."

#ElonMusk #Musk #Doge #Trump #GOP #USPol #Politics #Security #News #USA