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Department of People Who Work for a Living. Providing accountability for Elon and the anti-worker DOGE.
https://deptofpeoplewhowork.org
https://deptofpeoplewhowork.org
Elon’s $1 trillion contract got approved. ONE TRILLION DOLLARS. You have to turn your phone sideways for that number to fit on your calculator app.
After working to literally “traumatize” federal workers all year, he is cashing in. https://nbcnews.to/49r3WV5
After working to literally “traumatize” federal workers all year, he is cashing in. https://nbcnews.to/49r3WV5
Tesla shareholders approve $1 trillion pay package for Elon Musk
The money will be awarded in a series of payments over 10 years if Tesla meets a series of performance benchmarks.
www.nbcnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Elon’s $1 trillion contract got approved. ONE TRILLION DOLLARS. You have to turn your phone sideways for that number to fit on your calculator app.
After working to literally “traumatize” federal workers all year, he is cashing in. https://nbcnews.to/49r3WV5
After working to literally “traumatize” federal workers all year, he is cashing in. https://nbcnews.to/49r3WV5
The Trump administration’s political games are making people go hungry.
Now, millions of people are trying to figure out how to put food on the table, pay their bills and survive. It doesn’t have to be this way. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/snap-benefits-cuts-shutdown.html
Now, millions of people are trying to figure out how to put food on the table, pay their bills and survive. It doesn’t have to be this way. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/snap-benefits-cuts-shutdown.html
Down to $1.18: How Families Are Coping With SNAP Cuts
www.nytimes.com
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
The Trump administration’s political games are making people go hungry.
Now, millions of people are trying to figure out how to put food on the table, pay their bills and survive. It doesn’t have to be this way. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/snap-benefits-cuts-shutdown.html
Now, millions of people are trying to figure out how to put food on the table, pay their bills and survive. It doesn’t have to be this way. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/us/politics/snap-benefits-cuts-shutdown.html
Elon Musk spent his year inflicting as much pain as possible on America’s federal workers and breaking the essential services that working people rely on.
And now he’s being handed a trillion-dollar paycheck on a silver platter.
Disgusting.
And now he’s being handed a trillion-dollar paycheck on a silver platter.
Disgusting.
Tesla says shareholders approve Musk's $1 trillion pay plan with over 75% voting in favor
Tesla says shareholders approve Musk's $1 trillion pay plan with over 75% voting in favor
Tesla shareholders approved CEO Elon Musk's historic pay package at the company's annual shareholders meeting in Austin, Texas.
cnb.cx
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Elon Musk spent his year inflicting as much pain as possible on America’s federal workers and breaking the essential services that working people rely on.
And now he’s being handed a trillion-dollar paycheck on a silver platter.
Disgusting.
And now he’s being handed a trillion-dollar paycheck on a silver platter.
Disgusting.
Hey DOGE: we’re eagerly awaiting your investigation into this obvious waste, fraud and abuse. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel-fbi-director-private-jet-problem-nashville
Kash Patel’s Private Jet Problem Is Even Worse Than It Looks
This dude can’t stop flying to Nashville.
www.thebulwark.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Hey DOGE: we’re eagerly awaiting your investigation into this obvious waste, fraud and abuse. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/kash-patel-fbi-director-private-jet-problem-nashville
When you accidentally say the quiet part out loud. Very loud.
November 1, 2025 at 6:18 PM
When you accidentally say the quiet part out loud. Very loud.
So the USDA *did* have a contingency plan for funding SNAP… but it’s been deleted from their website. 👀
USDA Quietly Deletes Its Contingency Plan for Funding SNAP
The 55-page “lapse of funding” document for USDA is no longer available online.
www.notus.org
October 31, 2025 at 12:41 AM
So the USDA *did* have a contingency plan for funding SNAP… but it’s been deleted from their website. 👀
Do you have time to wait HOURS on the phone for help with Social Security or other essential services? Of course not. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s DOGE/Project 2025 is forcing people to go through.
They’re breaking our essential services. https://wapo.st/3Ld2viK
They’re breaking our essential services. https://wapo.st/3Ld2viK
Callers to Social Security wait for hours to get help. Hear their ordeals.
Millions of seniors and disabled people call Social Security’s 1-800 number every month. What they experience is often maddening.
wapo.st
October 28, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Do you have time to wait HOURS on the phone for help with Social Security or other essential services? Of course not. But that’s exactly what President Trump’s DOGE/Project 2025 is forcing people to go through.
They’re breaking our essential services. https://wapo.st/3Ld2viK
They’re breaking our essential services. https://wapo.st/3Ld2viK
The Trump administration is using hungry kids and families as pawns in their political games. It’s a disgusting and cruel attack on America’s most vulnerable working families. https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-assistance-government-shutdown-9cece00f9d6ef39fc5a0240ca2374696
Trump administration won't tap contingency fund to keep food aid flowing, memo says
The Trump administration says it won't use a roughly $5 billion contingency fund to keep food aid flowing in November amid the government shutdown.
apnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The Trump administration is using hungry kids and families as pawns in their political games. It’s a disgusting and cruel attack on America’s most vulnerable working families. https://apnews.com/article/snap-food-assistance-government-shutdown-9cece00f9d6ef39fc5a0240ca2374696
"Now we'll have to prioritize which bills we can pay and which can wait."
The Trump administration is playing political games with our lives and our budgets. Families need SNAP food assistance to survive. https://cbsn.ws/4hwxTVv
The Trump administration is playing political games with our lives and our budgets. Families need SNAP food assistance to survive. https://cbsn.ws/4hwxTVv
With food stamps set to dry up Nov. 1, SNAP recipients say they fear what's next
"Now we'll have to prioritize which bills we can pay and which can wait," said one mother of two about a looming freeze in food aid.
www.cbsnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
"Now we'll have to prioritize which bills we can pay and which can wait."
The Trump administration is playing political games with our lives and our budgets. Families need SNAP food assistance to survive. https://cbsn.ws/4hwxTVv
The Trump administration is playing political games with our lives and our budgets. Families need SNAP food assistance to survive. https://cbsn.ws/4hwxTVv
The list of donors to Trump’s $300 million vanity ballroom is full of billionaires and giant corporations who are making donations to buy good will with the President.
Corruption in plain sight. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/trump-ballroom-donors-list.html
Corruption in plain sight. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/trump-ballroom-donors-list.html
White House List of Donors for President Trump’s $300 Million Ballroom
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The list of donors to Trump’s $300 million vanity ballroom is full of billionaires and giant corporations who are making donations to buy good will with the President.
Corruption in plain sight. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/trump-ballroom-donors-list.html
Corruption in plain sight. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/us/politics/trump-ballroom-donors-list.html
DOGE - whose staffers are getting paid during the government shutdown - cut funding for schools and food banks.
SNAP food assistance is already about to run out of money, and now DOGE is trying to make it easier for even more people to go hungry. https://cbsn.ws/3L95Qzo
SNAP food assistance is already about to run out of money, and now DOGE is trying to make it easier for even more people to go hungry. https://cbsn.ws/3L95Qzo
USDA cancels $1 billion in funding for schools and food banks to buy food from local suppliers
The USDA said it is promoting wiser government spending, but schools say it will make it tougher to serve healthy meals.
www.cbsnews.com
October 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
DOGE - whose staffers are getting paid during the government shutdown - cut funding for schools and food banks.
SNAP food assistance is already about to run out of money, and now DOGE is trying to make it easier for even more people to go hungry. https://cbsn.ws/3L95Qzo
SNAP food assistance is already about to run out of money, and now DOGE is trying to make it easier for even more people to go hungry. https://cbsn.ws/3L95Qzo
Just to recap: 42 million people are about to go hungry because the Trump admin shut down the government and won’t do anything to stop health insurance costs from doubling—and the President’s top priority is his $300 million ballroom.
SNAP recipients told to buy shelf-stable food or go to food banks as funding deadline looms
People who rely on the federal food assistance program might not receive their benefits for the month of November because of the ongoing government shutdown.
www.nbcnews.com
October 27, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Just to recap: 42 million people are about to go hungry because the Trump admin shut down the government and won’t do anything to stop health insurance costs from doubling—and the President’s top priority is his $300 million ballroom.
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers were fired or pushed out by the richest man on Earth and now won’t be able to afford health insurance.
The Trump administration’s DOGE/Project 2025 agenda and shutdown is hurting working people across the country. https://bit.ly/4oyNg1W
The Trump administration’s DOGE/Project 2025 agenda and shutdown is hurting working people across the country. https://bit.ly/4oyNg1W
DOGE cost me my job. Will Republicans take my healthcare, too? | Opinion
I worked hard as a government contractor but lost my job in DOGE cuts. Now, healthcare for me and my daughter is under threat from the shutdown. This isn’t right. | Opinion
www.newsobserver.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Hundreds of thousands of federal workers were fired or pushed out by the richest man on Earth and now won’t be able to afford health insurance.
The Trump administration’s DOGE/Project 2025 agenda and shutdown is hurting working people across the country. https://bit.ly/4oyNg1W
The Trump administration’s DOGE/Project 2025 agenda and shutdown is hurting working people across the country. https://bit.ly/4oyNg1W
Not the millions about to see their health insurance costs double.
Not the 42 million who are about to lose food assistance.
Not the federal workers who are working without pay.
His top priority is his $300 million vanity golden ballroom.
Not the 42 million who are about to lose food assistance.
Not the federal workers who are working without pay.
His top priority is his $300 million vanity golden ballroom.
Leavitt: At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the president's main priority.
October 23, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Not the millions about to see their health insurance costs double.
Not the 42 million who are about to lose food assistance.
Not the federal workers who are working without pay.
His top priority is his $300 million vanity golden ballroom.
Not the 42 million who are about to lose food assistance.
Not the federal workers who are working without pay.
His top priority is his $300 million vanity golden ballroom.
Do you like clean air and water? The Trump administration is working to fire the federal workers who make sure we have that.
This is straight out of their DOGE/Project 2025 agenda. https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-staffing-is-falling-trump-wants-to-keep-cutting/
This is straight out of their DOGE/Project 2025 agenda. https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-staffing-is-falling-trump-wants-to-keep-cutting/
EPA staffing is falling. Trump wants to keep cutting.
Programs for air, water, chemicals and solid waste as well as the administrator’s office are now overstaffed, according to the agency’s personnel
www.eenews.net
October 23, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Do you like clean air and water? The Trump administration is working to fire the federal workers who make sure we have that.
This is straight out of their DOGE/Project 2025 agenda. https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-staffing-is-falling-trump-wants-to-keep-cutting/
This is straight out of their DOGE/Project 2025 agenda. https://www.eenews.net/articles/epa-staffing-is-falling-trump-wants-to-keep-cutting/
Selling out our farmers to bail out Argentina? Doesn’t sound like putting American workers first to us! https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/economy/bessent-argentina-lifeline-warren
Bessent calls $20 billion lifeline to Argentina a ‘mission-critical’ function of Treasury during shutdown | CNN Business
Finalizing a $20 billion lifeline for Argentina using taxpayers’ funds during the government shutdown was an essential action for the agency, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Tuesday.
www.cnn.com
October 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Selling out our farmers to bail out Argentina? Doesn’t sound like putting American workers first to us! https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/22/economy/bessent-argentina-lifeline-warren
The Trump administration is doing everything it can to shutter the Department of Education and wipe out the many ways it helps our most vulnerable kids. This is straight out of Project 2025. Working families will pay the price. https://nyti.ms/4nhrDlS
No Education Department? No Problem, Trump’s Education Secretary Says.
www.nytimes.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
The Trump administration is doing everything it can to shutter the Department of Education and wipe out the many ways it helps our most vulnerable kids. This is straight out of Project 2025. Working families will pay the price. https://nyti.ms/4nhrDlS
While the Trump administration is keeping the government shut down - instead of keeping working families from having to pay double for their health insurance - they’re also going to let 42 MILLION people go hungry without SNAP food assistance. https://cnn.it/3WfX4C7
Millions of Americans are at risk of losing food stamps next month amid shutdown | CNN Politics
Roughly 42 million people are at risk of losing critical food assistance in November amid the federal government shutdown. And it’s not clear whether the Trump administration will step in to find the ...
www.cnn.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
While the Trump administration is keeping the government shut down - instead of keeping working families from having to pay double for their health insurance - they’re also going to let 42 MILLION people go hungry without SNAP food assistance. https://cnn.it/3WfX4C7
The Department of the Interior maintains our natural resources, including national parks.
The Trump administration is trying to use the cover of the government shutdown to fire 2,000 National Park Service workers, risking America’s national treasures.
The Trump administration is trying to use the cover of the government shutdown to fire 2,000 National Park Service workers, risking America’s national treasures.
Interior Department Cuts Would Hit Major National Parks, Per New Court Filing
The Interior Department’s reduction-in-force plans include hundreds of workers for the National Park Service, and employees managing oil and gas leasing in Utah.
www.notus.org
October 22, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The Department of the Interior maintains our natural resources, including national parks.
The Trump administration is trying to use the cover of the government shutdown to fire 2,000 National Park Service workers, risking America’s national treasures.
The Trump administration is trying to use the cover of the government shutdown to fire 2,000 National Park Service workers, risking America’s national treasures.
Rick Scott knows so much about health care and finding fraud. We should definitely put him in charge of fixing our health care system.
Google “Rick Scott health care fraud” to learn more about his experience.
Google “Rick Scott health care fraud” to learn more about his experience.
Ron Johnson: "Let's bring free market competition back into the healthcare industry. Let's bring back way more consumer choice. Rick Scott, an expert in healthcare, he's working with people like myself and the White House, let's design the Republican plan."
October 21, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Rick Scott knows so much about health care and finding fraud. We should definitely put him in charge of fixing our health care system.
Google “Rick Scott health care fraud” to learn more about his experience.
Google “Rick Scott health care fraud” to learn more about his experience.
Using non-union workers and stiffing them what they’re owed? At least he’s consistent.
Nonunion Laborers tearing up the #WhiteHouse #EastWing for a $200M ballroom while REAL workers are LOCKED OUT, waiting on a paycheck. “Workers first”? Don’t make us laugh.
#AmericaFirst #Union #WashingtonDC #unionmoney
#AmericaFirst #Union #WashingtonDC #unionmoney
October 21, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Using non-union workers and stiffing them what they’re owed? At least he’s consistent.
Social Security is a promise to seniors that they can retire with dignity. DOGE jeopardized that when they uploaded the Social Security information of 300 MILLION people to an unprotected server. Instead of fixing it, they fired the whistleblower. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
October 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Social Security is a promise to seniors that they can retire with dignity. DOGE jeopardized that when they uploaded the Social Security information of 300 MILLION people to an unprotected server. Instead of fixing it, they fired the whistleblower. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
We can’t believe we have to say this, but the person in charge of protecting federal workers from retaliation for whistleblowing should not be a Nazi.
EXCLUSIVE: Embattled Trump nominee Paul Ingrassia told Republicans that the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be “tossed into the seventh circle of hell” and that he has “a Nazi streak,” according to a group chat viewed by POLITICO.
Trump nominee says he has a ‘Nazi streak,’ bashes MLK Jr. Day, according to texts
Paul Ingrassia’s bid to lead a whistleblower agency is set for a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday.
www.politico.com
October 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
We can’t believe we have to say this, but the person in charge of protecting federal workers from retaliation for whistleblowing should not be a Nazi.
2 million federal workers are locked out of their jobs and forced to work without pay. At the same time, millions are learning their insurance costs will double.
What’s being done about it? Trump’s allies in Congress have enjoyed a month-long vacation.
What’s being done about it? Trump’s allies in Congress have enjoyed a month-long vacation.
Trump’s Allies Take Month-Long Paid Vacation as 1.4 Million Federal Workers Do Their Jobs Without Pay During Shutdown
MEMORANDUMTO: Interested PartiesFROM: AFL-CIO’s Department of People Who Work for a LivingDATE: Oct. 19, 2025RE: Trump’s Allies Take Month-Long Paid Vacation as 1.4 Million Federal Workers Do Their Jo...
deptofpeoplewhowork.org
October 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
2 million federal workers are locked out of their jobs and forced to work without pay. At the same time, millions are learning their insurance costs will double.
What’s being done about it? Trump’s allies in Congress have enjoyed a month-long vacation.
What’s being done about it? Trump’s allies in Congress have enjoyed a month-long vacation.