NASA scientists say relocations put space missions at risk : NPR

"We do not have a replacement lab," the engineer said. "I did not have anywhere to start laying out the components and figure out what we have, what we need and all of that."

 Meanwhile, as of August, the lab space they were rushed out of at Goddard remains vacant, the engineer said. 

"They clearly don't have a long-term plan," the engineer said, "which was not really how we feel you should be treating world-class engineering labs."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/09/15/nx-s1-5964919/nasa-employee-relocations-equipment-impacts-missions

 

‘Institutional neglect’: 25 years on from 9/11, experts sound alarm over US counter-terror efforts

Budget cuts, loss of knowledgeable officials and diverted resources raise risk of another attack, experts warn…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/10/9-11-us-counter-terrorism-intelligence-trump-administration 

 

More taxes have gone uncollected after IRS slashed its staff : NPR

"Defunding the IRS is not a money-saving proposition because you have fewer employees," says Natasha Sarin, who served as a counselor on tax policy to former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. "It is a money-losing one, because you do a less good job of collecting taxes."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/09/02/nx-s1-5954022/irs-tax-collection-job-reductions

Hospitals say coming Trump administration rules are worse than GOP's Medicaid cuts - POLITICO

Hospitals expected to lose $340 billion through 2034 after Congress passed the One Big, Beautiful Bill Act last year. If the rules are finalized as proposed, they would generate $756 billion in savings to the federal government and $265 billion in savings to states through 2035.

 Or as hospitals see it, they’re losing $681 billion more than they expected…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/02/hospitals-say-coming-regulations-worse-than-medicaid-cuts-01060086

 

Here’s Why We’ve Been Seeing So Much Food-Borne Illness – Mother Jones

 “Climate change has allowed pathogens like cyclospora…to expand from the tropic, subtropic lines into areas more north and south.”…

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/why-so-much-food-borne-illness-this-year-cyclospora-salmonella-listeria-e-coli-outbreaks-safe-eat/ 

 

USDA cuts strip NRCS workers from local communities

The Natural Resources Conservation Service lost nearly a quarter of its staff nationwide in 2025 after the Trump administration’s cuts to the federal government. Many were local experts that help farmers with soil and water conservation efforts...

 https://www.kcur.org/environment-agriculture/2026-08-31/nrcs-cuts-impact-conservation-farmers

 

USDA reportedly shelves cyclospora research amid relocations and fund cuts

Trump officials shuttering three projects on foodborne parasite, two defunded by Congress, Politico reports…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/30/usda-cyclospora-research-projects-shelved

 

Attacks on the U.S. Public Health System

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UfnoLOgNwPs

 

Trump admin defunds abstinence-only programs in chaotic budget cuts - POLITICO

The Trump administration’s sweeping grant cuts are hitting sexual abstinence programs long favored by Republicans…

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/06/trump-admin-cuts-teen-pregnancy-prevention-funds-01027294

More than 1 million children lost access to food benefits after Trump bill passed

Analysis finds more than 4 million Americans lost Snap benefits, or food stamps, from July 2025 to March 2026…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/25/food-stamps-children-trump

 

Congress wants to get more homes built quickly. That might be harder after DOGE. - POLITICO

Some of the lawmakers who pushed for the law worry that the Department of Housing and Urban Development — which has shed more than 30 percent of its core policy workforce in just three years following budget cuts — is too understaffed to quickly issue new rules and implement its provisions, aimed at making building and buying homes cheaper and easier...

 https://www.politico.com/news/2026/07/23/bipartisan-housing-bill-implementation-01008945

 

How the administration has mired the US in multiple crises

Between widespread cuts to vital government agencies, various disease and illness outbreaks, and new environmental disaster vulnerabilities, the United States is facing a convergence of crises with widespread repercussions. 

Yet the Trump administration has hamstrung the federal government from addressing these crises – and in some cases is actively fanning them. Over the past year, the administration has moved to shrink the federal workforce, roll back environmental protections and policies intended to fight the climate crisis, reduced funding for scientific research and is seeking to advance legislation that would impose new voting restrictions...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/19/how-trump-and-his-administration-have-mired-the-us-in-multiple-crises  

Senators will ‘insist on offsets’ in reconciliation bill, Ron Johnson says - Live Updates - POLITICO

He told reporters Monday, ahead of the House rollout, that identifying offsetting cuts“would certainly be one of my objectives.

” But that risks putting him at odds with Thune, who has voiced concerns that pursuing spending cuts to health care or other sensitive programs could blow back on vulnerable members just before the midterms...

 https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/07/15/congress/ron-johnson-reconciliation-offsets-00999519

 

Kennedy talks about reducing obesity, ends up defending Trump Medicaid cuts

…Kennedy defended the administration’s record on Medicaid spending, calling Medicaid cuts “a myth people believe.”…

 https://www.michiganpublic.org/health/2026-06-16/kennedy-talks-about-reducing-obesity-ends-up-defending-trump-medicaid-cuts

Just wrap your heads around this…

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/AOzHJYKjDZc

 

Trump says he asked Pulte to gut intelligence agency - POLITICO

The president told The Wall Street Journal he wants staffing cuts at the office that coordinates intergovernmental intelligence sharing...

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/05/trump-pulte-intelligence-agency-dni-00952116 

‘A rude awakening’: more doctors running for office in rebuke to Trump’s health policies

Medical professionals are entering the political arena as funding cuts, layoffs and RFK Jr’s vaccine skepticism spur them to action…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/02/doctors-midterm-election-trump-policies-health

 

US is ‘simply choosing not to stop’ Ebola outbreak after massive public health cuts, experts say

Outbreaks like these have economic, geopolitical and global stability implications, Kavanagh said. But they also matter because allowing anyone to die “needlessly of a disease that can be stopped is immoral, and we are living in a world where we don’t have to allow infectious diseases to spread unchecked”, he said. “Ebola can be stopped, and if we don’t mobilize the dollars and the public health efforts, then we are simply choosing not to stop the outbreak. Because it can be stopped. The question is, will it be? And when?”…

 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/21/ebola-outbreak-public-health

 

Trump administration falls behind on wildfire prevention with risky fire season ahead

The agency lost 16% of its workforceas of last summer, with 5,860 personnel leaving in the first six months of 2025 as part of the Trump administration's efforts to reduce the size of government. Senate Democrats have raised concerns that such cuts have hampered the agency's ability to prepare for wildfires...

 https://www.npr.org/2026/05/04/nx-s1-5801475/forest-service-wildfire-prevention-vegetation-burns 

Trump wants to cut funds to college programs for poor students : NPR

  "TRIO has been around for 60 years," said Kimberly Jones, the president of COE. "We've produced millions of college graduates. We know it works." 

Yet Education Secretary Linda McMahon and the White House refer to the programs as a "relic of the past." 

 Jones countered that census data shows that "students from the poorest families still earn college degrees at rates far below that of students from the highest-income families," demonstrating continued need for TRIO...

 https://www.npr.org/2025/08/22/nx-s1-5501580/trump-proposes-cuts-programs-poor-students-colleges