‘They’re selling the safety of the traveling public’: TSA workers decry Trump privatization push

“A private company is going to be concerned with being profitable,” Finlay said. “They’re selling the safety of the traveling public for corporate greed. That’s what is happening.” 

Gold+ is the latest TSA privatization effort, adding on to other initiatives, including an expansion of the screening partnership program that uses private contractors, overseen by the TSA, to handle security screenings at small and non-hub airports. The TSA plans to eliminate roughly 4,500 positions as the program expands to 220 US airports...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/05/tsa-trump-privatization-push

 

Trump’s push to privatize airport screening is rattling some nerves

“The federal government’s trying to figure out how to save money,” the official said. “So are they going to go with one vendor that is 15 percent more expensive than some other vendor? Maybe, but maybe not.”…

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/08/9-11-looms-over-trumps-push-to-privatize-airport-security-00862356 

QUIET PART OUT LOUD: Trump official accidentally says the truth about Trump budget program

Privatizing social security…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8SlcgpFD_c

 

As Trump slashed weather agency, his appointees have ties to companies that stand to benefit from privatizing forecasts | PBS News

As commerce secretary, Howard Lutnick oversees the U.S. government's vast efforts to monitor and predict the weather. 

The billionaire also ran a financial firm, which he recently left in the control of his adult sons, that stands to benefit if President Donald Trump's administration follows through on a decade-long Republican effort to privatize government weather forecasting…

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/as-trump-slashed-weather-agency-his-appointees-have-ties-to-companies-that-stand-to-benefit-from-privatizing-forecasts

Whitehouse and Murphy Dress Down Republican Tax "Thievery" in Colloquy on the senate floor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3huEn7lbMWs

 

TSA Officers Have a Dire Warning for America

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ciOdLCW5

 

‘Maga since forever’: mercenary mogul Erik Prince pushes to privatize Trump plans

Notorious Blackwater founder is lobbying allies in White House for private contractors to assist in mass deportations…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/erik-prince-trump-immigration-enforcement

 

Bernie: Elon wants you to think ‘government stinks’—so he can privatize it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkMl7AzSMeA

From Public Good to Private Profit: The 1%’s Endgame

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/_2zkOnmcs4I

Trump is open to having his strongest supporters spend a lot more on mail - The Washington Post

Privatizing the U.S. Postal Service would mean that rural, pro-Trump areas would have to spend a lot more to send mail...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/12/16/trump-privatize-postal-service-rural-expensive/

How Corporations Raided Medicare with “ Medicare Advantage “

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBMbcRtteU

Teachers Union Leader Calls for Defending Public Education From 'Dangerous' GOP Attacks

American Federation of Teachers president Randi Weingarten on Tuesday defended the egalitarian legacy and goals of public education and outlined a participatory plan to strengthen it nationwide as right-wing lawmakers intensify their long-standing assault on the institution. 

"Attacks on public education are not new," the leader of the 1.7 million-member union said in an address to the National Press Club. "The difference today is that the attacks are intended to destroy it. To make it a battlefield, a political cudgel."…

https://www.commondreams.org/news/aft-randi-weingarten-defend-public-education-from-gop-attacks

Progressive lawmakers demand fraud probe into Medicare privatization scheme - Raw Story - Celebrating 18 Years of Independent Journalism

"No matter the name, these systems are designed to create profit for private insurers by delaying or denying care." 

The newest version of the program, which entails shifting some traditional Medicare recipients onto privately run insurance plans without their knowledge or consent, is scheduled to formally begin on January 1, months after CMS announced largely cosmetic changes to the Trump-era Global and Professional Direct Contracting (GPDC) model… 

Under ACO REACH, which has faced mounting opposition at the local and national levels in recent months, the middlemen will be able to keep 40% of what they don't spend on care as profit and overhead…

https://www.rawstory.com/progressive-lawmakers-demand-fraud-probe-into-medicare-privatization-scheme/

Jeff Bezos is worth $160bn – yet Congress might bail out his space company

…The time is now to have a serious debate in Congress and throughout our country as to how to develop a rational space policy that does not simply socialize all of the risks and privatize all of the profits. Whether it is expanding affordable high-speed internet and cellphone service in remote areas, tracking natural disasters and climate change, establishing colonies on the moon and Mars or mining asteroids, the scientific achievements we make should be shared by all of us, not just the wealthy few…

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/22/jeff-bezos-space-elon-musk-billionaires-bernie-sanders

Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Buddies Tried to Get the VA to Sell Access to Veterans’ Medical Records — ProPublica

A congressional investigation prompted by ProPublica's reporting found Trump's "Mar-a-Lago crowd," wealthy civilians with no U.S. government or military experience, pursued a plan to monetize veterans' medical data…

https://www.propublica.org/article/trumps-mar-a-lago-buddies-tried-to-get-the-va-to-sell-access-to-veterans-medical-records

Conservatives Threaten To Destroy Canadian Health Care

Canadian Conservative Party leader Erin O'Toole is threatening the Canadian health care system with further privatization while masking his plan in the language of "innovation" and "choice".
https://youtu.be/yrBes3IPGPc

How Susan Collins engineered the postal service disaster she’s now protesting – Raw Story

... Now, the post currently has $160.9 billion in debt, of which $119.3 billion is the result of pre-funding retiree benefits. That was by design. As Pascrell wrote, "To argue that the Postal Service needs to be privatized, conservatives need to show that it is dysfunctional, and there's no better way to do that than by weighing the agency down with impossible financial obligations."...

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/how-susan-collins-engineered-the-postal-service-disaster-shes-now-protesting/

The great dismantling of America's national parks is under way

The great dismantling of America's national parks is under way
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jan/10/us-national-parks-dismantling-under-way

Michigan governor blocks sale of former prison to private immigrant detention company - Daily Kos

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has canceled the sale of a former state prison site to a for-profit private prison company that sought to reopen the property in order to detain hundreds of immigrants. The Democratic leader said she made the decision after Immigration Centers of America (ICA) wouldn't guarantee that the prison "would not be used to detain adults who had been separated from their children or other family members." ...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/1836336

Steve Bannon and Erik Prince among right-wing crew plotting out privatized border wall - Raw Story

What brings together the likes of the president's former chief strategist Steve Bannon; voter disenfranchiser Kris Kobach; notorious Blackwater founder Erik Prince; controversial former sheriff David Clarke; immigration hardliner and former Congressman Tom Tancredo; and offensive meme spewer and former baseball great Curt Schilling? A move to supplement President Donald Trump's proposed "wall" on the southern border with a privatized wall...
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/fresh-off-maga-field-trip-steve-bannon-erik-prince-among-right-wing-crew-plotting-privatized-border-wall/