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Friday, August 21, 2026
Firefighters sound alarm as US faces critical staffing shortage: ‘We don’t have enough people’
Firefighters describe being pushed to limit by a brutal wildfire season, with key leadership roles going unfilled…
Trump Ordered to Release Billions in Resilience Grants for Disadvantaged Communities – Mother Jones
The administration, which shed a quarter of its EPA workers, now says the agency lacks the money and staff to implement the grant program...
Wednesday, July 29, 2026
The IRS Is Imploding – Mother Jones
“In many years of paying taxes, I’ve never had a problem with the IRS. So, I was surprised to receive a letter dated May 25 informing us that my husband and I owe lots more money than we had paid for our 2025 taxes—and of course interest and fines. After reviewing the somewhat cryptic letter, we realized that we did not, in fact, owe any money. The IRS had simply failed to credit quarterly payments that we’d made on time. Because we had all the bank records, it seemed as if this would be a relatively straightforward problem to fix—until I picked up the phone and called the IRS.
“Two hours on hold later, I gave up. When I tried again a few days later, the outgoing message informed me, “Due to the high call volume, we are unable to answer your call. Please call back later today or tomorrow.” And I was disconnected…”
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/07/the-irs-is-imploding/
Friday, July 24, 2026
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
Thursday, May 28, 2026
Did Trump's FAA slash the staffing target for air traffic control? - PolitiFact
The Federal Aviation Administration released a new air traffic controller staffing plan that showed a reduced target of 12,563 controllers, down from its previous forecast of 14,633.
The National Air Traffic Controllers Association disagrees with the staffing model...
https://www.politifact.com/article/2026/may/26/air-traffic-control-staffing-target-FAA-hiring/
Saturday, April 4, 2026
CDC temporarily halts testing for several infectious diseases amid staffing shortages
Federal agency, which normally supports state and local public health labs, has been hobbled by staff departures…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/02/cdc-infectious-diseases-testing
Friday, April 3, 2026
Stevens seeks to restore Social Security Administration staffing
Michigan Congresswoman Haley Stevens (D, MI-11) is introducing new legislation to bring back thousands of jobs at the Social Security Administration.
The Trump Administration cut those roles last year as part of mass federal layoffs.
Stevens said the result has been worse customer service at the agency, and Michiganders not getting value for their tax dollars...
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
What Emergency Managers Say They Need More Than Ever — ProPublica
Across the country, more than half of the 1,689 local emergency management agencies that responded to Argonne National Laboratory's July 2025 emergency management survey have either one or no permanent full-time employees, and a "notable percentage" of local emergency managers who responded are volunteers…
https://www.propublica.org/article/emergency-managers-united-states-resource-needs
Saturday, July 12, 2025
Social Security yanks staff from field offices to answer overwhelmed phone line - The Washington Post
The agency, which serves 73 million beneficiaries, has struggled to improve customer service amid cutbacks, long wait times and a crashing website...
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Trump immigration crackdown is hitting nursing home staffs
The White House immigration crackdown is hitting the long-term healthcare industry, as nursing homes and care providers lose foreign-born employees and struggle to hire.
Why it matters: These folks care for the disabled and for the country's fast-growing elderly population, and they're already in short supply.…
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/18/trump-immigration-nursing-homes
Wednesday, April 9, 2025
Court tosses Biden nursing home staffing standard
Nursing homes have plenty of failures when it comes to staffing, infection control and oversight, Kacsmaryk's memo vacating the rule states.
But while the policy was "rooted in laudable goals," it goes beyond the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' authority, he wrote…
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/07/biden-nursing-home-staffing-struck
Saturday, February 1, 2025
Friday, December 1, 2023
Social Security Official Shreds Lauren Boebert Over What She Finds ‘Unacceptable’ | HuffPost Latest News
"So I'd say we'd have an increase of over eight million beneficiaries over the last 10 years. At the same time, we experienced our lowest work staffing levels at the end of FY 22. ... If you have those workloads increasing and you don't have the staff to take care of those workloads, you're going to have the backlogs that you're talking about, representative."
Saturday, September 2, 2023
Biden rule sets nursing home staff minimums - The Washington Post
The Biden administration released a proposed rule after decades of complaints about poor care…
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Battle brewing over Biden’s nursing home staffing requirements | The Hill
"You don't have a staff shortage, you've got a good job shortage. You have to pay these people, have to provide them support," said Mark Miller, Washington, D.C.'s, long-term care ombudsman.
"There are people out there that want to work," Smetanka added. "It's just right now they're not wanting to work in nursing homes." …
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
US immigration courts struggle amid understaffing and backlog of cases
Judges, scholars and attorneys all concerned whether people due in court will receive notice before their hearings…
Monday, April 26, 2021
The federal government is losing billions in unpaid taxes, in part due to racial disparities in the tax code - The Washington Post
... "It's a national scandal that the wealthy are stealing billions and billions from American taxpayers …" Wyden told Federal Insider. "Going after tax-dodging billionaires and megacorporations and their armies of accountants and lawyers requires the IRS have adequate enforcement staff. There's simply no way around it. Rebuilding the IRS so we are collecting what's owed is a top priority as we move forward."...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
For-profit nursing homes are understaffed by design — Quartz
...Although the company received $665 million in state and federal grants and loans in 2020, it didn't increase its hiring, despite severe staffing shortages during the most acute weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic...
Monday, January 11, 2021
Months ahead of Capitol riot, DHS threat assessment group was gutted: Officials - ABC News
... In the months leading up to Wednesday's deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Trump administration gutted a key federal agency responsible for funneling intelligence and threat assessments to law enforcement partners across the country, two federal officials with direct knowledge told ABC News...
https://abcnews.go.com/US/months-ahead-capitol-riot-dhs-threat-assessment-group/story
https://abcnews.go.com/US/months-ahead-capitol-riot-dhs-threat-assessment-group/story
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