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By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House is urging federal agencies to refrain from laying off their cybersecurity teams, as they scramble to comply with a Thursday deadline to submit mass layoff plans to slash their budgets, according to an email seen by Reuters.  Greg Barbaccia, the United States federal chief information officer, …

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By Leah Douglas (Reuters) -Several U.S. farmers and non-profit organizations filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration on Thursday, arguing it is illegally withholding Department of Agriculture grants funded by the Inflation Reduction Act. The USDA has frozen a broad swath of grants as it conducts an agency-wide spending review, including money for conservation and …

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(Reuters) – A U.S. judge has ordered Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency to turn over a variety of records and answer questions describing their efforts to slash federal spending. Wednesday night’s decision by U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan in Washington, D.C., came in a lawsuit by 14 Democratic state attorneys general against …

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By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) – A group of Democratic state attorneys general on Thursday filed a lawsuit seeking to block Republican U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration from dismantling the U.S. Department of Education and halt it from laying off nearly half of its staff. Attorneys general from 20 states and the District of Columbia …

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By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A U.S. House of Representatives oversight subcommittee said on Thursday it is investigating the collision in January between an Army Black Hawk helicopter and an American Airlines regional jet that killed 67 people near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.  The House Oversight subcommittee on Military and Foreign Affairs said they are …

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(Reuters) – A California federal judge on Thursday said he would grant “additional relief” in a challenge to the Trump administration’s mass firings of thousands of recently hired employees, after already blocking the administration from ordering agencies to fire those workers. (Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York)

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, a potential candidate for president in 2028, said on Thursday he will not run for governor in Michigan or U.S. Senate next year. “I remain enthusiastic about helping candidates who share our values – and who understand that in this moment, leadership means not …

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