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By Nate Raymond (Reuters) – A federal judge on Monday blocked the government downsizing team created by President Donald Trump and spearheaded by billionaire Elon Musk from accessing sensitive data maintained by the U.S. Education Department and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management. U.S. District Judge Deborah Boardman in Greenbelt, Maryland issued the temporary restraining …

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By Jonathan Landay and Timothy Gardner WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s administration said on Sunday it was placing all personnel at the foreign assistance agency USAID, except leaders and critical staff, on paid administrative leave and eliminating 1,600 positions in the United States. Billionaire Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has led an effort to …

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RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s Trump Media & Technology Group and video-sharing platform Rumble filed an emergency motion in a U.S. court against Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes, the firms said in a statement on Sunday. On Friday, the Justice ordered the suspension of the video platform in the …

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By Sarah N. Lynch and Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Donald Trump will name newly confirmed FBI Director Kash Patel as the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Saturday. Patel, a Trump loyalist, will run the FBI, the nation’s most …

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By Jonathan Landay, Joseph Ax and Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Multiple U.S. agencies have told employees not to respond immediately to a demand by President Donald Trump’s adviser Elon Musk to list their accomplishments in the past week or be fired, as a chaotic campaign to cull the federal workforce pushes forward. Trump …

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By Jason Lange and Bo Erickson WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Americans give President Donald Trump middling marks on his handling of the economy and efforts to shrink the government and are unimpressed by some of the early fights he has picked, such as proposals to take over Gaza, a Reuters/Ipsos poll shows. The poll, conducted February …

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By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration sent emails on Saturday evening to U.S. federal government employees telling them to detail their work accomplishments from the previous week by Monday night or risk losing their jobs. The emails came shortly after Elon Musk, the billionaire head of the Trump administration’s Department of Government …

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