Anonymous ID: 8ae6b6 May 2, 2025, 2:06 p.m. No.22983852   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The Trump administration asked the US Supreme Courtto let Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency have access to sensitive Social Security information, escalating a privacy fight that could affect millions of people.

 

The administration is challenging a federal trial judge’s order blocking DOGE from having full access to personally identifiable information in the Social Security Administration database. US District Judge Ellen Lipton Hollander’s order also requires people affiliated with DOGE to “destroy and delete” data they’ve already acquired.

 

The government on Friday said the Supreme Court should lift the Baltimore-based judge’s order – restoring DOGE’s access – while the Justice Department presses an appeal. Musk’s team wants access to the data as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to weed out what he claims is wasteful spending across the federal government.

 

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Anonymous ID: 8ae6b6 May 2, 2025, 2:07 p.m. No.22983855   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>3876 >>4116 >>4420

The Trump administration is planning significant personnel cuts at the Central Intelligence Agency and other major U.S. spy units, downsizing the government’s most sensitive national security agencies, according to people familiar with the plans.

 

The administration recently informed lawmakers on Capitol Hill that it intends to reduce the CIA’s workforce by about 1,200 personnel over several years and cut thousands more from other parts of the U.S. intelligence community, including at the National Security Agency, a highly secretive service which specializes in cryptology and global electronic espionage, a person familiar with the matter said. The person, like others interviewed, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

 

The specifics of the planned cuts have not been previously reported.

 

The CIA does not publicly disclose the size of its workforce, but it is believed to be about 22,000. It is unclear which parts of the spy agency would be most affected. The downsizing is

 

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Anonymous ID: 8ae6b6 May 2, 2025, 2:07 p.m. No.22983857   🗄️.is 🔗kun

'His faculties haven’t slipped at all,' he told the magazine. 'It’s not that I admire it - I acknowledge it, and if you don’t, you do it at your own peril politically.'

Anonymous ID: 8ae6b6 May 2, 2025, 3:22 p.m. No.22984108   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4112 >>4118

Marco Rubio Hardest working Trump appointee

 

BREAKING: Marco Rubio is expected to serve as both secretary of State and national security adviser for a minimum of six months, and a number of top advisers to President Donald Trump are interested in making the arrangement permanent — Politico

 

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Anonymous ID: 8ae6b6 May 2, 2025, 5:07 p.m. No.22984402   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4406

BREAKING: Senator John Fetterman is reportedly driving recklessly, missing medical appointments, skipping medication, and showing signs of conspiratorial thinking.

 

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