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A prominent member of "Black Americans for Trump" organization parted ways with the president on CNN Saturday morning over the slash-and-burn methods of Elon Musk's DOGE that is devastating the families of fired federal workers.

According to GOP strategist Melik Abdul, an acquaintance of his lost his federal job in a rural community as part of the purge after only being on the job for six months.

After CNN's "Table for Five" Abby Philip shared clips of Jesse Watters of Fox News "freaking out" about the federal worker purge after a veteran getting "DOGE'd," as the Fox host put it, after previously gleefully calling the mass firings "a blessing from heaven above," Abdul chimed in with a similar story.

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"It seems like that Jesse Watters agrees with me that Republicans should stop demonizing federal workers," he told the panel.

"To his point, I know a guy down in Alabama, first time getting a government job. He had, you know, fresh out of college, had been trying to get a job for a couple of years now, finally got that government job, I think, about six months ago –– well, he's laid off now," he reported. "So his kid, his wife, all of that promise, it's totally gone."

"And I think your point is right," he elaborated. "Once people start seeing –– because when we think of federal government, for many anti-government people, they think DMV, meaning D.C., Maryland and Virginia, they don't see federal government as someone working, living in a rural area of Mississippi, commuting to a job at the Department of Agriculture. They don't see them as federal workers, which is why it's always easy to just say, 'Shut them down, they'll get paid.' That's not how it works."

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Normally mild-mannered CNN host Michael Smeroconish shut down an investment firm CEO on Saturday morning who has been pitching what he calls a "DOGE dividend" where government savings would be refunded to taxpayers.

Simply put, the CNN host dismissed the proposal as an attempted fraudulent scheme being used to sway the public to support for Donald Trump-appointed Elon Musk's highly controversial gutting of the U.S. government.

During an appearance on Smerconish's Saturday show, Azoria CEO James Fishback attempted to explain his proposal, which he claims would result in taxpayers getting a rebate of $5,000 per household if Musk hits his goal of $2 trillion in savings.

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As he told the CNN host, "President Trump brought up on Air Force One is that these DOGE dividends will incentivize Americans to report waste, fraud and abuse in their own community. Why? Because the more that DOGE saves, the bigger their DOGE dividend check will be. Remember in economics, show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome we're giving every American."

Smercoinish wasn't buying it, once equating the plan to a Ponzi scheme, before starting to wrap up the segment with, "There's so much fallacy in what you just offered, please."

"I have a very simple premise here: we're $36 trillion in debt –– it's a fraud," he told his guest. "As much as I want to see us cut waste, fraud and abuse, it is an absolute fraud to say to the American people because of what Musk is doing, we have five grand to give each of you."

"The only way we have five grand is if we're borrowing it, because we're that far in debt," he continued before offering, "I'm trying to meet you halfway, which is simply to say, what a good thing that finally we're going to look at waste, fraud and abuse, albeit it shouldn't be in this haphazard fashion. But let's at least be honest with the American people that whatever we quote unquote 'save,' we already owe."

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The hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend" dissolved in laughter on Saturday after watching clips that have gone viral showing Republican lawmakers being raked over the coals by voters at town halls over Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

In the past few days, GOP lawmakers have returned home to speak to their constituents about the progress that Trump is making and instead have been vociferously booed and berated with Musk being a huge sore point for voters who feel betrayed by his mass firings.

After sharing the clips, co-host Symone Sanders Townsend pointed out that crowds "are Republicans. These are not Democratic actors who were bussed in from, you know, the blue parts of the state, honey, These are Republican constituents."

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That led to co-hosts Alicia Menedez and Michael Steele to burst into laughter with Steele interjecting, "Not Antifa in that room."

"Antifa was not the room, honey," Sanders Townsend shot back as all three continued to laugh as she added, "This was Bob who was a lifelong conservative who was like, 'What the h-e-double hockey sticks was going on? Why are you not working member of Congress?'"

"Yeah, look and there's more of that to come," former RNC chair Steele replied. "Why? Because all of this now is beginning to become real for folks in these communities in Indiana and Wisconsin and elsewhere."

"I think that is important, " he added. "Look, Republicans have avoided doing town hall meetings up to this point. Democrats have been out there doing those meetings, and they've been going when they hit the brakes, they, you know, doing the congressional session, they go back into their districts."

"Republicans have not and there was a reason for that. But you can only do that for so long, because what ultimately happens is the last thing you want is your community to start holding town hall meetings and sending you an invitation," he added before bursting into laughter again.

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In a series of posts on Truth Social over the space of thirty minutes, Donald Trump fired off five separate posts with one urging billionaire DOGE head Elon Musk to ramp up his government gutting efforts and another attacking MSNBC.

The president kicked off Saturday morning in All-Cap mode on his social media platform by insisting his poll numbers are surging with "HIGHEST POLL NUMBERS EVER. I GUESS WE ARE ON THE RIGHT TRACK!!! THANK YOU," only to proclaim moments later, "SEE YOU AT CPAC TODAY. BIG CROWD!!!"

Donald Trump is relying on House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) to make his policy dreams come true at the same time he is privately sniping at the House Republican while leaving him hanging trying to muscle a new budget deal into existence.

According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Johnson is bearing the "weight" of the president's expectations and, should he fail, he will receive no sympathy from the White House.

Beltway journalists reported Thursday on "confusion" spreading throughout the White House and the Republican caucus following U.S. President Donald Trump's endorsement of a House plan that would slash Medicaid and comments from the administration that suggested Trump will not protect Medicare—but Democratic lawmakers and progressive advocates said the message was crystal clear.

" Donald Trump and Elon Musk want to cut taxes for billionaires like themselves—and pay for it by gutting Medicare and Medicaid," Maurice Mitchell, national director of the Working Families Party, said in a statement. "They don't care if families have to take on crushing debt to pay for care, as long as it makes them much, much richer."

President Donald Trump's new chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff once told the MAGA leader, "I’ll kill for you, sir."

Trump fired General CQ Brown from the role late Friday as he tries to broadly reshape the military and its leadership. Brown's ouster, which drew swift backlash, came as Trump and his administration saw Brown as too focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI, programs in the military.

By Alex Hinton, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark

At the start of his inaugural address on Jan. 20, 2025, President Donald Trump declared, “The golden age of America begins right now!”

The announcement Thursday that Medicare will no longer cover many telehealth services starting April 1 prompted elder and telemedicine advocates to urge the Trump administration to continue the provision of vital remote care for millions of Americans.

According to the Medicare website, "you can get telehealth services at any location in the U.S., including your home" until March 31. Beginning April 1, "you must be in an office or medical facility located in a rural area... for most telehealth services. If you aren't in a rural healthcare setting, you can still get certain Medicare telehealth services on or after April 1."

The White House’s unprecedented decision to oust C.Q. Brown as chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff along with other top military leaders triggered a Trump-era “Friday night massacre” that sent an ominous message to the rest of the U.S. Armed Forces.

That’s according to The Atlantic’s Tom Nichols, who wrote in an opinion piece published hours after the Pentagon shake-up that the military was “the last piece” President Donald Trump needed “to establish the foundations for authoritarian control of the U.S. government” after installing MAGA loyalists inside the Justice Department, FBI, and intelligence services.

by Jennifer Palmer, Oklahoma Watch

February 21, 2025

Staunch Trump ally Steve Bannon offered tepid praise to tech billionaire Elon Musk after repeatedly dragging the chair of the Department of Government Efficiency.

Bannon said Musk is “probably, on the oligarch side, the least offensive, as far as that goes," according to CNN. The response came after he was asked about his recent remarks blasting Musk as an oligarch and a techno-feudalist.