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A spoon emoji, a subreddit, a viral song: US federal workers are finding sweet succor in the bosom of the internet as President Donald Trump takes an ax to their jobs.

Some have lost their entire income, others have been let go only to be rehired, and yet more have been teetering on the brink for weeks.

As President Donald Trump moves to axe Voice of America and other US-funded media, China and Russia are eager to fill the void.

The targeting of VOA, Radio Free Europe and Radio Free Asia not only freezes some of the most dogged reporting on countries with heavily restricted media, but it comes after years of concerted efforts by Beijing and Moscow to promote their own worldview on the global media landscape.

Hit by massive funding cuts and a crackdown on student protesters, Columbia University is under fire from US President Donald Trump, putting the world of higher education on tenterhooks.

The arrest of student activist Mahmoud Khalil has crystallized concerns over freedom of speech under the Republican leader's administration -- and fueled warnings that Trump is out to quell dissent.

Russian President Vladimir Putin waved off concerns that he was making U.S. President Donald Trump wait for a planned phone call on the Ukraine war as he was speaking to Russian oligarchs instead.

Financial Times Moscow Bureau Chief Max Seddon noted Tuesday morning that Putin was speaking to the group even though the call with Trump was due on his schedule.

Vice President J.D. Vance highlighted the benefits of raising the minimum wage during a Washington, D.C., speech.

While speaking at the American Dynamism Summit on Tuesday, Vance told the tech-savvy crowd that low labor costs stifle innovation.

While President Donald Trump pledged to begin a "golden age" on "Day One" of his presidency, in recent weeks he and his administration have started to talk about the possibility of economic pain, while at the same time not ruling out the possibility of an outright recession.

The way that the administration has framed it is that their policies will produce "short-term pain" that will in the long run be better for the economy as more domestic production returns to the United States.

A group of House Democrats is demanding that the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform conduct a public hearing on the Trump administration and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency's plans for the U.S. Postal Service, in light of recent reporting that U.S. Postmaster General Louis DeJoy says he signed an agreement with DOGE to assist the nation's mail service "in identifying and achieving further efficiencies."

The news follows Washington Post coverage from February, when the outlet reported that U.S. President Donald Trump is considering putting the Postal Service under the control of the Commerce Department. In December, the Post also reported that Trump was eyeing privatizing the Postal Service. Elon Musk, a GOP megadonor who is playing a core role in Trump's efforts to slash federal spending and personnel, has also said the Postal Service should be privatized.

A senior Democratic strategist expressed shock Tuesday that anybody is supporting his party.

Paul Begala, who served as President Bill Clinton’s chief strategist, announced on CNN that his party’s performance in Washington D.C. had left him in despair.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday lashed out at the judge who ordered his administration to halt flights bringing immigrants to a prison in El Salvador.

Writing on his Truth Social page, Trump attacked Judge James Boasberg for blocking the administration from carrying out mass deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, which is being invoked despite the fact that the United States is not at war with any of the nations from which undocumented immigrants have entered into the country.

The executive director of Northern New Mexico’s food bank, The Food Depot, says the recent U.S. Department of Agriculture’s elimination of a program that connected food banks to local food producers is “devastating.”

The Regional Farm to Food Bank program, created under the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, is currently funded through the USDA Local Food Purchase Assistance, one of two federal programs the USDA recently canceled.

Elon Musk’s laser-like focus on Social Security can be blamed on one thing, a columnist wrote Monday — a belief that retired people are a “parasitical” drain on the nation’s resources.

Musk thinks that retired people — whose working life is over — are now inefficient and should no longer be funded from the public purse, Salon’s Amanda Marcotte argued.

Share prices of electric car manufacturer Tesla have been tanking in recent weeks as CEO Elon Musk draws controversy by taking a hatchet to the federal workforce.

ABC News reports that recent filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission show that "members of the board and an executive at Elon Musk's company have been selling off millions of dollars in stock" since the start of February as the company's market cap has shed hundreds of billions of dollars in value.