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The chief data officer at the Social Security Administration, who sounded the alarm that the Department of Government Efficiency uploaded the unsecured personal information of hundreds of millions of Americans onto a vulnerable cloud server, is out after filing his whistleblower complaint.

Charles Borges filed the complaint on Wednesday, which revealed that members of DOGE, tasked with eliminating parts of the federal government, had accessed personal data uploaded to a cloud server.

CNN's Boris Sanchez clashed with former Trump administration attorney Jonathan Fahey over the reported plans for a massive immigration crackdown in Chicago, which has drawn heavy opposition from Illinois leaders and is widely speculated to be Trump's excuse to enact military law enforcement similar to how he did in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.

Sanchez opened the discussion by outlining the scale of the proposed operation.

Economists are warning that President Donald Trump's efforts to meddle with the Federal Reserve are going to wind up raising prices even further for working families.

Michael Madowitz, principal economist at the Roosevelt Institute, said on Wednesday that the president's efforts to strong-arm the US central bank into lowering interest rates by firing Federal Reserve Gov. Lisa Cook would backfire by accelerating inflation.

National Guard soldiers were deployed to Washington, D.C., earlier this month, but since arriving, they haven't done much. Two reporters at The Atlantic found that even the soldiers have no idea what their mission is.

Photos captured them standing around in extreme heat and humidity. Last week, they were seen grabbing ice cream from a food truck and guarding the Krispy Kreme. In the past few days, it seems to have evolved into Guard soldiers picking up trash and spreading mulch around the landscaping in the city.

Republicans in Wisconsin received a blow on Friday, as arch-conservative state Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley announced she will not seek re-election next year, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

"The conservative movement needs to take stock of its failures, identify the problem, and fix it," said Bradley in a statement. "I will not seek reelection to the Wisconsin Supreme Court because I believe the best path for me to rebuild the conservative movement and fight for liberty is not as a minority member of the Court."

A CNN reporter said experts are stunned by an "unprecedented" Trump administration move to take steps to send hundreds of Guatemalan children back to their home country after they arrived in the United States alone.

CNN correspondent Priscilla Alvarez joined "News Central" and told co-host Brianna Keilar that it's an "unprecedented move."

Republican Rep. Stephanie Bice (OK) has canceled her small town hall meeting billed as a "meet and greet" after her Democratic opponent revealed she'd scheduled it in the wrong district.

Bice has fallen under criticism from locals, including her opponent, for refusing to hold any town hall meetings where voters can be heard. Republicans have faced furious voters across the country, including in very red areas, after they passed President Donald Trump's "big, beautiful bill," which makes significant cuts to services, particularly those in rural areas and farmers.

Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) delivered a private warning to the state's Republican members of Congress who are running for Senate: your agenda in Congress has been too unpopular for you to be electable.

According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Kemp made the admission during a call with Republican donors, while arguing they should support former football coach Derek Dooley as opposed to Reps. Buddy Carter and Mike Collins, who have also declared their candidacies.

A prominent national security lawyer slammed Emil Bove, who was recently confirmed to a lifetime judicial position despite broad concerns from attorneys and former judges, after the embattled Trump loyalist found himself in more hot water.

In the days since Bove was narrowly confirmed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit despite allegations of judicial malpractice, he has attended meetings at the Justice Department, The New York Times reported, adding the move "raised eyebrows" among legal experts.

Rick Wilson, political strategist and co-founder of the Lincoln Project, suggested Friday that President Donald Trump’s “tough guy” persona, one fed into by many of his most loyal supporters, is in many ways a cover for something far more dire.

“This idea that a lot of folks have in their head, that Donald Trump is ill, appears to be correct,” Wilson said, speaking on an episode of the Lincoln Project’s “Elephant in the Room” podcast in an episode titled “Sending Clots and Prayers.”