Government Accountability Project is proud to announce that whistleblower client Scott Smith and his research team will present their latest findings on the East Palestine, Ohio train derailment at the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) North America 2025 Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. The post Whistleblower to Present Updated East Palestine Findings at SETAC North America 2025 appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
Buttressed by courts and support from some Republican lawmakers, federally funded newsrooms that President Trump has tried to eliminate have yet to be rendered obsolete. The post New York Times: Under Trump, Voice of America is Down but Not Out appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
The undersigned organizations in the nonpartisan Make it Safe Coalition write to express appreciation for the Committee’s leadership defending the merit system in the withdrawn nomination of Paul Ingrassia to lead the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. The post Letter Urging Congress to Ensure OSC Independence and Integrity appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
Yesterday, the venerable news program 60 Minutes featured the first interview with DOJ whistleblower Erez Reuveni. The former career attorney at the Department of Justice spoke out about the behavior of then-senior DOJ official Emil Bove. Bove was adamant the administration’s plan to disappear people — include Kilmar Abrego Garcia — to an El Salvadorian prison must continue, regardless of what any court might say about the matter. The post Above the Law: Things At The DOJ Are Just ...| Government Accountability Project
Erez Reuveni, a fired Department of Justice lawyer who's now blowing the whistle, says he witnessed a disregard of due process and for the rule of law at the DOJ. The post CBS: Fired Justice Department lawyer says he refused to lie in the Abrego Garcia case appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
Former Justice Department lawyer Erez Reuveni speaks out about the disregard of due process and for the rule of law that he says he witnessed in his final weeks at the Department of Justice. The post 60 Minutes: Fired Justice Department lawyer blows the whistle on what he describes as abuses of power at the DOJ appeared first on Government Accountability Project.| Government Accountability Project
The tech billionaire pledged to help U.S. President Donald Trump curb government spending.| Snopes
A report issued Thursday accuses the Department of Government Efficiency of putting millions of Americans’ personal information in an unsecured cloud server.| Government Accountability Project
There’s some good news related to the Trump administration’s concerted attack on the Social Security Administration: Thus far, it doesn’t appear to have significantly affected the delivery of benefits. Checks are still going out and payments into beneficiaries’ bank accounts are still arriving on time. Beyond that, however, the system is going to hell.| Government Accountability Project
When we think about the founding of the United States, we often focus on the Constitution, the Founding Fathers, and those first landmark elections. But how did the United States actually build its federal government, the entire apparatus of state that could collect revenue, manage international diplomacy, provide law and order, and extend its reach […]| Ben Franklin's World
The chair of the Finance Committee sent the agency a letter inquiring about allegations that it had put the confidential personal information of Americans at risk.| Government Accountability Project
The letter led by the Government Accountability Project asks for an investigation to be launched and once completed, "find that DHS has illegally retaliated against the FEMA whistleblowers and order immediate corrective action," including fully reinstating each worker to their jobs.| Government Accountability Project
DOGE's actions have effectively created "a live copy of the entire country’s Social Security information," lawyers for chief data officer Charles Borges alleged in the Aug. 26 complaint, which contends the information is on a server that lacks security oversight and a way to track who has accessed the data.| Government Accountability Project
Whistleblower Charles Borges, who worked as the chief data officer at the Social Security Administration since January, said the potential sensitive information that risks being released includes health diagnoses, income, banking information, familial relationships and personal biographic data.| Government Accountability Project
The top data official from the Social Security Administration is warning that the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency has put the Social Security information of more than 300 million Americans at risk of exposure to malicious actors.| Government Accountability Project
A whistleblower accused officials tied to the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) of putting the personal details of hundreds of millions of Americans at risk by uploading the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) most sensitive database into a “vulnerable” cloud server.| Government Accountability Project
The post Breastfeeding in the United States: Empowering Mothers Through Paid Leave appeared first on 1,000 Days.| 1,000 Days
Elon Musk is launching an authoritarian coup within the 2nd Trump presidency. Seen through planetary phase shift theory, this is a backslide into collapse. The battle lines are drawn. All humanity holds dear is at stake. We fight back by recognising our true power.| Age of Transformation
"As the necessity of extending the eviction ban grows ever more obvious, we must remember: Your landlord is not your friend. They are not your genial host. They sustain themselves by leeching from you all they can get, in exchange for which they occasionally send someone round to fix the boiler."| Source