| US government layoffs expanded to Medicare and Medicaid, the FDA and the Centers for Disease Control over the weekend, according to emails reviewed by Bloomberg. That’s helping fuel a quiet rebellion among Republicans representing working-class and lower-income areas, who warn cuts to the health-care system will hurt constituents. Also sure to agitate: Elon Musk’s DOGE is trying to access individual taxpayer data, a person familiar said.
Elsewhere in government, Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court to let him fire the head of an independent US agency that protects government whistleblowers. Top officials at the Department of Homeland Security were told to immediately stop work connected to climate change. And the president’s top economic adviser told CBS he’ll meet regularly with Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, giving the president a channel to convey his opinions to the central bank.
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