Federal workers under pressure as Trump’s agenda increases
All employees of the Department of Health and Human Services, supervised by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., He received electronic emails without sign Friday by offering them a “Payment of voluntary separation incentives. “ The measure occurs after President Donald Trump clarified at a cabinet meeting last week that agency chiefs, not Elon Musk, are in charge of personnel decisions.
Meanwhile, The National Security Department Scake Polygraph tests In employees in an attempt to learn who could be filtering information, according to four sources familiar with the matter. The secretary Kristi Noem and the Tracrara Tom Homan border have blamed the lowest ice arrest numbers than expected in recent leaks that reveal the cities where he planned to carry out operations.
Meanwhile, some federal workers, many of whom are veterans, spoke with NBC News about the serious mental health crises that‘I’ve been dealing with In the midst of efforts and purchase efforts.
“It’s not about layoffs. It is a dehumanization of who we are and what we do, ”said an employee of the Department of Defense who takes guilt for his vote for Trump.
As the musk faces the recoil, Teslas carries the worst
While Elon Musk tries to deepen the corridors of American power, the technological tycoon The Tesla electric car manufacturer has been criticized – literally.
There have been at least 10 acts of vandalism against Tesla vehicles, concessionaires or accusation stations in recent weeks, according to police and local reports, underlining the reaction that Musk has faced since he assumed an unprecedented role in the federal government.
The attacks in Tesla dealers also coincide with a decrease in sales for the electric car manufacturer.
Recent data show a growing growth in electric battery vehicles in Europe, but new Tesla vehicle records in Europe have dropped 45% year after year for January, and have also dropped in China.
From a deteriorated British coastal resort, the Russian spies launched espionage plots
The Haydee guest house, with its worn carpets and its Victorian grandmother’s facade, is an unlikely base for high -risk espionage backed by Russia.
But for years, the guest house in Great Yarmouth, a city resort on the east coast of Great Britain, played host of an independent spy ring Orchestrating intercontinental honey traps, kidnappings and murder plots aimed at high profile dissidents and sensitive military sites.
The details developed in the British courts last week after three Bulgarians, members of a Russian ring that operate from their base in the United Kingdom, were declared guilty of conspiracy to spy.
Gabriela Gaberova, 30, a aestheticist touched to carry out honey traps; Katrin Ivanova, 33, a laboratory assistant who was also convicted of “possessing identity documents with inadequate intention”; and Tihomir Ivanchev, 39, a painter-decorator and former partner of Gaberova, formed the group of amateur operators that He managed to carry out espionage operations for the Kremlin about what prosecutors described as “an industrial scale.”
‘Know the press’
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick played the possibility of a recession As banks like JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs they say it is becoming more likely.
Lutnick told “Meet The Press” of NBC News that President Donald Trump plans “unleash the United States to the world” and “grow our economy in a way that we have never grown before.”
“If Donald Trump is bringing growth to the United States, he would never bet on the recession, without any possibility,” added the Secretary of Commerce.
Lutnick also promised that the prices of the groceries would begin to go down in early April, but warned that there would be increased prices in foreign goods due to the anticipated reciprocal tariffs of the administration.
Politics shortly
Closing Deadline: The speaker Mike Johnson released a short -term financing bill to avoid a closure At the end of this week, but it is not clear if you have the votes to approve any of the cameras.
Holdout in Ukraine: Trump has made clear the assistants in private A mineral agreement signed between Washington and Kyiv will not be enough To restart aid and exchange of intelligence, according to two officials.
Trump’s backward: With Congress on the margin, The most serious and forceful setback Trump has faced has come from foreign leaders and American judges.
Maga vs. multimillionaires: The populists from the world of the old guard world are Starting to take swings in the plutocrats – Namely, the White House billionaire advisor Elon Musk.
Who is Amy Gleason?: Mystery continues to surround the low profile data analyst that was Appointed interim administrator of the Government Efficiency Department.
The home article makes corridors in world record holders
He was asked about the factors that helped him Break the world record of 5,000 meters interiorGrant Fisher recognized such a surprisingly simple one that he is probably in his kitchen.
It is among the many professional corridors in recent years to embrace sodium bicarbonate, known within sport by scientific name, sodium bicarbonate or simply “bicarb”, as a legal means to run faster times than ever.
The use of a “system” of bicarbonate sold by Maurten, a Swedish company, has been generalized that in the World Athletics Championships in 2023, two thirds of all medalists from 800 to 10,000 meters used it. In the Olympic Games last summer, more than two thirds of all race medalists were using it, “and in some cases, all finalists were using it,” the company told NBC News.
In case you have lost it
- The Secret Service He shot an armed man near the White House Shortly after midnight on Sunday, the agency said.
- After Brush fires exploded in New York On Saturday, The authorities said A big one in Long Island was 22% content Until Sunday afternoon.
- At least eight people were injured later A client got into a Carmax store in Californiaand the police say that it is being investigated as an intentional act.
- Pope Francis has shown a “gradual, light improvement” After more than three weeks at the hospital, said the Vatican.
- A 14 -year -old suspect was arrested for murder positions after A shooting with New Jersey police officers who left one dead and a second hospitalized, according to the authorities.
- For a month, Seven people contained Sam Nordquist Captive in a small hotel roomTorturing him to death, authorities say. How was it in secret?
- The leader of the AFD party of Germany is part of a growing group of powerful women leading Europe‘s Ascending parts of the extreme right.
