15,000 IRS employees on the chopping block this week

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Trump orders end to federal funding for schools that require COVID vaccines
K-12 schools throughout the U.S. no longer require the vaccines, public health groups report.

Trump, Musk escalate purge as thousands fired across federal workforce
Terminations were government-wide: from the Department of Education and Small Business Administration to the U.S. Forest Service, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the agency that oversees the nation's fleet of nuclear weapons.

15,000 IRS employees identified for possible termination as early as this week
The employees are on probationary status with limited tenure in their jobs and do not have jobs directly related to processing tax filings, a person familiar with the effort told ABC News.

CDC to lose one-tenth of workforce under Trump team probationary job cuts
Nearly 1,300 probationary employees at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are being forced out under the Trump administration’s move to get rid of all probationary employees.

Unemployment spikes in Washington, DC, as Trump and Musk begin efforts to shrink the government
Filings rose to 1,780 for the week ending Feb. 8, a 36% increase from the prior week and more than four times around the same period in 2024.

Keeping Up With Trump: Here’s Everything He Did Last Week
The president’s fourth week in office was heavy on foreign policy, but he kicked off the week with a wholly American tradition.

Trump establishes a new council to advance US energy dominance
President Trump signed an executive order Friday establishing the National Energy Dominance Council.

Trump Hangs Mug Shot Outside Oval Office
Trump and his team unveiled a new piece of artwork that now hangs just outside the Oval Office in the White House — his now iconic mug shot, taken in Georgia in 2023.

$100 billion in COVID-era unemployment fraud targeted by Republicans
Legislation that would give the U.S. Department of Justice more time to track down and punish pandemic-era unemployment insurance fraud is on its way to the U.S. House floor.

In final days, Biden awarded $50 million to self-dealing charity leader
The Trump administration is reviewing a last-minute $50 million Energy Department grant awarded under Biden to the Tribal Energy Consortium, a New Mexico charity with just $50,000 in annual revenue.

DOGE says it dug up another $1.9 billion in taxpayer money 'misplaced' by Biden admin
"$1.9 billion of HUD money was just recovered after being misplaced during the Biden administration due to a broken process. These funds were earmarked for the administration of financial services, but were no longer needed," a DOGE post on X stated.

DOGE just axed over $700 million in absurd foreign spending
Cuts include $10M for circumcisions in Mozambique, $40M for a “gender equality and women empowerment hub,” $19M for "biodiversity conversation" in Nepal, $14M for "improving public procurement" in Serbia, and $1.5M for "voter confidence" in Liberia.

Elon Musk encouraged to crack open Fort Knox and audit the $425 billion gold reserves inside
Sen. Rand Paul called for a review of the vault’s massive gold reserves — worth an estimated $425 billion based on market rates — in response to the tech mogul’s musings about the stash.

Elon Musk Has Been Sleeping on the Floor of His Government Office Across from the White House
One source tells People that Musk has been "holed up" in his DOGE office space recently, including "sleeping on a couch and sometimes the floor."

The Left’s Sue-Everything-That-Moves Strategy May End Up Delivering Trump Ultimate Victory
Judges issuing nationwide injunctions against Trump’s executive actions may be giving him the perfect opportunity to reshape executive power at the Supreme Court.

WaPo: How did Trump so easily take over the Kennedy Center? Ask Sean Spicer
An obscure court decision involving Joe Biden’s presidential board appointments and Trump’s former press secretary was the key to seizing one of America’s premier arts institutions.

LAFD could have had at least 10 engines patrolling Palisades hills, former chiefs say
Despite warnings of extreme winds and a high fire risk, LAFD failed to pre-deploy engines, citing budget cuts and equipment repairs. However, records show they had enough working engines and staff but chose not to send reinforcements.

Bill restricting ammunition sales passes committee in Colorado
Amended to go into effect July 1, 2026, the bill would prohibit the retail sale of ammunition to a person who is younger than 21.

Target co-founder’s daughters ‘shocked and dismayed’ over retailer’s decision to ditch DEI
“As members of the Dayton family, we are shocked and dismayed by Target’s rollback of its Racial Equity Action and Change and Supplier Diversity programs,” the privileged, white, elitist daughters wrote.

NY Times advice column answers whether dating women of color can advance 'anti-racism'
The anonymous reader explained his "controversial" preference for dating non-white women to columnist Kwame Anthony Appiah on Valentine’s Day.

Americans trust Trump on immigration, economy over environment, health care: Poll
A YouGov survey found that a majority of Americans, 52%, have high levels of trust in Trump’s ability to manage immigration. But they are less likely to trust him with issues related to the environment and health care.

Trump now has 55% job approval rating, new poll shows
The Napolitan News and RMG Research poll shows 43% disapprove of Trump's job performance while 55% approve.

Trump's Contradictory Poll Numbers
Americans view Trump unfavorably while approving of the job he is doing.

Trump Approval Rating 99 Points Higher Than Mitch McConnell Among Republicans
CNN data reporter Harry Enten comments on polls showing Trump with a net approval rating 99 points higher than McConnell among Republicans (Trump stands at +82 while McConnell is sitting around -17).

Poll: More Democrats want party to move center, GOP voters back status quo
A growing number of Democrats want their party to shift toward the center after major election losses, while more Republicans support keeping the GOP as it is, according to a new Gallup poll.

Democratic governors diverge on how to handle Trump
Illinois' J.B. Pritzker is leading the resistance, while California's Gavin Newsom is working with Trump on disaster relief, highlighting the party’s internal divide.

Black Voters Have Doubts About Democratic Strategy
Some 68% of respondents strongly agree that defending DEI programs should be a central focus for the party moving forward, with two in three saying that the Democrats' defense of DEI policies will be important in determining their future vote.

Joe Biden Set A New Record While He Was President
According to data compiled by the RNC, he took 577 vacation days out of the 1,463 days he spent holding the office of the presidency. By percentages, that amounts to 39% of his total time in office — more vacation than any modern president has taken.

Ramaswamy files campaign paperwork for anticipated Ohio governor bid
Vivek has officially begun the process of running for governor as he filed the necessary paperwork with the Ohio secretary of state on Friday.

Newly elected DNC vice chair David Hogg using platform to solicit donations for his own PAC, insiders say
Hogg has been leveraging DNC contact lists to blast out messages soliciting donations to his own political action committee.

Border Patrol sees zero illegal crossings in rare first for reporters
For the first time since 2018, Washington Examiner reporters on a ride-along with Border Patrol witnessed no illegal crossings at the Rio Grande, a stark contrast to past years.

US egg farmers worry fight against bird flu is unwinnable as experts consider vaccinations
“I call this virus a terrorist. And we are in a battle and losing, at the moment,” Greg Herbruck, the CEO of Herbruck’s Poultry Ranch in Michigan said.

Suspected Ebola scare at NYC urgent care has patients escorted by hazmat crews
Officials feared Ebola infections because patients had traveled from Uganda and had symptoms consistent with the disease but no tests had confirmed its presence.

US Army Bans Transgender-Identifying Individuals From Joining, Halting Sex-Change Procedures
“The #USArmy will no longer allow transgender individuals to join the military and will stop performing or facilitating procedures associated with gender transition for service members,” the Army said in a statement.

US Army Responds to Claims DEI Simply Rebranded
In response to a Libs of TikTok post that posted a memo saying that DEI was being moved to a different office, the U.S. Army responded saying the memo was "old" and that "DEI is dead at [the] US Army."

Three Israeli hostages freed in Gaza, Israel releases 369 Palestinians in exchange
Some of the Palestinians were serving long prison terms for involvement in suicide bombings and other attacks that killed dozens of Israelis during the second Palestinian uprising in 2000. Others were jailed for killing Israeli soldiers.

Red Cross fails Jews with lack of hostage visits
For nearly 500 days since the war began, the Red Cross has failed to visit and provide medical assistance to a single hostage while in captivity, in total and complete violation of its mission statement.

Report: US wants 50% of Ukraine's minerals, may deploy troops to guard them
The U.S. seeks to obtain 50% of Ukraine's rare minerals and has signaled openness to deploy American troops to guard them if there is a deal with Russia to end the war, NBC reported.

Zelenskyy: ‘I Will Never Accept Any Decisions Between United States And Russia About Ukraine’
Trump has never said Ukraine would not be involved in peace negations, but NBC News continues to push the debunked Russian collusion conspiracy.

Vance shocks Europeans with American exceptionalism and principled moral clarity
Vice President JD Vance called out Europe’s failures in a fiery Munich Security Conference speech, slamming radical immigration, globalist control, and declining birth rates.

‘New Sheriff In Town’: JD Vance Calls Globalists Out To Their Faces Over Mass Censorship
He warned that free speech, expression, and religious liberties are being replaced with government censorship and the arrests of their citizens for “thought crimes.”

Macron convening emergency European summit on Trump, Polish minister reveals
The “main European countries” will discuss the continent’s security, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said.

Jack the Ripper’s Identity Revealed 130 Years Later Through DNA Match
He was a Polish immigrant who worked as a barber upon moving to London, and he was actually a suspect at one point during the investigation.

Video: Kamala Harris continues her ‘word salad’ nonsense at Broadway
Harris gives an inspiring speech to the cast of "A Wonderful World" on Broadway; she inspires by noting how "nature abhors a vacuum."

Sheryl Crow Sells Her Tesla, Donates Money to NPR in Protest of Elon Musk
So much for saving the planet — turns out virtue signaling was the real priority all along.

Flashback: Keeping old cars longer can help the environment more than buying new electric cars, study finds
“The faster you replace a car, the more CO2 it emits. It’s no different with electric cars, because when the demand for new cars increases, it shoots up manufacturing emissions.”

CBS News' Margaret Brennan Claims Free Speech Was 'Weaponized' by the Nazis
The left-wing host made the idiotic remark during an interview with Marco Rubio while talking about JD Vance’s speech in Europe last week where he criticized the continent’s leaders for abandoning certain values, like free speech.

CNN White House correspondent deletes post promoting alleged CEO murderers' defense fund after backlash
Kaitlan Collins' post was called "bottom of the barrel" by one critic.

Bill to mandate AM radio installations in vehicles moving through US Senate
According to Nielsen, over 80 million people in the U.S. rely on AM radio each month.

Department Of Education Warns Schools Nationwide Must Drop DEI Policies Or Lose Federal Funding
Citing Title VI violations, officials condemned DEI programs as discriminatory and pledged to end the “overt and covert racial discrimination” embedded in admissions, hiring, and financial aid.

7 NYC Catholic schools announce in past month alone they are closing — as experts blame skyrocketing tuition, loss of religion
The newly announced closures mean 12% of the Catholic schools that operated in the five boroughs in 2020 will no longer exist by the summer.

Are We Alone? Scientists Uncover Evidence That Intelligence May Be Inevitable
Humanity may not be a rare exception but rather the expected result of planetary evolution — both on Earth and potentially on other worlds — according to a new scientific model.

Ancient Egyptian mummies still smell nice, study finds
Even after 5,000 years in a sarcophagus, mummified bodies from ancient Egypt still smell quite nice, scientists have discovered.

Former NFL player Chad Johnson: Aaron Rodgers could go on ‘god**** Glenn Beck’ so long as he won games
Back in 2011, Johnson took to Twitter to announce he was diving into Beck’s book “Broke,” calling its take on political and economic issues “epic.”

2 women shot during Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl parade
According to the Philadelphia police's preliminary investigation, they said it appears a woman and her boyfriend tried to cut in a bathroom line to use a portable toilet.

Turns out there really are alligators in the sewers — just not in NYC
Researchers at the University of Florida found alligators in Gainesville’s storm drains.