Good afternoon and welcome to your afternoon news update from AP. Today, a year after President Donald Trump's DOGE cuts, workers whose lives were upended question what was saved; divers are training to explore the Arctic, which is warming four times faster than the rest of the planet; and Israel warns attacks on Iran "will escalate and expand."
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Thea Price, top right, with her husband, Nikita, and son Nikolai, in Arlington, Va. in November. (AP Photo/Nathan Ellgren) |
A year after Trump's DOGE cuts, workers whose lives were upended question what was saved |
Thea Price anticipated changes under the second Trump administration, but she never expected her life to be thrown into such disarray. Along with the 300 other employees of the United States Institute of Peace, Price was fired, rehired and then fired again as part of Trump's crusade to shrink the federal government, a chaotic effort that cut tens of thousands of jobs and shrank or dismantled entire agencies. The DOGE website says it has saved about $215 billion through various actions. But the Government Accountability Office and think tanks haven't determined how much was actually saved. Read more. |
