Day 40
February 28, 2025
4 documented events
- Serious Rights Violation Corruption & Self-Dealing
SSA announces goal of cutting 7,000 employees
The Social Security Administration announces a goal of cutting 7,000 employees as part of DOGE-directed workforce reductions, threatening the agency's ability to process benefits for the tens of millions of Americans who depend on Social Security.
From: DOGE Employees Matched Social Security Data with Voter Rolls to Pursue Voter Fraud Claims
- Serious Rights Violation Foreign Policy & War
Dismantlement of Pentagon Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Program
The Trump administration systematically dismantled the Pentagon's Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response program, including the Civilian Protection Center of Excellence, leaving U.S. forces without institutional safeguards against civilian casualties months before launching wars in the Caribbean, Venezuela, and Iran.
From: Dismantlement of Pentagon Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Program
- Serious Rights Violation Foreign Policy & War
Ukraine Minerals Coercion: Trump Demanded $500B 'Payback,' Humiliated Zelenskyy, Conditioned Aid on Deal
The Trump administration demanded $500 billion in mineral wealth from Ukraine as 'repayment' for US aid, publicly humiliated President Zelenskyy in an Oval Office confrontation where VP Vance asked 'Have you said thank you even once?', suspended intelligence sharing and military aid, and conditioned continued support on Ukraine signing a minerals deal — coercing a nation under active Russian invasion.
- Serious Rights Violation Corruption & Self-Dealing
DOGE plans to fire nearly all CFPB staff
CNBC and NBC report that DOGE and CFPB leadership plan to fire nearly all 1,700 employees in three phases and wind down the agency entirely, despite the CFPB being a Congressionally-created agency.
From: CFPB Dismantlement While Musk Launches Competing XMoney Payment Service