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3.10.26 · Washington Post

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the reading of the Washington Post for Tuesday,
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March tenth, twenty twenty six. As a reminder, RADIOI is
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a reading service intended for people who are blind or
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have other disabilities that make it difficult to read printing material.
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Your reader to day is Cindy Fraser. To day's front
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page headlines from the Washington Post are prices for oil
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spike plunge G seven liters, keep reserves untapped, markets close
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up despite uncertainties about Iran. Next push to fill federal
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jobs is on after cuts. Trump administration reverses musk led
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purge that slashed work force. Next. First wave of Iran
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strikes cost five point six billion dollars, Pentagon says. Next.
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Trump defines wartime presidency with his unique political style. Our
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next headline the legal tool that leads to immigrant detentions,
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arrests in Minneapolis surge as ICE officials use reinterpretation of
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a nineteen ninety six law to defy court orders. And
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the final headline from today's front page. Alexander Butterfield nineteen
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twenty six through twenty twenty six, former Nixon aid revealed
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White House tapes his testimony about secret recordings jolted Watergate investigation.
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Also on the front page are four photographs. The first
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titled Iran captioned Demonstrators gather with Iranian national flags for
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a rally in support of Monstava Khamenie, the country's new
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supreme leader. The photo is filled with pictures of a crowd,
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many waiving Iranian flags. The next photo is titled Lebanon
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and captioned Families displaced by Israeli airstrikes in Beirut's southern
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suburbs sit inside at a school that has been converted
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to a shelter. The photo shows several people, including adults
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and children, sitting on a bench against a cement wall.
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Next is a fuddle entitled Israel and captioned First responders
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load a body into a truck after at least two
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people and Yehud were killed by shrapnel from an Iranian projectile.
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The photo shows several people, some wearing helmets and tactical vests,
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some wearing reflective vests, leading a stretcher onto a truck.
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And the final photo is titled Cyprus and captioned French
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President Emanuel Macron visits the French aircraft carrier Charles de
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Gau on a trip to discuss European security. The photo
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shows a President Macawn surrounded by a crowd in front
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of the nose of an aircraft. Now, let's turn to
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our first item, entitled Prices for oil spike plunge g
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seven liters, keep reserves untapped, markets close up. Despite uncertainties
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about Iran by Ebenhauper, Totsy Frankel, and Isaac Arnsdorf, oil
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prices reached heights not seen since the aftermath of Russia's
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twenty twenty two invasion of Ukraine, before falling back as
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President Donald Trump sent mixed signals about his Iran plans.
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The price for a barrel of Brent crude, the global
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oil benchmark, had, at one point Monday morning, spiked to
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nearly one hundred twenty dollars, a level that could translate
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into gas prices, surpassing a national average of four dollars
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per gallon. For prices turned by midday and dropped precipitously
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to settle just over ninety dollars per barrel by Tuesday morning,
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a level still significantly higher than before the United States
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and Israel began strikes on Iran just over a week ago.
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Trump fed the volatility. He wrote on social media over
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the weekend that soaring oil prices were a small price
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to pay for battlefield gains in Iran, but struck a
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different note at a news conference late Monday. This was
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just an excursion into something that had to be done.
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We're getting very close to finishing that too, Trump said
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of the conflict. It's going to be ended soon, he said,
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but declined to specify when. Hours later, he wrote in
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a post on social media that Iran would be hit
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by the United States of America twenty times harder than
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they have been hit thus far. If the country did
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anything to stop oil being shipped through the Strait of Hormuz,
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we will take out easily destroyable targets that will make
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it virtually impossible for Iran to ever be built back
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as a nation again. Death, fire and fury will rain
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upon them. But I hope and pray that it does
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not happen, Trump wrote. The Strait of Hormuz, a conduit
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for one fifth of the world's oil supply, has been
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effectively closed for a week, with vessels carrying oil, natural gas,
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and other cargo backing up because of the threat of
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Iranian attacks on tankers. And other ships. Leaders of the
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Group of Seven Advanced Economies met Monday and decided not
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to tap their emergency oil reserves, but signaled they may
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soon release that crude into the marketplace, a message that
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may also have helped call markets. We're not there yet,
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said French finance Minister Roland L'schueur, speaking to reporters in
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Brussels after the meeting. We've agreed to monitor the situation
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very closely. World leaders remain concerned that oil prices will
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resume their climb. Further increases could trigger broader inflation at
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a time when many US consumers are already concerned about affordability.
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Prices at the pump in the US are already forty
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cents higher than a week ago, according to Triple A, averaging
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three dollars forty eight cents for a gallon of regular.
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The article includes a graph titled U S Crude Price
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per barrel. A note accompanying the graph states that prices
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are shown in inflation adjusted twenty twenty six dollars. The
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graph shows the highest price for crude oil at two
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hundred dollars per barrel in two thousand nine and the
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current price at one hundred three dollars source Federal Reserve
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Bank of Saint Louis. Monday spike in oil prices led
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to an initial drop in global stock markets, but all
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the main US indexes, which fell considerably early Monday, ended
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the day with gains, and Asian markets rallied Tuesday. Considerable
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economic risks remain while oil supplies from Gulf states remained
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shut down. Trump at his Monday news conference said the
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US is offering insurance to oil tankers in the Persian Gulf,
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an initiative first announced last week, when he also said
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American forces could offer military escorts to shipping in the region.
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Exports will not resume until ship owners, operators, and insurers
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feel sufficiently safe from the thread environment posed by arraigning
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warships and aircraft, missiles, drones, speedboats, and naval mines. Clayton Siegel,
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an energy and geopolitic scholar at the Center for a
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Strategic and International Study, said in an emailed statement, while
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most of the oil through the stray goes to Asia,
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it is a commodity sold on the global market. That
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means prices for oil produced in the US are surging
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alongside the oil ship from the Persian Gulf, leaving American
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motorists exposed to price shocks. After Trump had made affordability
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and lowering energy prices a cornerstone of his political message,
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analysts had assumed he would seek a diplomatic compromise with
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a Ran that gets oil flowing again. On Sunday night,
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as oil prices soared towards one hundred twenty dollars per barrel,
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he wrote in a social media post that the spike
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in prices is a very small price to pay for
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USA and world safety and peace. Only fools would think differently.
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As markets plunged Monday, his tone changed. He told a
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CBS reporter, I think the war is very complete, pretty much.
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According to her post on Acts, the Trump administration has
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sought to tamp down oil prices by easing some sanctions
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on Russia. It provided a waiver that allows India to
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buy Russian oil for thirty days, and Treasury Secretary Scott
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Passant has set further sanctions relief as possible if the
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Iran conflict becomes protracted. Even tapping into oil reserves would
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provide only temporary relief. The entire US Strategic Petroleum Reserve
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holds about four hundred fifteen million barrels of oil. It
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is enough to cover less than four days of global
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oil demand to just a few weeks of the supply
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choked at the strait. Federal officials and lawmakers will be
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reluctant to draw down more than a third of that amount,
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as replenishing it typically cannot be done quickly. There is
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simply no substitute for restoring access through the Strait of Hormuz. Antiguildea,
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global head of Oil and Gas at KPMG, said in
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an emailed statement. The tools at our disposal, including strategic reserves,
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rerouting some exports, and floating inventories, can provide some relief
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at the margins, but they are not structural solutions. We
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are in uncharted waters. Diesel prices are surging even faster
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than gasoline, spelling more trouble for the economy. Diesel hit
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four dollars seventy eight cents a gallon Tuesday, up nearly
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ninety cents from a week ago. Anlysts worn to could
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spike past five dollars within weeks. It is already over
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six dollars in California. Diesels used in the shipping of
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almost every consumer product, so the rocketing cost of the
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fuel is certain to make goods more expensive. Ups, the
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largest shipping company in the US, has already tacked on
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a weekly fuel surcharge. Container shipping companies are starting to
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do the same, and farmers also may soon be raising
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their prices as they rely on diesel to power their
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industrial equipment. Alan Francis and Brussel contributed to this report.
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This item is accompanied by a photo captioned Motorists line
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up per gas in anticipation of a global price hike
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in Quezon City, Philippines erin Favilla, AP The photo shows
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an individual putting gas into a motorcycle with several other
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motorcycles waiting behind. The next article from today's front page
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is entitled push to fill federal jobs is on after cuts,
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Trump administration reverses must lead purge that slashed workforce by
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Emily Davies and Merrill Cornfield. A year after Elon Musk
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and his Department of Government Efficiency Allies purged hundreds of
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thousands of federal employees, the Trump administration is ramping up hiring,
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a reversal that reflects a quiet retreat from one of
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the presidents defining early priorities and marks a new phase
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and efforts to reshape the bureaucracy in his image. We
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probably have some skills that we now need to hire back.
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Quite frankly, Scott Coupor, the head of the Office of
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Personnel Management, said in an interview with The Washington Post,
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there's no question any time you do restructurings, sometimes you
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over restructure, sometimes you under restructure. The hiring pushes unfolding
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under new rules designed to give the White House greater
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influence over the government's two million persons civilian workforce. The
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administration has lifted restrictions imposed during last year's reduction and
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create a job classifications that make it easier to hire
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employees aligned with the president's priority and fire those who aren't. Cooper,
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who was sworn in last July, said the administration hopes
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to rebuild in part by rebranding the government as a
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launch pad for college graduates and early career professionals, and
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by focusing on recruitment for health care, program management and
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technology roles. In recent months, the administration has moved to
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centralize hiring decisions, expand the role of political appointees in recruitment,
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and roll back diversity initiatives. Adopted under previous administrations. Together,
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the shifts amount to change, as supporters say will make
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government more responsive to elective leadership, but critics warned they
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could erode long standing protections meant to keep the civil
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service nonpartisan. The president has certain priorities in the administration,
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and when we decide to actually exercise and do those priorities,
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people may call that political, Cooper said, But to me,
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that's the way the process was designed. Even with the
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renewed hiring officials expect the federal government to remain far
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smaller than when Trump took office and unleashed Doge, a
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department that deleted entire agencies, eliminated offices devoted to civil
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rights and diversity, and imposed a hiring freeze for most
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of the calendar year. At the height of Doge's power,
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Trump and his senior staff said the cuts would slim
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uploaded corrupt bureaucracy and promised to expose waste and fraud
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at a scale that would meaningfully reduce the national deficit.
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No large scale evidence publicly emerged, and the government spent
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more in twenty twenty five than it had the previous year.
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Musk later split with the President over his signature Tax
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and Domestic Policy Bill, and DOGE quietly dissolved its members,
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dispersing inside and outside government. President Trump was given a
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clear mandate to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse from the
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federal government. In just a year, he has made significant
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progress in making the federal government more efficient to better
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serve the American taxpayer, David Engel, a White House spokesman,
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said in response to questions about the president's plans for
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rebuilding parts of the federal workforce and why Trump has
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stopped talking about DOEGE. The Trump administration fired, laid off,
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or accepted buyouts from more than three hundred eighty seven
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thousand employees since the president's inauguration. During that same period,
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the administration hired roughly one hundred twenty three thousand workers,
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according to data from the Office of Personnel Management. A
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year later, Current and former officials warn of vacancy that
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have created operational blind spots. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency,
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responsible for defending domestic infrastructure against cyber attacks, lost nearly
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forty percent of his workforce last year for reduction and capacity.
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As cyber threats from nation States remain a concern with
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the law of hundreds of experts cease. His ability to
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detect threats from the most significant adversary, China, as well
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as others like Russia and Iran, is severely diminished, and
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now is not the time for the US to let
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down its guard, said a former agency official, who, like
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others in this piece, spoke on the condition of anonymity
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to avoid retribution. SISA did not respond to a request
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for comment about the shortages. One of the hardesthed agencies
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during last year's cuts, the US Agency for International Development,
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is hiring again for contractors to wind down AID programs,
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but with an exception, those who are pushed out are
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not welcomed back. Agency leaders are seeking to preclude a
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contractor from hiring anyone who used to work there to
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avoid the risk of impaired objectivity, a conflict of interest
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that occurs when former personnel are tasked with auditing, closing,
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or settling actions they may have previously initiated or overseen.
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According to an internal memo obtained by the Post, other
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agencies are struggling to stabilize basic services or recruit enough
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applicants to fill vacancies, as the Department of Veteran Affairs
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job applications for all positions, including nurses, are down fifty
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percent so far in fiscal year twenty twenty six compared
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with the previous year, according to the agency's workforce Dashboard.
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As a Social Security Administration, employees in IT policy and
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other officers were reassigned to answer phones and handle customer
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inquiries as call volume surged. Internal Revenue Service CEO of
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Frank Biciano told the Houseways and Means Committee on Wednesday
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that he believes the agency is sufficiently staffed. I feel
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good about the number of employees I have right now,
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he said, But the agency's inspector General reported that the
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IRS had onboarded only fifty of the roughly two thousand,
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two hundred employees it expected to hire to help process
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tax returns for the twenty twenty six filing season, about
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two percent of its target as of the end of
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last year. Cooper said the administration remains committed to building
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a leaner, more effective government, noting that just seven percent
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of the federal workforce is under thirty, a demographic imbalance
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he said he intends to address. With the White House backing,
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he launched tech Force, a two year program partnering with
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companies including open Ai and Meta to deploy teams of
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software engineers and data analysts across federal agencies. Participants will
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have streamlined pathways to private sector roles after completing the program.
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My goal is to demonstrate that not only can you
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do great public service here if you're part of tech force,
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but you will learn and develop skills that are going
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to be translatable no matter what industry you decide to
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go into, Cooper said. Senior White House officials have been
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personally involved in shaping the rebuild. Deputy Chief of Staff
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Stephen Miller has been active in hiring decisions, According to
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two people familiar with the process, He has emphasized recruiting
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young staffers and ensuring that new hires are aligned with
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Trump's agenda. Some job postings now reflect that ideological framing.
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An Immigration Services officer position titled Homeland Defender urges applicants
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to be ready to protect your homeland and defend your culture.
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Prospective hires must explain how they would advance Trump's executive
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orders and policy priorities. Cooper said there are more opportunities
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to reshape agencies this year, suggesting additional staff reductions could
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come in some departments, though he declined to specify which ones.
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He also declined to release agency hiring plans submitted to
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o PM under Trump's executive order, calling them predecisional. At
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Veteran's Affairs Secretary Douglas A. Collins has told law he
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wants to hire more healthcare workers but faces stiff competition
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in a tight labor market. He has asked Congress to
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lift salary caps that he said made it difficult to
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recruit specialists. When you have starting salaries of six hundred
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thousand dollars for antiseesiologists in the community and I can't
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pay that, I don't blame them going somewhere else, Colins
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said at a recent hearing. But critics have said that
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the agency's stifled recruitment when leaders threatened mass layoffs last
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year and eliminated openings at hospitals. These spokesman P Casparowitz
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said the agency is always looking to hire people who
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are dedicated to providing the best possible care and service
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to veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors. As a Social Security
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Administration officials are moving forward with plans to hire at
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least seven hundred customer service representatives this year. According to
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two people familiar with internal discussions, the agency aims to
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increase its workforce by roughly one thousand employees after losing
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about seven thousand last year. We are currently hiring as
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part of the agency's commitment to providing better, faster service
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to the public, whether it's online, on the phone, or
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in person, Assay spokesman Barton McKee said in a statement. Meanwhile,
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various lawsuits about last year's dismissals are also still making
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their way through the courts, resulting in continued uncertainty for
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thousands of federal employees and triggering new staff reduction tactics
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from agency heads. The US Agency for Global Media, which
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runs the Voice of America, offered employees a deferred resignation program.
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The deadline was Monday, but a U. S. District Court
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judge ruled Saturday that earlier efforts to lay off the
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majority of the staff were invalid. The future of the
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federal workforce and whether DOZE is viewed as a success
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or a misstep, is playing out on the campaign trail,
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with Democrats working to capitalize on the fallout. Michael Duffin,
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a former State Department official running for Congress in Virginia
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said Democrats should be loud about the consequences of losing
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expertise in government. He has called a reinstate for the workers,
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warning that without subject matter experts and adequate staff, the
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government cannot deliver on its core responsibilities. It's about services,
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Duffin said, It's about this war with Iran, with the
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lack of diplomacy, with the lack of expertise, it could
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spiral out and then all of a sudden, gas at
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the pump doubles. I think it's about the bottom line.
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How does it impact their lives. Ellen Nakashima and Clara
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and Smors contributed to this report. This article is accompanied
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by photos. The first has captioned Federal workers wait in
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line to access to the Mary East Switzer Memorial Building
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that houses the U. S Department of Health and Human
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Services on April first, twenty twenty five, in Washington. Roberto
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Smith AFP Getty Images. The photo shows a single file
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line of several people waiting to enter a building. The
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next photo is caption USAID employees leave the agency's former
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offices at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center
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with their personal effects on February twenty eighth, twenty twenty five.
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Pete Kihart for The Washington Post. The photo shows several individuals.
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In the foreground is a woman appearing distress holding a
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sign that says thank you usaid from the American people.
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One individual is holding an American flag. In the final
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photo accompanying this article is captioned President Donald Trump and
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Elon Musk at a news conference marking the end of
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Musk's service as a special government employee overseeing DOEGE on
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May thirtieth, twenty twenty five. Tom Brenner for The Washington Post.
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The photo shows that the men in the Oval office. President
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Trump is sitting behind his desk, Elon Musk is standing
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next to the desk, and in the foreground is a
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bust of Abraham Lincoln. Next is an itaman titled first
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Wave of Iran Strikes cost five point six billion dollars
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Pentagon says by Noah Robertson, the Pentagon burned through five
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point six billion dollars worth of munitions during the first
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two days of his military assault on Iran, according to
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three US officials, a figure that underscores a deepening alarm
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among some on Capitol Hill over the speed at which
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U S forces have eaten into the scarce supply of
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America's most advanced weaponry. The estimate shared with Congress on
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Monday raises new questions about the Trump administration's broad dismissal
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of lawmaker's concerns that the Iran operation is quickly eroded
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in the US military's readiness. The Trump administration also is
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expected to send Congress a supplemental defense budget request as
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soon as this week, potentially totalling tens of billions of
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dollars to help sustain its campaign. Officials said that too,
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is expected to face opposition from many Democrats, whose attempt
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to restrain the administration from further military action in Iran
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have come up empty. In response to questions from The
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Washington Post about the state of U. S weapons inventories,
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Sean Parnell, the Pentagon's chief spokesman, issued a statement saying
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that the Defense Department has everything it needs to execute
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any mission at the time and place of the President's choosing,
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and on any time line. It's unclear how long the
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war could last. President Donald Trump said last week that
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the operation could take more than a month, though on Monday,
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he told CBS News that it is very complete, pretty much,
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citing around significant military losses. Defense Secretary Pete Hexath and
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Joint Chief's Chairman General Dan Kane told reporters last week
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that the campaign was transitioning away from its reliance on
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precision munitions and instead will increasingly use the more plentiful
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stores of laser guided bombs as US and Israeli forces
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push inland after establishing air superiority over Iran. The five
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point six billion dollar figure highlights how costly the strikes
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were before that transition began, said the officials, who, like
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some others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss
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the sensitive estimate. They did not specify how many and
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what kinds of munitions were expended in the war's opening days.
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The Post has previously reported that the military has fired
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hundreds of precision weapons since the start of hostilities on
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February twenty eighth, including advanced air defense interceptors and Tomahawk
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cruise missiles. U S Central Command, which oversees military operations
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throughout the Middle East, has said that more than five
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thousand targets have been hit in Iran using more than
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two two thousand munitions. Mark Cacaine who closely monitors US
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inventories as a center for strategic and international studies, said
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the shift away from these longer range munitions will dramatically
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lower the price of each strike from millions of dollars
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spent on each round fired to less than one hundred
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thousand dollars in some cases, as it churned through its inventories.
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The military also is re routing assets from other parts
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of the world, including the Indo Pacific region, where lawmakers
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have long feared that any U S conflict with China
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would be challenged by the Pentagon's limited stocks of high
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end weapons. The Pentagon is moving parts of the Terminal
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high Altitude Area Defense or FAD system from South Korea
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to the Middle East, according to two officials. The military
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also has drawing from its supply of sophisticated patriot interceptors
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in the Indo Pacific and elsewhere to bolster its defense
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against Iran's drone and ballistic missile attacks, these people said.
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One of the officials said the moves were not due
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to an immediate shortage of weaponry in Theddle East, but
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were rather a precautionary measure in case Iran drastically increased
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its rate of retaliatory attacks, which has fallen more than
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a week into the conflict. The more Thads and patriots
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you shoot, the more risk you assume. In the Indo
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Pacific and in Ukraine, ken Kain said the two air
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defense systems are considered the most advanced in the world.
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Ahead of the operation, kin had worn Trump that an
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extended conflict with Iran could to play u S docs
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of precision weaponry sapped after years of support for Ukraine
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in its war with Russia and the administration's other military
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actions in at least seven countries, The Post is reported
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the administration has sought to downplay Kane's assessment. Analysts have
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said they have been surprised at the sophistication of Iran's
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retaliatory strikes, including its ability to target and at times
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overwhelm key parts of U S and Israeli air to
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thin systems such as radars and command in patrol infrastructure.
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Russia is applying around with intelligence to enhance the accuracy
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of its strikes against American forces, a move that could
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compensate for the damage the Iranian military has suffered in
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a war three American and F fifteen fighter jets also
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were downed in a friendly fire incident with Kuwait. Cankaine
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estimated that the planes cost about one hundred million dollars each.
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Seven American service members have died in a war, six
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during Iranian drone strike in Kuwait and another after an
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attack in Saudi Arabia. John Hudson and Alan Nakashima contributed
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to this report. This article is accompanied by photos. The
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first is captioned Smoke pours into the sky after an
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explosion in Tehran during the war's opening hours, February twenty
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eighth at a Canair a f P getty images. The
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photo shows a long distance view of the city'scape with
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a massive plume of smoke over it. The other photo
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accompanying this article is captioned Patriot Missile batteries in Israel
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in twenty twelve Jacko's a f P getty images. The
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photo shows two Patriot missile batteries. Next from to day's
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from page an item entitled Trump defines wartime presidency with
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his unique political style by Michael Birnbaum from Miami. A
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little more than a week into the fight with Iran,
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President Donald Trump is recasting the role of wartime leader
29:38
in his image, breaking from generations of practice as he
29:42
attacks domestic enemies, jumps on issues as far afield as
29:46
alleged voter fraud and college sports, and revels in mean
29:50
driven celebrations of America's military prowess. Trump's approach to leading
29:56
the nation in war is in keeping with his precedent's
29:59
smashing politics. His supporters say that style has enabled him
30:04
to connect with Americans and build a passionate bond with
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his political base in a way his opponents have not,
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But his lack of a visible effort to try to
30:13
expand the basis of support for the war carries risks.
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That's especially true as the u S deaththole mounts, gasoline
30:21
prices shoot upward, and other issues Americans care about, such
30:26
as the economy, take a back seat to what Trump
30:29
says is an attempt to fix a problem that no
30:32
American president since the Iranian Revolution in nineteen seventy nine
30:36
has dared to solve. Trump has devoted much of his
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time over the past week to meetings with top national
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security advisors and managing the war, but he has also
30:46
found space to post on truth social eight times about
30:49
a dispute with comedian and talks Yurow host Bill Maher,
30:53
whom he declared was a highly overrated lightweight, joke with
30:57
Latin American leaders about whether to charge money for his
31:00
endorsement in their races, and a pine on the physical
31:03
attraction of the star soccer player Lionel Messi and the
31:07
entire Inter Miami Championship team. Early Sunday, hours after returning
31:12
from Delaware, where he took part in a solemn observance
31:15
at Dover Air Force Base of the return of the
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remains of the first six U. S. Soldiers killed in
31:20
the war with Iran, Trump posted about the Save America Act,
31:25
a bill that would require a passport or birth certificate
31:28
when registering to vote. It's all people care about, he wrote.
31:33
As of Monday morning. Of the two hundred twenty two
31:36
posts on truth social he made since the February twentieth
31:39
video announcing the start of the war, fewer than one
31:43
in five was about Iran. When you're leading the country
31:46
into war, you want to bring democrats and Republicans and
31:50
war critics in if you can, or at least avoid
31:54
antagonizing them, said Peter Fever, who advised President George W.
31:58
Bush on National security strategy and is now a professor
32:02
at Duke University who has studied how presidents lead in
32:05
war time. I don't yet see the effort by the
32:09
administration to forge a non MAGA coalition of support for this,
32:13
but that could come if the war becomes more arduous
32:16
and costly, Fever said. All presidents juggle priorities during their
32:21
terms in office, and risky military forays can compete for
32:25
the bandwidth of any leader. Just after authorizing the twenty
32:29
eleven ray that killed al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden,
32:33
President Barack Obama delivered a comedy routine at the White
32:36
House correspondence dinner, a commitment he later said he kept
32:40
because he didn't want to do anything to tip off
32:43
Ben Lauden that something was about to happen. Bush was
32:47
immersed in budget negotiations with Congress in March two thousand
32:50
three when he ordered the invasion of Iraq. Although his
32:54
public calendar for the week after the war started was
32:57
almost entirely consumed by war related events, he also spent
33:01
months building support for the war, both at home, where
33:04
he sought and received congressional authorization, and abroad, forging alliances
33:10
and appealing to foreign leaders by making his case to
33:12
the United Nations Security Council, Trump has taken a different approach.
33:18
He made his final decision to launch an attack while
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flying to Corpus Christi, Texas to champion energy independence, then
33:25
made an unannounced stop at a water Burger on his
33:27
way back to Air Force One, buying hamburgers for customers
33:31
at the fast food restaurant and force playing we got
33:35
more votes than anybody in the history of Texas. That's
33:38
pretty good, Trump told patrons there, I'm going to get
33:41
some stuff for Air Force One, and I'm going to
33:43
get the hell out of here, all right. Then he
33:46
flew to his resort in Palm Beach, Florida, not the
33:48
White House, to monitor the attack as it unfolded. He
33:52
announced momentous start of the war clad in a white
33:55
baseball cap with the letters U S A stitched on
33:58
the front. Hours later, he announced the death of the
34:01
Uranian Supreme leader Ietola Ali Chamani with a written true
34:05
social post. The White House has embraced muscular meme driven
34:09
imaging around the war effort, bundling clips of war movies, SpongeBob,
34:14
square pans, and video games with images of strikes on
34:18
Iranian targets. Atop one such video, White House communications director
34:23
Stephen Chung posted a sequence of video game controller moves
34:27
that is a cheak code for unlimited ammunition in a
34:30
Grand Theft auto PlayStation game. To an extent, Trump's approach
34:34
may be the latest example of presidents facing a crisis
34:38
and slipping into habits that delivered them their electoral victories.
34:42
Bill Clinton liked to triangulate and find the common ground
34:45
between opposing political wings. George W. Bush would project confidence
34:49
and double down on whatever proposal he was making. Obama
34:54
often sought to go the opposite direction of what Democratic
34:57
Party elders were suggesting. Trump is embracing Trump. The tactic
35:02
may be building support within the slice of the president's base,
35:06
It is less clear that is winning over skeptics on
35:09
either side of the political aisle. Hey, White House, please
35:14
remove the tropic thunder clip. Ben Steeller posted on x
35:17
on Friday, we never gave you permission and have no
35:21
interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is
35:24
not a movie. A Washington Post FlashPool conducted on the
35:29
war's second day found widespread opposition to Trump's decision among
35:33
independents and Democrats, and a split among Republicans. Among Republicans,
35:39
eighty one percent said they supported Trump's initial decision to
35:42
strike Iran, but even at that early stage, only fifty
35:46
four percent of Republicans said they supported continuing the effort.
35:50
Republicans and Republican leaning independents who identify with Trump's MEGA
35:54
Movement were far more likely than those who don't identify
35:57
as MAGA to back Trump's policy. Among MAGA Republicans, fifty
36:02
four percent say they supported continued strikes, compared with thirteen
36:06
percent who said Trump should stop. Those who don't identify
36:10
with MEGA split evenly, thirty two percent in favor of
36:14
continuing and thirty one percent opposed. By comparison, only two
36:18
in ten independents and almost no Democrats supported continuing the fight.
36:24
Two thirds of Americans said Trump had not clearly explained
36:28
the goals of his operation. MAGA Republicans were the exception
36:32
on that question as well, with seventy five percent saying
36:35
he had offered a clear explanation. Trump has offered Americans
36:39
a shifting list of goals for the war, at times
36:42
declaring that he wants Iranians to sweep away their old
36:45
regime and build a new future. At other times, he
36:49
said he was inspired to act in Iran following his
36:52
success and opposing Venezuelan president Nicolas Monduro, an operation that
36:57
left the old system in place under a newly who
37:00
is friendlier to the United States. He has also said
37:04
he is seeking to destroy Iran's conventional missile capabilities, its navy,
37:08
and its nuclear program. But he has declared that he
37:12
doesn't expect the war to be an extended deployment and
37:15
that short term paying will lead to long term payoff,
37:19
a calculus that may inform how he is thinking about
37:22
being a wartime president. Asked Saturday whether he was worried
37:26
about rising gas prices and the toll on the American economy,
37:30
he said he wasn't concerned given the time frame. This
37:33
is a short excursion into something that should have been
37:36
done for forty seven years. Forty seven years it's taken
37:40
to do this, and no president had the guts to
37:42
do it, he said. A week into the Iraq War
37:45
on two thousand three, similar questions were floating about the
37:49
length of the commitment, which ultimately lasted until the end
37:52
of twenty eleven, before Obama again deployed troops in twenty
37:56
fourteen to combat the Islamic State. We hope that it
38:01
will be as short as possible, and we can't make
38:03
any predictions about exactly how long it will go. Bush
38:07
spooksman Riri Fleischer told reporters nine days after the start
38:10
of the invasion. We are prepared to fight for whatever
38:14
period is necessary, whatever period of time is right. Trump
38:18
rose to the presidency partly on the strength of his
38:21
criticism of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, making his
38:25
gamble on Iran even more striking, said Suzanne Maloney, a
38:29
vice president of the Brookings Institution who focuses on U
38:32
S policy toward Iran. He picked up on the frustration
38:36
of ordinary Americans with the human and financial cost of
38:39
those wars before the political establishment in Washington fully understood
38:44
how widely those views were shared among the American public.
38:47
Maloney said, it's particularly baffling to me that the President
38:52
himself seems so disinterested in the actuality and continuing the
38:56
likelihood of unintended consequences and negative economic and strategic fallout
39:02
from this conflict, she said. On Saturday, Trump traveled at Dover,
39:07
where he spoke to families for more than an hour.
39:09
Before saluting the remains of the six soldiers in the
39:12
solemn ritual as they were transferred out of a transport plane.
39:16
He said he expected he would continue to need to
39:19
travel to the air base. Oh yeah, I'm sure. I
39:22
hate to tell them, but it's part of war, isn't it.
39:25
Trump said, It's part of war. It's a sad part
39:28
of war. It's the bad part of war. This article
39:32
is accompanied by a photo captioned President Donald Trump before
39:35
departing the White House on February thirteen, Peter W. Stevenson
39:40
The Washington Post. The photo shows President Trump walking across asphalt.
39:45
In the background are several individuals behind a rope barrier.
39:50
Next from today's front page is an item entitled the
39:54
legal tool that leads to immigrant detentions arrests in Minneapolis surge,
39:59
as I said officials used reinterpretation of a nineteen ninety
40:02
six law to defy court orders. By Maria Sacchetti and
40:07
n Kirkpatrick from Minneapolis, Jose Avandano tried explaining to the
40:13
immigration officer yanking him out of his car that he
40:16
had permission to be in the United States. The sixty
40:20
two year old dishwasher had fled El Salvador decades ago
40:23
and had a valid work permit and one of the
40:26
few temporary statuses offered protection from deportation that the Trump
40:31
administration wasn't revoking. They didn't listen, Avandano said, as he
40:37
was being shuttled to a detention camp near a US
40:39
military base in Alpasso. In early January, most of Minneapolis
40:44
and the nation was focused on the clashes between protesters
40:48
and federal immigration officers that led to the fatal shootings
40:51
of two US citizens and ignited tensions over the Trump
40:55
administration's mass deportation campaign. More than four thousand people have
41:00
been arrested in Minneapolis since the start of Operation Metro
41:03
Surge in December, and federal judges and civil rights lawyers
41:08
say many of those detentions broke the law. The Washington
41:12
Post reviewed nearly seventy cases in which U. S District
41:15
Judge Patrick J. Schiltz ruled that the Trump administration had
41:19
violated court orders. The court records offer the most detailed
41:24
account yet on who officers arrested in Minneapolis and how
41:28
they conducted arrests. The case files show how officers repeatedly
41:33
detained people under a reinterpretation of a nineteen ninety six
41:36
law that states that anyone in the United States illegally
41:40
quote shall be detained without bond indefinitely, even when courts
41:45
had ordered they be granted a bond, hearing or set free.
41:49
Most were quickly transferred to detention centers in Texas or Louisiana.
41:54
This article includes two biographs. The first is titled Pending
41:58
Immigration Application Yes. Fifty two No. Thirteen Unknown one. The
42:05
next is titled Criminal History Yes seven No. Forty eight
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none stated eleven. Source Washington Post, reporting N. Kirkpatrick, Ria
42:16
Sacchetti the Washington Post. Of the sixty six cases the
42:20
Post examined, fifty two involved immigrants with pending applications for
42:25
asylum or another legal status. None had final deportation orders.
42:30
Most weren't criminals, and more than a third had lived
42:33
in the United States for over a decade. Some were
42:37
legal refugees detained under a separate policy also being challenged
42:41
in court. The detainees came from countries all over the world,
42:46
and despite President Donald Trump's remarks about Somali's, relatively few
42:50
on the judge's lists were from the East African country.
42:54
In every case, the government argued that it had the
42:57
broad power to detain people indefinitely. The records analyzed by
43:02
the Post are not readily available online because of court
43:05
privacy rules, and were downloaded case by case from a
43:09
public court terminal in Minneapolis. Avanhano, a grandfather with a
43:14
hard condition, was held for nine days before his lawyer
43:18
filed a lawsuit and a judge ordered his release. Most
43:22
federal judges nationwide have ruled that the Trump administration policy
43:27
of mandatory detention of undocumented immigrants settled in the United
43:31
States is illegal. Government agencies in the past have denied
43:35
bond to serious criminals and recent border crossers, but Trump
43:39
administration and attorneys are digging in on appeal, and legal
43:43
experts say the issue could reach the Supreme Court. The
43:47
Trump administration has defended its push to deport all undocumented immigrants,
43:52
but in the aftermath of the violence in Minneapolis, the
43:55
president has softened his tone on immigration enforcement somewhat. The
44:00
administration has not surged into a city at a similar
44:03
scale since then, and on Thursday, Trump fired Christiel Naum
44:08
as DHS secretary and announced Senator Mark Wayne Mullen, Republican
44:12
from Oklahoma, as her replacement. But in court, government officials
44:17
are continuing to defend the mandatory detention policy. They argue
44:22
that federal law enables them to detain undocumented immigrants without bond,
44:26
in part to ensure they do not skip hearings. Courts
44:30
have noted that the U. S. Government has never used
44:32
its detention power so broadly, but officials say that doesn't
44:36
mean they cannot use it now. ICE officials say their
44:40
goal is to enforce removal orders efficiently and avoid prolonged detentions.
44:45
We detained to remove. Acting ICE Director Todd M. Lyons,
44:49
who issued the mandatory detention policy in July, said at
44:53
a congressional oversight hearing last month in Minnesota. The case
44:57
files show how lawyers quickly became overwhelmed as a struggle
45:02
to keep up with a volume of people detained at
45:05
the Justice Department. Government attorneys working over time said they
45:09
were receiving more emails than they had time to read.
45:12
Attorneys acknowledged it was difficult to track detainees because Immigration
45:17
and Customs enforcement quickly transferred them to other states, sometimes
45:21
hopscotching from one to the next. Judges threatened to hold
45:25
multiple government lawyers in contempt of court and some quit.
45:29
Michael Tan, an American civil liberties union attorney leading a
45:33
nationwide class action lawsuit on behalf of undocumented immigrants affected
45:38
by the policy, accused EYES of using indefinite attention to
45:43
coerce people into giving up and accepting deportation. Most detainees
45:48
don't have attorneys and haven't filed lawsuits, he noted, even
45:52
though the cost of file is five dollars. Since Trump
45:56
took office, immigrants have filed twenty three thousand, seven hundred
46:00
lawsuits seeking release from detention. DHS has said it deported
46:05
more than a half million people last year. We have
46:08
the largest mandatory detention regime in the United States, Tan said,
46:13
we're literally talking about millions of people. The Department of
46:17
Homeland Security and Department of Justice did not respond to
46:20
questions about detentions emergency. On January ninth, Avendana was driving
46:26
to the Chinese restaurant where he has washed dishes for
46:29
sixteen years when three vehicles boxed in his car. A
46:33
massed agent in a green uniform pulled him out. He said,
46:37
like I was a criminal. Avandano said he tried to
46:40
explain to them that he has temporary protected status, which
46:44
the George W. Bush administration granted a thousands of Salvadorans
46:48
in two thousand and one after a devastating pair of earthquakes.
46:52
The designation shields immigrants from deportation, though it does not
46:56
offer a pathway toward becoming a U. S citizen that's canceled.
47:01
He said one agent told him Avendano knew that wasn't true. Trump,
47:06
an ally of Salvadoran President Nayev Bucalat, has left Salvadoran's
47:11
temporary protection intact. His family and lawyers searched for Avendano
47:16
as officers held him for several hours in Minnesota, shackled
47:19
at the wrists, ankles, and waist. His lawyer said his
47:23
record consists of a speeding ticket On his application for
47:27
temporary status. Haavendano noted a nineteen ninety nine shoplifting citation
47:32
that he said resulted in five days probation. He has
47:35
lived in the United States for thirty two years. Havandano
47:39
said he also told officers that he has cardiomyopathy, a
47:43
hard condition that is required a pacemaker and daily medication.
47:48
Because of his arrest, he missed an important medical procedure
47:51
to stabilize his heartbeat. Two of his brothers died young
47:55
of heart failure emergency serious medical condition. Attorney Maria Miller
48:01
wrote to Ice, he has not been able to take
48:04
his heart medications. We don't know where he is. A
48:08
federal magistrate judge directed the Department of Justice to explain
48:12
why Avendano had been arrested. When government lawyers failed to respond,
48:16
US District Judge Nancy Brassel, a Trump nominee, said they
48:20
violated court orders and directed that Avendano be immediately released.
48:25
Ice kept him in custody for three more days. He
48:28
said he was told to check in with ICE in April.
48:31
Even when the court issues an order, it's just chaos,
48:35
Miller said, nobody's listening to anybody. The court records showed
48:40
that most of the sixty six cases on the Chief
48:42
Judge's list in Minnesota, some cases involved multiple people, did
48:47
not have criminal histories beyond offenses such as speeding, tickets
48:51
or driving without a license, raising questions about why they
48:55
were targeted. When boarders are Tom Holman and others said
48:58
they were prioritized the worst of the worst criminals. None
49:03
had final orders of removal. Advocates for immigrants argued that
49:07
immigrants should not be detained if their only offense is
49:11
a civil immigration violation, because proceedings could drag on for
49:15
months or years. Detaining someone costs roughly one hundred fifty
49:19
dollars a day. I says detaining people ensures that they
49:23
will not have Sconne, noting that hundreds of thousands of
49:26
people have final removal orders but are still here, But
49:30
fifty two of the sixty six had applied for permanent
49:34
legal residency, work permits, or asylum with the federal government,
49:38
which lawyers said is a clear sign that they are
49:41
not hiding. A man from Nicaragua who surrendered at the
49:45
southern border in twenty twenty two said he had a
49:48
work permit, a landscaping job in Minnesota, and a pending
49:51
asylum application. When the immigration court summoned him to a hearing,
49:56
he went. When I arrived, they said I didn't have
49:59
a case, he said, speaking on condition that he not
50:03
be identified because he fears re arrest. Ice officers arrested
50:07
him in the hallway as soon as he left. His
50:10
labor union sprang to his defense and helped him to
50:13
file a lawsuit in Minnesota that ordered his return and release.
50:18
Though he was held for six extra days. Nonetheless, now
50:22
he worries he cannot trust the federal government to give
50:24
him a fair hearing. Are they going to detain me
50:28
again and deport me, he said? Or will they let
50:30
me stay always? Five of those arrested were refugees who
50:35
fled persecution in their home countries, were vetted and welcomed
50:39
into the United States legally with resettlement aid and the
50:43
promise of protection. Some were fun Moldova, including a man
50:47
who had arrived with his wife and child and said
50:50
he was told to rejustify his refugee status. Federal officials
50:55
said in court records that they have the authority to
50:58
detain refugees in order to conduct an inspection under the law,
51:03
but in practice that has occurred during an office visit
51:06
to review their paperwork, not detention. Several on the Chief
51:11
Judges lists were children and teenagers, including a twelve year
51:14
old boy shipped to a family detention camp in Dilley, Texas,
51:18
allegedly without his inhaler. He is one of six Venezuelan
51:22
immigrants living in Saint Paul who alleged that federal agents
51:26
barged into their house without permission and arrested them at gunpoint.
51:31
Judge John Tunnheim ordered the government to produce a warrant
51:34
to justify the arrest, and ultimately found that the government
51:38
failed to file anything. He ordered the group released, and
51:42
the boy and his father returned to Minnesota. By January
51:45
twenty second, three days later, they were still detained. The
51:50
Court can scarcely think of a situation requiring more urgency
51:54
than a twelve year old allegedly with health concerns being
51:57
arrested unlawfully and whisked away across the country, Tunheim wrote.
52:02
Lawyers said they would be returned and released that night,
52:06
attorneys on triage. The records show that attorneys in the U. S.
52:10
Attorney's Office in Minnesota faced the brunt of the Court's
52:14
frustration over the failure to follow judicial orders, but the
52:18
attorneys signaled that they had inadequate resources and power to
52:22
enforce them. On January fourteenth, Justice Department attorney Anna Vass
52:27
begged Judge Jerry Blackwell for forgiveness for missing orders, demanding
52:32
the government explain why it had detained to Stefani, a
52:35
Columbian woman arrested while walking her youngest child to the
52:39
school bus stop and shipped her to al Paso Stefani,
52:43
who could not be reached for Comet had a clean
52:45
record and a pending case in immigration court. She had
52:48
been suffering from a bacterial infection and was taken to
52:51
the hospital before her transfer. Boss admitted she was not
52:56
aware of this court's orders and described an office near
52:59
a breaking point, juggling a flood of emergency habeas petitions.
53:04
She said she'd received five hundred twenty three emails a
53:07
day before, more than she could read. It has become
53:10
apparent to me that I am not able to effectively
53:13
triage and review every order, she wrote. Blackwell ordered as
53:17
to finding released immediately. On January fifteenth. Officers freed her
53:22
two days later. This article includes a graft entitled total
53:27
Habeas corpus cases since January twenty twenty five. Over twenty
53:32
three thousand Habeas corpus petitions have been filed since January twentieth,
53:36
twenty twenty five by immigrants challenging their detention. District courts
53:42
in Texas and California make up thirty seven percent of
53:45
all habeas cases, followed by Florida, Minnesota, and Georgia. The
53:51
graph shows a sharp upturn in cases beginning in September
53:54
twenty twenty five in Texas and California, November twenty twenty
53:59
five in Minnesota and Georgia, and January twenty twenty six
54:04
in Florida. Data as of February twenty six, and includes
54:08
duplicate cases transferred between courts. Source Pacer and Kirkpatrick the
54:14
Washington Post. Judges and efficacy groups say the Justice Department
54:19
was failing to fulfill its basic duties while immigrants paid
54:23
the price. On February third, Blackwell summoned do J lawyers
54:27
into court to explain why lawyers kept violating judge's orders.
54:32
At the hearing, lawyer Julie Lee told the judge, this
54:36
job sucks. She said it was a huge fight to
54:39
get ICE officials to follow judicial orders. I share the
54:42
same concern with you, your honor, she said, of enforcing
54:45
the court's orders. I don't have a magic button to
54:48
do it. I don't have the power or the voice
54:51
to do it. Lee was removed from that position after
54:54
that outburst. Administration official said Voss's email says she is
54:59
no longer with the department. Records show the violations continued,
55:04
and judges raised the possibility of civil and criminal sanctions
55:07
against Trump administration lawyers. On February eighteenth, Judge lawyer Provinzeno,
55:13
a former federal lawyer, fine government attorney Matthew Isahara five
55:18
hundred dollars a day for failing to follow her orders
55:21
to return identification to a detainee. She dropped it after
55:25
the lawyer complied, but she said it had become painfully
55:29
clear that Justice Department attorneys like Ishahara lacked training to
55:34
follow Judge's orders. She noted that he had never practiced
55:38
in federal court until he joined the U. S. Attorney's
55:40
Office in January and was soon juggling more than one
55:44
hundred cases. The Trump administration announced the end of Operation
55:48
Metro Surge, which began decend of first and ran parallel
55:52
to another operation targeting refugees suspected of fraud, on February twelfth,
55:57
and federal and state officials said they hoped to return
56:01
to a state of calm, but courts are still cleaning
56:05
up what was left in the aftermath. Several lawsuits are pending,
56:09
and on March third, a judge sat at a hearing
56:12
that he had not ruled out possible prison time for
56:15
government officials who violate court orders. According to mediate reports,
56:21
US attorney Daniel N. Rosen, who did not respond to questions,
56:25
wrote in a court filing in February that he had
56:28
found errors on the Chief Judge's original list. Rosen's letter
56:32
prompted Schiltz, the Chief Judge, to recheck his list. He
56:35
found some errors and struck those cases from his findings,
56:39
but as of January twenty eighth, he wrote, ICE had
56:42
violated ninety seven court orders in sixty six cases. The
56:47
judge then checked to see whether things had improved. They
56:50
had not, He said, he found one hundred thirteen additional
56:54
violations in another seventy seven cases. Most violations occurred after
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January twenty eight. This Court will continue to do whatever
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is required to protect the rule of law, including, if necessary,
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moving to the use of criminal contempt, Schiltz wrote February
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twenty sixth one way or another, ICE will comply with
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this Court's orders. Zan Nachlavi contributed to this report. This
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article is accompanied by two photos. The first is captioned
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Jose Eliasavandano, who has temporary protected status, was detained by
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U S Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents on January ninth
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in Minnesota. Jada great Eagle for the Washington Post. The
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photo shows mister Avandano wearing a sweatshirt which reads Minnesota
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across the front. The other photo accompanying this item is
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captioned Avendano still wears a paper wrist band placed on
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him during his detention in case he has stopped again,
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using it to show officers that he has already been
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detained by federal authorities. A great Eagle for the Washington Post.
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The photo shows hands and forearms. A paper wristband is
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around the right wrist is around his right wrist. This
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concludes the readings of The Washington Post for to Day,
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March tenth, twenty twenty sixth. Your reader for to day
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has been Cindy Fraser. If you have any questions, comments,
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