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The Smithsonian doesn’t have a date yet for when its locations will open to the public, but officials said they’ll have procedures in place to protect staff as well as visitors.
Smithsonian Institution facilities remain closed to the public indefinitely, but the agency’s union is worried about employee safety when operations resume, based on problems encountered by staff who have been required to report to worksites over the past year and those involved in limited reopenings in the summer and fall.
Calls Grow for Biden to Remove Trump Holdovers Who Want to Gut Social Security
President Joe Biden gestures during International Women s Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, D.C., on March 8, 2021.
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A growing chorus of Democratic lawmakers, progressive advocacy groups, and labor unions is calling on President Joe Biden to immediately remove the two top officials at the Social Security Administration, lesser-known Trump appointees who have come under fire for pursuing policies that would strip benefits from vulnerable seniors and people with disabilities.
In a letter (pdf) to Biden sent last week and posted online Tuesday, Social Security Works executive director Alex Lawson argued that SSA Commissioner Andrew Saul and Deputy Commissioner David Black “have made a habit of undermining our Social Security system and the SSA federal workforce” during their tenure at the agency, which distributes crucial benefits to tens of
On the scale of mayhem, what’s gone on in Portland is comparable to or worse than Washington. It’s gone on longer, spawned more injuries to law enforcement, and attempted to disrupt a core government function in this case the judicial branch, which works out of the courthouse.
Yet no praise has issued forth from the halls of Congress.
“Mum’s the word,” said Jeremy Russey, a vice president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 918, which represents FPS officers. “I feel like everything was so anti-Trump that because we worked under the direction of the president at the time we were kind of lumped under his ‘stormtroopers.’”
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