WTF Just Happened Today? Day 1528

This is a newsletter I subscribe to and I share parts of it here.
I think it's a good summary of the day that is fairly well sourced.
One can subscribe here: http://wtfjht.com

Welcome to Day 1528.

Today in one sentence: The Department of Health and Human Services will cut 10,000 jobs; the Trump administration is preparing to lay off between 8% to 50% of federal workers across 22 agencies under a February executive order to shrink government to its “minimum essential functions”; Attorney General Pam Bondi said she is unlikely to launch a criminal investigation into a Signal group chat in which Trump officials shared sensitive military plans for a Yemen airstrike; the private contact information and passwords of top Trump national security officials – including Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard, and Pete Hegseth – were publicly accessible online; Trump suggested that he may lower tariffs on China to help secure a deal for the sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations.

-Matt, current mood: ?

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/rfk-jr-job-cuts-health-human-services-bdec28b0

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/03/27/nx-s1-5342414/hhs-doge-rif-rfk-job-cuts

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/rfk-hhs-job-cuts-fda-cdc-nih-trump

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/03/27/hhs-cuts-layoffs-rfk-cdc-fda/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/health-department-job-layoffs-rfk-jr.html

https://apnews.com/article/health-human-services-layoffs-restructuring-rfk-jr-fa4e89285e668a3939e20b6cf4c26fd4

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/hhs-to-cut-thousands-of-workers-in-sweeping-reorganization-00253359

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/hhs-cut-10000-full-time-employees/story?id=120216337

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/hhs-plans-shutter-downsize-several-health-agencies-cdc-rcna198254

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/27/federal-worker-layoffs-government-agencies/

Axois on YouGov poll: https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/trump-signal-group-chat-yemen-strike-poll

Poll data: https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/51888-republicans-think-the-trump-administrations-military-leak-is-problem
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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/27/us/politics/signal-leak-prosecution-bondi.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-27/senators-seek-formal-review-of-signal-group-chat-episode

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/senate-democrats-signal-chat-probe

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-pentagon-attack-plans-petraeus-clinton-comey-3ab3773b2642abaf024d3a5f3eb66f4b

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/27/trump-presidency-news/#link-PGRUM224DBFEJLO6HXVLKICZLE

https://www.spiegel.de/international/world/pete-hegseth-mike-waltz-tulsi-gabbard-private-data-and-passwords-of-senior-u-s-security-officials-found-online-a-14221f90-e5c2-48e5-bc63-10b705521fb7

https://www.wired.com/story/michael-waltz-left-his-venmo-public/

https://newrepublic.com/post/193199/maga-reaction-defend-war-plans-group-chat-full-text-messages

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/trump-allies-take-aim-michael-waltz-rcna198289

https://abcnews.go.com/International/trump-us-control-greenland/story

One can read the expanded version of each topic and its sources here: http://wtfjht.com