The Israeli prime minister faces competing pressure from his right-wing coalition to end a temporary truce in Gaza and from war-weary Israelis who want the remaining hostages home and the month conflict to end. VA nurses were among the millions of federal workers who received an email last week offering eight months of paid leave if they agreed to resign.
Nurses unions are discouraging members from accepting the offer. Sixty percent of VA facilities are experiencing a severe nursing shortage, according to a report from the VA Office of Inspector General. Newsom will travel to Washington this week to advocate for disaster aid for deadly Los Angeles wildfires. California Gov. Gavin Newsom is traveling to Washington D. Newsom, a vocal political adversary of Trump, has mostly abandoned his anti-Trump rhetoric since the fires erupted earlier this year.
The investigation requests the GAO to find out which systems were accessed, which individuals accessed the information and whether they have the appropriate clearances, among other things. The Justice Department announced in federal charges in November that an Iranian plot to kill Trump before the presidential election had been thwarted. The department alleged Iranian officials had instructed Farhad Shakeri, 51, in September to focus on surveilling and ultimately assassinating Trump.
Shakeri is still at large in Iran. Medicaid administrators had the same problems. The website eventually went back online, but administrators are still experiencing intermittent outages.
Some have not been able to draw down funding for a week. It led centers in Michigan and Wisconsin to close temporarily, and at least one center in Pennsylvania is contemplating shutting its doors until it regains access to its funds. The disruption coincided with a directive from the Trump administration to halt federal grants, a mandate that was not supposed exclude Head Start and Medicaid.
