We found the waste Elon Musk and DOGE won’t cut: it’s defense contractors. The Department of Defense funnels $450 billion of taxpayer dollars a year to private military contractors. But Musk is too focused on cutting DEI initiatives (0.01% of the size of the defense budget) to tackle the real […]
Trump wants to demolish FEMA and says the states will take care of disasters themselves. To test this theory, we talked to the West Virginians who have been slammed by historic flooding in recent weeks. It turns out the state’s flood protection fund is out of funds — and as […]
Two-thirds of people in California’s 22nd Congressional district rely on Medicaid. But the majority of the district also voted to elect President Trump in 2024. We went to talk to residents to see what they think about Trump’s proposed cuts to Medicaid. One Trump voter told us: “I feel like […]
A used car dealership put remote kill switches in the cars they sold. It shut off one car’s engine while the driver was on the highway, with her kids. The lawyer who prosecuted that crime at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was fired by Elon Musk and DOGE. —– More […]
Alvaro Bedoya was investigating Amazon, X, and Walmart as an FTC commissioner. He’s also been a key ally of former FTC Chair Lina Khan. Donald Trump just illegally fired him and the only Democratic commissioner, Rebecca Kelly Slaughter. “This isn’t about Democrat or Republican,” Bedoya told us. “It’s about who […]
What’s the true cost of the AI revolution and who should be paying for it? We went to Georgia to find out. Demand for data centers is booming as ChatGPT and other AI tools become integrated into our daily life. Under the Trump administration, investments into data centers in the […]
First Trump tore up the union contract covering 47,000 TSA workers. Then he did the same for almost a million more federal workers. Now TSA workers are sounding the alarm. They warn Trump is putting our safety in jeopardy — and it could lead to another 9/11. —– More Perfect […]
Private equity dominates the fire truck market. They bought in looking to double profits — now communities everywhere are paying the price. Trump blames other countries for stealing American manufacturing, but he’s ignoring the problem of massive corporate greed. —– More Perfect Union’s mission is to build power for working […]
Bernie Sanders is drawing the largest crowds he’s ever seen, and an upcoming rally in LA could be his biggest yet. We went to Denver to see why tens of thousands of people across the political spectrum want to fight oligarchy. —– More Perfect Union’s mission is to build power […]
Dr. Mehmet Oz, the recently-confirmed administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. says that he wants to expand Medicare Advantage — a program that former health insurance executive Wendell Potter calls “one of the biggest scams […] we’ve seen in this country.” It lets private health insurers siphon […]
