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The roof leaks over Lt. Cliff Barliss's cot, water trickles from the shower onto the tiny kitchen area, and the narrow stairs to the second floor feature a big outline of a body painted on the wall marking the spot where a firefighter fell as he raced down the twisting wood stairs to respond to a call, one of some 1,700 last year.
An internal government watchdog and members of Congress are separately investigating new allegations that a Department of Government Efficiency staffer potentially misused sensitive Social Security data.
The Social Security Administration's inspector general notified the leaders of several House and Senate committees on March 6 that it is reviewing an anonymous complaint "on matters relating to the potential misuse of SSA data by a former DOGE employee, among other allegations," according to a copy of the letter obtained by NPR.
The Trump administration's latest "cruel" plea to the Supreme Court sparked outrage among political analysts and observers on Wednesday.
Social Security’s inspector general is probing a whistleblower complaint that a former employee of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency claimed he had access to two Social Security databases and planned to share them with a new employer, a report said Tuesday, the latest security accusation in the post-DOGE era.
Critics of the Department of Government Efficiency are sounding the alarm after the Washington Postreported Tuesday that the Social Security
One week into President Trump’s war against Iran, members of Connecticut’s congressional delegation paint a bleak picture of the campaign.
Appearing at a Hartford press conference, Democratic senators Richard Blumenthal and Chris Murphy and Rep. John Larson (D-CT1) called the campaign illegal and unpopular, lacking definitive goals and plagued by bleak operational options that could get thousands of U.S. troops killed.
Connecticut’s two United States senators and Hartford’s Congressman joined at the state Capitol on Friday to voice strong opposition to President Donald Trump’s decision to start a war against Iran.
The Democrats said the war was flatly illegal as Trump did not seek the approval of Congress.
HARTFORD, CT — Nearly a week into what Connecticut’s congressional delegation calls the most significant American military action in the Middle East since the Iraq War, the state’s U.S. senators and a House member accused President Donald Trump of waging an illegal war without congressional authorization and warned the conflict could escalate into a ground invasion, costing thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars.
March 6, 2026 — U.S. Senator Chris Murphy joined U.S. Representative Jahana Hayes and U.S. Representative John Larson for a visit to EdAdvance’s Early Childhood Learning Center in Torrington to meet with agency leaders and staff to discuss the impact of federal funding cuts and uncertainties on programs serving children, families, and schools across northwest Connecticut.
The IRS chief executive officer, Frank Bisignano, largely declined to offer specifics when asked about unlawful disclosures of taxpayer data to Immigration and Customs Enforcement during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on Wednesday.