Not a Doctor

  • Foreign aid is a test balloon — and its future is now up to Congress

    The Trump administration has targeted USAID before moving on to other controversial cuts. This time may be no different. Last Tuesday, President Trump asked Congress to rescind $8.3 billion in foreign aid that lawmakers had already approved in 2024 and 2025 budgets. I reported on what this means, especially for HIV prevention and treatment, for…

    Melody Schreiber

  • Conflicting advice on “last week” email

    On Saturday afternoon, federal employees received an email asking what they did last week. Then the confusion set in. Some employees refused to open the email, which was from an unusual address through the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), for fear that it was a phishing attempt. Some inboxes sent the email directly to spam.…

    Melody Schreiber

  • What federal employees did last week

    All federal employees received a short email on Saturday afternoon with unusual instructions. The subject line was “What did you do last week?” Here’s the entirety of the message, which was marked high priority: Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week and cc your manager. Please do…

    Melody Schreiber