The Best of the Week’s News

• Cheap kills: White House cancels 2026 OSHA penalty increases. (Confined Space)
   

• Trump pledged $10 billion of your tax dollars for his corrupt “Board of Peace,” but lawmakers object to the massive slush fund. (Jezebel, Hill)
   

• Elon Musk and DOGE killed a program that controlled the screwworm parasite across the Americas. Now the blight has spread to the United States, threatening the beef industry. (HuffPo, Common Dreams)
   

• Lawyers caught using AI, judge kicks both sides off the case. (404 media)
   

• DOGE planned to mark 27 million living taxpayers as dead to pressure them to leave the country, whistleblower claims. (WaPo)