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  2. Civil forfeiture in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Although there are accessible statistics of seizures at the federal level, it often happens that the totals of forfeitures from both criminals and innocent owners are combined; for example, one report was that in 2010, government seized $2.5 billion in assets from criminals and innocent owners by forfeiture methods, [15] and the totals of ...

  3. Parkinson's law - Wikipedia

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    From English history, Parkinson notes a number of bodies that lost power as they grew: The first cabinet was the Council of the Crown, now the House of Lords , which grew from an unknown number to 29, to 50 before 1600, by which time it had lost much of its power.

  4. List of metonyms - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of common metonyms. [n 1] A metonym is a figure of speech used in rhetoric in which a thing or concept is not called by its own name, but by the name of something intimately associated with that thing or concept.

  5. ‘Took away my hope.’ Federal workers say Trump mass firings ...

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    DOGE aims to slash government spending. The Department of Government Efficiency, led by Elon Musk, has been tearing through federal agencies, moving to shutter some and drastically cut back others ...

  6. Shockwaves for DC regional economy: Trump layoffs spur surge ...

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    The projected 100,000 federal job cuts will also likely mean thousands more additional job losses as restaurants, retailers and other D.C. businesses that rely on sales to federal workers scale ...

  7. Pentagon to trim civilian workforce by up to 8% - AOL

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    (The Center Square) – As the Pentagon re-evaluates its probationary workforce, it is considering cutting up to 8% of its civilian workforce, a top official said Friday. Darin Selnick, performing ...

  8. Glossary of American politics - Wikipedia

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    Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...

  9. List of U.S. government and military acronyms - Wikipedia

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    List of initialisms, acronyms ("words made from parts of other words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military of the United States. Note that this list is intended to be specific to the United States government and military—other nations will have their own acronyms.