The Trump administration finalized a new policy on Thursday that would strip job protections from up to 50,000 federal workers, a move that would make it easier for President Trump to remove or discipline them, in his latest effort to dismantle the federal work force.
This past year, the U.S. military has made headlines numerous times, not least of which was President Trump’s decision to deploy the National Guard to cities across the country despite there being no apparent crisis. Amid ongoing questions about federal oversight and policy shifts concerning national security, one thing that has not changed is the fact that service members have whistleblower rights. That is why Government Accountability Project has published its latest guide, “Truth-Telling in the Military: A Guide to Whistleblowing for Service Members.”
Government Accountability Project today released “Truth-Telling in the Military: A Guide to Whistleblowing for Service Members,” a comprehensive resource explaining how service members can lawfully report serious wrongdoing through protected channels.
Lawmakers from both parties and houses of Congress have agreed to provide about $653 million to fund Voice of America’s parent agency, rejecting President Donald Trump’s demand to defund the international broadcaster and shut it down. A bipartisan spending bill released Sunday would allocate $643 million for broadcasting from the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which oversees VOA, plus nearly $10 million for capital improvements.
A federal bipartisan AI whistleblower law was introduced in May 2025 and is in its early stages. While this bill makes its way through Congress and federal efforts to preempt state AI laws advance, employers must be aware that employees who report concerns about AI tools in healthcare diagnostics may be protected by existing whistleblower laws.
Today, Government Accountability Project and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) released a comprehensive step-by-step guide for countries to build or strengthen whistleblower protections and develop legal frameworks aligned with international standards and good practices.
The topic of whistleblowers and whistleblower rights may seem like a niche or technical concept, but it actually greatly impacts you. If you don’t know how whistleblowers protect you every day, here are some questions to think about.
In this moment of democratic backsliding, whistleblowers show that civil disobedience – breaking the law to uphold the public good – remains an essential principle of political and moral life. They also show how legal reform and support networks designed to protect whistleblowers are critical for protecting accountability and democracy itself.
"A senior scientist from the FDA, Dr. David Graham, sat before a microphone. He wasn't there to tow the company line. He wasn't there to protect the agency's reputation. He was there to blow the whistle. He looked at the senators and he delivered a line that would chill the pharmaceutical industry to the bone. He called the Vioxx saga... 'the single greatest drug safety catastrophe in history.'"
Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) staffers who signed a letter critical of the Trump administration were unsuspended, then resuspended when the administration learned about their reinstatement.
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