From New York, this is Democracy Now.

As we watch Trump eliminate federal agencies, fire workers, and stop payments to Americans,

a lot of people around the country and back home are asking, frankly, what the hell is the

plan?

As Musk accuses one of the agencies he's trying to shut down of being a criminal operation, is Doge acting

like a criminal operation, illegally accessing the private financial and health information

of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands or more of Americans? As one of the Doge staffers is forced to resign had written on a now deleted social media

post, normalized Indian hate, we'll speak with Indian American Silicon Valley Congress member

Rochana, who knows Musk?

Trump and Elon Musk and their unqualified, unelected, unwanted henchmen want to be able to carry

out their attacks on your environment.

Then we'll speak to the former head of the EPA's Environmental Justice Program, which is under

attack by the Trump administration.

We'll also talk to the former head of the Office of Personnel Management and Public Citizen about their lawsuits against Doge.

All that and more coming out.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman.

President Trump's imposed sanctions on the international criminal court over its war crimes investigations against Israel.

The executive order issued Thursday accuses the ICC of engaging in, quote, illegitimate and baseless

actions targeting America and our close ally Israel, unquote.

It also says the ICC abused its power when it issued, quote, baseless arrest warrants

for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli defense minister,

Yoav Galant, over war crimes and crimes against humanity, reiterating, quote, the ICC has no jurisdiction

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