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9:10 AM ET, January 24, 2017

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Ashley Parker / Washington Post:
The first days inside Trump's White House: Fury, tumult and a reboot  —  President Trump had just returned to the White House on Saturday from his final inauguration event, a tranquil interfaith prayer service, when the flashes of anger began to build.  —  Trump turned on the television …
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Mike Allen / Axios:
The Trump show: a new drama  —  This West Wing is a tough neighborhood.  Even after Sean Spicer's successful get-back-on-the-horse presser yesterday, we were told that a top White House official was discussing his possible replacement.  On Day 4!  With 1,457 to go in this term.
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and Political Wire
Nancy Cook / Politico:
Trump assembles a shadow Cabinet  —  The White House is installing senior aides atop major federal agencies to shadow the administration's Cabinet secretaries, creating a direct line with loyalists who can monitor and shape White House goals across the federal bureaucracy.
Discussion: Political Wire
Lisa Hagen / The Hill:
Spicer: ‘Negative’ Trump coverage is ‘demoralizing’
Discussion: Politico
New York Times:
Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers  —  WASHINGTON — President Trump used his first official meeting with congressional leaders on Monday to falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority, a return to his obsession …
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Abby Phillip / Washington Post:
Without evidence, Trump tells lawmakers 3 million to 5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote  —  Days after being sworn in, President Trump insisted to congressional leaders invited to a reception at the White House that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for millions …
ProPublica:
Trump Administration Imposes Freeze On EPA Grants and Contracts  —  The Trump administration has imposed a freeze on grants and contracts by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a move that could affect a significant part of the agency's budget allocations and even threaten …
Discussion: Washington Post and The Week
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Kate Sheppard / The Huffington Post:
EPA Freezes Grants, Tells Employees Not To Talk About It, Sources Say  —  It's unclear whether the freeze is temporary or indefinite.  —  WASHINGTON The Environmental Protection Agency has frozen its grant programs, according to sources there.  —  EPA staff has been instructed to freeze …
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
Senate Democrats set to unveil a Trump-size infrastructure plan  —  A group of senior Senate Democrats on Tuesday plan to unveil their own $1 trillion plan to revamp the nation's airports, bridges, roads and seaports, urging President Trump to back their proposal, which they say would create 15 million jobs over 10 years.
Discussion: Political Wire
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New York Times:
Senate Democrats to Unveil $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan
Discussion: Talking Points Memo
Jenna Lifhits / Weekly Standard:
Republicans Rethinking Relationship with Schumer after Pompeo Incident
Matthew Dessem / Slate:
Oh, Saturday Night Live, Honey, No  —  Oh jeez, Saturday Night Live.  You didn't have to do this.  Really, you didn't.  You got away with the Hillary-Clinton-singing-"Hallelujah" thing, but that was a uniquely terrible week (and long before it was apparent that Hillary Clinton had, in fact, given up).
Discussion: Hit & Run
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Nellie Andreeva / Deadline:
‘Saturday Night Live’ Writer Katie Rich Suspended Over Barron Trump Tweet, Issues Apology
Sean Langille / Washington Examiner:
Limo torched in DC protests belongs to Muslim immigrant, may cost $70,000 in damages  —  The limousine that was set on fire during the anti-Trump anarchist protest in downtown Washington on Inauguration Day is owned by a Muslim immigrant who says the damage could cost his company $70,000.
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Siraj Hashmi / Red Alert Politics:
Anti-Trump protesters ruin Muslim immigrant's livelihood by torching limo
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Betsy's Page
Federal Register:
Special Observances: National Day of Patriotic Devotion (Proc.  9570)  —  An unpublished Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President on 01/24/2017  —  This document is unpublished.  It is scheduled to be published on 01/24/2017.  —  Once it is published it will be available on this page in an official form.
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Henry Farrell / Washington Post:
This is how Donald Trump engineers applause  —  When Donald Trump visited the CIA over the weekend to make a speech, many commentators noted that his audience clapped and cheered enthusiastically.  Now, according to CBS News, intelligence sources are pushing back:
Associated Press:
Trump's Pick for Health Secretary Faces New Senate Hearing  —  A second Senate committee is ready to interrogate President Donald Trump's pick for health secretary, a nominee who's backed by Republicans but under fire from Democrats for his support for tearing down President Barack Obama's health care overhaul and his past stock trades.
Discussion: Axios and Politico
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Associated Press:
Trump Budget Pick Mulvaney Faces Senate Hearing
Discussion: Politico
Ricardo Lopez / Star Tribune:
Dayton's message cut short by collapse during State of State address  —  Before fainting briefly and recovering, governor laid out new spending goals.  —  Video (01:26) : Gov. Mark Dayton collapsed while delivering his State of the State speech on Monday, striking his head on a lectern.
Discussion: Power Line
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Robert Costa / Washington Post:
Trump's latest hire alarms allies of Ryan — and bolsters Bannon  —  When House Speaker Paul D. Ryan's red-brick Georgian revival in Janesville, Wis., was surrounded last July by women whose children were murdered by undocumented immigrants, conservative writer Julia Hahn published a scathing report …
Michael Grunwald / Politico:
How Trump Could Shrink the Government (While Still Keeping the Good Stuff)  —  Donald Trump's political brand is about fighting and winning, and he has promised to fight and win a war on big government.  As a candidate, he often attacked the federal bureaucracy as a bloated monstrosity teeming with …
Tyler Cowen / Bloomberg:
Why Trump's Staff Is Lying  —  One of the most striking features of the early Trump administration has been its political uses of lying.  The big weekend story was the obviously false claim of Donald Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, that Trump pulled in the largest inauguration crowds in American history.
Grabien News RSS:
DNC Chair Candidates Bash White People in Racially-Charged Forum  —  ‘My job is to shut other white people down’  —  Candidates aspiring to take over as chairman of the Democratic National Committee met Monday night to discuss what went wrong in 2016 and how to get the party back on track.
Ashley Feinberg / The Slot:
Melania Trump Definitely Loves Her Husband and Is Very Happy to Be Here  —  Remember the inauguration?  That was fun, wasn't it?  We all had a very nice and good time welcoming in our new president, Donald J. Trump.  But of all the many, many happy people in attendance …
Rebecca Traister / New York Magazine:
The Future of the Left Is Female  —  Women's rights are human rights, and women leaders are progressive leaders.  —  A lot of people predicted that women were going to change America's political history in January of 2017.  But pretty much no one anticipated that they'd be doing it as leaders of the resistance.
Discussion: The Federalist
Tara Palmeri / Politico:
Trump moves to put his own stamp on Voice of America  —  President Donald Trump on Monday dispatched two aides to scope out the studios of Voice of America, heightening concerns among some longtime staffers that Trump may quickly put his stamp on the broadcasting arm that has long pushed U.S. democratic ideals across the world.
The Huffington Post:
Of Course The CIA Gave Trump Standing Ovations.  He Never Let Them Sit.  —  President Trump is bragging about his standing ovations, but he never asked CIA employees to take their seats.  —  S.V. Date  —  WASHINGTON - While President Donald Trump brags about how hundreds of CIA employees gave …
Discussion: Hot Air and CBS News
Mike Allen / Axios:
Trump 101: What he reads and watches  —  President Trump spends substantial time and energy ridiculing the media.  He spends even more time consuming —and obsessing about — it.  —  Print copies of three newspapers.  When Billy Bush was on, “Access Hollywood” every night.
Discussion: The Week
 
 
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Alan Levinovitz / Slate:
Trump Sold America a Miracle Cure
Discussion: Hullabaloo
Rob Bradford / It Is What It Is:
Tom Brady offers new insight to relationship with Donald Trump, recent phone call
Discussion: IJR, ProFootballTalk and CNN
Michelle Ye Hee Lee / Washington Post:
Trump's unsupported claim he has ‘received awards on the environment’
Janko Roettgers / Variety:
White House Shuts Down Phone Comment Line, Tells Callers to Use Non-Existent Facebook Messenger Account Instead
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg:
Alphabet Gets Robotics Pioneer Back After Her Stint With Apple
Discussion: Axios and The Verge
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Poll: Trump's opening weekend gets lowest approval of modern era
Discussion: FiveThirtyEight
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Trump's speech wasn't divisive. He said he'd fight for all Americans.
Discussion: FOX News Radio
 Earlier Items: 
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
FBI reviewed Flynn's calls with Russian ambassador but found nothing illicit
Discussion: NBC News and The Daily Caller
Josh Gerstein / Politico:
Pompeo confirmed, sworn in as head of CIA
Stephen Piggott / Southern Poverty Law Center:
Former Executive Director of Anti-Immigrant Hate Group FAIR Joins Trump Administration
Emily Peck / The Huffington Post:
New York Times Apologizes For Much-Ridiculed Story About Fathers
Michael Hiltzik / Los Angeles Times:
Column U.S. judge finds that Aetna misled the public about its reasons for quitting Obamacare
Discussion: The Week and Talking Points Memo