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8:45 PM ET, January 28, 2025

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Daniel Barnes / NBC News:
D.C. federal judge temporarily blocks Trump plan to pause federal aid spending  —  The order from Judge Loren AliKhan runs through next Monday, when further arguments in the case are scheduled.  —  Trump administration freezes nearly all federal grants and loans
Washington Post:
White House incentivizes federal workers to resign  —  The email sent to the federal workforce is the most sweeping effort yet by the new Trump administration to shrink the ranks of government employees.  —  The White House's Office of Personnel Management sent an email blast Tuesday …
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months' pay in effort to shrink size of government  —  The White House on Tuesday began offering buyouts worth seven months of salary to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by Feb. 6 — part of President Donald Trump's unprecedented overhaul of the U.S. government.
Chicago Sun Times:
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans  —  The Trump administration's federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB Pritzker's office.  The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
White House says Medicaid portal ‘will be back online shortly’ after Trump funding freeze blamed … Medicaid reimbursement portals were down Tuesday in every U.S. state on the heels of a funding freeze ordered by the Trump administration of federal grants and loans, Sen. Ron Wyden said.
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Republican congressman suggests some children receiving free school lunches should work at McDonald's instead  —  Rep. Rich McCormick said that the freeze on federal aid would allow the government to review all programs including ones that provide free school lunches to low-income children.
Discussion: New Republic and Raw Story
Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
Legal battle looms as Trump orders a funding freeze during a review of federal loans and grants  —  The White House is pausing federal grants and loans starting Tuesday as President Donald Trump's administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending …
CBS News:
Medicaid, Head Start, health centers say they're locked out of federal funding website  —  A wide range of organizations and agencies that depend on federal health department funds say they have been locked out of the online system responsible for tracking and depositing their money …
Politico:
Judge blocks Trump's spending freeze
CNN:
Pamela Brown asks GOP lawmaker if he'd support cutting free lunches for vulnerable students
Discussion: USA Today
Joseph Choi / The Hill:
States' Medicaid portal access restored after lapse under Trump, but it's ‘not functioning correctly’
Discussion: Bloomberg and WCIA.com
NBC News:
Trump's funding freeze creates widespread confusion
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management  —  Sources tell WIRED that the OPM's top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir.  One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
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Associated Press:
Caroline Kennedy warns senators that cousin RFK Jr. is a ‘predator’
Washington Post:
Trump moves to fire members of EEOC and NLRB, breaking with precedent  —  The dismissals target two independent agencies that oversee large swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.  —  President Donald Trump has moved to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions …
Discussion: Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
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Josh Eidelson / Bloomberg:
Trump Ousts Top Labor Board Leaders Who Backed Broader Worker Rights
New York Times:
Trump Fired E.E.O.C. Commissioners in Late-Night Purge
Discussion: HuffPost, TheGrio and GovExec.com
Reuters:
Americans sour on some of Trump's early moves, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  —  Americans have a dim view of some of President Donald Trump's early barrage of executive orders, including his attempt to do away with so-called birthright citizenship and his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Discussion: Carolina Journal
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Live Updates: White House Defends Trump's Funding Freeze as Opponents Rush to Block It  —  Where Things Stand  — Federal aid pause: The White House budget office ordered a pause in grants, loans and other federal financial assistance, a sweeping move it said was necessary to bring …
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Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Special counsel prosecutors were fired on instructions of White House
Discussion: New York Times
Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump briefing begins with pledge to boost outside media
Damian Paletta / Wall Street Journal:   White House Budget Freeze Tried to Flip Script on Busted Budget Process
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Trump's Attempt to Usurp Congress's Spending Power  —  The Trump Administration is undertaking what amounts to a wide-ranging assault on Congress's power of the purse, seeking instead to usurp authority over federal spending.  Today, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo mandating a …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:   Trump barrels through guardrails, daring courts and Congress to stop him
Mike Lillis / The Hill:
Democrats to hold ‘emergency’ meeting on Trump's spending freeze
New York Times:
Trump's Order on Transgender Troops Will Likely Ban Their Service, Again  —  In an executive order issued Monday night, the president said transgender service members “cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary” for the military.  —  Hours after President Trump signed …
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Paul Krugman / The Contrarian:
Departing the New York Times  —  As many people reading this know, last month I retired from my position as an opinion writer at the New York Times—a job I had done for 25 years.  Despite the encomiums issued by the Times, it was not a happy departure.  If you check out my Substack …
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Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
Michigan's Gary Peters won't seek reelection to U.S. Senate.  Here's why  —  Washington ― Gary Peters, Michigan's senior senator and a former congressman, said he won't seek reelection next year and will retire from the U.S. Senate when his second term ends in January 2027.
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The White House:
Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Policy and Purpose.  Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming …
Clea Caulcutt / Politico:
France floated sending troops to Greenland, foreign minister says  —  The comments came as Denmark's prime minister travels to Berlin, Paris and Brussels to shore up support from allies.  —  PARIS — France has discussed with Denmark sending troops to Greenland in response …
Discussion: Raw Story and Breaking Defense
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Politico:
Europe's leaders plot to stop Trump from taking Greenland
Discussion: Al Jazeera
Fox News:
Pentagon pulling Gen. Milley's security detail and clearance ‘immediately,’ may face demotion in retirement  —  EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is “immediately pulling” retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News.
NBC News:
Tuberculosis outbreak that has killed 2 in Kansas continues to grow  —  More than 60 people were being treated for the disease in the Kansas City area as of Friday, according to the state health department.  —  The number of tuberculosis cases linked to an outbreak in the Kansas City area continues …
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Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga / KCUR:
Kansas' tuberculosis outbreak is now the largest in the U.S. since the 1950s
Discussion: New York Times, Esquire, WHDH-TV and WVEC
 
 
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Is Sought for Charges of Soliciting Minor
Discussion: The Guardian and Tampa Bay Times
Associated Press:
Some Trump voters are skeptical of his opening moves to embrace fellow billionaires
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Google reclassifies U.S. as ‘sensitive country’ alongside China, Russia after Trump's ‘Gulf of America’ comments
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Jim Acosta / The Jim Acosta Show:
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Washington Post:
RFK Jr. disparaged vaccines dozens of times in recent years and made baseless claims on race
Discussion: Daily Kos and The New European
Washington Post:
Smithsonian to close diversity office after Trump order
Discussion: New York Times and ARTnews
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Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Senator Ted Cruz is trying to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren
Dave Lawler / Axios:
White House on mysterious drone swarms: “This was not the enemy”
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Man charged with carrying Molotov cocktails into the Capitol was targeting Johnson, Hegseth, Bessent
G. Elliott Morris / ABC News:
Once again, Trump starts a term with a weak approval rating
Discussion: Newsweek and Townhall
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Democrats' playbook for Trump 2.0: Tune out the noise and focus on economic issues
 

 
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