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CNBC:
Trump to pause enforcement of law banning bribery of foreign officials … - CNBC Councils  — CNBC on Peacock  — Join the CNBC Panel  — Supply Chain Values  — Select Shopping  — Ad Choices  — News Tips  —  Got a confidential news tip?  We want to hear from you.
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Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Scoop: Trump planning to pardon Rod Blagojevich … - Blagojevich, who was a Democrat while in office, supported Trump in the 2024 election and attended the Republican National Convention.  — The former governor defended Trump after Trump was indicted in the New York hush money case and likened Trump's legal problems to his own.
Myah Ward / Politico:
Trump removes Government Ethics Office director
Discussion: Federal News Network and E&E News
Jenny Leonard / Bloomberg:
Trump Eases Enforcement of Law Banning Overseas Bribes
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Schumer signals Democrats won't pick a shutdown fight
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump removes director of government ethics office
Discussion: CBS News and USA Today
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ProPublica:
The Courts Blocked Trump's Federal Funding Freeze.  Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.  —  ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.  —  When the federal courts first blocked …
STAT:
Federal judge halts Trump administration cuts to NIH research payments in 22 states  —  Attorneys general seek court order to halt 15% cap on research overhead costs  —  Attorneys general representing 22 states sued the Trump administration on Monday, asking a federal judge to temporarily block …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge says Trump administration violating order to lift spending freeze  —  The judge ordered the administration to “immediately restore frozen funding.”  —  A federal judge says the Trump administration has been violating his order to resume funding federal grants that the White House attempted …
Washington Post:
19-year-old Musk surrogate has State Department email address  —  The move illustrates that Elon Musk's U.S. DOGE Service aides are being asked to fulfill multiple roles at once.
Discussion: IJR, Nextgov/FCW and Townhall
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Bloomberg:
DOGE-Backed Halt at CFPB Comes Amid Musk's Plans for ‘X’ Digital Wallet
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Zeke Miller / Associated Press:
Live updates: Trump says Palestinians won't have right to return to Gaza under his plan for the territory
New York Times:
Trump Says Palestinians Will Not Be Allowed to Return to Gaza Under His Proposal
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Trump's Actions Have Created a Constitutional Crisis, Scholars Say  —  Law professors have long debated what the term means.  But now many have concluded that the nation faces a reckoning as President Trump tests the boundaries of executive power.  —  There is no universally accepted definition …
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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:   Trump Muses About a Third Term, Over and Over Again
Wall Street Journal:
Exclusive |  Elon Musk-Led Group Makes $97.4 Billion Bid for Control of OpenAI  —  The unsolicited offer complicates Sam Altman's plans to convert OpenAI to a for-profit company.
Steve Beynon / Military.com:
Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event  —  The Army and other service branches are abandoning recruiting efforts at a prestigious Black engineering event this week, turning down access to a key pool of highly qualified potential applicants amid President …
Washington Post:
Trump announces fresh round of tariffs on steel and aluminum  —  Additional trade measures are expected as soon as tomorrow  —  President Donald Trump signed executive orders on Monday imposing 25-percent tariffs on imported steel and aluminum, the latest salvo in his ongoing effort to overhaul …
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Imposes Global 25% Steel, Aluminum Tariffs
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The NSA's “Big Delete”  —  Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a “Big Delete” of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including “privilege,” “bias,” and “inclusion.”  The “Big Delete,” according to an NSA source and internal correspondence reviewed …
Discussion: Raw Story and The Daily Caller
New York Times:
Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.  —  When we had the honor of being sworn in as the 70th, 71st, 75th, 76th and 78th secretaries of the Treasury, we took an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution.
Washington Post:
Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds  —  The White House had repeatedly said the funding freeze would not impact benefits that go directly to individuals.  —  Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department …
Discussion: Raw Story
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Tesla Is Elon Musk's Soft Underbelly  —  Tesla's brand is toxic and its sales are in the toilet.  That's how you hurt Musk.  —  ∙ Paid  —  1. Consequences  —  Tesla sales have fallen off a cliff.  —  This fact is satisfying on moral, spiritual, and psychosexual levels.
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: FBI finds secret JFK assassination records after Trump order … - The existence of the new documents was disclosed Friday to the White House, when the Office of the Director of National Intelligence submitted its plan to disclose the assassination records under Trump's order.
Sherrilyn Ifill / Sherrilyn's Newsletter:
Democracy is Crumbling.  Is Anybody Doing Anything?  —  This past weekend a federal district court in Massachusetts issued a nationwide injunction ordering Elon Musk and his team of young tech supremacists to stop accessing payment and other systems at the Department of Treasury …
Discussion: mai まい and Wait - what ?
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“'Women' is a banned word”: Trump uses trans panic to strip rights from all women  —  Under the guise of “protecting women,” the military, schools and labs are forced to take women's safety away  —  In a country where 1 out of 6 women have experienced rape or attempted rape …
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Wall Street Journal:
For CEOs and Bankers, the Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast  —  Deals market gets curtailed by uncertainty delivered in president's first weeks  —  It took less than a month for the second Trump administration to cool the enthusiasm of chief executives and dealmakers.
Discussion: American Prospect
Roberto Wakerell-Cruz / The Post Millennial:
BREAKING: Steve Bannon avoids jail time in plea deal  —  Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon will plead guilty in his border wall fraud case in New York in exchange for no prison time. … Minute Read  —  Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon will plead guilty …
Rolling Stone:
Trump Has a ‘List’ of National Archives Staff to Fire as Revenge for Docs Scandal  —  The president dismissed the head of the Archives last week.  The rest of the nonpartisan institution is preparing for more  —  In recent months, Donald Trump asked advisers for a “list” …
Discussion: AHA and Raw Story
Jordan Valinsky / CNN:
Costco and Trader Joe's are limiting how many eggs people can buy  —  New York CNN —  Costco and Trader Joe's are limiting the number of eggs customers can buy because of a shortage caused by the avian flu.  —  “Due to ongoing issues with the supply of eggs, we are currently limiting egg purchases …
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
FBI must disclose more info about Trump classified docs case, judge rules  —  The judge noted that while the dropped charges against Trump reduced his criminal exposure, they “ironically” made him more susceptible to public scrutiny.  —  The dismissal of criminal charges against Donald …
Discussion: New Republic
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Trump administration seeks urgent end of ‘impermissible’ court order blocking access to Treasury systems  —  The order blocked DOGE access to a critical government payment mechanism.  —  The Trump administration is making an urgent push to end a court order barring top officials' access …
US Department of Justice:
Alabama Man Pleads Guilty in Connection with Securities and Exchange Commission X Account Hack  —  For Immediate Release  —  An Alabama man pleaded guilty today in connection with the January 2024 unauthorized takeover of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)'s social media account on X …
Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
Musk alleges FEMA reimbursed NYC hotels $59 million for housing illegal immigrants  —  Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency alleged that the Biden administration spent tens of millions of taxpayer dollars paying for “luxury hotels” in New York City, where thousands …
Ellen Knickmeyer / Associated Press:
USAID staffers turned away from offices even after court suspends leave order  —  Scores of U.S. Agency for International Development staffers who showed up for work Monday at its Washington headquarters were turned away after the Trump administration stripped the aid agency of its lease.
Discussion: Associated Press and Twin Cities
Associated Press:
Fired head of the agency that protects whistleblowers sues Trump, saying he was ousted illegally  —  The recently fired head of the Office of Special Counsel, a federal agency dedicated to protecting whistleblowers, sued President Donald Trump on Monday, saying he was illegally ousted as part …
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship  —  And they're not even trying to hide it at this point. … 🗣️ 🎤 🤯  —  Donald Trump is busy seizing power through executive orders and letting Elon Musk and his gang of racist DOGE bros run amok through America's government agencies.
Discussion: Reuters
 
 
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Supreme Court lawyer Tom Goldstein rearrested as flight risk after hiding cryptocurrency, prosecutors say
Washington Post:
Trump expected to order a crackdown on D.C. crime, homeless encampments
Discussion: NOTUS
Beege Welborn / HotAir:
Now That There's No $ From USAID, Romania May Get the Guy They Voted for the First Time
David Strom / HotAir:
Liberal Magazine: Hitler Knew How to Fund Science, Unlike Trump
Ryan Levi / NPR:
Why many Republicans think shrinking Medicaid will make it better
Discussion: Instapundit, Jacobin and Raw Story
Haley Byrd Wilt / NOTUS:
Trump State Department Official Has Called for Sterilizing ‘Feral’ Populations
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Benjamin Wittes / Default:
Are The Courts Up To The Situation?  —  The institutional challenges to pushback from the judiciary.
Matt Burgess / Wired:
US Funding Cuts Are Helping Criminals Get Away With Child Abuse and Human Trafficking
Discussion: Raw Story
Jason Furman / Foreign Affairs:
The Post-Neoliberal Delusion - And the Tragedy of Bidenomics
Discussion: Slow Boring
Wall Street Journal:
DHS Seeks to Deputize IRS Officers to Help With Deportation Effort
Jack Detsch / Politico:
Trump fires boards of U.S. military service academies
Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Mark my words’: George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could ‘end’ U.S. democracy
 

 
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