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6:55 AM ET, February 25, 2025

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Washington Post:
Trump administration tells agencies they can ignore Musk order on email reply  —  The Office of Personnel Management told HR officials that employees wouldn't be let go for not replying to an email asking what they did last week.  —  The Trump administration has told federal agency leaders …
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NBC News:
Federal workers and agencies push back against Elon Musk's email ultimatum  —  The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond.  —  WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they'd accomplished over the past week …
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Questions Constitutionality of Musk's Cost-Cutting Operation  —  The judge expressed concern over the unresolved issues about who is in charge of Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency, if it is not Mr. Musk, as the White House has claimed.
Discussion: Raw Story and Scripps News
Allan Smith / NBC News:
HHS warns employees that responses to Elon Musk's email may ‘be read by malign foreign actors’
James Liddell / The Independent:
Elon Musk makes an admission about the productivity email his group sent to federal workers
New York Times:
Trump Administration, Breaking With Musk's Directive, Says Replying to His Email Is Voluntary
Megan Messerly / Politico:
Trump backs off Musk's 5 things threat — sort of
New York Times:
Trump Administration Highlights: Personnel Officials Say Musk's Directive Is ‘Voluntary’  —  Where Things Stand  — Musk's ultimatum: Federal personnel officials walked back Elon Musk's demand that government workers justify their jobs in an email or face termination, saying that his request had been “voluntary.”
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Anita Powell / Voice of America:
Trump hosts French leader to discuss Ukraine endgame  —  President Donald Trump said Monday he's nearing a deal with Ukraine and with Russia to end the war in Ukraine after a packed day of meetings at the White House with French President Emmanuel Macron.  —  Trump urged Europe to take a bigger role …
Rolling Stone:
Elon's Email Demand Is Being Met With ‘Very Rude’ Flood of Spam  —  After Musk told federal employees to list five accomplishments or be fired, internet users are encouraging people to flood the email with spam  —  President Donald Trump has let tech billionaire Elon Musk run rampant through …
Eric Katz / GovExec.com:
Oversight agency finds Trump's federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated  —  An independent federal oversight agency has deemed at least some of President Trump's mass firings of probationary period employees unlawful, creating a pathway for those employees to regain their jobs.
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Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Government Watchdog Moves to Protect Probationary Federal Workers  —  Hampton Dellinger, the head of the Office of Special Counsel, recommended pausing the mass firings of some probationary federal employees.  —  A government watchdog lawyer whose dismissal by President Trump has been stalled …
Discussion: USA Today
Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:   Government Oversight Agency Rules Elon Musk's Mass Firings Are Illegal
Politico:
Government funding deal ‘very close’ as negotiations hinge on Trump power struggle  —  The fight over curbing President Donald Trump's ability to freeze cash is now the make-or-break dispute as leading lawmakers close in on a deal to avert a government shutdown next month.
Discussion: The Hill
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Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's New Deputy F.B.I. Director Has It Out for the ‘Scumbag Commie Libs’  —  When a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts last year, the conservative podcaster Dan Bongino made a veiled threat on social media.  “The irony about this for the scumbag commie libs …
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David Gilbert / Wired:
How Dan Bongino Went From Infowars to FBI Deputy Director
NBC News:
FBI agents express shock and dismay over naming of right-wing podcaster to No. 2 post
Discussion: Talking Points Memo and The Hill
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war  —  BREAKING NEWS: U.S. sides with Russia to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning Moscow for the Ukraine  —  Washington's dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides …
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
U.S. Clashes With European Allies at the U.N. Over Ukraine  —  The United States voted against a resolution, backed by most of Europe, demanding Russian withdrawal from Ukraine — a deep fissure between allies, and a sharp shift in American policy.  —  A showdown over Ukraine between …
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia's war against Ukraine
Jonathan Shorman / Kansas City Star:
Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall  —  Ariel Mollhagen couldn't hear what U.S. Rep. Mark Alford was saying but she didn't really need to.  The crowd's reaction told the story.  —  During an extraordinarily heated town hall on Monday …
Discussion: The Independent, Mediaite and Raw Story
Politico:
Documents reveal how military contractors want to take over mass deportations  —  The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties.  —  A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince, has pitched the Trump White House on a proposal …
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Jack Blanchard / Politico:
Playbook: Prayers for Mike Johnson
Discussion: Punchbowl News and The Hill
Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Hackers play AI video of Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet on cafeteria screens at HUD headquarters: ‘LONG LIVE THE REAL KING’  —  Cyberpunks breached a television at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday morning, broadcasting a stomach-turning AI video of President Trump caressing …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
AI video of Trump kissing Musk's feet plays on TVs in HUD building
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / NBC News:
FDA rehires staff to its medical devices division after mass layoffs  —  Around 180 FDA medical device workers were laid off this month by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.  —  The Trump administration is reinstating some employees in the Food and Drug Administration's medical devices division …
Discussion: Forbes, Associated Press and STAT
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Christina Jewett / New York Times:   F.D.A. Reinstates Fired Medical Device, Food and Legal Staffers
CNN:
Federal judge declines to temporarily restore AP's full access to White House  —  A federal judge declined on Monday to temporarily restore the Associated Press' access to some of President Donald Trump's events, the Oval Office and Air Force One.  —  US District Judge Trevor McFadden turned …
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Robert Unanue:
Goya Foods CEO, Bob Unanue, Announces Next Chapter  —  50-Year Food Industry Veteran Releases Statement After Being Left in “Limbo” by the Company's Board  —  Today, Robert “Bob” Unanue, with over 20 years as President & CEO of Goya Foods, is releasing a statement about his status …
Madison Pauly / Mother Jones:
LGBTQ Federal Workers Brace for a McCarthyist Purge  —  “They're not asking people, ‘Are you gay?  Are you lesbian?’  They're asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?’”  —  When Michael first started working in the Department of the Interior over a decade ago, he hid the fact that he was gay from his co-workers.
Bernie Becker / Politico:
Acting IRS commissioner to retire amid agency disruptions  —  The move comes after layoffs at the agency and DOGE personnel seeking access to taxpayer data.  —  Doug O'Donnell, the acting head of the IRS, is expected to announce his retirement on Tuesday amid turbulence at the tax collection agency …
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:   Acting I.R.S. Commissioner Is Expected to Announce His Retirement
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
VA axes another 1,400 employees  —  The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday fired another 1,400 employees amid outcry over a lack of transparency from the agency after 1,000 workers were axed earlier this month.  —  The VA said the individuals dismissed were “non-mission critical” …
Discussion: Fox News and Coeur d'Alene Press
Kaye Thornbrugh / Coeur d'Alene Press:
Coeur d'Alene prosecutors dismiss citation against woman dragged from town hall, city revokes security company's business license  —  COEUR d'ALENE — City prosecutors will dismiss a misdemeanor battery citation issued to the Post Falls woman who plainclothes private security guards dragged …
Discussion: KGW-TV and Bonner County Daily Bee
Zach Everson / Forbes:
CEO Devin Nunes Made $47 Million While Truth Social Parent Company Reported $401 Million In Losses In 2024  —  Devin Nunes earned $47 million in total compensation as CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group last year, although he won't be able to get his hands on all of it until March 2027 …
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
EU offers its own ‘win-win’ minerals deal to Ukraine  —  “The added value Europe offers is that we will never demand a deal that's not mutually beneficial,” top official Stéphane Séjourné says.  —  The European Union offered its own agreement on “critical materials” …
Politico:
House Republicans unfazed by protests: 'We're moving forward with the cuts'  —  Many GOP lawmakers insisted their constituents back Musk's moves.  —  Rep. Jay Obernolte's town hall in California last week was drowned out by shouts of “No king!”  Rep. Glenn Grothman entered his Wisconsin town hall …
Bloomberg:
Musk Seeks to Use Starlink Terminals in US Airspace System  — FAA says testing Starlink terminals in Atlantic City, Alaska  — Starlink is SpaceX's rapidly growing internet-from-space unit  —  Elon Musk's SpaceX is seeking to deploy Starlink satellite internet terminals to help accelerate …
 
 
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