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Politico:
Johnson's spending holdouts  —  Presented by IN TODAY'S EDITION:  — Johnson, White House hammer holdouts  — Thune taps a debt-limit whisperer  — More tax complications on GOP agenda  —  EAT LIKE A LAWMAKER — POLITICO Magazine is out this morning with a rundown of where Republicans …
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Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Republicans advance a government funding bill despite Democratic opposition  —  House Republicans passed a critical test of their unity Tuesday on legislation to avoid a partial government shutdown, teeing up a final vote in the afternoon for a measure that keeps federal agencies funded through September.
Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Vance gives hard sell for spending patch to House Republicans  —  Vice President JD Vance told House Republicans hours ahead of an expected vote on a seven-month funding patch on Tuesday that Republicans will take the blame for a government shutdown if they don't pass the legislation …
CNN:
House Democrats push to sink GOP spending bill but Senate Dems act coy  —  Hakeem Jeffries and House Democrats are ready to seize on the first big leverage point of President Donald Trump's second term, lining up against a bill to avert a government shutdown this week.
NBC News:
House to vote on GOP's six-month funding bill as government shutdown deadline nears
Jordain Carney / Politico:
Schumer punts on how Senate Dems will handle GOP spending bill
New Republic:
Transcript: Trump Is Sinking. Here's Why Dems Shouldn't Save Him.
Discussion: The Hill
New York Times:
Education Department Fires 1,300 Workers, Gutting Its Staff  —  The layoffs mean that the department will now have a work force of about half the size it did when President Trump took office.  —  The Education Department announced on Tuesday that it was firing more than 1,300 workers …
Discussion: HotAir, USA Today and Raw Story
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U.S. Department of Education:
U.S. Department of Education Initiates Reduction in Force  —  As part of the Department of Education's final mission, the Department today initiated a reduction in force (RIF) impacting nearly 50% of the Department's workforce.  Impacted Department staff will be placed on administrative leave beginning Friday, March 21st.
CNN:
Education Department cutting nearly half of workforce  —  The US Education Department announced Tuesday it is cutting nearly 50% of its workforce, according to senior agency officials, as President Donald Trump has proposed eliminating the agency altogether.
Inside Higher Ed:
Education Department to Lay Off Half of Staff
Discussion: GovExec.com
NBC News:
Education Department prepares to lay off roughly half its staff
CBC News:
Ontario suspending 25% surcharge on provincially generated electricity purchased by U.S. states  —  Move comes after Trump threatened Ontario ‘will pay a financial price’ for levy  —  Ontario is suspending its promise to add a 25 per cent surcharge on exports of electricity to some U.S. states …
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Washington Post:
Trump trade war confounds CEOs, deepening economic unease  —  Trump addressed business leaders Tuesday as stock markets continue sliding over concerns about his tariff policies.  —  just now  —  President Donald Trump faced more than 100 top business leaders Tuesday …
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump will not impose 50% Canadian steel, aluminum tariffs tomorrow, says top trade advisor
New York Times:
Trump Tariffs and Trade Wars Leave Investors, Once Optimistic, Feeling Apprehensive
Discussion: Bloomberg
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:   GOPers to Trump: Maybe rethink the whole tariff thing, please?
Adam Cancryn / Politico:
White House prepares high-profile purchase of Tesla auto  —  Trump aides were arranging to bring a Tesla to the White House on Tuesday.  —  The White House announced a plan Tuesday to promote President Donald Trump's potential purchase of a Tesla, the car produced by Elon Musk …
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Ryan Bort / Rolling Stone:
Trump Cries for Elon, Blames ‘Illegal’ Liberal Boycott for Tanking Tesla
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Trump says he will label violence against Tesla as domestic terrorism
Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
Trump says he's buying a Tesla to show support for Musk as his company faces sagging sales
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The Trump team's slippery justification for deporting Mahmoud Khalil
Lily Hay Newman / Wired:
What Really Happened With the DDoS Attacks That Took Down X  —  Elon Musk said a “massive cyberattack” disrupted X on Monday and pointed to “IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area” as the source of the attack.  Security experts say that's not how it works.
Politico:
USAID official tells remaining staffers: Shred and burn all your documents  —  The mass document destruction order marks the latest step to dismantle the agency.  —  A senior official at USAID instructed the agency's remaining staff to convene at the agency's now-former headquarters …
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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:   Union Groups Ask Court to Stop Trump Officials from Destroying USAID Documents
Erin Reed / Erin In The Morning:
“Have You No Decency?”:  Republican Calls Sarah McBride “Mister,” Dems Erupt And End Hearing  —  During a meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, a Republican representative, Rep. Keith Self, called transgender congresswoman the “gentleman from Delaware.”  Dems pushed back.
Discussion: NBC News, The Hill and The Daily Wire
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CBS News:
Ukraine willing to accept 30-day ceasefire with Russia as U.S. lifts freeze on aid and intelligence  —  Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — The U.S. and Ukraine said Kyiv would accept a 30-day ceasefire with Russia after talks in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, with Washington pledging to immediately lift …
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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
Trump's Latest Weapon Against Critics: Destroying Their Lawyers  —  from the first-they-came-for-the-lawyers dept  —  When a president uses executive power to not just blacklist but effectively destroy a major law firm, solely for representing political opponents, it means he's given …
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Ryan Lucas / NPR:
Law firm says Trump order targeting it specifically is attack on rule of law
Discussion: Reuters, CNN and Blaze Media
Portland Press-Herald:
USDA halts more than $100M in funding for University of Maine System programs  —  The move temporarily pauses USDA funding for Maine's university system after President Donald Trump threatened to cut off the state over Maine's decision to allow transgender athletes to compete in sports.
Paul Glastris / Washington Monthly:
Remembering Kevin Drum  —  My friend and colleague, who died this month, was not only a pioneer blogger but also a journalist who should have won the Pulitzer Prize.  —  One day in early 2004, I called my senior editor at the Washington Monthly, Josh Marshall, with a proposition …
Wall Street Journal:
Johns Hopkins Plans Staff Layoffs After $800 Million Grant Cuts  —  Local and international health research efforts are already winding down as the university braces for even more potential cuts  —  The Trump administration has terminated $800 million in grants to Johns Hopkins University …
Wired:
Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown  —  Sources tell WIRED that Elon Musk has wanted a government shutdown in part because it would potentially make it easier to eliminate the jobs of hundreds of thousands of federal workers.  —  As President Donald Trump has been trying …
Tom Bartlett / The Atlantic:
His Daughter Was America's First Measles Death in a Decade  —  A visit with a family in mourning  —  Peter greeted me in the mostly empty gravel parking lot of a Mennonite church on the outskirts of Seminole, a small city in West Texas surrounded by cotton and peanut fields.
CNN:
Trump official tasked with defending DOGE cuts posted fashion influencer videos from her office  —  As the Office of Personnel Management oversaw the layoffs of thousands of federal workers and pressed others to justify their positions, the agency's chief spokesperson repeatedly used her office …
Shania Shelton / CNN:
‘Big one to eliminate’: Elon Musk spotlights cost of federal entitlements amid fear of cuts to programs  —  Elon Musk on Monday highlighted the cost of federal spending on entitlement programs, the latest sign of the tech billionaire and presidential adviser's focus to downsize …
Mohamed El-Erian / Financial Times:
What lies behind the dramatic shift in markets  —  The sudden change in investors' growth expectations for the three largest economies is upending many consensus trades  —  The writer is president of Queens' College, Cambridge, and an adviser to Allianz and Gramercy
 
 
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Spencer S. Hsu / Washington Post:
D.C. U.S. attorney targets Ukraine whistleblower Rep. Vindman
NBC News:
Justice Department office that prosecutes public corruption slashed in size, sources say
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
Democracy Dies in Dumbness
Vernal Coleman / ProPublica:
The Office That Investigates Disparities in Veterans' Care Is Being “Liquidated”
Bloomberg:
Trump's CDC Pick Is Pushing Vaccine-Autism ‘Lie,’ Senator Says
James Pindell / The Boston Globe:
Is Seth Moulton owed an apology about his statements on transgender athletes in women's sports now that so many publicly agree?
Discussion: them.
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Washington Post:
Trump administration slashes division in charge of 26,000 U.S. artworks
Marisa Kabas / The Handbasket:
GOP will observe “DeTrans Awareness Day” with multiple events Wednesday
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