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Politico:
‘Freaked out’ about the bond market: White House reels from Powell probe … The inquiry, which blindsided many White House aides, is renewing fears over the future of the central bank's independence and offering fresh fodder for concerned Senate Republicans, many of whom will be needed to confirm the next Fed chair.
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GOP angst grows over Powell investigation — A growing number of Republicans on Capitol Hill are expressing unease with the Justice Department's move to investigate Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, a sign that the probe could become a major inflection point over GOP lawmakers' concerns about central bank independence.
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Scoop: Bessent told Trump that investigation of Fed chair creates a “mess” — A perturbed Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told President Trump late Sunday that the federal investigation into the Federal Reserve chair “made a mess” and could be bad for financial markets, two sources familiar with the call told Axios.
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Colby Smith / New York Times:
Fed Changes Course and Takes On Trump's Political Fight — The Justice Department's decision to open up a criminal investigation of Jerome H. Powell, the chair of the Federal Reserve, is a major escalation in the pressure campaign against the central bank to cut interest rates.
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Vox, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, NewsMax.com, NBC News, Ace of Spades HQ, Fortune, Business Insider, Roll Call, Newsweek, RedState and Bloomberg
Christopher Rugaber / Associated Press:
Why the Federal Reserve has historically been independent of the White House
Ali Bianco / Politico:
GOP flinches on the Fed
GOP flinches on the Fed
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Max Zahn / ABC News:
Stocks fall after Trump's DOJ opens criminal probe into Fed Chair Powell
Stocks fall after Trump's DOJ opens criminal probe into Fed Chair Powell
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
Take the Masks Off — For his entire second term, Donald Trump has been grousing …
Take the Masks Off — For his entire second term, Donald Trump has been grousing …
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Axios, Business Insider, CNBC, Talking Points Memo, The Daily Signal, Executive Functions, Townhall, Newsweek, The Hill, France 24 and CBS News
Politico:
Fed up — Good Monday morning. This is Jack Blanchard. Get in touch.
Fed up — Good Monday morning. This is Jack Blanchard. Get in touch.
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Associated Press, Thom Tillis …, Fox News, The Atlantic and Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
NBC News:
Republican lawmakers speak out against the Justice Department's Federal Reserve investigation
Republican lawmakers speak out against the Justice Department's Federal Reserve investigation
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The Hill, Roll Call, Associated Press, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, The Independent, al.com and New Republic
Emily Brooks / The Hill:
Speaker Johnson on Powell investigation: DOJ ‘not being weaponized’
Speaker Johnson on Powell investigation: DOJ ‘not being weaponized’
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Al Weaver / The Hill:
Murkowski calls for Congress to investigate DOJ over Fed ‘coercion’
Murkowski calls for Congress to investigate DOJ over Fed ‘coercion’
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Nick Timiraos / Wall Street Journal:
For Years, Powell Avoided Fighting Trump. That's Over.
For Years, Powell Avoided Fighting Trump. That's Over.
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CNBC, Deseret News, Foreign Policy, CNN, Media Matters for America, Fox Business, Metro.co.uk, Meidas+, Bloomberg and The Hill
Ian Millhiser / Vox:
Trump's war on the Federal Reserve heads to the Supreme Court next week
Trump's war on the Federal Reserve heads to the Supreme Court next week
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Slate, Florida Politics, Mother Jones, MS NOW and Blaze Media
Maxine Joselow / New York Times:
E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution — In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show. — For decades, the Environmental Protection Agency …
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twitchy.com, TechCrunch and Democrats
Carol Leonnig / MS NOW:
Trump DOJ fires prosecutor who declined to pursue James Comey case — The Justice Department has fired the No. 2 official in the U.S. attorney's office for the Eastern District of Virginia after he declined to lead the controversial prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey …
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Washington Examiner, CBS News, The Gateway Pundit, Raw Story, ABC17NEWS, New Republic, The Guardian and Mediaite
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Fine, Randy:
Congressman Fine Introduces Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act to Strengthen U.S. National Security and Put Our Adversaries on Notice — Washington, DC - Today, Congressman Fine (FL-06) introduced the Greenland Annexation and Statehood Act, landmark legislation focused …
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Washington Examiner, The Hill and NewsMax.com
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Elizabeth Elkind / Fox News:
Trump's Greenland push escalates as GOP lawmaker moves to make it America's 51st state
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Axios, RedState, Florida Politics, IJR and The Gateway Pundit
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
Trump Says Civil Rights Led to White People Being ‘Very Badly Treated’ — President Trump's comments were a blunt distillation of his administration's racial politics, which rest on the belief that white people have become the real victims of discrimination in America.
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Dell Cameron / Wired:
GoFundMe Ignores Own Rules by Hosting a Legal-Defense Fund for the ICE Agent Who Killed Renee Good — The fundraiser for the ICE agent in the Renee Good killing has stayed online in seeming breach of GoFundMe's own terms of service, prompting questions about selective enforcement.
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Washington Times and The Gateway Pundit
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Jacqueline Sweet / The Intercept:
Bill Ackman Gave $10,000 to ICE Agent GoFundMe Created by User Linked to Nazi Salute Image
Bill Ackman Gave $10,000 to ICE Agent GoFundMe Created by User Linked to Nazi Salute Image
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Associated Press:
Crowd yells ‘cowards!’ after federal agents crash into a car and fire tear gas in Minneapolis — Federal officers fired tear gas Monday to break up a crowd of whistle-blowing bystanders in Minneapolis who showed up to see the aftermath of a car crash involving immigration agents …
US Department of Justice:
Former Congressional Employee Arrested, Indicted in Theft of 240 Cell Phones — For Immediate Release — U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia — WASHINGTON - Christopher Southerland, 43, of Glen Burnie, Maryland, was arrested Friday and charged in a federal indictment unsealed …
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Rachel Schilke / Washington Examiner:
House Transportation Committee employee federally indicted over phone theft scheme
House Transportation Committee employee federally indicted over phone theft scheme
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Has Complained About Pam Bondi Repeatedly to Aides — The president has privately criticized his attorney general as weak and ineffective in recent weeks — President Trump has complained to aides repeatedly in recent weeks about Attorney General Pam Bondi, describing her as weak …
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Mediaite and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Associated Press:
FBI: Suspect in Mississippi synagogue fire targeted house of worship because of its ‘Jewish ties’ — A suspect in an arson fire at a historic Mississippi synagogue admitted to targeting the house of worship because of its “Jewish ties” and was turned in to authorities by his father …
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Statement / Statement on the Federal Reserve:
Statement on the Federal Reserve — The Federal Reserve's independence and the public's perception of that independence are critical for economic performance, including achieving the goals Congress has set for the Federal Reserve of stable prices, maximum employment, and moderate long-term interest rates.
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
New High of 45% in U.S. Identify as Political Independents — More independents lean Democratic than Republican, giving Democrats edge in party affiliation for first time since 2021 — WASHINGTON, D.C. — A record-high 45% of U.S. adults identified as political independents in 2025 …
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Peter Sullivan / Axios:
Scoop: Dems make health deal offer with ACA subsidies — Democrats sent Republicans a proposal over the weekend to renew enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies for three years, paired with extensions of other expiring health programs, sources said. … - The underlying package …
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
This GOP senator says reviving Obamacare subsidies would be ‘putting America first’
This GOP senator says reviving Obamacare subsidies would be ‘putting America first’
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Bloomberg, Talking Points Memo, Reuters and NewsMax.com
New York Times:
Two Hours, Scores of Questions, 23,000 Words: Our Interview With President Trump — Four New York Times reporters pressed Mr. Trump about a range of topics in a nearly two-hour interview. Here is a transcript of their conversation. — President Trump spoke to four New York Times reporters …
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:
We're all just content for ICE — Four days on the ground in Minneapolis … MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. — The frontline of America's slow-moving civil war has come to Minnesota. The Department of Homeland Security doubled down on their occupation of the state following last week's murder of Renee Nicole Good.
Elena Schneider / Politico:
Former Rep. Mary Peltola jumps into Alaska Senate race … “Systemic change is the only way to bring down grocery costs, save our fisheries, lower energy prices and build new housing Alaskans can afford,” Peltola said. “It's about time Alaskans teach the rest of the country what Alaska First and, really, America First looks like.”
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Maya Kaufman / Politico:
Nearly 15,000 nurses go on strike at top New York City hospitals … “It is deeply offensive that they would rather use their billions to fight against their own nurses than settle a fair contract,” union president Nancy Hagans said in a statement. “Nurses do not want to strike, but our bosses have forced us out on strike.”
Jill Lawrence / The Bulwark:
Embracing Impeachment — THE TIME HAS COME to get serious about impeachment. Donald Trump himself expects it if Democrats win the House in this year's midterms, and we've already had previews. Scores of House Democrats voted to advance impeachment articles against Trump last month …
Bloomberg:
Orsted Wins Ruling to Resume US Wind Project Halted by Trump — A US judge ruled Orsted A/S can resume development of a wind farm project off the coast of Rhode Island while it challenges the government's latest stop-work order, a major win for the Danish energy giant in an ongoing fight …
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Washington Examiner, New York Times, Associated Press and Raw Story
Spencer Ackerman / FOREVER WARS:
Either ICE Is Abolished or It Will Kill Many More Renee Goods — Minnesota is just the beginning of ICE's transformation into a right-wing death squad. But it can be the end — THERE IS NO reforming this. — There is no re-training in deescalation tactics, no reequipping with less-lethal weapons …
Mitch Smith / New York Times:
Minnesota and Illinois Sue Trump Administration Over ICE Deployments — The two Democratic-led states claimed in separate lawsuits that the immigration enforcement campaigns violated the Constitution. — State and city officials in Minnesota and Illinois filed federal lawsuits …
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Reece Rogers / Wired:
MacKenzie Scott Donates $45 Million to the Trevor Project — Jeff Bezos' ex-wife has made a donation to the LGBTQ+ advocacy group that the organization calls “transformational.” — On Monday, billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $45 million to The Trevor Project, a nonprofit that serves LGBTQ+ youth.
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CBS News, Associated Press, The Trevor Project and Advocate
Janna Brancolini / The Daily Beast:
Trump, 79, Answers Simple Question With Bizarre Word Salad — WHAT KNOWS MEANS — The president dodged the question before giving a confused answer. — President Donald Trump gave a bizarre response to a simple question about what it would mean for the ICE agent who killed a woman in Minneapolis to be immune from prosecution.
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Raw Story
