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Alexander Ward / Wall Street Journal:
Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back  —  Schatz said he would hold up Trump's diplomatic confirmations  —  WASHINGTON—Sen. Brian Schatz (D., Hawaii) said he would place a “blanket hold” on all of President Trump's State Department nominees until …
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Lauren Kent / CNN:
USAID workers at Washington HQ told to stay home on Monday in unexpected, early-morning email  —  The main office of the US Agency for International Development in Washington was unexpectedly closed Monday and workers were emailed shortly after midnight that they should not come in …
Associated Press:
Democrats push back after Musk says Trump agrees to close USAID and workers are kept out  —  Democrats have delivered a strong rebuke against the Trump administration's attempts to gut an agency that provides crucial aid overseas to fund education and fight starvation and disease …
NBC News:
Democratic Sen. Brian Schatz puts a hold on Trump's State Department nominees  —  The move comes after Elon Musk said he and Trump would shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development.  —  WASHINGTON — Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, said Monday he's placing a “blanket hold” …
Discussion: Reuters
Bloomberg:
Behind DOGE's Standoff at USAID: Desk Searches and Elon Musk Calling
Andrew Freedman / Axios:
Ending USAID climate programs could increase security risks
Reuters:
White House: Mexico is ‘serious’, Canada appears to have ‘misunderstood’ Trump's executive order  —  The White House said on Monday it has noticed that Mexico is “serious” about President Donald Trump's executive order on tariffs but Canada has “misunderstood” it.
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New York Times:
Live Updates: Mexico Reaches Deal With U.S. to Delay Trump Tariffs  —  President Trump said he would pause tariffs on Mexico for a month, but levies on Canada and China were still set to take effect on Tuesday.  U.S. shares fell at the opening bell, following drops in Asian and European markets, amid fears of a trade war.
David Edwards / Raw Story:
Trump backs down on Mexico tariffs after Mexican president pledges border troops
Bloomberg:
Trump Delays Mexico Tariffs by a Month After Sheinbaum Talk
Associated Press:
Trump agrees to pause tariffs on Mexico, but import taxes still in place for Canada and China
Denise Cana / Slate:
I'm a Federal Worker.  Elon Musk's Government Data Heist Is the Entire Ballgame.  —  On Friday night, reports emerged that Elon Musk's aides had tussled with Office of Personnel Management and Treasury staffers while demanding access to troves of information about federal employees.
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Caleb Ecarma / Popular Information:
Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of government employees  —  Several of Elon Musk's associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.
Discussion: New Republic, Raw Story and USA Today
Ryan Broderick / Garbage Day:
Musk's superteam of former iPad babies  —  Read to the end for Plimbo … Many other government websites faced outages throughout the weekend as they scrambled to figure out exactly how to comply with the instructions being sent out by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
CNN:
Elon Musk is serving as a ‘special government employee,’ White House says
Discussion: Daily Mail
John Zangas / DCMediaGroup:   Federal Workers Block Doors of Admin Building Over Elon Musk Data Breach
Courtney Cohn / Democracy Docket:
DOJ Says Trump Administration Doesn't Have to Follow Court Order Halting Funding Freeze  —  The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) argued Monday that a federal court order blocking President Donald Trump's federal funding freeze doesn't halt the administration's efforts.
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Politico:
Judge signals plan to further block Trump spending freeze
Discussion: USA Today and Associated Press
Burgess Everett / Semafor:
‘Trump will screw up’: Schumer plots the Democratic comeback  —  Chuck Schumer's advice for Democrats staring at a long two or more years out of power: Just wait.  —  “Trump will screw up,” he told Semafor in an interview.  —  The Senate minority leader and his 47-member caucus finally got …
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
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Meredith Shiner / New Republic:
Primary Every Democrat
Discussion: Punchbowl News
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Hakeem Jeffries wants funding freeze ‘choked off’ in spending deal
Discussion: Axios and RedState
Moira Donegan / The Guardian:
Why are the Democrats so spineless?  —  No wonder the American public thinks of Democrats …
Discussion: The Hill
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David Dayen / American Prospect:
‘Filled With Unmitigated Terror’
Discussion: Axios and Bloomberg
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:   The split personality of Big Journalism in covering this nightmare
Nathan Tankus / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk's Attempt to Control the Treasury Payment System Is Incredibly Dangerous
Reuters:
Trump orders creation of US sovereign wealth fund, says it could buy TikTok  —  U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday ordering the U.S. Treasury and Commerce Departments to create a sovereign wealth fund and said it may purchase TikTok.  —  “We're going to stand this thing up within the next 12 months.
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Bloomberg:
Trump Signs Executive Action to Create Sovereign Wealth Fund
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump Advisers Weigh Plan to Dismantle Education Department  —  Administration officials are discussing executive order that could shut down key functions of the agency  —  Trump administration officials are weighing executive actions to dismantle the Education Department as part of the campaign …
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Rebecca Carballo / Politico:   Trump admin zeros in on school choice, dismantling DEI
Reuters:
Trump plans to invoke obscure 18th century wartime law in bid for mass deportations  —  President Donald Trump is set to test the limits of his immigration crackdown by invoking a wartime law to deport immigrants alleged to be gang members without court hearings, a broad authority …
Discussion: Reuters and The Independent
Rochelle Raveendran / CBC News:
Ford ‘ripping up’ Ontario's $100M contract with Elon Musk's Starlink in wake of U.S. tariffs  —  Musk part of President Donald Trump's team that wants to destroy families, Ford says  —  Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is “ripping up” Ontario's nearly $100 million contract …
Mike Masnick / Techdirt:
The Twitter Files Playbook Comes For The US Government  —  Remember the Twitter Files?  That carefully orchestrated “exposé” where incredibly gullible hand-picked journalists were given selective access to internal documents to manufacture misleading outrage about Twitter's content moderation?
Discussion: Advocate
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
No, Elon: It Isn't Illegal To Boycott X  —  While news cycles in the first Donald Trump presidency were dominated by Trump's erratic social media pretense, news cycles during Trump 2.0 seem so far to be dominated by the erratic social media titan Elon Musk.  The X CEO and leader …
Reuters:
Exclusive: Trump's meme coin made nearly $100 million in trading fees, as small traders lost money  —  Entities behind President Donald Trump's crypto coin have accumulated close to $100 million in trading fees in less than two weeks, according to estimates from three blockchain analysis firms …
Discussion: MSNBC and DNyuz, more at Techmeme »
Associated Press:
Democratic state Sen. Mallory McMorrow preparing to enter US Senate race in Michigan, AP sources say  —  Michigan state Sen. Mallory McMorrow is preparing to enter the Democratic primary for an open U.S. Senate seat in the state, multiple people familiar with her plans confirmed on Monday.
 
 
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Heather Richards / Politico:
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
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Annabella Rosciglione / Washington Examiner:
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Daniel Lippman / Politico:
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Dell Cameron / Wired:
Pronouns Are Being Forcibly Removed From Government Email Signatures
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Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Wikipedia blacklists conservative sources in favor of left-wing bias
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