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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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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 …
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USAID staffers told to stay out of Washington headquarters after Musk said Trump agreed to close it — Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency's Washington headquarters on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them …

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?
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Trump Administration Closes USAID Headquarters — Monday closure comes as Elon Musk and DOGE are pushing to get rid of foreign-assistance agency — WASHINGTON—The U.S. Agency for International Development closed its headquarters to agency personnel on Monday following moves …
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Behind DOGE's Standoff at USAID: Desk Searches and Elon Musk Calling
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Matt Young / The Daily Beast:
Musk: I'm Closing Entire Federal Agency Down Right Now
Musk: I'm Closing Entire Federal Agency Down Right Now
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Andrew Perez / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk Is Permanently Deleting Government Agencies
Elon Musk Is Permanently Deleting Government Agencies
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Reuters:
USAID's DC office shuts for the day as Musk, Trump ramp up attacks
USAID's DC office shuts for the day as Musk, Trump ramp up attacks
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David Ingram / NBC News:
Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID
Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID
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USAID security leaders removed after refusing Elon Musk's DOGE employees access to secure systems
USAID security leaders removed after refusing Elon Musk's DOGE employees access to secure systems
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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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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.
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Trump used fentanyl to justify tariffs, but the crisis was already easing — President Trump says illegal street fentanyl is one of the main justifications for sweeping trade tariffs he plans to impose against Canada, China and Mexico on Tuesday. A statement issued by the White House describes …

Trump backs down on Mexico tariffs after Mexican president pledges border troops — President Donald Trump agreed to temporarily back down on a 25% tariff on goods from Mexico after Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo reportedly agreed to send troops to the U.S. border.
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Trump Delays Mexico Tariffs by a Month After Talk With Sheinbaum
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell: Trump tariffs ‘will drive the cost of everything up’
McConnell: Trump tariffs ‘will drive the cost of everything up’
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Kevin Shalvey / ABC News:
Trump 2nd term live updates: Marco Rubio made acting administrator of USAID: Sources
Trump 2nd term live updates: Marco Rubio made acting administrator of USAID: Sources
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New York Times:
Markets Tumble as Trump Tariffs Loom
Markets Tumble as Trump Tariffs Loom
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William Kristol / The Bulwark:
More Dangerous than Watergate — In case you missed it—or if you don't subscribe to The Triad …
More Dangerous than Watergate — In case you missed it—or if you don't subscribe to The Triad …
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Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Follow the Money — Hey guys, I'm sending out Monday's Triad on Sunday night for reasons that will be clear when you read it.
Follow the Money — Hey guys, I'm sending out Monday's Triad on Sunday night for reasons that will be clear when you read it.
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Washington Post:
Trump pauses tariffs on Mexico, plans to speak later to Canadian leader
Trump pauses tariffs on Mexico, plans to speak later to Canadian leader
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Mickey Djuric / Politico:
Canada's tariff list targets Republican states, Trump allies
Canada's tariff list targets Republican states, Trump allies
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Pia Singh / CNBC:
Dow futures drop more than 450 points after Trump hits U.S. trading partners with tariffs: Live updates
Dow futures drop more than 450 points after Trump hits U.S. trading partners with tariffs: Live updates
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Associated Press:
Trump and Trudeau speak and plan to do so again before tariffs start on Tuesday
Trump and Trudeau speak and plan to do so again before tariffs start on Tuesday
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‘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 …
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Primary Every Democrat — I spent almost a decade covering the United States Senate. So, believe me when I tell you that I do not want to be a United States senator. Imagine having a job where your mere existence in the role is a symbol of democratic backsliding, where your leaders torture …
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Former Biden spokesperson: Trump doesn't want Democrats to talk about promise to lower prices
Former Biden spokesperson: Trump doesn't want Democrats to talk about promise to lower prices
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Warren Questions Bessent Over Musk Access to Treasury Payment System — In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions of dollars of transactions. — Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts sent a letter …
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The split personality of Big Journalism in covering this nightmare — On Friday, three reporters at the Washington Post broke a huge story. It might have sounded like some kind of bureaucratic development inside the federal government, but it was much more important than that.

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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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.
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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 …
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‘Ripping up the contract’: Canadian premier scraps Musk business amid tariff fight
‘Ripping up the contract’: Canadian premier scraps Musk business amid tariff fight
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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 …
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N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care — A White House executive order last week threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in a letter on Monday.
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