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Donald Trump Claims In Middle-Of-The-Night Meltdown That Biden’s Pardons Are ‘VOID’
The president sent a chilling warning to people pardoned by former President Joe Biden. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-biden-pardons_n_67d7ba6be4b041fe9a9c90c5 Donald Trump claimed late Sunday — in a middle-of-the-night rant on his Truth Social platform — that he’d declared the pardons that were issued by his predecessor, former President Joe Biden, before leaving office to be “VOID, VACANT, AND OF…
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Trump, in Truth Social post, attempts to declare Biden Pardons invalid
At the time the Constitution was drafted and ratified, and continuing thereafter courts in England and the United States applied the rule that ” when a document is required by the common law or by statute to be “signed’ by a person, a signature of his name in his own proper or personal handwriting is…
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White House denies defying judge’s order over deportations to El Salvador
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5219ezjrpo The White House has denied an accusation from rights groups that it flouted due process by defying a judge’s order while carrying out deportations at the weekend. A group of 238 alleged Venezuelan gang members, plus 23 alleged members of the international MS-13 gang, were sent from the US to a prison in El…
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How Trump’s ‘America First’ MAGA movement turned the Republican Party into an ‘arm of the Kremlin’
President Trump’s recent attack on Volodymyr Zelensky sees GOP accused of parroting Vladimir Putin’s talking points, Joe Sommerlad reports https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-putin-russia-maga-republicans-b2716558.html Donald Trump’s Oval Office attack on Ukraine’s president last month appeared to mark a very public realignment of America’s sympathies – away from Europe and towards Russia in a manner that few could have imagined…
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“Law and Order” president removes any pretext we were a rule of law nation.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-deports-hundreds-venezuelans-despite-140611527.html More than 200 Venezuelans alleged by the White House to be gang members have been deported from the US to a supermax prison in El Salvador, even as a US judge blocked the removals. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele wrote on social media that 238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had…
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Trump administration cancels grant allowing Illinois schools to buy from local farmers
https://www.pjstar.com/story/news/state/2025/03/17/federal-grant-cut-in-illinois-that-feeds-children-with-local-farm-food/82371062007 A federal fund has been cut that provided Illinois schools and childcare centers with healthy foods from local farms and suppliers. The Trump administration on March 7 canceled $26.3 million in grant funds that would have supported Illinois schools, childcare sites, and farmers through 2028, according to a news release from the Illinois State…
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Black Medal of Honor recipient removed from US Department of Defense website
Page honoring Charles C Rogers for his Vietnam war service is now defunct with letters ‘DEI’ added to website address https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/16/defense-department-black-medal-of-honor-veteran The US defense department webpage celebrating an army general who served in the Vietnam war and was awarded the country’s highest military decoration has been removed and the letters “DEI” added to the site’s…
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Here’s how much American billionaires have lost since Trump’s inauguration
Expectations were that billionaires would be the big winners in a Trump America 2.0. Instead, their fortunes have plummeted in the first eight weeks. Here are the biggest losers. https://www.forbes.com.au/news/billionaires/how-much-us-billionaires-have-lost-since-trumps-inauguration/ President Donald Trump has more billionaires in his administration than any previous president, with at least nine. He counts plenty of billionaires as friends or fans:…
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He voted for Trump. Now his wife sits in an ICE detention center.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/16/mass-deportation-ice-detains-non-criminals/82304354007 Bradley Bartell and Camila Muñoz had a familiar small-town love story, before they collided with immigration politics. They met through mutual friends, had a first date at the local steakhouse, married after two years and were saving to buy a house and have kids. Muñoz was already caring for Bartell’s now 12-year-old son as…
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A DOGE staffer broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted personal data
https://www.theverge.com/news/630894/doge-treasury-lawsuit-marko-elez-unencrypted-emails Image: Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images Court documents filed Friday in an ongoing lawsuit against the US Treasury Department reveal that a 25-year-old staffer for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) violated Treasury policy by sending a spreadsheet that had personal information to two other members of the Trump administration, reports Bloomberg.…
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Judge blocks Trump from using 18th-century wartime act for deportations
Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport five Venezuelans, but order halted by judge https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/15/trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters Donald Trump has invoked the wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport five Venezuelan nationals from the US. The White House issued a presidential…
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‘He’s underwater on everything:’ Fox News host breaks down latest Trump approval polling
The president’s approval rating has been struggling for at least a month https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/fox-news-trump-approval-rating-b2715688.html President Donald Trump is “underwater on everything” when it comes to his approval ratings, a Fox News host declared Thursday. Jessica Tarlov pointed to a new Quinnipiac poll released this week that found 53 percent of voters disapprove of the president’s second…
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Trump set to ban people from 43 countries from travelling to the US including Russia and Belarus – with nations warned they will stay on banned list ‘if governments do not address deficiencies within 60 days’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14501691/trump-travel-ban-countries-list-visa.html Donald Trump is set to ban people from 43 countries from travelling to the US – with visas from Russia being ‘sharply restricted’. The dramatic memo also sees key allies of Moscow placed under heavy sanctions as Belarusian travellers could see their dreams of travelling Stateside slashed, the New York Times reports. The explosive immigration proposals…
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Over 22K Sign Democrat Petition Against Chuck Schumer: ‘Enough Is Enough’
https://www.newsweek.com/over-15k-sign-democrat-petition-against-chuck-schumer-enough-enough-2045421 Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, continues to draw outrage after voting to allow a Republican continuing resolution (CR) funding bill to move forward on Friday, with thousands signing a Democrat petition attempting to force the leader to step down. Newsweek reached out to Schumer’s office via email for comment Saturday.…
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Trump says he was being a ‘bit sarcastic’ when he promised to end Russia-Ukraine war in 24 hours
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-being-bit-sarcastic-014900811.html President Donald Trump speaks to reporters during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House in Washington, Thursday, March 13, 2025. (Pool via AP) WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Friday that he was “being a little bit sarcastic” when he repeatedly claimed as a candidate…
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‘Do something, dammit!’: Tim Walz says Democrats need to answer Americans’ ‘primal scream’ during Des Moines Townhall
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz held a town hall event at Roosevelt High School in Des Moines March 14, 2025, answering questions and hearing from Iowans who expressed their problems with cuts made by the Trump administration. (Photo by Robin Opsahl/Iowa Capital Dispatch) DES MOINES — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz told Iowans on his first stop…
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Trump ‘goes full fascist’ by declaring CNN and MSNBC criticizing him is ‘illegal’
https://www.irishstar.com/news/us-news/donald-trump-fascist-cnn-msnbc-34865751 President Donald Trump speaks at the Justice Department in Washington, Friday, March 14, 2025. (Image: AP) While speaking at the Justice Department on Friday President Donald Trump made some outlandish comments about the news media, claiming that CNN and MSNBC are arms of the Democratic Party and said that what they are doing is…
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Angry and erratic: Trump Cabinet official admits the president is acting on emotion
While CEOs, investors and regular people freak out, Trump spent his day annoyed and emotional about the trade war he started. https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/trump-canada-trade-war-escalation-rcna196486 The president of the United States, the man with the nuclear codes, is angry, emotional and acting erratically. That’s not my judgment — it’s basically what his own Cabinet defenders are saying. On…
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Canada will ‘never’ be part of US, says Carney in first speech as PM
https://www.yahoo.com/news/mark-carney-sworn-canadas-prime-132044164.html Canada will ‘never’ be part of US, says Carney in first speech as PM
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Senator Mark Kelly is getting rid of his Tesla
”What matters is doing the right thing. I don’t wanna drive a car built and designed by an asshole.”
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‘Eternally uncool’: Pam Bondi brutally mocked after threatening to jail Tesla protesters
https://www.alternet.org/pam-bondi-protesters The ongoing protests at Tesla dealerships — the electric vehicle company led by South African centibillionaire Elon Musk — appear to be getting under the skin of President Donald Trump’s administration. The website TeslaTakedown.com has become a hub for people seeking out ways to protest Musk’s sweeping budget cuts and mass firings of federal…
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U.S. stock market loses $5 trillion in value in three weeks
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/14/us-stock-market-loses-5-trillion-in-value-in-three-weeks.html A trader reacts while working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Feb. 25, 2025. – Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters The S&P 500′s rapid 10% decline from a record high into correction territory has wiped out trillions of dollars in market value. The market value of the S&P 500 at its…
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‘Enough is enough’: Greenland flatly rejects Trump’s calls for annexation
Greenland’s leaders expressed anger after President Donald Trump said U.S. acquisition of the Arctic territory “will happen” during comments at the Oval Office. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna196390 Greenland’s leaders issued a sharp rebuke of Donald Trump’s renewed calls to annex it Thursday, after the president once again expressed his desire to take over the Arctic island. “I think…
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Trump takes his plan to end birthright citizenship to the Supreme Court
The administration wants the court to limit the scope of lower court rulings against his executive order that would end automatic birthright citizenship. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/trump-takes-plan-end-birthright-citizenship-supreme-court-rcna196314 WASHINGTON — The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to narrow nationwide injunctions that have blocked the president’s plan to end automatic birthright citizenship. Acting Solicitor General Sarah Harris…
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Trump’s Bizarre 51st State Obsession is Starting to Look Like Evidence of Cognitive Decline
President Donald Trump’s bizarre obsession with insisting that Canada become the “51st State” has pivoted from trollish trash talk to something in which he seems to believe. Trump is known for his unique form of political kayfabe, perhaps learned from his days on the WWF circuit, knowing that controlling conflict is the easiest way to…
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Amid new Trump era, South Korea considers ‘plan B’ – building its own nuclear weapons
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/03/13/trump-concerns-lead-south-korea-to-say-developing-nukes-not-off-table/80837029007 WASHINGTON − Building nuclear weapons could be South Korea’s “plan B” in an increasingly “unpredictable” security landscape, Seoul’s top diplomat told the country’s legislature Wednesday. The remarks from Foriegn Minister Cho Tae-yul signal that the U.S. ally could back away from Seoul’s recent Biden-era commitment not to develop nuclear weapons. NK News was the…
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Greenland PM blasts Trump talk of U.S. annexation: ‘Enough is enough’
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/13/trump-on-us-annexation-of-greenland-i-think-itll-happen.html Lars Joergen Kleist, wearing a Make America Great Again hat, queues to vote at the polling station in Nuuk on March 11, 2025, as Greenland, the autonomous Danish territory, holds legislative elections – Odd Andersen | Afp | Getty Images The outgoing prime minister of Greenland blasted talk Thursday by President Donald Trump that…
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Dollar General warns low-income Americans’ finances are getting worse
https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/business/dollar-general-shoppers-inflation/index.html A Dollar General store in Germantown, New York, on Nov. 30, 2023.Angus Mordant/Bloomberg/Getty Images New York CNN — Low-income Americans’ financial condition has gotten worse over the last year and more shoppers are going without basic necessities. That’s the worrying message coming from Dollar General, which sells inexpensive items and is thus considered a…
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Walz: ‘We wouldn’t be in this mess if we had won the election’
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5192560-walz-trump-education-economy-democrats/?tbref=hp Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D), the 2024 Democratic nominee for vice president, sharply criticized President Trump’s governance style and economic policies but said he takes some responsibility for “this mess” after losing the election in November. “Look, I own this. We wouldn’t be in this mess if we had won the election, and we…
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ICE Wastes $16M on Guantanamo Bay Operation as All Migrants Returned to US
https://www.newsweek.com/ice-guantanamo-bay-migrants-immigration-waste-millions-back-usa-2044018 The Trump administration has spent $16 million on housing migrants in Guantanamo Bay’s naval base in Cuba, according to multiple reports. All of the migrants detained at Guantanamo Bay have been transferred to Louisiana over the past two days, according to reports by ABC News and the New York Times. Newsweek contacted the Department…
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B.C. woman detained at U.S. border, sent to Arizona detention facility in chains
Her mother says 35-year-old Jasmine Mooney has been detained in inhumane conditions since March 3 https://vancouversun.com/news/bc-woman-detained-at-us-border-sent-to-arizona-detention-facility Handout photo of Jasmine Mooney, 35, who has been detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers. Photo by Facebook Family and friends of a Vancouver entrepreneur are demanding answers after she was unexpectedly detained by U.S. immigration officials…
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Man Whose Daughter Died From Measles Stands by Failure to Vaccinate Her: “The Vaccination Has Stuff We Don’t Trust”
https://futurism.com/neoscope/measles-father-defends-anti-vaccination Thus far, there’s only been one confirmed death in the measles outbreak spreading across North America — and the father of the unvaccinated child who died of the preventable disease is expressing no regrets about failing to get her the jab. In a startling interview with The Atlantic, the father of the six-year-old girl who…
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Trump Announces New 250% Tariff on Canada Starting Almost Immediately
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-us-white-house-crypto-live-updates-2041117 President Donald Trump is imposing a new tariff on Canada, just 24 hours after he announced he was pausing the 25% tariff on most Canadian goods. The new 250% tariff on Canadian dairy products could start as early as today or by Tuesday next week, Trump said as he addressed the press in the…
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US added to international watchlist for rapid decline in civic freedoms
Civicus, an international non-profit, puts country alongside Democratic Republic of Congo, Italy, Pakistan and Serbia https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/watchlist-decline-civic-freedoms-civicus US representative Melanie Stansbury before Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on 4 March 2025. Photograph: Win McNamee/UPI/Rex/Shutterstock The United States has been added to the Civicus Monitor Watchlist, which identifies countries that the global civil…
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Vance and Trump are Putin’s ‘useful idiots’, says US vice-president’s cousin
Nate Vance reportedly spent three years fighting to defend Ukraine from Russia’s invasion https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/03/09/vance-trump-putin-useful-idiots JD Vance, right, publicly attacked Volodymyr Zelensky in their Oval Office meeting last month Credit: Saul Loeb/Getty JD Vance and Donald Trump are “Vladimir Putin’s useful idiots”, the vice-president’s cousin has claimed, after the US suspended military aid to Ukraine. Nate…
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Republican Says Musk ‘Does Not Have The Power To Fire People,’ After Thousands Have Been Fired
Cabinet officials recently clashed with Musk over DOGE’s ordered layoffs, which have led to chaos in federal agencies. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/rick-scott-elon-musk-doge-legal_n_67cdb7f3e4b0fc46f1f5a4e4 Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) said Sunday that Elon Musk, the public face of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency, does not have the authority to fire government employees. “Elon Musk does not have the power to…
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Majority of French, Germans and British think Trump is a ‘dictator’
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1478548/majority-of-french-germans-and-british-think-trump-is-a-dictator US President Donald Trump. Credit: Belga / AFP More than half of the French, Germans , and Britons consider Donald Trump a “dictator”, according to a poll by the think tank Destin Commun, which also found that 47% of respondents in Poland share the same view, as the US President attempts to broker a…
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US taxpayers have shelled out tens of millions of dollars for Trump’s golf trips
The president, who derided Barack Obama for golfing while in office, even makes money off his Mar-a-Lago weekends https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/09/trump-golf-trips Donald Trump from Palm Beach international airport in Florida after landing in Air Force One, on 14 February 2025. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images It has become a familiar routine for the Palm Beach county sheriff, Ric…
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Trump wants to see more than just a minerals deal to restart aid and intel to Ukraine
U.S. and Ukrainian officials are set to meet in Saudi Arabia this week, with Trump focused on Zelenskyy’s willingness to make concessions in negotiations. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-wants-see-just-minerals-deal-restart-aid-intel-ukraine-rcna195508 WASHINGTON — As U.S. and Ukrainian officials prepare to meet in Saudi Arabia this week, President Donald Trump has privately made clear to aides that a signed minerals deal between…
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Anger at Elon Musk turns violent with molotov cocktails and gunfire at Tesla lots
The string of violence against Tesla storefronts, charging stations and vehicles exacerbates the company’s woes, analysts said. https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/03/08/elon-musk-tesla-protest-violence-vandalism The woman in the black hoodie walked onto the Tesla car lot prepared to inflict damage. She came with four Smirnoff Ice bottles filled with gasoline, flung them at electric vehicles parked around the dealership and watched…
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Musk’s DOGE team reportedly tried to fire air traffic controllers amid multiple plane crashes but was stopped by the Transportation secretary
https://fortune.com/2025/03/08/elon-musk-doge-cuts-faa-air-traffic-controllers-layoffs-sean-duffy-plane-crashes Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy and Elon Musk squabbled during a Cabinet meeting at the White House on Thursday, sources told the New York Times. Duffy was reportedly frustrated that Musk and DOGE had tried to cut air traffic control employees. Duffy also rebuffed Musk’s claim that air traffic controllers were hired from DEI initiatives.…
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Trump on Track to Spend More Than $151.5 Million of Taxpayers’ Dollars Playing Golf: Analysis
Donald Trump’s weekend golf trips during his second term are on track to cost U.S. taxpayers more than $151.5 million, according to a new analysis. Since returning to the presidency, Trump has already spent over $18 million on his golf getaways, and if the trend continues, he will soon surpass the $151.5 million he spent…
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The ‘Trump Slump’ is real and has echoes of a Britain broken by Brexit promises
Leaving the EU would reverse our economic fortunes, Brits were told a mere nine years ago – now the US president is raving about a new era for America as he begins waging trade wars. It’s not hard to see where this is going, writes Chris Blackhurst https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-canada-tariffs-brexit-b2710928.html Canadian PM Justin Trudeau hits out at…
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US ‘to cease all future military exercises in Europe’
Nato countries could be forced to plan manoeuvres without US as Trump continues pivot away from bloc https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/politics/2025/03/08/us-to-cease-all-future-military-exercises-in-europe-reports UK troops spearheaded Nato’s Exercise Steadfast Dart in eastern Romania in January and February. Future exercises could be held without US troops Credit: Paul Grover for The Telegraph The United States has told its allies that it…
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Trump’s Affinity for Putin Grows More Consequential Than Ever
President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but the American leader’s policy shifts since taking office again could have profound effects. https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/08/us/politics/trump-putin-russia.html President Trump signing an executive order in the Oval Office on Thursday, and Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, in a February photo provided by Russian state media.…
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‘See you in court’: Trump moves to revise eligibility for some student loan forgiveness
The president signed an order that would order the education secretary to propose changing some terms, which are already codified in federal law, of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/education/2025/03/07/trump-student-loan-relief-forgiveness-executive-order/81973679007 WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Friday signed an executive order attempting to begin the process of altering the terms of a major student…
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Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate
In email obtained by TPM, White House claims that Trump can appoint whoever he wants – absent Congress. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/exclusive-trump-makes-aggressive-new-claim-of-executive-power-to-circumvent-the-senate US President Donald Trump pumps his fist as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House on January 27, 2025 in Washington, DC. Trump returns to Washington after visits to disaster sites in North…
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Rep. Dave Min Introduces Bill to Repeal the Executive Order Creating DOGE
https://min.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/min.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/embargoed-bad-doge-min.pdf Washington, DC — Representative Dave Min (CA-47), member of the House Oversight Committee, introduced the Bolstering America’s Democracy and Demanding Oversight and Government Ethics Act or the BAD DOGE Act. This legislation would repeal President Donald Trump’s executive order establishing and implementing DOGE. Representatives Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Ayanna Pressley (D-MA), Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), and…
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Germans no longer see US as trustworthy partner
Two weeks after the German election, voters are concerned about the response to Donald Trump’s policies, the fate of Ukraine and the issue of massive investment and record debt. https://www.dw.com/en/germans-no-longer-see-us-as-trustworthy-partner/a-71858094 Since US President Donald Trump took office again, Germans’ trust in the USA has suffered The conservative CDU/CSU and the center-left SPD, the parties most…
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Trump says Putin launching massive strike on Ukraine is ‘what anybody would do’
US president says he finds Russia easier to deal with than Ukraine after cutting off intelligence and weapons to Kyiv https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/07/trump-says-it-is-easier-to-deal-with-russia-and-putin-wants-to-end-the-war Donald Trump has said Vladimir Putin was “doing what anybody would do” after Russia launched a massive missile and drone strike on Ukraine days after the US cut off vital intelligence and military aid…
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Donald Trump Just Proved He’s an Economic Idiot. Again.
His MAGA sycophants knew all along that his central economic proposal was a sham, but they repeated his lies. And now the economy is cracking. https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://newrepublic.com/post/192464/donald-trump-tariffs-flip-flop-economic-idiot Alex Wong/Getty Images Remember the word “sanewashing” from the 2024 presidential campaign? It referred to the mainstream media’s coverage of Donald Trump’s rallies, and their tendency to pluck out…
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Trump signs order to establish strategic bitcoin reserve
https://www.reuters.com/technology/trump-signs-order-establish-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-white-house-crypto-czar-2025-03-07 WASHINGTON, March 7 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to establish a strategic reserve of cryptocurrencies by using tokens already owned by the government, disappointing some in the market who had hoped for a firm plan to buy new tokens. The announcement, made on Thursday ahead of a meeting…
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Military to Remove ‘Enola Gay’ Photos for Violating DEI Rules
https://www.newsweek.com/military-remove-enola-gay-photos-dei-rules-2041029 Images of “Enola Gay,” the aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in Japan are among those targeted by the U.S. military in an initiative to eliminate content related to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). They are among a number of photos unrelated to DEI that have been mistakenly flagged, including those from…
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Trump weighs revoking legal status of Ukrainians as US steps up deportations
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-plans-revoke-legal-status-ukrainians-who-fled-us-sources-say-2025-03-06/?lctg=61f5853cd1fa5e73cf6f0949 WASHINGTON, March 6 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that he would soon decide whether to revoke temporary legal status for some 240,000 Ukrainians who fled the conflict with Russia, following a Reuters report that his administration planned to take that step. Such a move would be a stunning reversal of…
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‘He betrayed every one of us’ – US soldiers in Ukraine speak out after Trump’s military aid halt
https://kyivindependent.com/us-soldiers-in-ukraine-trumps-military-aid-halt Editor’s note: In accordance with the security protocols of the Ukrainian military, soldiers featured in this story are identified by first names and callsigns only. American volunteer soldiers fighting in Ukraine say that they feel “betrayed” by their own country after the U.S. halted military aid and stopped sharing intelligence with Kyiv in early…
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Magaziner bill would stop Trump from invading Greenland, Canada, Panama
https://www.wpri.com/news/politics/magaziner-bill-would-stop-trump-from-invading-greenland-canada-panama EAST PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — Democratic Congressman Seth Magaziner has put forward a bill that would stop the president from taking over Greenland, Canada and/or Panama without Congress’ approval. Magaziner’s office said the No Invading Allies Act is in response to “President Trump’s repeated threats” to take “territory from allies and refusal to rule…
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Trump blames ‘globalists’ for stock market sell-off
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/06/trump-blames-globalists-for-stock-market-sell-off.html U.S. President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office, on the day he signs executive orders, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S. March 6, 2025. Evelyn Hockstein | Reuters Major stock indexes dropped sharply this week, as rattled investors struggled to get a handle on President Donald Trump’s sweeping and shifting tariff…
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Trump pauses Canada-Mexico tariffs again, but stocks sink
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/06/trump-tariffs-mexico-pause-sheinbaum President Trump paused 25% tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports covered by a North American trade pact until April 2. Why it matters: It’s the latest abrupt pivot in the Trump administration’s trade policy, which is rattling businesses and consumers. The big picture: In the last month, the White House announced tariffs on incoming…
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Starlink benefits as Trump admin rewrites rules for $42B grant program
Trump admin decides fiber Internet won’t be prioritized in BEAD grant program. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/03/starlink-benefits-as-trump-admin-rewrites-rules-for-42b-grant-program Starlink satellite dish. Credit: Starlink The Trump administration is eliminating a preference for fiber Internet in a $42.45 billion broadband deployment program, a change that is expected to reduce spending on the most advanced wired networks while directing more money to Elon…
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Trump tells Elon Musk he has no authority to fire government workers
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-elon-musk-2671283170 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks next to Elon Musk and X Æ A-12, Musk’s son, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 11, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo President Donald Trump has finally put his foot down when it comes to the firing of government employees. Politico…
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Senator Murphy lays it all on the table – the unprecedented corruption that is somehow being normalized.
WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) on Thursday spoke on the U.S. Senate floor to expose the unprecedented corruption of the Trump administration’s first six weeks in office. Murphy condemned Trump’s normalization of pay-to-play politics, where billionaire donors dictate policy and taxpayer money is funneled into the pockets of the president, Elon Musk, and the corporate…
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Trump Promises To Abuse Take It Down Act For Censorship, Just As We Warned
During his address to Congress this week, Donald Trump endorsed the Take It Down Act while openly declaring his plans to abuse it: “And I’m going to use that bill for myself too, if you don’t mind, because nobody gets treated worse than I do online, nobody.” (You might think a former president openly declaring…
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Trump Calls On Congress To Pass The “Take It Down” Act—So He Can Censor His Critics
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/trump-calls-congress-pass-overbroad-take-it-down-act-so-he-can-use-it-censor We’ve opposed the Take It Down Act because it could be easily manipulated to take down lawful content that powerful people simply don’t like. Last night, President Trump demonstrated he has a similar view on the bill. He wants to sign the bill into law, then use it to remove content about — him.…
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Trump administration disbands two expert panels on economic data
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-disbands-two-expert-panels-economic-data-2025-03-05 The Department of Commerce building is seen before an expected report of new home sales numbers in Washington, U.S., January 26, 2022. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts/File Photo WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has disbanded two expert committees that worked with the government to produce economic statistics, potentially affecting the quality of…
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In just five days, Trump has set the country back nearly 100 years
The president’s new slogan might as well be “We were better off 95 years ago than we are today.” https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/03/04/trump-tariffs-ukraine-speech-congress-backward With a modesty we have come to expect of him, President Donald Trump informed Congress on Tuesday night that he had already ushered in “the greatest and most successful era in the history of our…
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Trump and Vance aren’t clever, they’re clueless
The US administration seems wilfully naive to the existential threat we face from Putin and his murderous regime https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/04/america-is-ready-to-leave-nato-trump-vance-europe-uk-us US President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance Credit: SAUL LOEB/AFP Let me paint you a vision of a new era. Donald Trump and JD Vance mean everything they say. They mean it when they…
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Pardoned January 6 Rioter Arrested in Texas for Allegedly Soliciting Sex From a Minor
Andrew Taake, who was recently pardoned by President Donald Trump, was arrested in Texas on Tuesday https://www.latintimes.com/pardoned-january-6-rioter-arrested-texas-soliciting-sex-minor-574925 Andrew Taake, a convicted January 6 rioter who was recently pardoned by President Donald Trump, was arrested in Texas on Tuesday for an outstanding 2016 charge. Taake is accused of soliciting sex from a minor. Taake was taken…
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The US Treasury Claimed DOGE Technologist Didn’t Have ‘Write Access’ When He Actually Did
Sources tell WIRED that the ability of DOGE’s Marko Elez to alter code controlling trillions in federal spending was rescinded days after US Treasury and White House officials said it didn’t exist. https://www.wired.com/story/treasury-department-doge-marko-elez-access/?utm_content=buffer45aba&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=aud-dev US Treasury Department and White House officials have repeatedly denied that technologists associated with Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)…
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Donald Trump directs Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate pro-choice protestors and activists under the FACE Act, claiming “we will fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-prayer-breakfast-30ff6f55a2e3c7b8643a15e7b158537d WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to root out “anti-Christian bias” in the U.S., announcing that he was forming a task force led by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the “targeting” of Christians. Speaking at a pair of events in Washington surrounding the the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump…
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Justice Sotomayor renews her opposition to the court’s ruling that ex-presidents have broad immunity
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-justice-sonia-sotomayor-5fa4c4b684e52a47fa513485b7168728 LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said her conservative colleagues are risking the court’s legitmacy with decisions affording President Donald Trump broad immunity and overturning longstanding precedents on other issues. In her first public comments since Trump began his second term in the White House, Sotomayor told a Kentucky audience…
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Elon Musk Shares Fake Video Claiming USAID Paid Hollywood Stars to Promote Zelenskyy
https://united24media.com/latest-news/elon-musk-shares-fake-video-claiming-usaid-paid-hollywood-stars-to-promote-zelenskyy-5653 American billionaire Elon Musk, the owner of X platform and newly designated special government employee, shared a fake video claiming that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funded Hollywood celebrities to boost the popularity of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The video mentions several American celebrities who visited Ukraine and allegedly received multi-million-dollar payments from USAID to “increase Zelenskyy’s popularity among…
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Donald Trump Impeachment Articles Filed. Here’s What Happens Next
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-impeachment-articles-whats-next-2027278 Democratic Representative Al Green announced Wednesday he would file articles of impeachment against Donald Trump, saying the president’s recent comments about Gaza “will live in infamy.” The Texas Democrat said on the House floor he would bring the articles against Trump, who was impeached twice in his first term, for “dastardly deeds proposed and…
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Panama denies US claims over free canal passages
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9149j4nmzo Panama has denied making changes to allow US government vessels to transit the Panama Canal for free, following White House claims it had agreed to such a move. The State Department said in a statement on X that its government vessels “can now transit the Panama Canal without charge fees, saving the US government…
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Trump administration evicts former Coast Guard leader from her house with 3 hours notice
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-administration-evicts-former-coast-guard-linda-fagan-3-hours-rcna190820 WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s administration evicted former Coast Guard Commandant Linda Fagan from her home with three hours of notice on Tuesday — not even enough time to gather her personal effects — according to two people familiar with the incident. Fagan, a four-star admiral and the first woman to lead a branch…
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“I Was a Member of the the NLRB. What Trump’s Doing to It Now Is Very Illegal.”
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2025/02/nlrb-gwynne-wilcox-sues-donald-trump-illegal.html This week, the fight back against President Donald Trump’s power grabs over independent agencies is beginning in earnest. On Wednesday, former National Labor Relations Board member Gwynne Wilcox sued Trump over his “unprecedented and illegal” removal of her from her position at the start of his new administration. The move came one week after…
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FCC releases ’60 Minutes’ transcript, full video of Kamala Harris interview
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fcc-releases-60-minutes-transcript-vp-interview-2025-02-05 Former U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gives a statement after visiting a fire station, upon her return from President Donald Trump’s Inauguration, In Altadena, California, U.S. January 20, 2025. REUTERS/Fred Greaves/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights WASHINGTON, Feb 5 (Reuters) – The Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday made public the transcript and full video of…
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Trump signs executive order banning transgender athletes from women’s sports, directing DOJ to enforce
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-sign-executive-order-banning-transgender-athletes-womens/story?id=118468478 President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday banning transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports, fulfilling a promise that was at the center of his 2024 campaign. The order will establish sweeping mandates on sex and sports policy and will direct federal agencies, including the Department of Justice, to interpret federal Title IX…
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Federal judge blocks Trump’s executive order to end birthright citizenship
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/05/politics/judge-blocks-birthright-citizenship-executive-order/index.html In this 2021 photo, Deborah Boardman appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing regarding her nomination to be a US District judge for the District of Maryland.Rod Lamkey/MediaPunch/Alamy Greenbelt, Maryland CNN — A second federal judge onWednesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship, saying it’s likely unconstitutional and…
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The US is ‘no longer the America we used to know,’ warns Germany’s Merz
“The way they’re pardoning people who have been sentenced to years in prison, that will have consequences for America,” Merz cautioned. https://www.politico.eu/article/us-politics-germany-eu-europe-donald-trump-friedrich-merz-white-house Friedrich Merz, the frontrunner to become Germany’s next leader, is “highly concerned” about recent developments in the United States under Donald Trump’s second presidency. The German chancellor candidate told a rally in Singen…
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Elon Musk Has Broken the Constitutional Order
The tech oligarch has unleashed his slow-rolling coup d’état across the federal government, and it’s not clear anything can prevent a total takeover. https://newrepublic.com/article/191141/musk-government-takeover-supreme-court Chesnot/Getty Images The second Trump administration is waging the most aggressive war on the American constitutional order since Appomattox. President Donald Trump selected Elon Musk, a South African–born tech oligarch, to…
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This Is So Much Worse Than Last Time
Why Democrats and the media are struggling to capture the insanity—and danger—of the new Trump administration. https://newrepublic.com/article/191153/trump-musk-treasure-government-breach Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images There is practically no way to describe what is currently happening in the United States without sounding hysterical, or like some sort of crank—or, maybe, insane. But here goes! Elon Musk, the world’s richest man,…
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USAID Was Investigating Starlink Over Its Contracts in Ukraine
The agency was in the midst of a probe into the billionaire’s company at the time of the assault. https://gizmodo.com/elon-musks-enemy-usaid-was-investigating-starlink-over-its-contracts-in-ukraine-2000559365 Since coming into power, Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has barraged USAID, the international aid agency that dispenses food and supplies to nations all over the world. It is likely that the agency will…
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Trump says US will ‘take over’ Gaza Strip and doesn’t rule out using American troops
https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/politics/netanyahu-trump-white-house-meeting/index.html President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the United States “will take over” the Gaza Strip — possibly with the help of American troops — while the Palestinians who live there should leave, a stunning proposal that would dramatically reorient the Middle East and subject a population of more than a million to further displacement.…
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Doge staffers enter Noaa headquarters and incite reports of cuts and threats
Members reportedly sought access to IT systems at agency that Project 2025 has called ‘harmful to US prosperity’ https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/doge-noaa-headquarters Staffers with Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” (Doge) reportedly entered the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa) in Silver Spring, Maryland, and the Department of Commerce in Washington DC today, inciting concerns…
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Judge blocks Trump’s executive order on transgender prisoners
A small number of transgender women in women’s facilities cannot be transferred to men’s prisons, the judge ruled. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/04/judge-blocks-trumps-executive-order-on-transgender-prisoners-00202521 President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House on Feb. 4, 2025, in Washington. | Evan Vucci/AP A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from…
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Democrats call for investigation into Musk access of Treasury payment systems
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5126204-democrats-call-for-investigation-into-musk-access-of-treasury-payment-systems Two Senate Democrats called for an investigation Tuesday into tech billionaire Elon Musk’s access of Department of Treasury payment systems. “We write to ask that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) conduct an investigation of reports indicating that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent granted Elon Musk and other ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ employees unprecedented access to…
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Elon Musk has control of federal servers — and, yes, Hillary Clinton has something to say about that
https://www.nj.com/politics/2025/02/elon-musk-has-control-of-federal-servers-and-yes-hillary-clinton-has-something-to-say-about-that.html
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White House preparing executive order to abolish the Education Department
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna190205
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Scoop: 20,000 federal workers take “buyout” so far, official says
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/04/trump-buyout-federal-workers-20000
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I Photographed January 6. Trump’s Pardons Can’t Erase What I Saw.
https://www.cjr.org/first_person/january-6-trump-pardons-photography.php
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‘We would call it a coup’: Watchdogs and Dems attack Elon Musk Treasury Department takeover
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/02/03/dems-elon-musk-doge-takeover-treasury/78187978007
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Trump folds under pressure, pauses tariffs on Mexico and Canada
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-folds-pressure-pauses-tariffs-mexico-canada-rcna190572
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‘The telltale signs of a coup’: Musk’s power grab draws outraged backlash
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-the-telltale-signs-of-a-coup-musk-s-power-grab-draws-outraged-backlash-231030853850
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‘It’s been madness’: US federal workers reeling over Trump-Musk takeover
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/04/us-federal-workers-trump-elon-musk