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Bwittes / Lawfare:
BREAKING NEWS: Full Text of Draft Dissent Channel Memo on Trump Refugee and Visa Order — Consider this a major bureaucratic uprising on the part of career foreign service officers against the President on his executive order on refugees. … Numerous Foreign Service officers and other diplomats …
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Mike Levine / ABC News:
EXCLUSIVE: US Diplomats Consider Filing Dissent Over Immigration Ban
EXCLUSIVE: US Diplomats Consider Filing Dissent Over Immigration Ban
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Talking Points Memo and Hullabaloo
Matthew Nussbaum / Politico:
Trump signs executive order requiring that for every one new regulation, two must be revoked — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday morning requiring that for every new federal regulation implemented, two must be rescinded. — “This will be the biggest such act …
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Donald J. Trump / The White House:
Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs — REDUCING REGULATION AND CONTROLLING REGULATORY COSTS — By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921 …
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Ayesha Rascoe / Yahoo:
Trump signs executive order to slash regulations
Trump signs executive order to slash regulations
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit and IJR
Washington State:
AG Ferguson seeks halt to Trump's immigration Executive Order
AG Ferguson seeks halt to Trump's immigration Executive Order
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Talking Points Memo and Politicus USA
New York Times:
How Trump's Rush to Enact an Immigration Ban Unleashed Global Chaos — WASHINGTON — As President Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Friday, shutting the borders to refugees and others from seven largely Muslim countries, the secretary of homeland security was on a White House conference call getting …
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Benjamin Wallace-Wells / New Yorker:
A Dangerously Isolated President — The Presidential order that Donald Trump signed on Friday barring all refugees and citizens from seven Muslim countries from travel to the United States was reviewed by virtually no one. The State Department did not help craft it, nor the Defense Department, nor Justice.
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Rebecca Savransky / The Hill:
Scarborough singles out Trump aide Stephen Miller for ‘power trip’ … MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Monday singled out Stephen Miller, saying President Trump's senior adviser had gone on a “power trip.” — “Why did Stephen Miller fight so hard to put out this order on Friday without talking to any of the other agencies?”
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Raw Story, Hot Air, No More Mister Nice Blog, Axios and The Week
Burgess Everett / Politico:
Senate Dems will filibuster Trump's Supreme Court nominee — Senate Democrats are going to try to bring down President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick no matter who the president chooses to fill the current vacancy. — With Trump prepared to announce his nominee on Tuesday evening …
CNN:
How the Trump administration chose the 7 countries in the immigration executive order — (CNN)The seven Muslim-majority countries targeted in President Trump's executive order on immigration were initially identified as “countries of concern” under the Obama administration.
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Jon Finer / Foreign Policy:
Sorry, Mr. President: The Obama Administration Did Nothing Similar to Your Immigration Ban
Sorry, Mr. President: The Obama Administration Did Nothing Similar to Your Immigration Ban
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Trump's facile claim that his refugee policy is similar to Obama's in 2011
Trump's facile claim that his refugee policy is similar to Obama's in 2011
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Juliet Eilperin / Washington Post:
Obama rejects comparison between Trump's immigration policy and his own, encourages protests
Obama rejects comparison between Trump's immigration policy and his own, encourages protests
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Talking Points Memo and IJR
Edward-Isaac Dovere / Politico:
Obama supports protests: ‘American values are at stake’ — Barack Obama spoke out Monday afternoon against his successor — and in support of the protests opposing President Donald Trump — with a spokesman saying the former president thinks they're “citizens exercising their Constitutional right …
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Jordan Fabian / The Hill:
Trump accuses Schumer of shedding ‘fake tears’ over refugees … President Trump on Monday accused Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer — (D-N.Y.) of shedding “fake tears” over his ban on refugees and individuals from a certain Muslim-majority nations from entering the U.S.
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Madeline Conway / Politico:
Trump on Schumer's tears: Who is his acting coach?
Trump on Schumer's tears: Who is his acting coach?
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ABC News, Political Wire and Daily Kos
Aaron Short / New York Post:
Chuck Schumer under fire from left-wing activists
Chuck Schumer under fire from left-wing activists
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NBC News, Hot Air and Power Line
Dave Itzkoff / New York Times:
Samantha Bee to Roast Trump on Same Night as Correspondents' Dinner — The annual custom of the White House Correspondents' Association dinner suddenly seems uncomfortable if not untenable: Journalists mingling with Trump administration aides who loathe them, celebrities decrying Trump White House policies …
Page Six:
Billy Bush's wife is furious about that Donald Trump tape — Media insiders are buzzing that Andy Lack wants NBC to become “the next Fox News” after he poached cable stars Greta Van Susteren and Megyn Kelly from the network. — “He believes he's building MSNBC and NBC into the next Fox.
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AOL, The Daily Caller, The Last Tradition and Vox Popoli
James V. Grimaldi / Wall Street Journal:
Rep. Tom Price Got Privileged, Discounted Offer on Biomedical Stock, Company Says — Rep. Tom Price got a privileged offer to buy a biomedical stock at a discount, the company's officials said, contrary to his congressional testimony this month.
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Talking Points Memo, Vox, Political Wire, Business Insider and Axios
Washington Post:
Trump's hard-line actions have an intellectual godfather: Jeff Sessions — In jagged black strokes, President Trump's signature was scribbled onto a catalogue of executive orders over the past 10 days that translated the hard-line promises of his campaign into the policies of his government.
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Los Angeles Times, Daily Kos and Axios
Matea Gold / Washington Post:
Koch network could serve as potent resistance in Trump era — INDIAN WELLS, Calif. — The weekend gathering of wealthy donors who help finance the conservative Koch network was supposed to serve as a celebration of the policy victories within reach now that Republicans control Washington …
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Tarini Parti / BuzzFeed:
Koch Network Focuses On Understanding Trump Voters
Koch Network Focuses On Understanding Trump Voters
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Raw Story, Heat Street and alan.com
Aaron Gregg / Washington Post:
Trump says Lockheed Martin has cut $600 million from F-35 program — President Trump said Monday that Lockheed Martin has cut $600 million from its next lot of 90 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes, capping weeks of private meetings with Lockheed Martin chief executive Marillyn Hewson and public criticisms of the program's cost.
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Trump claims Lockheed Martin cut $600 million off cost of F-35 joint strike fighter
Trump claims Lockheed Martin cut $600 million off cost of F-35 joint strike fighter
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Axios and Fort Worth Star-Telegram
New York Times:
Bannon Is Given Security Role Usually Held for Generals — WASHINGTON — The whirlwind first week of Donald J. Trump's presidency had all the bravura hallmarks of a Stephen K. Bannon production. — It started with the doom-hued inauguration homily to “American carnage” …
Fox News:
Iran tests ballistic missile in defiance of UN resolution, US officials say — Iran conducted its first ballistic missile test under Donald Trump's presidency, in yet another apparent violation of a United Nations resolution, U.S. officials told Fox News on Monday.
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Axios, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, IJR, Hot Air, Instapundit, Washington Free Beacon and The Times of Israel
Jeremy Herb / Politico:
Pentagon recommending exemptions to immigration ban for Iraqis working with U.S. forces — The Pentagon is compiling a list of Iraqis who have aided the U.S. military to determine if they should be exempted from President Donald Trump's controversial 90-day ban on immigration from seven Middle East nations, the Pentagon said Monday.
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Rasmussen Reports:
Most Support Temporary Ban on Newcomers from Terrorist Havens — Most voters approve of President Trump's temporary halt to refugees and visitors from several Middle Eastern and African countries until the government can do a better job of keeping out individuals who are terrorist threats.
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IJR, The Gateway Pundit and The Daily Caller
Bloomberg:
Trump's Next Move on Immigration to Hit Closer to Home for Tech — President Donald Trump's clash with Silicon Valley over immigration is about to become even more contentious. — After the new president banned refugees and travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries, Google …
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ushmm.org:
UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM STATEMENT ON INTERNATIONAL HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DAY — WASHINGTON, DC - The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators. Nazi ideology cast the world as a racial struggle …
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