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Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump budget faces GOP resistance — Congressional Republicans on Monday panned Donald Trump's call to finance a military buildup by slashing domestic agencies and ignoring entitlement programs — undermining the president's budget even before it's been finalized.
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Alex Guillén / Politico:
Sources: White House proposes to cut EPA budget by quarter — The White House has proposed slashing EPA's budget by about a quarter and eventually eliminating 1 in 5 of the agency's workers, according to sources familiar with the budget proposal sent to EPA on Monday.
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Salon, CNN, The Week, The Daily Caller, Politicus USA, Vox and Axios
CNN:
Sources: Trump signed off on checking White House staffers' phones — Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump signed off on press secretary Sean Spicer's decision to check aides' cell phones to make certain they weren't communicating with reporters by text message or through encrypted apps, multiple sources confirmed to CNN on Monday.
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Jennifer Steinhauer / New York Times:
Trump and Paul Ryan Head for a Clash Over the Budget, and Ideology — WASHINGTON — President Trump's proposal to slash domestic spending in order to preserve the two biggest drains on the federal government — Social Security and Medicare — has set up a battle to determine who now controls the Republican Party's ideology.
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The Last Tradition
Stan Collender / Forbes:
Trump Will Have To Break The Law To Pass His Budget
Trump Will Have To Break The Law To Pass His Budget
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Mother Jones
Carl Hulse / New York Times:
Trump's Budget Is Aspirational. Reality in Congress Will Change It.
Trump's Budget Is Aspirational. Reality in Congress Will Change It.
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Raw Story
Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Trump to Seek $54 Billion Increase in Military Spending
Trump to Seek $54 Billion Increase in Military Spending
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The Atlantic, The Guardian, USA Today, The Week, Gizmodo, Daily Kos, One America News Network and Outside the Beltway
Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — President Trump: Oscars ‘Were Focused so Hard on Politics’ They Could Not Get the Basics of the Ceremony Right — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News in the Oval Office, said that the Academy Awards failure on Sunday evening …
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Matthew Boyle / Breitbart:
Exclusive — President Trump: New York Times ‘Intent Is so Evil and so Bad,’ ‘They Write Lies’ — WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald J. Trump told Breitbart News in an exclusive Oval Office interview that the “intent” of the New York Times in its negative coverage of him is “so evil and so bad” and that “they write lies.”
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Mediaite, Raw Story, Politico, Talking Points Memo and Axios
Wall Street Journal:
PwC Partner at Oscars Tweeted Backstage Minutes Before Best Picture Mix-Up
PwC Partner at Oscars Tweeted Backstage Minutes Before Best Picture Mix-Up
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New York Times and The Guardian, more at Mediagazer »
Oriana Schwindt / Variety:
Updated: Oscar Ratings Dip Again Amid ‘Moonlight,’ ‘La La Land’ Best Picture Mix-Up
Updated: Oscar Ratings Dip Again Amid ‘Moonlight,’ ‘La La Land’ Best Picture Mix-Up
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Mediaite, IJR, CBS Los Angeles, John Hawkins' Right Wing News and twitchy.com
MJ Lee / CNN:
Freedom Caucus chair would vote against draft Obamacare repeal bill — Trump: health care is ‘unbelievably complex’ — Washington (CNN)Republican Rep. Mark Meadows, the chairman of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, told CNN on Monday that he will vote against a draft of the GOP Obamacare repeal bill that was leaked last week.
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Talking Points Memo, Axios, Balloon Juice, The Daily Caller, Business Insider, Fox17 and KFOR-TV
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Jennifer Haberkorn / Politico:
Trump's speech can't mend GOP schisms on Obamacare
Trump's speech can't mend GOP schisms on Obamacare
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Political Wire
Jessie Hellmann / The Hill:
Top House conservatives won't back draft ObamaCare replacement
Top House conservatives won't back draft ObamaCare replacement
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Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, Balloon Juice and Axios
Joshua Green / Bloomberg:
Does Stephen Miller Speak for Trump? Or Vice Versa? — The 31-year-old is a driving force behind the White House's policies. — by — From Subscribe Reprints — Stephen Miller's corner office in the West Wing of the White House is utterly barren—no pictures on the walls …
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Ashley Killough / CNN:
Udall floats plan to confirm Gorsuch, Garland to SCOTUS together — (CNN)Sen. Tom Udall has an idea that could place both Judge Neil Gorsuch and Judge Merrick Garland on the Supreme Court at the same time. — The Democrat from New Mexico presented the plan Monday morning to Gorsuch …
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Politico, Western Journalism, Hot Air and Washington Post
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Greg Stohr / Bloomberg:
Social Media Ban for Sex Offenders Questioned at U.S. Supreme Court
Social Media Ban for Sex Offenders Questioned at U.S. Supreme Court
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The Verge
NBC News:
Yemen SEAL Raid Has Yielded No Significant Intelligence: Officials — Last month's deadly commando raid in Yemen, which cost the lives of a U.S. Navy SEAL and a number of children, has so far yielded no significant intelligence, U.S. officials told NBC News.
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Mother Jones, Mediaite, Hot Air, Business Insider and Politicus USA
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:
George W. Bush Breaks His Silence on the Direction of the Country Under President Trump: 'I Don't Like the Racism and Name-Calling' — For eight years since leaving the White House, George W. Bush has refused to criticize publicly those who succeeded him, saying he didn't want to make an already tough job …
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Political Wire, Western Journalism, New York Magazine, The Hill, WTVR-TV, NPR, Axios, AOL, The Gateway Pundit, RedState and Washington Post, more at Mediagazer »
SpaceX:
SpaceX to Send Privately Crewed Dragon Spacecraft Beyond the Moon Next Year — We are excited to announce that SpaceX has been approached to fly two private citizens on a trip around the moon late next year. They have already paid a significant deposit to do a moon mission.
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Trump says Obama behind some political protests — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times local): — President Donald Trump acknowledges that there remains hundreds of unfilled jobs in his administration, but says “they're unnecessary to have.”
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Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Trump says Obama is helping to organize protests against his presidency
Trump says Obama is helping to organize protests against his presidency
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CBS News:
GOP Rep. Darrell Issa backtracks on call for Trump special prosecutor — Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) backtracked his call for a special prosecutor to look into Russian involvement in the 2016 Presidential election. “I certainly could see where if there is an allegation of a crime at some point …
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Chris Graham / Telegraph:
‘Show some class’: Kellyanne Conway accused of lacking respect after kneeling on Oval Office couch — Kellyanne Conway, the senior adviser to Donald Trump, has been accused of showing a lack of respect after she was photographed kneeling on a couch in the Oval Office.
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BizPac Review, The Gateway Pundit, Towleroad and Business Insider
Brendan O'Connor / Gizmodo:
Leaked Audio: Trump Cares About Food Safety But Only If the Food Is Foreign — President Donald Trump intends to intensify enforcement of food safety regulations as a cudgel in international trade negotiations, according to leaked recordings of a what appears to be a phone conversation between …
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Mother Jones
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Hundreds allege sex harassment, discrimination at Kay and Jared jewelry company — Hundreds of former employees of Sterling Jewelers, the multibillion-dollar conglomerate behind Jared the Galleria of Jewelry and Kay Jewelers, claim that its chief executive and other company leaders presided …
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Coral Davenport / New York Times:
Trump Plans to Begin E.P.A. Rollback With Order on Clean Water — WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Tuesday aimed at rolling back one of former President Barack Obama's major environmental regulations to protect American waterways, but it will have almost …
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Washington Post and John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Michael Kruse / Politico:
'He's a Performance Artist Pretending to be a Great Manager' — More than 27 years before Donald Trump was elected president of the United States, Bruce Nobles, then the president of the Trump Shuttle airline, assessed with some befuddlement the business and managerial practices of his boss.
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Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
North Korea Executes Five Senior Officials With Antiaircraft Guns — South Korea reports purge, makes fresh charges in killing of dictator's brother Kim Jong Nam — SEOUL—North Korean leader Kim Jong Un executed at least five senior officials in the country's Ministry …
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Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman in talks to be State Department's No. 2 — Former Utah Gov. and ambassador to China Jon Huntsman is in talks to be deputy secretary of state, U.S. officials said Monday.
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Taylor Marsh, Business Insider and Mother Jones
Jimmy Vielkind / Politico:
Cuomo tiptoes toward 2020 run — After studiously avoiding the event for six years, Andrew Cuomo finally made an appearance in Washington during the presidential showcase formally known as the National Governors Association winter meeting. — The New York governor's visit was fleeting …
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Political Wire
New York Times:
An executive order barring immigrants from seven Muslim-majority countries as well as refugees from Syria — President Trump closed the nation's borders to people from seven nations, saying it was essential to prevent terrorism. The order was later blocked by a federal judge.
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Political Wire