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10:55 PM ET, January 28, 2025

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NBC News:
Trump administration will offer all 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign  —  An email is set to go out to federal workers beginning Tuesday.  —  President Donald Trump's administration is set to offer every single federal worker the chance to take a “deferred resignation” …
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Daniel Barnes / NBC News:
D.C. federal judge temporarily blocks Trump plan to pause federal aid spending  —  The order from Judge Loren AliKhan runs through next Monday, when further arguments in the case are scheduled.  —  Trump administration freezes nearly all federal grants and loans
Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Trump offers all federal workers a buyout with 7 months' pay in effort to shrink size of government  —  The White House on Tuesday began offering buyouts worth seven months of salary to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by Feb. 6 — part of President Donald Trump's unprecedented overhaul of the U.S. government.
Washington Post:
White House incentivizes federal workers to resign  —  The email sent to the federal workforce is the most sweeping effort yet by the new Trump administration to shrink the ranks of government employees.  —  The White House's Office of Personnel Management sent an email blast Tuesday …
Discussion: Business Insider and Raw Story
Vittoria Elliott / Wired:
Elon Musk Lackeys Have Taken Over the Office of Personnel Management  —  Sources tell WIRED that the OPM's top layers of management now include individuals linked to xAI, Neuralink, the Boring Company, and Palantir.  One expert found the takeover reminiscent of Stalin.
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Chicago Sun Times:
Illinois shut out of Medicaid after Trump administration halts federal grants and loans  —  The Trump administration's federal freeze has shut Illinois out of Medicaid, according to Gov. JB Pritzker's office.  The government-funded health insurance program covered about 3.9 million people …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
White House says Medicaid portal ‘will be back online shortly’ after Trump funding freeze blamed … Medicaid reimbursement portals were down Tuesday in every U.S. state on the heels of a funding freeze ordered by the Trump administration of federal grants and loans, Sen. Ron Wyden said.
Chris Megerian / Associated Press:
Legal battle looms as Trump orders a funding freeze during a review of federal loans and grants  —  The White House is pausing federal grants and loans starting Tuesday as President Donald Trump's administration begins an across-the-board ideological review of its spending …
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Associated Press:
Caroline Kennedy warns senators that cousin RFK Jr. is a ‘predator’
Washington Post:
Trump moves to fire members of EEOC and NLRB, breaking with precedent  —  The dismissals target two independent agencies that oversee large swaths of U.S. workers, employers and labor unions.  —  President Donald Trump has moved to fire Democratic members of two independent federal commissions …
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New York Times:
Trump Fired E.E.O.C. Commissioners in Late-Night Purge
Discussion: HuffPost
Paul Krugman / The Contrarian:
Departing the New York Times  —  As many people reading this know, last month I retired from my position as an opinion writer at the New York Times—a job I had done for 25 years.  Despite the encomiums issued by the Times, it was not a happy departure.  If you check out my Substack …
Fox News:
Pentagon pulling Gen. Milley's security detail and clearance ‘immediately,’ may face demotion in retirement  —  EXCLUSIVE: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will announce he is “immediately pulling” retired Gen. Mark Milley's personal security detail and security clearance, multiple senior administration officials tell Fox News.
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Washington Post:   Hegseth readies actions against Trump foe Mark Milley
Reuters:
Americans sour on some of Trump's early moves, Reuters/Ipsos poll finds  —  Americans have a dim view of some of President Donald Trump's early barrage of executive orders, including his attempt to do away with so-called birthright citizenship and his decision to rename the Gulf of Mexico, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found.
Discussion: Carolina Journal
New York Times:
Trump's Order on Transgender Troops Will Likely Ban Their Service, Again  —  In an executive order issued Monday night, the president said transgender service members “cannot satisfy the rigorous standards necessary” for the military.  —  Hours after President Trump signed …
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The White House:
Protecting Children from Chemical and Surgical Mutilation  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Policy and Purpose.  Across the country today, medical professionals are maiming …
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Michael D. Shear / New York Times:
Live Updates: White House Defends Trump's Funding Freeze as Opponents Rush to Block It
Politico:
Judge blocks Trump's spending freeze
Erik De La Garza / Raw Story:
Trump is holding hospitals ‘hostage’ in brazen ‘power grab’: AOC  —  Progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) unloaded on President Donald Trump in an escalation of the brewing Democratic opposition to the new administration as it unleashes a barrage of new executive orders.
Discussion: Twitchy
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
‘A 5 Alarm F-ing Fire’: Trump's Federal Funding Freeze Is Jolting Some Dems Into Fight Mode
Discussion: CNN
New York Times:
Senate Confirms Sean Duffy as Transportation Secretary
Discussion: Fox News
Rebecca Shabad / NBC News:
Republican congressman suggests some children receiving free school lunches should work at McDonald's instead  —  Rep. Rich McCormick said that the freeze on federal aid would allow the government to review all programs including ones that provide free school lunches to low-income children.
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CNN:
Pamela Brown asks GOP lawmaker if he'd support cutting free lunches for vulnerable students
Discussion: USA Today
Ilya Somin / Reason:
Trump's Attempt to Usurp Congress's Spending Power  —  The Trump Administration is undertaking what amounts to a wide-ranging assault on Congress's power of the purse, seeking instead to usurp authority over federal spending.  Today, the Office of Management and Budget issued a memo mandating a …
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Kyle Cheney / Politico:   Trump barrels through guardrails, daring courts and Congress to stop him
Melissa Nann Burke / The Detroit News:
Michigan's Gary Peters won't seek reelection to U.S. Senate.  Here's why  —  Washington ― Gary Peters, Michigan's senior senator and a former congressman, said he won't seek reelection next year and will retire from the U.S. Senate when his second term ends in January 2027.
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NBC News:
Tuberculosis outbreak that has killed 2 in Kansas continues to grow  —  More than 60 people were being treated for the disease in the Kansas City area as of Friday, according to the state health department.  —  The number of tuberculosis cases linked to an outbreak in the Kansas City area continues …
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Bek Shackelford-Nwanganga / KCUR:
Kansas' tuberculosis outbreak is now the largest in the U.S. since the 1950s
Discussion: New York Times, Esquire, WVEC and WHDH-TV
David Corn / Mother Jones:
SCOOP: RFK Jr. Secretly Recorded Second Wife During Divorce and Acknowledged Being “Polygamous”  —  One recording might have violated state law.  It was part of a messy saga that ended with her suicide.  —  In the early 2010s, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went through a contentious divorce with his second wife, Mary Richardson Kennedy.
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
State Department Permits Distribution of H.I.V. Medications to Resume — for Now  —  Experts fear a resurgence of infections in low-income countries if the ban were to continue.  The waiver remains in place, while officials review foreign aid programs.  —  The Trump administration …
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Trump administration may pull money from TSA, Coast Guard to help ICE afford costly deportations  —  The average cost to ICE to deport a single person during the Biden administration was about $10,500, sources told NBC News.  —  Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the principal agency tasked …
Clea Caulcutt / Politico:
France floated sending troops to Greenland, foreign minister says  —  The comments came as Denmark's prime minister travels to Berlin, Paris and Brussels to shore up support from allies.  —  PARIS — France has discussed with Denmark sending troops to Greenland in response …
Discussion: Raw Story, Breaking Defense and HotAir
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Politico:
Europe's leaders plot to stop Trump from taking Greenland
Discussion: The Guardian, BBC and Al Jazeera
Jennifer Elias / CNBC:
Google reclassifies U.S. as ‘sensitive country’ alongside China, Russia after Trump's ‘Gulf of America’ comments … Google's maps division on Monday reclassified the U.S. as a “sensitive country,” a designation it reserves for states with strict governments and border disputes, CNBC has learned.
STAT:
STAT+: Private emails show RFK Jr. making false claims about Covid-19 shots, linking vaccines to autism  —  On the eve of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s confirmation hearings, his physician niece has shared a trove of private emails in the hopes of derailing his nomination to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.
 
 
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Rachel Ulatowski / The Mary Sue:
'Biden's Book Ban Hoax': Department of Education claims book bans are a ‘hoax’ and dismisses all complaints
Umar Shakir / The Verge:
FCC chair says landlords can force bulk internet service on residents
Wall Street Journal:
Tulsi Gabbard, Edward Snowden and Intelligence
Discussion: Washington Post, Fox News and Raw Story
Nikita Mazurov / The Intercept:
Proton Mail Says It's “Politically Neutral” While Praising Republican Party
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Pardoned Jan. 6 Rioter Is Sought for Charges of Soliciting Minor
Discussion: The Guardian and Tampa Bay Times
Associated Press:
Some Trump voters are skeptical of his opening moves to embrace fellow billionaires
Hugo Lowell / The Guardian:
Special counsel prosecutors were fired on instructions of White House
Discussion: New York Times
 Earlier Items: 
Washington Post:
RFK Jr. disparaged vaccines dozens of times in recent years and made baseless claims on race
Discussion: Daily Kos and The New European
Axios:
All undocumented immigrants are “criminals,” Trump administration says
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Senator Ted Cruz is trying to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Man charged with carrying Molotov cocktails into the Capitol was targeting Johnson, Hegseth, Bessent
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Democrats' playbook for Trump 2.0: Tune out the noise and focus on economic issues
 

 
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Memo: the Pentagon evicts the NYT, NBC News, NPR, and Politico from Pentagon offices and offers the workspace to the NY Post, OANN, Breitbart, and HuffPost

Ben Smith / Semafor:
Journalists Lachlan Cartwright and Ravi Somaiya launch Breaker Media, based out of NYC, with a $12/month weekly newsletter and podcast

The Guardian:
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