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3:50 PM ET, January 29, 2025

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Washington Post:
Trump White House reverses course, rescinds freeze on federal grants  —  The budget office came under immense pressure over the impacts on a sudden pause in key government spending  —  The White House budget office on Wednesday rescinded an order freezing federal grants …
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Zachary Basu / Axios:
White House rescinds Trump's funding freeze after massive backlash  —  The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) rescinded a memo Wednesday that had ordered a “temporary pause” on federal funding and unleashed major confusion across the country.
Discussion: CBS News, ABC News, The Hill, Raw Story and NOTUS
NBC News:
Trump administration rescinds order attempting to freeze federal aid spending  —  The move comes just one day after the order was issued and a federal district judge temporarily halted it.  —  President Donald Trump's administration on Wednesday rescinded an order that attempted to freeze …
NPR:
New memo, White House response adds to confusion on federal funding freeze  —  The Office of Management and Budget has rescinded its call for a pause on federal assistance, according to the agency's memo shared by Democracy Forward, which led a legal challenge over the effort.
Rachael Levy / Reuters:
USDA inspector general escorted out of her office after defying White House  —  Security agents escorted the inspector general of the U.S. Department of Agriculture out of her office on Monday after she refused to comply with her firing by the Trump administration, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Throw Biden under the bus  —  Sleepy Joe landed us in this mess with bad, selfish decisions  —  When Joe Biden stepped aside in favor of Kamala Harris, the overwhelming majority of Democrats praised him for the decision and painted an overall flattering portrait of Biden's presidency and his career.
Discussion: New Jersey Online
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Trump's First Big Fiasco Triggers Stephen Miller's Rage—Take Note Dems  —  Admitting failure is anathema to the authoritarian leader, who is perpetually in danger of being diminished by those who are resentful of his glory—which is why White House adviser Stephen Miller is frantically searching …
Discussion: Raw Story
Shane Goldmacher / New York Times:
Powerless, Democrats Debate Just How Deep in the Wilderness They Are
Discussion: HotAir
Daniel Payne / Politico:
Senate Democrats rip into RFK Jr.  —  Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee went on offense against Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s past statements about vaccines, infectious disease and other health-related conspiracy theories.  In a heated exchange, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) …
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The Hill:
Democrats hammer RFK Jr. on shifting vaccine, abortion views
New York Times:
Live Updates: R.F.K. Jr. Faces Bipartisan Grilling Over Vaccines and Medicaid
NBC News:
Trump signs the Laken Riley Act into law  —  The Laken Riley Act, named for the slain nursing school student who was attacked and killed by a Venezuelan citizen who had entered into the U.S. illegally, is the first legislative win of Trump's second term.  —  President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed …
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Will Weissert / Associated Press:
Trump plans to sign the Laken Riley Act into law as his administration's first piece of legislation
Rolling Stone:
Trump's First 10 Days Back in Power Were Uniquely Depraved. Don't Get Numb To It
Discussion: Raw Story
William Kristol / The Bulwark:   Congressional Republicans Prefer Being a Doormat
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Politico:
DOJ moves to drop prosecution of former Trump co-defendants in classified documents case  —  The request offered no explanation for the Justice Department's decision to abandon the case against the two Trump allies.  —  The Justice Department on Wednesday moved to drop its effort …
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Compelling Mass Civil Servant Resignations Will Create Chaos  —  Elon Musk's role at Twitter represents a Rorschach test for how people think he will fare in restructuring government.  For fans, he was able to cut the majority of the employees, and the site continued to run more or less as before.
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Andrew Prokop / Vox:
Trump and Musk's plan for a massive purge of the federal workforce, explained  —  Donald Trump and Elon Musk's sweeping effort to purge and reshape the federal government is underway.  —  Federal employees have arrived at a “fork in the road,” the new administration proclaimed in a Tuesday night announcement.
New York Times:
Which Federal Programs Are Under Scrutiny?  The Budget Office Named 2,600 of Them.  —  A Trump administration memo sent to U.S. federal agencies Monday night ordered temporary freezes in funding for programs across the government.  It caused widespread confusion among agency officials …
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Popular Information:
New Trump memo claims authority to ignore Congress
Timothy Noah / New Republic:
The Reason Why Donald Trump Shut Down His Government
Discussion: Digby's Hullabaloo
Sara Weissman / Inside Higher Ed:
Governor Leaves Indiana's Predominantly Black University Out of Budget  —  Martin University had a short-lived burst of state funding.  But those funds disappeared in Governor Mike Braun's budget proposal, unveiled on the heels of an anti-DEI executive order.  One lawmaker calls it racist.
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:   'It's racist': Republican governor shamed for defunding state's lone Black college
Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
OpenAI Furious DeepSeek Might Have Stolen All the Data OpenAI Stole From Us  —  The narrative that OpenAI, Microsoft, and freshly minted White House “AI czar” David Sacks are now pushing to explain why DeepSeek was able to create a large language model that outpaces OpenAI's while spending orders …
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Bloomberg:
Microsoft Probing If DeepSeek-Linked Group Improperly Obtained OpenAI Data
Andrea Shalal / Reuters:
Trump administration to cancel student visas of pro-Palestinian protesters  —  U.S. President Donald Trump will sign an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledge to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests, a White House official said.
Discussion: Jewish Insider
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
‘Written by children’: Critics slam New York Times' glowing coverage of Trump official  —  White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt received glowing coverage from the New York Times for her press briefing debut despite delivering a performance that other observers have described as an “embarrassment.”
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“Trump is trying to collapse our economy”: War on “woke” revealed as a war on all Americans  —  Christian nationalists behind the spending shutdown aim to punish everyone, not just imaginary Marxists  —  Initially, the most striking detail in the White House Office of Management and Budget memo …
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Zack Beauchamp / Vox:
Trump is already acting like a king
NBC News:
Defense secretary revokes Mark Milley's security detail and orders IG review  —  Pete Hegseth told Milley, a critic of Trump, that he had ordered an investigation to determine whether his rank should be re-evaluated.  —  WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has told former Joint Chiefs …
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Cybele Mayes-Osterman / USA Today:
Pete Hegseth tells Mark Milley the Pentagon is pulling his security detail and clearance
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
RFK Jr. Completely Fumbles Basic Medicaid Facts at Hearing  —  That is not quite how Medicaid works, Mr. Kennedy.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Wednesday “most Americans are not happy” with Medicaid because “the premiums are too high,” suggesting he may be oblivious to the fact that Medicaid overwhelmingly does …
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New York Times:
R.F.K. Jr. Appears Unfamiliar With Key Elements of Medicare and Medicaid
Discussion: Time
NBC News:
Fed holds interest rates steady despite Trump's calls for a cut  —  Policymakers left rates unchanged amid signs that the economy is humming along, defying the president's tradition-bucking pressure on the central bank.  —  Federal Reserve officials held interest rates steady after emerging …
Brianne Pfannenstiel / Des Moines Register:
Iowa Democrats flip Senate seat in special election to cut into Republican majority  —  Iowa Democrats have flipped a state Senate seat vacated earlier this year by Chris Cournoyer, who resigned to become the state's new lieutenant governor.  —  Democrat Mike Zimmer has defeated Republican Kate Whittington …
Fox News:
DHS Sec. Noem announces end to temporary protected status for Venezuelan migrants  —  Newly confirmed DHS Sec. Kristi Noem joins ‘Fox & Friends’ to discuss her efforts to crackdown on immigration, including the decision to remove the temporary status directive for Venezuelan migrants and the ICE raids in New York City.
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.
Discussion: Page Six and New York Post
 
 
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New York Times:
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Discussion: CBS News, New York Post and Raw Story
Lauren Weber / Washington Post:
RFK Jr. sought to trademark MAHA for vaccine marketing, transferred to ally
Discussion: Breitbart
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Ed Martin Jr., a crusader for Jan. 6 defendants, now oversees their absolution
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CNN:
Trump DOJ appointee in DC lashes out after flurry of ‘personally insulting’ leaks in his first week
Discussion: Mediaite