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7:05 AM ET, January 29, 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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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.
Axios:
Scoop: Trump offering buyouts to all federal workers, source says … We're five years past COVID and just 6 percent of federal employees work full-time in office.  That is unacceptable," a senior administration official tells Axios.
Associated Press:
Trump offering federal workers buyouts with about 8 months' pay in effort to shrink government  —  The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it is offering buyouts to all federal employees who opt to leave their jobs by next week — an unprecedented move to shrink the U.S. government at breakneck speed.
Washington Post:
White House incentivizes federal workers to resign
Discussion: Business Insider
Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:   Compelling Mass Civil Servant Resignations Will Create Chaos
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
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
White House says Medicaid portal ‘will be back online shortly’ after Trump funding freeze blamed
Associated Press:
Federal judge temporarily blocks Trump administration freeze on federal grants and loans
CBS News:
Medicaid, Head Start, health centers say they're locked out of federal funding website
Politico:
Judge blocks Trump's spending freeze
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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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 …
Zach Montague / New York Times:
Trump Signs Order Restricting Gender-Affirming Treatments for Minors
Discussion: Axios and Bloomberg
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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Washington Post:
Caroline Kennedy warns of ‘predator’ RFK Jr. in searing letter, video  —  The former ambassador urged senators to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s nomination for health secretary, questioning his ethics and views on vaccines.  —  Caroline Kennedy warned senators Tuesday about Robert F. Kennedy Jr. …
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Associated Press:
Caroline Kennedy warns senators that cousin RFK Jr. is a ‘predator’
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 takes actions against Trump foe Mark Milley
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.
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 …
Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
‘A 5 Alarm F-ing Fire’: Trump's Federal Funding Freeze Is Jolting Some Dems Into Fight Mode  —  “The Senate must not be business as usual,” warned Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as nearly two dozen Democrats cast a protest vote on a Trump nominee.  —  LOADING
Discussion: The Hill, USA Today and CNN
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Erik De La Garza / Raw Story:
Trump is holding hospitals ‘hostage’ in brazen ‘power grab’: AOC
Discussion: Twitchy
Mike Allen / Axios:
Karoline Leavitt's first briefing: Press room enters new era … Two seats along the wall next to the podium — which used to be occupied by White House press and communications staff — have been opened to “new media voices” that don't have assigned seats.  — The seats' first two occupants …
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Eli Stokols / Politico:
Trump briefing begins with pledge to boost outside media
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
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.
Rachel Ulatowski / The Mary Sue:
'Biden's Book Ban Hoax': Department of Education claims book bans are a ‘hoax’ and dismisses all complaints  —  The fear that book bans would worsen under Donald Trump's presidency has become a reality.  The Department of Education announced it is dismissing book ban complaints as a hoax …
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
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 …
CNN:
Pamela Brown asks GOP lawmaker if he'd support cutting free lunches for vulnerable students  —  CNN's Pamela Brown asks Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA) about President Trump's administration pausing aid for federal grants and loans that could affect millions of Americans.
Discussion: USA Today
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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 …
Financial Times:
OpenAI says it has evidence China's DeepSeek used its model to train competitor  —  White House AI tsar David Sacks raises possibility of alleged intellectual property theft  —  OpenAI says it has found evidence that Chinese artificial intelligence start-up DeepSeek used the US company's proprietary models …
 
 
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Matthew Yglesias / Slow Boring:
Throw Biden under the bus
Discussion: New York Times
Will Dunham / Reuters:
Atomic scientists adjust ‘Doomsday Clock’ closer than ever to midnight
Amber Lee / KTVU-TV:
‘We stand with you’: SF leaders rally for immigrant community after ICE agents spotted downtown
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 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: Tampa Bay Times and The Guardian
 Earlier Items: 
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
Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica:
Senator Ted Cruz is trying to block Wi-Fi hotspots for schoolchildren
 

 
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