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Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Federal judge blocks Musk's DOGE from access to Treasury Department material  —  The judge also ordered Musk and his team to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from Treasury Department's records and systems, if any.”  —  NEW YORK — A federal judge issued …
Discussion: Townhall and CBS News
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Washington Post:
Treasury was warned DOGE access to payments marked an ‘insider threat’  —  The assessment, done by the contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, came before Treasury tapped an ally of Elon Musk to oversee the sensitive payment system.  —  The Treasury Department was warned in a confidential assessment …
Alex Galbraith / Salon:
“The greatest threat we've ever faced”: US Treasury division classifies DOGE staff as extreme danger
Discussion: FedScoop
State of California:
Attorney General Bonta Sues Trump Administration Over DOGE's Unlawful Access to Americans' Personal Information
Discussion: New Jersey Office …
Michael Stratford / Politico:
Treasury elevates Musk ally to lead government payment system
grants.nih.gov:
Supplemental Guidance to the 2024 NIH Grants Policy Statement: Indirect Cost Rates  —  Related Announcements  —  Issued by  —  Office of The Director, National Institutes of Health (OD)  —  Purpose  —  The National Institutes of Health (NIH) awards a large number of grants providing …
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Christina Jewett / New York Times:
Deep Cuts to Medical Research Funds Could Hobble University Budgets  —  Grants from the National Institutes of Health come with additional money for overhead.  Proposed funding cuts would leave colleges with large budget gaps.  —  The National Institutes of Health announced a new policy Friday …
Discussion: STAT
Samuel Bagenstos / Inside/Outside:
Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices
Discussion: STAT and Reuters
Politico:
How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE's crosshairs  —  Aides to the president and Elon Musk suspected USAID officials were trying to go around a funding freeze.  —  Pete Marocco was furious.  —  It was Thursday, Jan. 23, and the Trump administration official had discovered …
Discussion: Twitchy and EADaily
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Declan Walsh / New York Times:   Trump and Musk Bring Vast Aid Machinery to a Halt in Africa
New York Times:
Advocate of Jan. 6 Rioters Now Runs Office That Investigated Them  —  Ed Martin, a loyal Trump soldier, oversees the U.S. attorney's office, which is likely to help turn the investigative powers of the government on several of the president's perceived enemies.
New York Times:
Trump Says He Will Dismiss Kennedy Center Board Members and Install Himself as Chair  —  The move by the president, whose authority to make the changes was not clear, is the latest attempt to bring a Washington institution under his control.  —  President Trump announced his intention …
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Deidre McPhillips / CNN:
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate  —  A measles outbreak is growing in a rural area of West Texas where vaccination rates are well below the recommended level.  —  In late January, two children in Gaines County were hospitalized for measles.
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records  —  President Trump has fired Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan, the government official responsible for preserving and providing access to government records.
Discussion: Reuters, ABC News and KRDO
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan
Darlene Superville / Associated Press:
Trump says he's ending Biden's classified intelligence briefings in payback move  —  President Donald Trump said Friday that he's revoking former President Joe Biden's access to government secrets and ending the daily intelligence briefings he's receiving in payback for Biden doing the same to him in 2021.
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Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
With Aid Cutoff, Trump Severs a Lifeline for Millions
Discussion: Bloomberg
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk?  —  In December, more than a month before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, The New York Times reported a blockbuster scoop: Elon Musk and his SpaceX company had repeatedly failed to meet federal reporting requirements designed …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’  —  Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities …
María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post:
Trump halts aid to South Africa, claiming discrimination against Afrikaners  —  His executive order accuses South Africa's government of seizing property from White landowners and calls for their resettlement as “refugees” in the U.S.  —  President Donald Trump on Friday signed …
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Naomi LaChance / Raw Story:
30K tons of food ‘going to waste’ in Houston after Trump halted aid  —  About 30,000 tons of food is stuck at a port in Houston after Trump halted foreign aid for 90 days.  The food, intended to feed people overseas, is stalled at a warehouse,the Houston Chronicle reported.
Bloomberg:
Musk's DOGE Teen Was Fired By Cybersecurity Firm for Leaking Company Secrets  —  Edward Coristine posted online that he had retained access to the firm's servers.  Now he has access to sensitive government information.  —  Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk's squad that's …
Mother Jones:
Kash Patel Took $25,000 From Russia-Linked Firm to Appear on an Anti-FBI TV Series  —  Last year, Kash Patel, the MAGA provocateur whom Donald Trump has nominated to head the FBI, received $25,000 from a Russia-linked production company to participate in a documentary in which he assailed the FBI and called for closing its headquarters.
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Washington Post:
Kash Patel was paid by Russian filmmaker with Kremlin ties, documents show
Discussion: The Independent
Casey Michel / The Moscow Times:
Washington Has Given Up the Fight Against Kleptocrats.  Here's What Democracies Should Do  —  On Feb. 6, new U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a series of new directives from President Donald Trump's administration outlining her office's priorities.  Taken together, they represent …
Bloomberg:
'It's a Circus': Trump Unleashes Chaos at Key US Science Agency  —  Muddled directives and early-morning emails at NOAA, one of the world's top weather and climate forecasters, have put the agency on edge.  —  The email arrived in US government workers' inboxes just after 1 a.m. East Coast time on Friday …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Will a Time Magazine Cover Drive a Wedge Between Trump and Musk?  —  The cover of the venerable newsweekly, long an object of fixation for the president, put Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk.  —  The president did not look amused.  He was meeting the Japanese prime minister …
Wall Street Journal:
The Mood of the American Consumer is Souring  —  Tariff threats, market turbulence causing jitters early in Trump's second term  —  The Trump bump in consumer confidence is already over.  —  Tariff threats, stock market swings and rapidly reversing executive orders are causing Americans across …
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
Abdallah Fayyad / Vox:
The real lesson of the DOGE racist tweets scandal  —  On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resigned after the paper inquired about some racist social media posts from an account linked to him.
Aaron Wiener / Washington Post:
Federal workers who took Trump buyout feel fear, regret after judge's order  —  A judge in Massachusetts paused a Feb. 6 deadline to decide on whether to take the buyout, pending a Monday court hearing in a lawsuit seeking to nullify the Trump administration's deferred resignation program.
Discussion: ZeroHedge News and NBC News
Alexander Tin / CBS News:
Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal  —  Trump administration political appointees have taken steps in recent weeks to exert unprecedented influence over the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's flagship medical research publication …
Discussion: Wired
Pew Research Center:
1. Trump's second term: Early ratings and expectations  —  Table of Contents Table of Contents  —  Americans are deeply divided over Donald Trump's plans and the way he is handling his job in the early weeks of his return to the presidency.  —  Overall, 47% of U.S. adults approve …
John Ismay / New York Times:
Hegseth Uses His First Town Hall to Attack Diversity  —  The defense secretary, speaking to the Pentagon work force, defended his “unconventional approaches” to an audience that included women and people of color.  —  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave his first public address …
Washington Post:
A sample of the government webpages Trump doesn't want you to see  —  When President Donald Trump took office, dozens of government webpages disappeared as part of his plan to reshape the U.S. government to his liking.  Not even NASA was spared.  —  Catherine Rampell is a Post Opinions columnist …
Discussion: Blaze Media and Truthout
New York Times:
Now Is Not the Time to Tune Out  —  Don't get distracted.  Don't get overwhelmed.  Don't get paralyzed and pulled into the chaos that President Trump and his allies are purposely creating with the volume and speed of executive orders; the effort to dismantle the federal government …
New York Times:
Falsehoods Fuel the Right-Wing Crusade Against U.S.A.I.D.  —  As the Trump administration works to dismantle the aid agency, right-wing influencers have flooded the internet with falsehoods about its work.  —  The video falsely claiming that the United States Agency for International …
 
 
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