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Bloomberg:
Trump Suggests Musk Found Irregularities in Effort at Treasury — President Donald Trump suggested that Elon Musk's government efficiency team has found irregularities while examining data at the US Treasury Department, and intimated that may lead the US to disregard some payments.
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Reuters:
Trump says US may have less debt than thought because of fraud — U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday said the United States may carry less debt than thought and said it could be because of fraud related to debt payments. — Trump made his comments to reporters aboard Air Force One while flying to the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
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The Daily Wire
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Says Some Treasury Notes May Not Be Real — I suspect this will just end up being something Old Man Trump said on a plane and we won't hear about it again. But after recents, who are we kidding? Anything is possible. On Air Force One today en route to the Super Bowl Trump told reporters …
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NPR, ABC News, Breitbart and The Gateway Pundit
Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Unveils Plans for 25% Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum Imports — Steel, aluminum duties to apply to imports from all countries — President to announce reciprocal tariffs in coming days … President Donald Trump said he plans to impose 25% tariffs on all imports of steel and aluminum …
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Washington Examiner, Daily Mail and Reuters
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Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Vance and Musk question the authority of the courts as Trump's agenda faces legal pushback — Top Trump administration officials are openly questioning the judiciary's authority to serve as a check on executive power as the new president's sweeping agenda faces growing pushback from the courts.
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Alternet.org, The Hill, Raw Story, Breitbart, Townhall and Business Insider
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Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Legal experts warn of ‘constitutional crisis’ as Vance and Elon Musk question judges' authority over Trump
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The Hill
Lora Kolodny / CNBC:
Musk calls to impeach judge whose order blocks DOGE from Treasury systems access
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New York Post, ZeroHedge News, The Gateway Pundit, Mediaite and Washington Examiner
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
One More Stop on a Busy Presidential Day: The Super Bowl
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New York Post
Alison Durkee / Forbes:
JD Vance Suggests Judges 'Aren't Allowed' To Control Trump After Courts Block His Policies
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New York Times, Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal, Raw Story, The Gateway Pundit and Bloomberg
Ian Swanson / The Hill:
Musk calls for impeachment of judge who blocked DOGE access at Treasury
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Breitbart
CBS News:
CBS News poll — Trump has positive approval amid “energetic” opening weeks; seen as doing what he promised — With most describing him as “tough,” “energetic,” “focused” and “effective” — and as doing what he'd promised during his campaign — President Trump has started his term with net positive marks from Americans overall.
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
‘Bama Senator Howls Like Stuck Pig After She Sees NIH Cuts’ Impact in State — Yesterday I made the point that while research universities and academic medical centers may be coded blue in many ways, they're far from limited to blue states. Indeed, overall they tend to be more crucial …
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al.com
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Scott Turner / al.com:
Katie Britt vows to work with RFK Jr. after NIH funding cuts cause concern in Alabama — Alabama's junior U.S. senator said she will work with President Donald Trump's health secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to “ensure our nation remains at the forefront” of innovation …
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Alternet.org, OutsideTheBeltway and Lawyers, Guns & Money
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
February 8, 2025 — Yesterday the National Institutes of Health under the Trump administration announced …
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al.com, ZeroHedge News, NBC News, Reason, HuffPost, STAT, Los Angeles Times, Talking Points Memo and CNN
Nandika Chatterjee / The Daily Beast:
More Than 800K Have Lost $2B on Trump's Meme Coin — The token's price has crashed from $75 to $17. — ‘Thug’: Richard Gere Drags Trump in Award Acceptance Speech — ‘MILLIONAIRE CLOWNS’ — “The millionaire clowns surrounding Trump are immature and narcissistic—a deadly mix,” Gere said.
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Some Democrats vow to use leverage in government funding fight — At least one Democrat is saying explicitly that the party should fight back against Trump and Musk by refusing to help Republicans reach a government funding deal. — Some Democrats warned they will not cooperate with Republicans …
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NBC News, New York Times, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit and Breitbart
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Asha Rangappa / The Freedom Academy with Asha Rangappa:
Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda — Perception is reality. — I normally don't write on Sundays, but I have seen some alarming rumors that Elon Musk has purchased a $40 million Super Bowl ad in which he will expose the “fraud” and “corruption” at USAID. (See here and here.)
Amanda Friedman / Politico:
Kristi Noem: ‘Get rid of FEMA the way it exists today’ — The DHS secretary backed Trump's proposal to shutter the disaster response agency. — Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said she supports the idea of getting “rid of FEMA” as part of President Donald Trump's massive overhaul of the federal government.
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Axios, The Gateway Pundit, RedState, PoliticusUSA, Orlando Sentinel, Breitbart, Fox News, Washington Post and The Daily Signal
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New York Times:
Trump's Shameful Campaign Against Transgender Americans — Some of the most deplorable episodes in U.S. history involve the government wielding the power of the state against minority groups: Black people, Indigenous people and gay people, to name just a few.
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ProPublica:
In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law — ProPublica's reporting provides new details about what legal risk officials were prepared to take and what laws they may have violated on their way to creating a “constitutional crisis.” — Reporting Highlights
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Politico
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Exclusive: Inside Trump's Iran fear … - Iran clearly is still on Trump's mind: Last week, he said he'd given his team instructions to “obliterate” Iran if its operatives were to kill him. — He later tempered that remark by saying he wanted a “verified nuclear peace agreement” with Iran …
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Daily Mail, The Post Millennial, The Independent and RedState
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Trump's ‘mass deportation’ TV reality show is both fake and incredibly dangerous — The cruelty was the point when 104 undocumented migrants from India were placed in leg shackles and handcuffs and loaded onto a U.S. Air Force C-17 last week for a grueling 40-hour deportation flight …
Washington Post:
Venezuelans backed Trump. Now some worry he'll deport them. — Venezuelans in the Miami suburb of Doral have been some of Trump's biggest proponents. Many feel betrayed after he revoked temporary protected status for thousands. — DORAL, Fla. — Ronald Bellorin decided to flee Venezuela …
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations — The agency had been one of Wall Street's most feared regulators, with the power to issue rules on mortgages, credit cards, student loans and other areas affecting Americans' financial lives.
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Associated Press, Reason, Forbes, USA Today and MPR News
Andrew Freedman / Axios:
NOAA told to search grant programs for climate-related terms … - Any potential challenges to NOAA's peer-reviewed grants are “myopic and misguided,” said Rick Spinrad, who led NOAA during the Biden administration. … - It appears to be separate from DEI-related searches …
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