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Bloomberg:
Trump Suggests Musk Effort at Treasury Found Irregularities — There could be a problem with Treasuries, Trump says — Trump made comments amid DOGE scrutiny of government payments — President Donald Trump suggested that Elon Musk's government efficiency team has found irregularities …
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ZeroHedge News, Politico and Fox Business
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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.
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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Daily Mail
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Trump is making himself inescapable
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New York Times, Mediaite, PoliticusUSA and Semafor
Taylor Penley / Fox News:
President Trump predicts Elon Musk will find ‘hundreds of billions’ in waste in next DOGE directives
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Josh Wingrove / Bloomberg:
Trump Plans to Impose 25% Tariffs on Steel, Aluminum Imports — Duties to apply to imports from all countries, president says — President to announce reciprocal tariffs in coming days — Trade wars, tariff threats and logistics shocks are upending businesses and spreading volatility.
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Washington Examiner, Associated Press and Grabien
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Associated Press:
Trump says he will announce 25% steel and aluminum tariffs Monday, and more import duties are coming — President Donald Trump said he will announce on Monday that the United States will impose 25% tariffs on all steel and aluminum imports, including from Canada and Mexico, as well as other import duties later in the week.
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Next Round of Tariffs—25% on Steel and Aluminum—Won't Be So Easily Averted
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Reuters, Associated Press, Axios, Canadian Press, Fox Business, USA Today, The Guardian, NBC News, The Independent, The Japan Times and Washington Post
Alex Gangitano / The Hill:
Trump says 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum coming Monday
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Bloomberg, Associated Press and Daily Mail
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, Raw Story, The Hill, Breitbart and New York Times
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New York Times:
Vance Says 'Judges Aren't Allowed to Control' Trump's ‘Legitimate Power’ — The declaration by the vice president came as court orders have temporarily blocked parts of the Trump administration's agenda. — Vice President JD Vance declared on Sunday that “judges aren't allowed to control …
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Alternet.org, The Independent, Civil Discourse … and The Hill
Alexandra Marquez / NBC News:
Legal experts warn of ‘constitutional crisis’ as Vance and Elon Musk question judges' authority over Trump
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Raw Story
Erica L. Green / New York Times:
One More Stop on a Busy Presidential Day: The Super Bowl
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New York Post and al.com
Alison Durkee / Forbes:
JD Vance Suggests Judges 'Aren't Allowed' To Control Trump After Courts Block His Policies
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Rolling Stone, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
New York Times:
Trump Orders Treasury Secretary to Stop Minting Pennies — President Trump said that the coins cost more to produce than their face value. — President Trump said on Sunday night that he had ordered the Treasury secretary to stop producing new pennies, a move that he said would help reduce unnecessary government spending.
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Axios
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Associated Press:
Trump says he has directed U.S. Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost — The U.S. Mint reported losing $85.3 million in the 2024 fiscal year, which ended in September, on the nearly 3.2 billion pennies it produced. — / Source: The Associated Press
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Minnah Arshad / USA Today:
Trump announces plan to stop making new pennies, citing production costs
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Breitbart, New Jersey Online, Raw Story, The Hill and Washington Examiner
Wall Street Journal:
CFPB to Close Office After Vought Tells Staff to Halt All Supervision — In an email Sunday, the agency's chief operating officer says headquarters will be closed in the week ahead — President Trump's newly installed Consumer Financial Protection Bureau chief Russell Vought is closing …
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Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
Union sues Russell Vought over DOGE access to CFPB, attempts to shutter bureau
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The Gateway Pundit, Alternet.org and The Hill
Politico:
Inside the House GOP clash over tax cuts — Hardliners are squaring off against their top tax writer as Republicans try to assemble a package President Donald Trump's priorities. — Prominent House Republicans are privately warring over how to advance tax cuts that are expiring …
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Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Some Democrats vow to use leverage in government funding fight
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NBC News, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Examiner and Breitbart
Liset Cruz / Politico:
Mike Johnson says Democrats ‘are flailing right now’
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Washington Examiner, New York Post and Fox News
ProPublica:
In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law — ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — It was the week President Donald Trump had signed a sweeping executive order shutting off …
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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.)
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Court Blocks U.S. From Sending 3 Venezuelan Migrants to Guantánamo — The men, who are detained in New Mexico, say they “fit the profile” of the type of migrants the Trump administration has started sending to the Navy base in Cuba. — A federal judge barred the U.S. government …
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Associated Press, Fox News, Axios, Reuters and PolitiFact
The Hill:
Musk calls for annual firing of judges after blocked DOGE access at Treasury — Tech billionaire Elon Musk called for the annual firing of judges following an early Saturday decision from a judge stating that the Treasury Department should bar access to its payment systems to anyone besides …
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ZeroHedge News, Mediaite, Daily Mail and The Gateway Pundit
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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.
Wall Street Journal:
Trump, CBS, and ‘News Distortion’ — The FCC opens a docket on a Kamala Harris interview, but for what? — President Trump has spent months howling that CBS should lose its broadcast license, because its editing of an interview with Kamala Harris amid the 2024 campaign was, as he put it Thursday …
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