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 …

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.

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.

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.

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 …

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 …

The NSA's “Big Delete”  —  Today, the National Security Agency (NSA) is planning a “Big Delete” of websites and internal network content that contain any of 27 banned words, including “privilege,” “bias,” and “inclusion.”  The “Big Delete,” according to an NSA source and internal correspondence reviewed …

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 …

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.)

Sabotaging the Pax Americana  —  Trump and Musk are making us distrusted, friendless and weak  —  Elon Musk — with Donald Trump's acquiescence, but clearly Musk was calling the shots — has effectively destroyed USAID, the aid agency that was, aside from its humanitarian role, a major pillar of US foreign policy.

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.

Black educators warn of what is lost if Education Department is shuttered  —  Black educators are sounding the alarm as President Trump ramps up talk of eliminating the Department of Education.  —  Trump, who has long called for the Education Department to be shut down …

Trump and his lawyers embrace the logic of dictatorship  —  And they're not even trying to hide it at this point. … 🗣️ 🎤 🤯  —  Donald Trump is busy seizing power through executive orders and letting Elon Musk and his gang of racist DOGE bros run amok through America's government agencies.

The Senate gives Trump his Cabinet — and their compliance  —  Unlike his first term, the president is getting little pushback from the chamber's Republicans.  —  Donald Trump is back, and it sure isn't 2017 anymore in the Senate.  —  Two of the president's most controversial nominees …

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 …

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.