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The end of law? — He is the most lawless president in American history. — He's allowed Musk's rats unfettered access to the Treasury's payments system. Banned birthright citizenship. Refused to spend money appropriated by Congress. Closed U.S. AID and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau …
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The Week Ahead — Virginia Senator Tim Kaine who delivered the weekly Democratic address …

Vance Says 'Judges Aren't Allowed to Control' Trump's ‘Legitimate Power’
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The Atlantic, Rolling Stone, Mock Paper Scissors, The Independent, Forbes, The Hill and Raw Story

Vance and Musk question the authority of the courts as Trump's agenda faces legal pushback
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New York Times, Alternet.org, Breitbart, Raw Story and The Gateway Pundit

Supreme Court that Trump helped shape could have the last word on his aggressive executive orders
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Vox and ZeroHedge News

Legal experts warn of ‘constitutional crisis’ as Vance and Elon Musk question judges' authority over Trump
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The Bulwark, Fox News, Mediaite, Raw Story and Alternet.org


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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Fortune, ZeroHedge News and Fox Business
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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.


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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Washington Post, Fortune, Daily Mail and The Gateway Pundit


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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Trump's Next Round of Tariffs—25% on Steel and Aluminum—Won't Be So Easily Averted
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Reuters, The Guardian, Associated Press, Canadian Press, Washington Post, The Japan Times and Semafor

Trump Will Impose Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum on Monday
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Reuters, The Bulwark, NBC News, ZeroHedge News, Bloomberg, Daily Mail, LewRockwell and Politico


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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Trump says he has directed U.S. Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost
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Forbes, The Gateway Pundit, The National Pulse, The Independent, UPI, New York Magazine, Daily Mail, Fox News, New York Post, The Post Millennial, Business Insider, ABC7 and KFMB

Trump announces plan to stop making new pennies, citing production costs
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Farmers on the hook for millions after Trump freezes USDA funds — The White House had repeatedly said the funding freeze would not impact benefits that go directly to individuals. — Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department …
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Raw Story


Musk associates granted access to confidential info about X's competitors — With Elon Musk's social media platform X poised to launch a digital wallet and peer-to-peer payment services, Musk's associates have been granted access to confidential information about X's competitors …
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CFPB to Close Office After Vought Tells Staff to Halt All Supervision
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Monopoly Round-Up: On Ending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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UnHerd, American Prospect and Axios


2/10/25 ☀️ AM: — Gabbard, Kennedy set for confirmation votes this week — House GOP appropriators do little as DOGE runs wild — The race for reconciliation … House Republican leaders are looking to cut federal spending by $2 trillion to $2.5 trillion as part …
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Trump administration seeks urgent end of ‘impermissible’ court order blocking access to Treasury systems — The order blocked DOGE access to a critical government payment mechanism. — The Trump administration is making an urgent push to end a court order barring top officials' access …
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Raw Story
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Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy. — When we had the honor of being sworn in as the 70th, 71st, 75th, 76th and 78th secretaries of the Treasury, we took an oath to support and defend the United States Constitution.
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Raw Story


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.
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Reuters and Alternet.org


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 …


China Seems Unstoppable. Trump Thinks Otherwise. — What's behind the trade war that the president didn't back away from. — Listen and follow ‘The Daily’ — Over the past week, President Trump avoided a trade war with Canada and Mexico. But he escalated a trade war with China.
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Trump 2.0 Heralds an Aggressive Flexing of Power — President Trump's early moves to slash the federal government and expand American territory represent significant ideological swings from his first term. — For all of the shock and awe of President Trump's first weeks back in office, much of it should come as little surprise.


“'Women' is a banned word”: Trump uses trans panic to strip rights from all women — Under the guise of “protecting women,” the military, schools and labs are forced to take women's safety away — In a country where 1 out of 6 women have experienced rape or attempted rape …


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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Alternet.org, Reuters, Associated Press, Lawyers, Guns & Money, Axios, Fox News and PolitiFact


Union sues Russell Vought over DOGE access to CFPB, attempts to shutter bureau — One lawsuit urged a judge to block the Department of Government Efficiency from accessing employee information, while the other asked a judge to block Vought's directives. — WASHINGTON — A union filed …
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MeidasTouch News, Washington Examiner, The Gateway Pundit and Alternet.org


U.S. funding freeze threatens Ukraine investigations of alleged Russian war crimes — The Trump administration's freeze of foreign funding has begun impacting an international effort to hold Russia responsible for alleged war crimes in Ukraine, according to eight sources and a Ukrainian document seen …


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.
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Raw Story


For CEOs and Bankers, the Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast — Deals market gets curtailed by uncertainty delivered in president's first weeks — It took less than a month for the second Trump administration to cool the enthusiasm of chief executives and dealmakers.