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9:45 AM ET, February 10, 2025

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Robert Reich:
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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New Republic:   Transcript: Musk's Threats Darken as MAGA Rages at Fresh Legal Losses
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Mark Sherman / Associated Press:
Supreme Court that Trump helped shape could have the last word on his aggressive executive orders
Discussion: Vox and ZeroHedge News
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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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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Associated Press:
Trump says he will announce 25% steel and aluminum tariffs Monday, and more import duties are coming
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.
Discussion: Axios, Raw Story and IJR
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Associated Press:
Trump says he has directed U.S. Treasury to stop minting new pennies, citing rising cost
Washington Post:
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Caleb Ecarma / Musk Watch:
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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Wall Street Journal:
CFPB to Close Office After Vought Tells Staff to Halt All Supervision
Matt Stoller / BIG:
Monopoly Round-Up: On Ending the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Discussion: UnHerd, American Prospect and Axios
Punchbowl News:
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story and E&E News
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
The Senate gives Trump his Cabinet — and their compliance
Discussion: Fox News and E&E News
Politico:
Inside the House GOP clash over tax cuts
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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emptywheel:
Rule of Law: Don't Obey in Advance, But Also Don't Give Up in Advance
Discussion: Twitchy
New York Times:
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
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.
Discussion: Reuters and Alternet.org
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
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 …
New York Times:
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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Wall Street Journal:
China's Strategy in Trade War: Threaten U.S. Tech Companies
Peter Baker / New York Times:
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.
Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“'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 …
Megan Lebowitz / NBC News:
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 …
Reuters:
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 …
Paul Krugman:
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.
Discussion: Raw Story
Wall Street Journal:
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.
 
 
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
‘Mark my words’: George Conway predicts alarming showdown that could ‘end’ U.S. democracy
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
To watch Musk, Senate Democrats start whistleblower platform for workers
Discussion: MeidasTouch News
Hannah Allam / ProPublica:
Trump's Pardons and Purges Revive Old Question: Who Counts as a Terrorist?
Cheyanne M. Daniels / The Hill:
Black educators warn of what is lost if Education Department is shuttered
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Trump froze Biden's marquee climate accomplishment and it's roiling the renewable energy world
Stacy Cowley / New York Times:
36 Hours After Russell Vought Took Over Consumer Bureau, He Shut Its Operations
Discussion: Associated Press and Reason
Asha Rangappa / The Freedom Academy with Asha Rangappa:
Prebunking Elon Musk's Super Bowl Propaganda
ProPublica:
In Breaking USAID, the Trump Administration May Have Broken the Law
 

 
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Filip Timotija / The Hill:
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