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11:40 PM ET, February 24, 2025

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Washington Post:
Trump administration tells agencies they can ignore Musk order on email reply  —  The Office of Personnel Management told HR officials that employees wouldn't be let go for not replying to an email asking what they did last week.  —  The Trump administration has told federal agency leaders …
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NBC News:
Federal workers and agencies push back against Elon Musk's email ultimatum  —  The revelation comes as federal workers face a midnight deadline to respond.  —  WASHINGTON — Responses to the Elon Musk-directed email to government employees about what work they'd accomplished over the past week …
Rolling Stone:
Elon's Email Demand Is Being Met With ‘Very Rude’ Flood of Spam  —  After Musk told federal employees to list five accomplishments or be fired, internet users are encouraging people to flood the email with spam  —  President Donald Trump has let tech billionaire Elon Musk run rampant through …
Megan Messerly / Politico:
Trump backs off Musk's 5 things threat — sort of
Associated Press:
Trump backs Musk as he roils the federal workforce with demands and threats
Allan Smith / NBC News:
HHS warns employees that responses to Elon Musk's email may ‘be read by malign foreign actors’
Karen DeYoung / Washington Post:
U.S. votes against U.N. resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine war  —  BREAKING NEWS: U.S. sides with Russia to vote against a U.N. resolution condemning Moscow for the Ukraine  —  Washington's dramatic shift on the conflict marks a major break with its European allies and coincides …
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Farnaz Fassihi / New York Times:
U.S. Clashes With European Allies at the U.N. Over Ukraine  —  The United States voted against a resolution, backed by most of Europe, demanding Russian withdrawal from Ukraine — a deep fissure between allies, and a sharp shift in American policy.  —  A showdown over Ukraine between …
Jennifer Hansler / CNN:
US joins Russia to vote against UN resolution condemning Russia's war against Ukraine  —  The United States joined Russia to vote against a UN General Assembly resolution condemning Russia's war against Ukraine Monday in a stunning shift from years of US policy.
Barak Ravid / Axios:
U.S. votes against UN resolution condemning Russia for Ukraine invasion
Politico:
Government funding deal ‘very close’ as negotiations hinge on Trump power struggle  —  The fight over curbing President Donald Trump's ability to freeze cash is now the make-or-break dispute as leading lawmakers close in on a deal to avert a government shutdown next month.
Discussion: The Hill
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Annie Karni / New York Times:
Stefanik's Confirmation Is on Ice as Republicans Guard Their Scant Majority  —  The congresswoman from New York is in line to be confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.  But first, her colleagues need her vote to pass their embattled budget plan.
Discussion: The Daily Caller, Politico and CBS News
Jonathan Shorman / Kansas City Star:
Rep. Mark Alford tells fired KC federal workers ‘God has a plan’ at hostile town hall  —  Ariel Mollhagen couldn't hear what U.S. Rep. Mark Alford was saying but she didn't really need to.  The crowd's reaction told the story.  —  During an extraordinarily heated town hall on Monday …
Discussion: Raw Story and Mediaite
Eric Katz / GovExec.com:
Oversight agency finds Trump's federal worker firings unlawful, asks for some employees to be reinstated  —  An independent federal oversight agency has deemed at least some of President Trump's mass firings of probationary period employees unlawful, creating a pathway for those employees to regain their jobs.
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osc.gov:
Special Counsel Dellinger Statement on Request that MSPB Stay Terminations of Probationary Employees  —  Last Friday, Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger filed initial requests to “stay,” or pause, the apparently impermissible terminations of six probationary employees across various executive branch agencies.
Abbie VanSickle / New York Times:
Government Watchdog Moves to Protect Probationary Federal Workers
Discussion: USA Today
Michelle Goldberg / New York Times:
Trump's New Deputy F.B.I. Director Has It Out for the ‘Scumbag Commie Libs’  —  When a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty on 34 felony counts last year, the conservative podcaster Dan Bongino made a veiled threat on social media.  “The irony about this for the scumbag commie libs …
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BBC:
Trump names podcaster Dan Bongino as deputy FBI director
Josh Christenson / New York Post:
Hackers play AI video of Trump kissing Elon Musk's feet on cafeteria screens at HUD headquarters: ‘LONG LIVE THE REAL KING’  —  Cyberpunks breached a television at the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) on Monday morning, broadcasting a stomach-turning AI video of President Trump caressing …
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
AI video of Trump kissing Musk's feet plays on TVs in HUD building
NBC News:
Fake video of Trump kissing Musk's feet displayed at HUD office in Washington
Madison Pauly / Mother Jones:
LGBTQ Federal Workers Brace for a McCarthyist Purge  —  “They're not asking people, ‘Are you gay?  Are you lesbian?’  They're asking, ‘Who is participating in DEI?’”  —  When Michael first started working in the Department of the Interior over a decade ago, he hid the fact that he was gay from his co-workers.
Bobby Allyn / NPR:
A new document undercuts Trump admin's denials about $400 million Tesla deal  —  The controversy started in a very Washington way: as a line item in a government spreadsheet buried on the State Department's website.  —  It appeared as if the State Department was taking steps to award Elon Musk's Tesla …
Berkeley Lovelace Jr / NBC News:
FDA rehires staff to its medical devices division after mass layoffs  —  Around 180 FDA medical device workers were laid off this month by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency.  —  The Trump administration is reinstating some employees in the Food and Drug Administration's medical devices division …
Discussion: Associated Press, Forbes and STAT
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Christina Jewett / New York Times:   F.D.A. Reinstates Fired Medical Device, Food and Legal Staffers
CNN:
Federal judge declines to temporarily restore AP's full access to White House  —  A federal judge declined on Monday to temporarily restore the Associated Press' access to some of President Donald Trump's events, the Oval Office and Air Force One.  —  US District Judge Trevor McFadden turned …
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Matt Sedensky / Associated Press:
Judge rejects immediately restoring AP's access to White House but urges government to reconsider
City Journal:
The NSA's Secret Sex Chats  —  Intelligence officials maintained a chatroom to discuss polyamory and transgender surgeries, internal documents reveal.  —  / Eye on the News / Politics and law, The Social Order  —  The “intelligence community” is one of the most powerful parts of the American national security apparatus.
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Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Monday's Final Word
Discussion: The Free Press and CDR Salamander
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
EU offers its own ‘win-win’ minerals deal to Ukraine  —  “The added value Europe offers is that we will never demand a deal that's not mutually beneficial,” top official Stéphane Séjourné says.  —  The European Union offered its own agreement on “critical materials” …
Discussion: Agence France-Presse and E&E News
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Anita Powell / Voice of America:
Trump hosts French leader to discuss Ukraine endgame
Seb Starcevic / Politico:
Dan Crenshaw appears to threaten Tucker Carlson in hot mic moment  —  The congressman denied threatening the pundit.  —  A Republican congressman from Texas was caught on a hot mic Monday apparently threatening to kill former Fox News host Tucker Carlson.  —  In an exchange with a British journalist …
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Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
DeSantis Trashes MAGA Lawmaker Trump Endorsed Over His Wife  —  Ron DeSantis trashed Donald Trump's endorsement to succeed him as Florida's governor—a shocking rebuke of the president as rumors swirl that his wife, Casey, is teeing up a gubernatorial run of her own.DeSantis claimed Monday …
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Kate Payne / Associated Press:
Ron DeSantis talks up his wife as next Florida governor and takes a shot at Trump's pick
Ariel Zilber / New York Post:
MSNBC drama intensifies as network axes shows hosted by 3 more lefty anchors in wake of Joy Reid's ouster: sources  —  MSNBC's new president continued to overhaul the embattled network Monday — canceling shows hosted by anchors left-wing anchors Ayman Mohyeldin, Katie Phang and Jonathan Capehart, The Post has learned.
Zach Everson / Forbes:
CEO Devin Nunes Made $47 Million While Truth Social Parent Company Reported $401 Million In Losses In 2024  —  Devin Nunes earned $47 million in total compensation as CEO of Trump Media & Technology Group last year, although he won't be able to get his hands on all of it until March 2027 …
Kaye Thornbrugh / Coeur d'Alene Press:
Coeur d'Alene prosecutors dismiss citation against woman dragged from town hall, city revokes security company's business license  —  COEUR d'ALENE — City prosecutors will dismiss a misdemeanor battery citation issued to the Post Falls woman who plainclothes private security guards dragged …
Discussion: KGW-TV
Ellen Mitchell / The Hill:
VA axes another 1,400 employees  —  The Department of Veterans Affairs on Monday fired another 1,400 employees amid outcry over a lack of transparency from the agency after 1,000 workers were axed earlier this month.  —  The VA said the individuals dismissed were “non-mission critical” …
 
 
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Andrew Duehren / New York Times:
Acting I.R.S. Commissioner Is Expected to Announce His Retirement
Bloomberg:
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Josef Burton / The Nation:
Trump's New Muslim Ban Is Worse Than His First
Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Judge Questions Constitutionality of Musk's Cost-Cutting Operation
Discussion: Raw Story and Scripps News
Reuters:
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Jordan uses first subpoena of new Congress to target Biden admin
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Institute Asks Judge in Trump Documents Case to Disclose Special Counsel Report
Kevin Breuninger / CNBC:
Trump says tariffs on Canada and Mexico ‘will go forward’
Ailia Zehra / The Hill:
Nearly 200K sign petition to revoke Musk's Canadian citizenship
Discussion: The Guardian, Townhall and Fortune
Ben Penn / Bloomberg Law:
Warner, Who Said CIA Stole Election, Now Leads DOJ Civil Rights
Elizabeth Nolan Brown / Reason:
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