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Associated Press:
21 federal technology staffers resign rather than help Musk and DOGE slash size of government — More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from billionaire Trump adviser Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, saying they were refusing to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
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Thomas Beaumont / Associated Press:
Live updates: 21 employees resign from DOGE, refusing to ‘dismantle critical public services’ — More than 20 civil service employees resigned Tuesday from Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency, saying they refused to use their technical expertise to “dismantle critical public services.”
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Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
How to Make the GOP Pay a Price for DOGE — Trump made a huge mistake by putting Musk in charge of implementing deeply unpopular policy — I have seen this movie before, beat for beat. — In August of 2010, in the middle of the effort to pass the Affordable Care Act, Congress went home for a month-long recess.
Elena Schneider / Politico:
‘Furious and looking for action’: DOGE is turning into a Democratic candidate recruitment tool — More than 2,000 people reached out to an organization that recruits people to run for office in the last week. — Democrats say sweeping government cuts led by Elon Musk have started to awaken …
Washington Post:
It's crunch time for Mike Johnson and the GOP's ‘big, beautiful bill’ — The House speaker is set to put a budget resolution up for a floor vote on Tuesday but is facing a potential revolt from swing-district Republicans. — Republicans' push to enact President Donald Trump's tax …
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New York Times:
Slashing Medicaid to Pay for Trump's Tax Cuts Could Lead to Vast State Shortfalls — Republicans have proposed lowering the federal share of costs for Medicaid expansions, which could reshape the program by gutting one of the Affordable Care Act's major provisions.
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NBC News:
Conservatives threaten to tank House budget vote needed to advance Trump agenda — Speaker Mike Johnson has been making progress with moderates who've raised concerns about potential Medicaid cuts, but a band of fiscal hawks are refusing to budge. — WASHINGTON — Speaker Mike Johnson …
Wall Street Journal:
House Republican Budget Plan Runs Into Trouble Ahead of Vote
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Meredith Lee Hill / Politico:
Johnson brushes off Musk, but GOP budget holdouts stand firm
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Politico:
Trump allies circulate mass deportation plan calling for ‘processing camps’ and a private citizen ‘army’ — The group, led by Blackwater veteran Erik Prince, has close Trump ties. — A group of prominent military contractors, including former Blackwater CEO Erik Prince …
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Melissa Gira Grant / New Republic:
This Shocking Moment at a GOP Town Hall in Idaho Is a Foreboding Sign — Teresa Borrenpohl later told the Coeur d'Alene Press that, as it happened, she didn't know if it was an arrest or a kidnapping. She was seated in a nearly-full town hall hosted by the Kootenai County Republican Central Committee on Saturday.
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Big, Big Scandal Brewing at DC US Attys Office … There's a big, big scandal brewing beneath the already big scandal of the alleged assault by Florida congressman Corey Mills (R). But as yet no one seems inclined to pull on the dangling thread. As you've probably already seen …
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Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
RED ALERT: Now Is the Moment, Folks … Over recent weeks I've told you several times that while Democrats are shut out of power in Washington and few means of arresting the Trump-Musk spree of criminal conduct across the executive branch they do have two points of leverage: the need for a new …
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Bread & Circus
Ryan J. Foley / Associated Press:
Nearly 40% of contracts canceled by Musk's DOGE are expected to produce no savings — Nearly 40% of the federal contracts that President Donald Trump's administration claims to have canceled as part of its signature cost-cutting program aren't expected to save the government any money, the administration's own data shows.
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Demetri Sevastopulo / Financial Times:
White House official pushes to axe Canada from Five Eyes intelligence group — Peter Navarro wants to increase pressure on country that Donald Trump has threatened to annex — A top White House official has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network …
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Amanda Marcotte / Salon:
“Slavery produced a genuine affection between the races”: Hegseth's church foretold “DEI” firings — Defense secretary's contempt for Black military leaders has roots in his religion's defense of white supremacy — Donald Trump's administration is barely bothering to pretend that the firings …
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Highlights: Personnel Officials Say Musk's Directive Is ‘Voluntary’ — Where Things Stand — Musk's ultimatum: Federal personnel officials walked back Elon Musk's demand that government workers justify their jobs in an email or face termination, saying that his request had been “voluntary.”
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Rolling Stone:
Elon's Email Demand Is Being Met With ‘Very Rude’ Flood of Spam
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Ann E. Marimow / Washington Post:
Supreme Court orders new trial for death row inmate Richard Glossip — The Oklahoma case has attracted broad support after the state's top law enforcement official revealed prosecutorial misconduct. — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday took the extraordinary step of ordering a new trial …
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Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Supreme Court throws out Oklahoma death row inmate's conviction over flawed trial
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Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Musk Scandal at USAID Takes Ugly Turn, Putting Starving Kids at Risk … Ever since Donald Trump and Elon Musk began downsizing the U.S. Agency for International Development, the administration has claimed that aid for lifesaving humanitarian assistance would continue.
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Chris Isidore / CNN:
Musk's Starlink gets FAA contract, raising new conflict of interest concerns — New York CNN — The Federal Aviation Administration has agreed to use SpaceX's Starlink internet system to upgrade the information technology networks it uses to manage US airspace, raising new concerns …
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Washington Post:
DOGE's grab of personal data stokes privacy and security fears — Associates of Elon Musk have sought unfettered access to information that is typically guarded very closely. — Deputies of Elon Musk have sought access to massive amounts of information across the federal government …
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The Gateway Pundit
Joseph Gedeon / The Guardian:
US threatens permanent visa bans on trans athletes based on sex markers — Exclusive: State department memo directs officers to bar those deemed to misrepresent birth sex on applications — The US state department has ordered officials worldwide to deny visas to transgender athletes attempting …
Isabella Simonetti / Wall Street Journal:
He Left CNN to Start a Newsletter. It's Now a Must-Read. — Oliver Darcy's media newsletter, launched in August, is poaching a CNN editor and on track to top $1 million in annual recurring revenue — Oliver Darcy left CNN, one of the most recognized news outlets in the world, to start a newsletter.
Katherine Eban / Vanity Fair:
America's Food Safety Is Now in the Hands of Don Jr.'s Hunting Buddy — As federal health agencies are gutted with abandon, a Florida attorney with a history of hunting with the president's son has been put in charge of food safety at the FDA, overseeing the nation's food supply, infant formula, and more.
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The Guardian
William Kristol / The Bulwark:
DOGE's Latest Cut: Glenn Youngkin's Balls — However bad you think DOGE's decapitation of USAID was, this report from the Washington Post's Matt Bai suggests it was even worse: … Happy Tuesday. — Glenn Youngkin to Fired Federal Workers: Time to Be Productive For a Change — by Andrew Egger
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Axios
Chris Mirasola / Default:
There is No Puzzle About Birthright Citizenship — Barnett and Wurman invoke a nonexistent “puzzle” about the law of nations to justify their theory about birthright citizenship. — Meet The Authors … It has been a month since President Donald Trump issued an executive order purporting …
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The Hill
James Carville / New York Times:
The Best Thing Democrats Can Do in This Moment — The Republican Party is all too often effective at campaigning and winning elections, but there's another fact about it that a lot of Americans forget: The Republican Party flat out sucks at governing. Even Tucker Carlson agrees with this.
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Hailey Fuchs / Politico:
Top Committee Dem goes after Trump's interim US attorney — Rep. Gerry Connolly, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, plans to investigate Washington's top prosecutor for making threats against the Trump administration's political adversaries — including one of his own members.
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Julia Kollewe / The Guardian:
Tesla sales almost halve in Europe as Musk faces criticism over Trump ties — Tech billionaire, a close adviser to the US president, is a vocal supporter of Germany's far-right AfD party — Sales of new Tesla cars almost halved in Europe last month, indicating waning demand …
Ben Leonard / Politico:
Cruz plans first tech subpoena — Amid some Republican pushback against Sen. Ted Cruz's efforts to gain unilateral subpoena power to haul Big Tech CEOs before his panel, the Senate Commerce chair now plans to compel testimony from an online service provider he argues has deplatformed conservatives.
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