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8:25 AM ET, February 27, 2025

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Berkeley Lovelace Jr / NBC News:
FDA cancels meeting to select flu strains for next season's shots  —  The canceled meeting comes just days after a CDC vaccine advisory committee meeting was abruptly postponed.  —  A Food and Drug Administration vaccine advisory committee meeting scheduled for March to select the strains …
Discussion: Washington Post
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Nina Golgowski / HuffPost:
RFK Jr. Dismisses Measles Outbreak As ‘Not Unusual’ After Child's Death  —  “We have measles outbreaks every year,” Trump's health secretary said when asked about the death, which is the nation's first in a decade.  —  Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a prominent vaccine skeptic …
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling / New Republic:
RFK Jr. Has Horrific Response to Measles Death  —  An unvaccinated child in west Texas died of measles on Wednesday, marking the first time that someone has died from the viral illness in the U.S. in a decade.  —  So far, 18 people have been hospitalized for the disease around Lubbock …
New York Times:
F.D.A. Cancels Meeting of Vaccine Experts Scheduled to Advise on Flu Shots  —  The cancellation plays into fears among scientists who worry that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will use his position as health secretary to sow doubts about vaccines.  —  A panel of scientific experts that advises …
Insights:
Breaking: US FDA Cancels Upcoming Adcomm Discussing 2025-2026 Flu Vaccine  —  The Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee meeting next month was scheduled to select strains for the 2025-2026 flu vaccine.  The cancellation could mean delays in vaccine availability.
Alexander Tin / CBS News:
FDA cancels meeting to update next season's flu vaccines
NBC News:
Justice Department tells judges it can't comply with court-ordered deadline to release frozen aid funding  —  In court filings, the DOJ contends it will take “weeks” to free the funding that a federal judge ordered to be released almost two weeks ago.  —  The Trump administration …
Discussion: Law and Chaos, UPI, The Hill and IJR
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Associated Press:
Trump administration says it's cutting 90% of USAID foreign aid contracts  —  The Trump administration said Wednesday it is eliminating more than 90% of the U.S. Agency for International Development's foreign aid contracts and $60 billion in overall U.S. assistance around the world …
Washington Post:
Supreme Court grants Trump request to pause USAID payments order
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
Shutdown fight could delay GOP budget push, Thune says
Discussion: Axios, Washington Examiner and NBC News
Washington Post:
Threat of Medicaid cuts looms over GOP lawmakers
Politico:
Senate Republicans say House budget won't fly with them
Robert Berkvist / New York Times:
Gene Hackman, Hollywood's Consummate Everyman, Dies at 95  —  The winner of two Oscars, he was hailed for his nuanced performances in films like “The French Connection,” “Unforgiven” and “The Royal Tenenbaums.”  —  Gene Hackman, who never fit the mold of a Hollywood movie star …
GovExec.com:
Top Social Security deputies leave amid rumored staff cuts  —  Most of the Social Security Administration's regional commissioners have decided to retire at the end of this week, following mysterious meetings with agency leaders about plans to slash its workforce.
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Washington Post:
DOGE barrels toward a fresh round of firings, the most widespread yet
Discussion: The Guardian
Washington Post:
FAA targeting Verizon contract in favor of Musk's Starlink, sources say  —  Turning the $2.4 billion project over to Musk's company would be a major test of conflict-of-interest rules in government contracting.  —  Just now  —  The Federal Aviation Administration is close to canceling …
Peter Baker / New York Times:
In Trump's Washington, a Moscow-Like Chill Takes Hold  —  A new administration's efforts to pressure the news media, punish political opponents and tame the nation's tycoons evoke the early days of President Vladimir V. Putin's reign in Russia.  —  She asked too many questions that the president didn't like.
Washington Post:
Musk claims DOGE ‘restored’ Ebola prevention effort.  Officials disagree.  —  USAID's initiatives to fight Ebola and other diseases have been gutted, current and former agency officials said  —  Elon Musk on Wednesday acknowledged that the U.S. DOGE Service “accidentally canceled” …
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
U.S. Economy Shows Signs of Strain From Trump's Tariffs and Spending Cuts  —  Consumer and business sentiment is wobbling as fiscal support fades and fears rise that tariffs will lead to higher prices.  —  The United States economy is starting to show signs of strain as President Trump's abrupt moves …
Discussion: The Contrarian
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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard / Telegraph:   Economists are starting to worry about a serious Trump recession
Aaron Wiener / Washington Post:
Federal agencies given deadline for plans to move offices out of D.C. area  —  A Trump administration memo directed agency heads to submit by April 14 plans to move offices and bureaus to “less-costly parts of the country.”  —  The Trump administration is giving federal agencies until mid-April …
Discussion: The Independent
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Steven Erlanger / New York Times:
Some European Allies Fear Trump Is Out to Destroy Them  —  Debate is building over just how deep the Trump administration's antagonism runs, and whether the real goal is to destroy the European Union.  —  During his first term in office, President Trump described the European Union “as a foe …
Discussion: Semafor, NPR, Reuters and Euromaidan Press
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Patsy Widakuswara / Voice of America:
British PM Starmer to meet Trump at White House
Margaret Sullivan / The Guardian:
Jeff Bezos is muzzling the Washington Post's opinion section.  That's a death knell  —  'I couldn't be more sad and disgusted,' says former top editor Martin Baron  —  Owners and publishers of news organizations often exert their will on opinion sections.  It would be naive to think otherwise.
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
WHCA head: Public ‘can no longer trust’ pool reports under White House control  —  The head of the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) says the public can no longer trust pool reports now that the reporters included in the small group will be controlled by President Trump's team.
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Ben Johansen / Politico:
White House Correspondents' Association cedes control of pool reports to Trump administration
Associated Press:
VA pauses billions in cuts lauded by Musk as lawmakers and veterans decry loss of critical care  —  The Department of Veterans Affairs has temporarily suspended billions of dollars in planned contract cuts following concerns that the move would hurt critical veterans' health services …
The White House:
Implementing the President's “Department of Government Efficiency” Cost Efficiency Initiative  —  By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:  —  Section 1.  Purpose.  This order commences a transformation …
Cameron Barr / Cameron Barr on LinkedIn:
Today I am ending my professional association with The Washington Post.  Since my decision to step down as senior managing editor in 2023, I have been privileged to work on contract as a senior associate editor, helping to oversee investigative projects and undertaking other tasks at the behest …
CNN:
Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order for Trump admin to pay $2 billion in foreign aid by midnight  —  Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday paused a court-imposed midnight deadline that would have required the Trump administration to spend $2 billion in frozen foreign aid …
Discussion: WHDH-TV and Fox News
Josh Barro / The Atlantic:
Democrats Need to Clean House  —  The problem with the party goes way beyond the $10 words.  —  At the University of Chicago's Institute of Politics last week, former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg was nearly apoplectic about the diversity spectacles at the recent Democratic National …
Emily Davies / Washington Post:
She hoped Trump's victory would change her life, but not like this  —  Ryleigh Cooper is normally more focused on motherhood than politics.  Then came DOGE.  —  BALDWIN, Mich. — Ryleigh Cooper exhaled as she slid onto the couch after nine hours of work for the U.S. Forest Service …
Jane C. Timm / NBC News:
Dozens of DOGE ‘receipts’ saved no money and killed contracts meant to boost efficiency  —  Many of the receipts published by Elon Musk's DOGE aren't receipts at all — they're negotiated deals with vetted vendors who might do future government work.  —  Take a quick look at the Department …
Discussion: PBS NewsHour and CBS News
Wired:
DOGE Staffers at HUD Are From an AI Real Estate Firm and a Mobile Home Operator  —  Elon Musk's men at HUD come from the real estate sector.  They have access to vast stores of personal and financial data—and control over who can access which HUD systems.  —  On February 10 …
Discussion: ProPublica
Christian Paz / Vox:
What happened to the Gays for Trump?  —  Voters in Germany maintained a few global trends this past weekend: They kicked out incumbents, their youth moved to the right, and they delivered another surprise.  Their radical, anti-immigrant party (Alternative für Deutschland, or AfD) …
Nicole Narea / Vox:
Elon Musk's big mistake with the IRS, explained in 3 charts  —  Elon Musk's cut-first, aim-later run through the federal government is predicated on the idea that the nation's finances are in crisis and that it needs to drastically cut spending to recover.  But at least one cut Musk's team …
Discussion: New York Times
 
 
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New York Times:
Austrian Parties Reach Deal to Form Government Without Far Right
Discussion: Politico, Bloomberg and Reuters
Amber Phillips / Washington Post:
Is what DOGE doing even legal?
Associated Press:
Republican lawmakers look for ways to weaken state judges
Associated Press:
Pentagon orders new purge of social media sites to dump diversity, inclusion mentions by March 5
Discussion: Reuters and CBS News
Linda Qiu / New York Times:
Agriculture Department Looks to Import Eggs as Prices Soar
Sam Prance / Capital:
Pedro Pascal calls out “vile and pathetic” transphobic trolls after defending trans rights
Lauren Irwin / The Hill:
Mulvaney says Trump, Musk ‘itching for a fight’ with courts on federal worker cuts
Discussion: ABC News
 Earlier Items: 
Bloomberg:
Trump Team Weighs Pulling Funds for Moderna Bird Flu Vaccine
Discussion: Megyn Kelly
Reuters:
US government spending has not slowed under Trump so far, data shows
Discussion: New Republic
Josh Fiallo / The Daily Beast:
RFK Dismisses Measles Outbreak That Killed Kid as No Biggie
Veronica Riccobene / The Lever:
Musk's Empire Is Reaping $2 Million Per Day From Trump
Bloomberg:
Musk's Ex-Twitter Workers Win Severance Over ‘Fork in the Road’ Email
 

 
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CNBC:
OpenAI closes a $40B funding round, the most ever raised by a private tech company, at a $300B post-money valuation; SoftBank led the round with $30B

Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Sam Altman says OpenAI is planning to “release a powerful new open-weight language model with reasoning in the coming months”

Ian King / Bloomberg:
At the Intel Vision conference, CEO Lip-Bu Tan says Intel plans to spin off non-core assets, create new products including custom semiconductors, and more

 
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