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11:30 AM ET, March 8, 2025

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Josh Kovensky / Talking Points Memo:
EXCLUSIVE: Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate  —  In email obtained by TPM, White House claims that Trump can appoint whoever he wants - absent Congress.  —  The Trump White House has taken its attempt to seize direct control over the entire executive branch …
Discussion: Fox News, Raw Story and Above the Law
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Paul Blumenthal / HuffPost:
How A Tiny Federal Agency's Lawsuit Could Provide The Smoking Gun Against DOGE  —  The U.S. African Development Foundation's standoff with DOGE contradicts the Trump administration's defenses of Elon Musk's operation.  —  The president of the U.S. African Development Foundation …
Richard Rubin / Wall Street Journal:
Republican Infighting Stalls Trump's ‘Big, Beautiful’ Tax Bill  —  Disagreements on spending cuts, the process and the debt limit combine to slow House-Senate agreement  —  WASHINGTON—President Trump's tax-cut plans are grinding through Congress in slow motion.  The tax cuts themselves aren't really the reason why.
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Michael Luciano / Mediaite:
Lauren Boebert Accuses Black Lawmaker of Waving ‘Pimp Cane’ at Trump
Discussion: New Republic and The Hill
Madison Colombo / Fox News:
Democrats confronted over refusal to cheer during Trump address: 'Why didn't you stand?'
Discussion: RedState
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Fox News Suddenly Starts Panicking About Trump's Economy: “Weakening!”  —  Fox News figures are willing to propagandize on President Trump's behalf on pretty much every horror that he throws our way.  Do Fox personalities back Trump when he sells out our allies in tandem with murderous tyrant Vladimir Putin?
Discussion: Politico and TheGrio
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Bloomberg:   Trump Team Is Pivoting to No Pain, No Gain as Economic Message
Liz Oyer / Liz Oyer on LinkedIn:
I'm sad to share that I was fired today from the job I have poured my heart and soul into for the last three years.  I am so proud of the team we built in the Office of the Pardon Attorney, who will carry on our important work.  I'm very grateful for the many extraordinary people I've had the opportunity to connect with on this journey.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
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New York Times:   Trump Administration Forces Out More Senior Justice Dept. Officials
Washington Post:   Several top career officials ousted at Justice Department
Washington Post:
For some federal workers, Trump and Musk offer a career springboard  —  Much of the U.S. civil service has recoiled at DOGE's attempts to revamp the government.  Others have been promoted.  —  Just now  —  Before Donald Trump returned to the White House, Charles Ezell had a mid-level IT job for a Macon …
Discussion: Musk Watch and HuffPost
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Jonathan Lemire / The Atlantic:
Is DOGE Losing Steam?
Reuters:   DOGE job cuts bring pain to Trump heartland
The Kyiv Independent:
US to stop participating in future military exercises in Europe, Swedish media reports  —  The United States has notified its allies that it does not plan to participate in military exercises held in Europe beyond those already scheduled in 2025, Swedish media outlet Expressen reported on March 7.
Discussion: Euromaidan Press
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Roger Cohen / New York Times:
A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era  —  It remains to be seen how far President Trump's embrace of Russia and abandonment of traditional allies will go.  But “the West” may be gone.  —  For decades a core objective of the Soviet Union was to “decouple” the United States from Europe.
Connor Stringer / Telegraph:
Trump considers pulling troops out of Germany
Alan J. Keays / VTDigger:
Shelburne police officer had YouTube video playing in cruiser at time of fatal crash, court records say  —  Kyle Kapitanski is set to be arraigned next week on a felony charge stemming from the crash that killed Sean Hayes, a cyclist, in South Burlington.  —  A Shelburne police sergeant …
S.V. Date / HuffPost:
Trump Golf Weekends' Cost To Taxpayers Hits $18.2 million  —  Donald Trump has played golf at his own courses in Florida on six of the seven weekends since his second term began.  —  WASHINGTON — Donald Trump's insistence on playing golf at his Florida courses has now cost American taxpayers …
Marc Santora / New York Times:
With Drones and North Korean Troops, Russia Pushes Back Ukraine's Offensive  —  Russia has retaken about two-thirds of the territory Ukraine seized last summer in the Kursk region of Russia, but at a fearful cost in lives.  —  Russian and North Korean forces have made significant battlefield advances …
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Journal Sentinel:
Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers joins lawsuit against President Trump, calls widespread federal workforce firings illegal  —  Natalie Eilbert Mary SpicuzzaMilwaukee Journal Sentinel  —  Gov. Tony Evers announced Friday that Wisconsin has joined a multistate lawsuit against President Donald …
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Andrea Hsu / NPR:
States sue Trump administration over mass firings of federal employees
Discussion: Daily Kos and Business Insider
Zach Everson / Forbes:
Insiders Loaded Up On Firm's Stock—Right Before Don Jr. And Eric Trump's Involvement Sent Shares Soaring  —  Dominari Holdings insiders, as well as Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, acquired 1 million shares through a private placement and bonuses just before the stock surged on news …
Melody Schreiber / The Guardian:
Texas cities run short of MMR vaccine as measles outbreak drives demand  —  Pharmacies are struggling with supplies as fatal outbreak expands and health secretary sows disinformation  —  As measles cases continue to grow in Texas and New Mexico, with a second death, an unvaccinated adult …
Discussion: CNN, Reuters, The Atlantic, Gizmodo, KHOU-TV, NPR and UPI
Ryan Murphy / WHRO Public Media:
Controversial military-themed brewery shuts its doors after a year in Norfolk, citing “woke mob”  —  Financial filings show the brewery was struggling financially before it relocated and had failed to start turning a profit after opening in Norfolk.  —  A controversial military-themed brewery championed …
Ali Bianco / Politico:
Trump names Walt Nauta, co-defendant in classified documents case, other allies to Naval Academy board  —  The selection comes a month after Trump fired the previous boards of several military academies.  —  President Donald Trump is nominating his close allies to serve on the board of visitors …
Discussion: Mediaite
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Tightens Grip on FBI and Justice Department  —  FBI Director Kash Patel's early requests at agency included how to securely contact the Oval Office  —  WASHINGTON—Among Kash Patel's first questions as FBI director was one that underscored who was now in charge.
Politico:
Trump administration declares TSA screener union contract void  —  The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it will cancel TSA's collective bargaining agreement and stop collecting union dues, a move it says will “strengthen workforce agility.”  —  The Department of Homeland Security …
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Associated Press:
Homeland Security ends TSA collective bargaining agreement, in effort to dismantle union protections
Alex Thompson / Axios:
Stephen Miller's outside army  —  Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is setting policy from inside the White House, but a legal group he co-founded is shaping policy from the outside, through legal complaints and lawsuits against corporations and even the Trump administration itself.
Kelsey Piper / Vox:
Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people  —  All to save 0.08 percent of the budget. … A lot has happened in the last six weeks, to put it mildly, and it can be hard to see through the dust and tell what's actually ongoing.  —  The government threatened tariffs, backed off …
Associated Press:
Meet Amy Gleason, the DOGE administrator who may — or may not — be wielding extraordinary power  —  When her daughter was diagnosed with a rare autoimmune disease in 2010, Amy Gleason attacked the challenge.  —  She carried binders of medical records to doctors' appointments across six …
 
 
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Jeffrey Collins / Associated Press:
A South Carolina man executed by firing squad is the first US prisoner killed this way in 15 years
Mark Mazzetti / New York Times:
Trump's Affinity for Putin Grows More Consequential Than Ever
Jonel Aleccia / Associated Press:
Kennedy and influencers bash seed oils, baffling nutrition scientists
Kenneth P. Vogel / New York Times:
Trump Allies Seek Pardons From an Emboldened White House
Discussion: Raw Story
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Deena Shanker / Bloomberg:
Two USDA Food Safety Committees Disbanded Under Trump Order
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Alison Patton / WOUB Public Media:
Many Fulbright scholars say they feel stranded after the Trump administration suspended their funding
Discussion: New York Times and Raw Story
Cyrus Farivar / Forbes:
DOGE's Latest Casualty: The Government's Texting Service For Urgent Reminders
Wired:
DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers
Kara Scannell / CNN:
Trump Organization sues Capital One for closing its bank accounts four years ago
Charlie Kirk / Media Matters for America:
Charlie Kirk warns “all these campuses that don't treat us well at Turning Point USA” may have their funding cut
Jimmy Jenkins / Arizona Republic:
Entire Phoenix field office of General Services Administration fired, says court executive
Discussion: FOX 10 Phoenix
OCC.gov:
OCC Clarifies Bank Authority to Engage in Certain Cryptocurrency Activities