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12:40 PM ET, February 3, 2025

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Bloomberg:
Trump Delays Mexico Tariffs by a Month After Talk With Sheinbaum  — Mexico to send 10,000 national guard to border as part of deal  — Mexican peso rallies after Sheinbaum, Trump announce delay … President Donald Trump agreed to delay 25% tariffs against Mexico for one month …
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Reuters:
White House: Mexico is ‘serious’, Canada appears to have ‘misunderstood’ Trump's executive order  —  The White House said on Monday it has noticed that Mexico is “serious” about President Donald Trump's executive order on tariffs but Canada has “misunderstood” it.
Brian Mann / NPR:
Trump used fentanyl to justify tariffs, but the crisis was already easing  —  President Trump says illegal street fentanyl is one of the main justifications for sweeping trade tariffs he plans to impose against Canada, China and Mexico on Tuesday.  A statement issued by the White House describes …
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Follow the Money  —  Hey guys, I'm sending out Monday's Triad on Sunday night for reasons that will be clear when you read it.
New York Times:
Markets Tumble as Trump Tariffs Loom
Pia Singh / CNBC:
Dow futures drop more than 450 points after Trump hits U.S. trading partners with tariffs: Live updates
Tara Neill / NPR:
Trump puts Mexico tariffs on hold for 1 month after a call with the Mexican president
Associated Press:
Trump and Trudeau speak and plan to do so again before tariffs start on Tuesday
Alexander Ward / Wall Street Journal:
Democratic Senator Says He Will Stall Trump Nominees Until USAID Is Back  —  Schatz said he would hold up Trump's diplomatic confirmations  —  WASHINGTON—Sen. Brian Schatz (D., Hawaii) said he would place a “blanket hold” on all of President Trump's State Department nominees until …
Discussion: Al Jazeera and Digby's Hullabaloo
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Associated Press:
USAID staffers told to stay out of Washington headquarters after Musk said Trump agreed to close it  —  Staffers of the U.S. Agency for International Development were instructed to stay out of the agency's Washington headquarters on Monday, according to a notice distributed to them …
Wall Street Journal:
Trump Administration Closes USAID Headquarters  —  Monday closure comes as Elon Musk and DOGE are pushing to get rid of foreign-assistance agency  —  WASHINGTON—The U.S. Agency for International Development closed its headquarters to agency personnel on Monday following moves …
NBC News:
USAID security leaders removed after refusing Elon Musk's DOGE employees access to secure systems
David Ingram / NBC News:
Elon Musk says he and Trump are shutting down USAID
Andrew Perez / Rolling Stone:
Elon Musk Is Permanently Deleting Government Agencies
Meredith Shiner / New Republic:
Primary Every Democrat  —  I spent almost a decade covering the United States Senate.  So, believe me when I tell you that I do not want to be a United States senator.  Imagine having a job where your mere existence in the role is a symbol of democratic backsliding, where your leaders torture …
Discussion: Punchbowl News
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Burgess Everett / Semafor:
‘Trump will screw up’: Schumer plots the Democratic comeback  —  Chuck Schumer's advice for Democrats staring at a long two or more years out of power: Just wait.  —  “Trump will screw up,” he told Semafor in an interview.  —  The Senate minority leader and his 47-member caucus finally got …
Discussion: The Hill and RedState
Nicholas Wu / Politico:
Hakeem Jeffries wants funding freeze ‘choked off’ in spending deal
Discussion: Axios and RedState
Moira Donegan / The Guardian:   Why are the Democrats so spineless?  —  No wonder the American public thinks of Democrats …
Margaret Sullivan / American Crisis:
The split personality of Big Journalism in covering this nightmare  —  On Friday, three reporters at the Washington Post broke a huge story.  It might have sounded like some kind of bureaucratic development inside the federal government, but it was much more important than that.
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Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Warren Questions Bessent Over Musk Access to Treasury Payment System  —  In a letter to the Treasury secretary, the Democratic senator warned against meddling with a system that processes trillions of dollars of transactions.  —  Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts sent a letter …
Bloomberg:
Musk Says DOGE Halting Treasury Payments to US Contractors
Caleb Ecarma / Popular Information:
Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of government employees  —  Several of Elon Musk's associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.
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John Zangas / DCMediaGroup:   Federal Workers Block Doors of Admin Building Over Elon Musk Data Breach
Denise Cana / Slate:
I'm a Federal Worker. Elon Musk's Government Data Heist Is the Entire Ballgame.
Discussion: DCMediaGroup
Rochelle Raveendran / CBC News:
Ford ‘ripping up’ Ontario's $100M contract with Elon Musk's Starlink in wake of U.S. tariffs  —  Musk part of President Donald Trump's team that wants to destroy families, Ford says  —  Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is “ripping up” Ontario's nearly $100 million contract …
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Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
‘Ripping up the contract’: Canadian premier scraps Musk business amid tariff fight  —  The premier of Canada's most populous province is retaliating against President Donald Trump's harsh new tariffs against his country with a blanket ban on U.S. companies from receiving provincial contracts.
Los Angeles Times:
Thousands rally in downtown Los Angeles, shut down 101 Freeway to protest Trump's immigration policies  —  Thousands of demonstrators rallied in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday and shut down a section of the 101 Freeway to protest President Trump's crackdown on illegal immigration and his aggressive deportation policies.
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CBS News:
Protest in downtown Los Angeles over ICE raids blocks 101 Freeway
Reuters:
Trump plans to invoke obscure 18th century wartime law in bid for mass deportations  —  President Donald Trump is set to test the limits of his immigration crackdown by invoking a wartime law to deport immigrants alleged to be gang members without court hearings, a broad authority …
Discussion: Reuters and The Independent
Joseph Goldstein / New York Times:
N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care  —  A White House executive order last week threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care.  But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in a letter on Monday.
Discussion: The Guardian
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Democratic senators say they have ‘grave concerns’ over RFK Jr.'s potential financial conflicts  —  Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Ron Wyden called on the HHS nominee to vow to recuse himself from certain decisions and promise not to profit from health litigation after leaving the post.
Discussion: UPI
 
 
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