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2:30 PM ET, February 8, 2025

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Shayna Jacobs / Washington Post:
Federal judge blocks Musk's DOGE from access to Treasury Department material  —  The judge also ordered Musk and his team to “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded from Treasury Department's records and systems, if any.”  —  NEW YORK — A federal judge issued …
Discussion: Townhall, CBS News and Instapundit
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New York Times:
Judge Halts Access to Treasury Payment Systems by Elon Musk's Team  —  The order came in response to a lawsuit filed by 19 attorneys general accusing the president of failing to faithfully execute the nation's laws when he let DOGE comb through federal computer systems.
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Judge orders sweeping restriction on DOGE access to sensitive Treasury payment systems
Discussion: CNN, UPI and Tampa Free Press
Washington Post:
NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately  —  The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.  —  The Trump administration …
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Samuel Bagenstos / Inside/Outside:
Indirect Costs and Trump's Attack on Independent Voices
Discussion: STAT and Reuters
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Did Trump Quietly Kill a Sensitive Pentagon Probe into Elon Musk?  —  In December, more than a month before Donald Trump took the presidential oath of office, The New York Times reported a blockbuster scoop: Elon Musk and his SpaceX company had repeatedly failed to meet federal reporting requirements designed …
Alex Isenstadt / Axios:
Why Trump's in-your-face campaign will never end … - On Jan. 31, the Rapid Response account posted a message portraying House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) as violent for promising that Democrats will “fight” Trump's agenda “legislatively... in the courts, and ... in the streets.”
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Natalie Allison / Washington Post:
Trump's Gaza proposal strikes fear in his new Arab American supporters
Discussion: Raw Story
Politico:
How spending $153M to pay its bills put USAID in DOGE's crosshairs  —  Aides to the president and Elon Musk suspected USAID officials were trying to go around a funding freeze.  —  Pete Marocco was furious.  —  It was Thursday, Jan. 23, and the Trump administration official had discovered …
Discussion: RedState, EADaily and Twitchy
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Declan Walsh / New York Times:
Trump and Musk Bring Vast Aid Machinery to a Halt in Africa
Discussion: Raw Story
Abdallah Fayyad / Vox:
The real lesson of the DOGE racist tweets scandal  —  On Thursday, the Wall Street Journal reported that a staffer at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) resigned after the paper inquired about some racist social media posts from an account linked to him.
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Elon's X army takes the wheel
Discussion: Fox News
Olivia Diaz / Associated Press:
Trump chops away at the government and the fallout is felt in the Virginia governor's race  —  The Trump administration's aggressive push to cut government jobs is reverberating in the early stages of this year's race for governor in Virginia.  The fast-moving effort by Republican President Donald …
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Adam Edelman / NBC News:   Republicans retool their ‘parents’ rights' playbook for the Virginia governor's race
Laurel Wamsley / NPR:
Russell Vought takes the helm at CFPB as Musk's DOGE accesses key systems  —  Russell Vought, an architect of Project 2025 and the new director at the Office of Management and Budget, is now also the acting leader of the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, according to a source familiar with the situation.
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New York Times:
Advocate of Jan. 6 Rioters Now Runs Office That Investigated Them  —  Ed Martin, a loyal Trump soldier, oversees the U.S. attorney's office, which is likely to help turn the investigative powers of the government on several of the president's perceived enemies.
Bloomberg:
'It's a Circus': Trump Unleashes Chaos at Key US Science Agency  —  Muddled directives and early-morning emails at NOAA, one of the world's top weather and climate forecasters, have put the agency on edge.  —  The email arrived in US government workers' inboxes just after 1 a.m. East Coast time on Friday …
Joey McFadden / The Daily Beast:
Trudeau Caught on Hot Mic Revealing Trump's Plans for Canada  —  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business leaders that U.S. President Donald Trump's interest in annexing Canada was a very real plan aimed at controlling the country's vast mineral resources.Trudeau was caught …
Nick Robins-Early / The Guardian:
Who is helping Elon Musk gut the US government?  —  The billionaire's cost-cutting ‘Doge’ staff includes wealthy executives, far-right ideologues and young engineers  —  Elon Musk's rapid attempt to defund and depopulate the federal government has thrown US politics into chaos while the billionaire's …
Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security:
Teen on Musk's DOGE Team Graduated from ‘The Com’  —  Wired reported this week that a 19-year-old working for Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was given access to sensitive US government systems even though his past association with cybercrime communities …
Camilo Montoya-Galvez / CBS News:
Trump orders U.S. to prioritize refugee resettlement of South Africans of European descent  —  President Trump on Friday directed government officials to prioritize the resettlement of South Africans of European descent through the U.S. refugee program, which he suspended during his first day in office.
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María Luisa Paúl / Washington Post:
Trump halts aid to South Africa, claiming discrimination against Afrikaners
Casey Michel / The Moscow Times:
Washington Has Given Up the Fight Against Kleptocrats.  Here's What Democracies Should Do  —  On Feb. 6, new U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi issued a series of new directives from President Donald Trump's administration outlining her office's priorities.  Taken together, they represent …
Wall Street Journal:
The Mood of the American Consumer is Souring  —  Tariff threats, market turbulence causing jitters early in Trump's second term  —  The Trump bump in consumer confidence is already over.  —  Tariff threats, stock market swings and rapidly reversing executive orders are causing Americans across …
Discussion: The Independent and Raw Story
Kathryn Watson / CBS News:
Trump fires archivist of the United States, official who oversees government records  —  President Trump has fired Archivist of the United States Colleen J. Shogan, the government official responsible for preserving and providing access to government records.
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Jason Koebler / 404 Media:
Trump Fires National Archives Director Colleen Shogan
Naomi LaChance / Raw Story:
30K tons of food ‘going to waste’ in Houston after Trump halted aid  —  About 30,000 tons of food is stuck at a port in Houston after Trump halted foreign aid for 90 days.  The food, intended to feed people overseas, is stalled at a warehouse,the Houston Chronicle reported.
Politico:
German court orders X to hand over election data in legal blow to Musk's platform  —  Researchers win a legal battle against the platform formerly known as Twitter, securing crucial access to social media data to probe potential election interference.  —  BERLIN — A German court handed Elon Musk's X …
Shawn McCreesh / New York Times:
Will a Time Magazine Cover Drive a Wedge Between Trump and Musk?  —  The cover of the venerable newsweekly, long an object of fixation for the president, put Elon Musk behind the Resolute Desk.  —  The president did not look amused.  He was meeting the Japanese prime minister …
Melissa Goldin / Associated Press:
Claims about USAID funding are spreading online.  Many are not based on facts  —  As the Trump administration moves to dismantle the U.S. Agency for International Development, false and misleading information is being pushed on social media to support the change, much of it spread by the administration and Elon Musk.
Discussion: New York Times and Boston Herald
 
 
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Allison Walker / International Business Times:
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New York Times:
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Alex Weprin / The Hollywood Reporter:
Annual letter: YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says TV has overtaken mobile as the “primary device for YouTube viewing in the US”, indicating YouTube is “the new TV”

Sara Fischer / Axios:
Sources and a memo: Disney makes changes to its DEI programs, like scraping its Reimagine Tomorrow initiative and changing content disclaimers on some titles

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