The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.
Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — and the limits of the presidency.
By by Jake Pearson and Anjeanette Damon for ProPublica, 2-10-2025
To put a finer point on it, the Trump administration is mass firing federal employees and telling them if they dispute their termination that they can take it up with a board that will (I just learned) lack a quorum to function as of March 1 when another of the current board member’s term expires.
— Marisa Kabas (@marisakabas.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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The Courts Blocked Trump’s Federal Funding Freeze. Agencies Are Withholding Money Anyway.
Agencies continue to suspend funding, despite multiple court orders blocking the federal freeze. Experts say the Trump administration’s actions set the stage for challenges to Congress’ authority — and the limits of the presidency.
By by Jake Pearson and Anjeanette Damon for ProPublica, 2-10-2025
This new EO signed today appears to create DOGE as a shadow government across the entire federal government. Each agency/dept will be assigned a DOGE minder who will work with the Secry or Director and essentially be in charge of all new hiring and/or firing. People have been saying the Elon is ...
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
I Work at the Latest Agency Being Targeted by Musk. We Just Received This Shocking Email.
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps
By CFPB Attorney for Slate, 2-11-2025
DOJ orders Adams case to be dropped and NYC reacts
After months of cozying up to Republicans, New York City Mayor Eric Adams may be free and clear: The U.S Department of Justice (DOJ), under the Trump administration, is reportedly getting the charges dropped on his federal indictment.
By Ariama C. Long for the Amsterdam News, 2-11-2025
@schiff.senate.gov Elon Musk is mad about Judge McConnell’s decision to unfreeze federal grants… So he posted a picture of his daughter, her full name, her position of where she works, and a page of a signed tax statement she filed. The judge’s daughter. Do Something
— Mabel (@einnob.bsky.social) February 12, 2025 at 7:12 AM
We got a DOGE staff list. From a McKinsey alum to a former Clarence Thomas clerk, here are the workers powering Elon Musk's cost-cutting squad.
By Jack Newsham, Katie Balevic, Lakshmi Varanasi, and Kenneth Niemeyer for Business Insider, 2-11-2025
MAJOR BREAKING: Pope Francis has written a letter to US Bishops saying he’s following “major crisis” of “mass deportations;” takes on Vance saying “The true ordo amoris that must be promoted is that which we discover by meditating constantly on the parable of the “Good Samaritan”
— Rich Raho (@richraho.bsky.social) February 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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US aid freeze claims first victims as oxygen supplies cut off
Seventy-one-year-old woman dies after being sent home from USAID funded hospital. Others die after hospitals close in refugee camps
By Sarah Newey for the Telegraph, 2-11-2025