News Views
Fiscal News Roundup
- Trump White House Rescinds Memo Freezing Federal Money After Widespread Confusion — Associated Press
- White House Nixes Massive Spending Move - Not Trump's Power to Do It — Politico
- Trump Buyouts, Spending Freezes Wreak Havoc Across Government — Bloomberg
- Trump Went for Shock and Awe. Now He's Mopping Up — Politico
- RFK Jr. Clashes With Democrats Over Past Comments About Vaccines, Abortion Rights — CNN
- RFK Jr. Appears Unfamiliar With Key Elements of Medicare and Medicaid — New York Times
- Trump To Build Mass Detention Facility at Guantanamo Bay for 30,000 Migrants — USA Today
- Trump Says He'll Send 'Worst Criminal Aliens' to Guantanamo — Associated Press
- Democrats Reeling From Trump's Moves Plot How to Mount an Effective Resistance. — New York Times
- The Fed Held Rates Steady, Hitting Pause After a Series of Cuts — New York Times
Views and Analysis
- Spending Freeze Mess Shows Trump's Pick Isn't Right for OMB — Washington Post Editorial Board
- Takeaways From RFK Jr.'s First Confirmation Hearing as Trump's Nominee for Health Secretary — Lauran Neergaard and Matthew Perrone, Associated Press
- The Hearing Confirmed That Kennedy Is Trump's Kind of Guy — Michelle Cottle, New York Times
- Trump Almost Deleted Medicaid — Ryan Cooper, American Prospect
- How Trump Is Stretching Laws to Make the Federal Government More Political — Lisa Rein, Washington Post
- Trump Is Dismantling the System That Guards Against Government Malfeasance — Mark S. Zaid and Andrew P. Bakaj, New York Times
- Trump's Economy Looks Like Command Capitalism — Tim Wu, New York Times
- Listen to the Bond Market, Because It's Flashing a Warning — Rebecca Patterson, New York Times
- If All This Sounds Delusional, That's Because It Is — Jamelle Bouie, New York Times
- Fact Check: $50 Million for Condoms in Gaza? Five Big Reasons to Be Skeptical Trump's Story Is True — Daniel Dale, Alex Marquardt and Jennifer Hansler, CNN
Fiscal News Roundup
- Federal Judge Delays White House Spending Freeze Until Feb. 3 in Emergency Order — Washington Post
- Trump's Funding Freeze Creates Widespread Confusion — NBC News
- States Will Sue Trump to Stop Federal Grant Freeze — New York Times
- States' Medicaid Portal Access Restored After Lapse Under Trump, but It's 'Not Functioning Correctly' — The Hill
- White House Tells Federal Workers They Can Quit Now, Get Paid Through September — Washington Post
- How Donald Trump and Project 2025 Previewed the Federal Grant Freeze — Associated Press
- US Places Dozens of Senior Aid Officials on Leave, Citing Possible Resistance to Trump Orders — Associated Press
- Trump Renews Universal Tariff Threat to 'Protect Our Country' — Bloomberg
- House GOP Holds Retreat at a Trump Property, a Windfall to President's Resort — Washington Post
- Caroline Kennedy Calls Cousin RFK Jr. a 'Predator' in Letter, Warning Senators Not to Confirm Him — Washington Post
- RFK Jr. Disparaged Vaccines Dozens of Times in Recent Years and Made Baseless Claims on Race — Washington Post
- The $8 Billion Children's Vaccine Fund Kennedy Would Oversee — New York Times
- A US Shutdown on Foreign Aid Is Hitting From Africa to Asia to Ukraine. Here's How — Associated Press
- Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries — New York Times
- California Immediately Slaps Down Trump's Claim He 'TURNED ON THE WATER' — Daily Beast
- Who Funds the World Health Organization? A List of Its Biggest Donors — Associated Press
- Republican Congressman Suggests Some Children Receiving Free School Lunches Should Work at McDonald's Instead — NBC News
Views and Analysis
- Does Trump Have the Power to Block Spending That Congress Has Authorized? — Charlie Savage, New York Times
- Trump's Most Lawless Action Yet — David Dayen, American Prospect
- Why Trump's First Moves in Office Have Been So Scary — Perry Bacon Jr., Washington Post
- Project 2025 Was the Plan All Along. Trump Is Proving It Now — Ryan Teague Beckwith, MSNBC
- Trump's Firings Are Baiting the Supreme Court — Noah Feldman, Bloomberg
- Cutting Medicaid, Taxing Scholarships and Killing Invasive Plants: A Guide to the G.O.P. Wishlist — Alicia Parlapiano, Margot Sanger-Katz and Lazaro Gamio, New York Times
- Why Government Needs Independent Inspectors General — Washington Post Editorial Board
- Americans Are Watching an Inflation Bait-and-Switch — Catherine Rampell, Washington Post
- Egg Prices Are Soaring. Don't Expect That to Change Anytime Soon — Josh Funk, Mark Vancleave and Dee-Ann Durbin, Associated Press
- How Trump Can Slash Red Tape and Enrich America, Too — Bloomberg Editorial Board
- Trump's Beef With the World Health Organization Is Personal — Camen Paun, Politico