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• The NoDak Senate just defeated one of the two remaining school voucher/choice/education savings account bills in our chamber.

Friday Federal New Round Up - 14 February 2025

• POTUS makes clear what that he really does just want to steal Gaza - he says Palestinians will not be able to return once he removes them so he can develop Gaza for his own profit

• He also says he wants to clear bombs from Gaza but he sidelined the group that would do that.

• A 3rd judge blocks the ban on birthright citizenship

• AGs from 22 states file a lawsuit against the top agencies over a plan to cut $4B in research funding

• The new and unqualified defense secretary orders a pause on all medical procedures for transgender troops.

• Federal judge in RI orders POTUS admin to immediately restore frozen funding already approved by Congress to states who had sued over access to it

• Homeland Security wants IRS agents to help with immigration enforcement

• POTUS admin accused of violating a 2nd court order to reinstate the USAID workforce that had been put on leave

• POTUS signs and executive order to impose a 25% tariff on steel and aluminum products

• POTUS refuses to release specifics of his communication with dictator Putin

• Google Maps cave to POTUS and rename the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America, for American viewers only

• POTUS pauses enforcement of Foreign Corrupt Practices Act which forbids companies in the US from bribing foreign officials

• The Pope reprimands POTUS and the border czar responds to Pope with “stick to the Catholic church, leave border enforcement to us.”

• Unqualified defense secretary is booed and heckled by military families protesting his order restricting DEI learning materials covering psychology and immigration in DOD schools

• FEMA official ignores judge’s latest order and demands freeze on grant funding per POTUS

• POTUS claims, with no proof, that they have found billions in government waste

• US treasury secretary to visit Kyiv to discuss ransom of minerals in return for military support

• POTUS tells Jordan’s king, “we’re going to have it, we’re going to keep it, and we’re going to make sure that there’s going to be peace and there’s not going to be any problem, and nobody’s going to question it.” Jordan’s king immediately offers to take in Palestinian children.

• POTUS puts 171 DEI and environmental justice staffers on leave

• American Bar Association rebukes POTUS for not following the rule of law

• Religious groups sue POTUS over his targeting places of worship to apprehend immigrants

• Speaker Mike Johnson falls off the deep end and agrees, incorrectly, with POTUS and his VP that “judges are not allowed to control the executive’s legitimate power.”

• DOGE shrinks the Dept of Education’s independent research arm

• Ford CEO says Trump tariffs are causing chaos in the auto industry

• Musk lies and says DOGE’s actions are “maximally transparent.”

• House republicans take a page from the nutty extreme right in the ND legislature and introduce a bill to rename Greenland ‘Red, White, and Blueland.”

• POTUS considers closing US consulates to cute state department costs

• The AP says the White House barred its reporter from entering the Oval Office event over its continued (and correct) use of the Gulf of Mexico

• Musk admits he lied about condom shipments to Gaza

• POTUS signs an executive order that enforces DOGE’s work and enables Musk to implement his plans to reduce the federal government, giving Musk even more power.

• USAID inspector general fired a day after a report critical of the POTUS dismantling of the agency.

• Appeals court rejects POTUS’s bid to reinstate funding freeze

• Google caves again - black history month, pride month, and public holidays are no longer on google calendar

• Cybersecurity and infrastructure security agency staff who help secure elections at the local level are put on leave

• Missouri republican sues Starbucks for becoming “more female and less white.”

• The American Federation of Government Employees, an 800,000 member union, criticizes POTUS order that direct federal agencies to coordinate with DOGE on making job cuts

• POTUS border czar begs for an additional $175 B for ICE agents, detention beds, and deportation resources

• The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau lays off probationary employees with a fill in the blank form letter that does not include their names

• US inflation gets worse as gas and grocery prices rise

• 8 inspectors general file suit claiming POTUS unlawfully fired them

• 2 top ICE officials reassigned as pressure mounts to ramp up arrests of undocumented immigrants (about 14,000 have been arrested since POTUS started his witch hunt

• Mitch McConnell, who it could be argued started this whole debacle, is the lone R vote against the supremely unqualified Gabberd for Intelligence Director

• Palestinians demonstrate way more courage than congressional republicans saying, “We will not leave. We will remain here, staying above the rubble, stones, and iron.”

• Exposed and on their own, USAID staffers in Congo faced angry crowds and looting.

• Senate votes to confirm RFK, Jr to be health secretary

• WH press secretary says it is a privilege to enter the Oval to ask the president questions when asked about the AP reporter who was barred

• POTUS removed the chair of the Kennedy Center for the performing arts and installs himself as chair (artists demonstrate more principle that republicans and cancel shows)

• POTUS declares about the Nobel Peace Prize, “its a shame, I deserve it but they will never give it to me.”

• Layoffs ordered at the General Services Agency that manages the federal government’s properties and many of its technology efforts.

• POTUS says he wants the Dept of Education to be closed immediately, “...[it] is a big con job.”

• Longtime NIH deputy director abruptly retires

• The WH says it has the right to punish reporters and refuses to admit another AP reporter

• Artistic director to Kennedy Center resigns over POTUS takeover

• The encyclopedia Britannica says it will NOT rename Gulf of Mexico

• The State Dept plans a 400M order for armored Teslas (and Musk says cha-ching!)

• Denver Public School District requests restraining order over ICE immigration enforcement

• House budget resolution sparks concerns about cuts to Medicaid and food stamps

• Educators from across the country rally on Capitol Hill to decry POTUS early actions

• CDC stops sharing flue surveillance data through WHO platforms (it is like they really don’t care if people die)

• Republicans are now happy to raise the debt ceiling to $4T (yes, trillion)

• Apple also caves and changes the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America

• The State Department put a hold on buying $400 Million dollars worth of armored electric vehicles from Tesla.

• Gov. Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania suedPOTUS over the funding freeze.

• 83% of Americans say the president must honor Supreme Court rulings.

• Billions in federal funding remain frozen despite court orders.

• Another long-serving National Institutes of Health leader will retire, prompting fears of forced exodus.

• Protesters interrupt House hearings to defend the popular AIDS program known as PEPFAR.

• POTUS’s education nominee seeks approval to lead an agency which POTUS wants her to destroy. She says an act of Congress is needed to shut down the department.

• FEMA yanks back $80 million meant for migrant hotel costs from New York City bank account.

• Turkey’s Erdogan voices rare criticism of POTUS.

• Russia rejoices at the POTUS-Putin call.

• POTUS’s new task force to examine anti-Christian bias renews questions over religious persecution.

• POTUS announces ‘reciprocal’ tariffs to rework global trading relations, taxing imports from more countries. This is a dramatic overhaul of the global trading systems, Trump and his admin are completely ignoring how tariff negotiations were previously handled via international trade groups like the World Trade Organization.

• Trade Policy Professor from Cornell says. ““These tariff proposals amount to a declaration of an all-out trade war against practically all major U.S. trading partners. It is stunning and disappointing to see the country that had been the leading proponent of free trade now engaged in a direct assault on the rules and principles underlying that system.”

• The unelected Elon Musk met today with Narenda Modi, the Indian prime minister. Musk sat in front of an American flag and brought Shivon Zillis, a longtime lieutenant and the mother to some of his kids, as well as 3 of his children to the meeting. Elon once again wore a t-shirt under a casual coat, AND a black MAGA ball cap hat, similar to his recent Oval Office visit.

• POTUS's former national security adviser says US president has "surrendered to Putin".

• Top federal prosecutor in Manhattan resigns after being ordered to drop corruption case against New York City’s mayor.

• US sales fall for American whiskeys as trade war threats heat up.

• The U.S. Park Service strikes transgender references from the Stonewall website.

• Demonstrators protest against Trump’s Gaza plan outside the U.S. consulate in São Paulo.

• A fourth federal judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order.

• Associated Press said it was blocked from an event by the White House for a 3rd day. “It is a plain violation of the First Amendment, and we urge the Trump administration in the strongest terms to stop this practice.”

• Trump, asked a question from an Indian reporter, says, “I can’t understand a word you’re saying.” He adds the “accent is a little bit tough.”

• Trump suggests (without proof) that USAID might have had a role in his 2020 election loss.

• Layoffs hit researchers working in military veterans’ health.

• POTUS holds up money for wildfire mitigation projects, undermining Trump’s repeated insistence that communities need to clear combustible materials like fallen branches and undergrowth to guard against wildfires.

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said POTUS had asked him to “study the safety signals” of abortion pills, something that Kennedy said “is worth doing.”

• A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction saying that, until further notice, the POTUS cannot freeze foreign aid spending that predates the President’s inauguration, nor fire nor suspend workers associated with those spending projects.

• 3,400 Forest Service employees have been fired.

• Acting US attorney in New York and 5 others quit over order to dismiss corruption case against Mayor Adams.

• POTUS parrots Moscow's rationale for war in blaming Biden and NATO for the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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