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#10 Trump Signs Executive Order Instructing Government To Work With Musk’s DOGE—Here’s What To Know - Molly Bohannon for Forbes, Alex Jones, The White House, Gabby in Florida, Mario Nawfal, Cremieux, and Nick Sortor on X
President Donald Trump—who appeared alongside Elon Musk in the Oval Office on Tuesday to answer questions about the Department of Government Efficiency’s recent actions—signed an executive order instructing federal agencies to work with DOGE to “significantly” reduce the federal workforce and slow hiring. The move comes as controversy surrounds Musk’s powerful agency. Trump issued an executive order directing government agencies to consult with DOGE on hiring approvals, hiring ratios, and hiring plans aimed at slashing the federal workforce and “eliminating waste, bloat, and insularity.”
#9 Musk Details Sluggish Federal Retirement Process at Old Pennsylvania Mine - Ross O'Keefe for Washington Examiner, Collin Rugg, Autism Capital, Laura Aboli Official, Ed O'Keefe, and Department of Government Efficiency (community notes) on X
An old Pennsylvania limestone mine housing all retirement paperwork for government employees is limiting how fast workers can retire. Elon Musk wants to change that. Speaking next to President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Musk explained that the mine only allows 10,000 employees to retire per month because the manual paperwork processing is slow. He said he’s aiming to fix the process to allow federal workers to retire faster, which would meet DOGE’s goal of cutting down the federal workforce. Musk said all retirement paperwork is handwritten and then goes down the mine and into a mineshaft elevator. “The limiting factor is the speed at which the mineshaft elevator can move determines how many people can retire from the federal government, and the elevator breaks down sometimes, and nobody can retire,” he said. “Doesn’t that sound crazy?”
#8 Kansas Governor Vetoes Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors - Brooke Migdon for The Hill, Libs of TikTok, Dr. Roger Marshall/KWCH 12 News, Billboard Chris, The Calvin Coolidge Project, and The Independent on X
Kansas’s Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a proposal to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth for the third consecutive year, setting up another battle with the state’s Republican-dominated Legislature that has previously failed to overrule her on the issue. Kansas’s Senate Bill 63 would broadly prevent healthcare professionals from providing gender-affirming medical care, including puberty blockers, hormone therapy, and surgery, to minors diagnosed with gender dysphoria — the severe psychological distress that stems from a mismatch between a person’s gender identity and sex at birth...
#7 Jeffrey Epstein Task Force Assembled as FBI Claims 2,400 New JFK Assassination Files Have Been Discovered - James Liddell for The Independent, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, Luke Rudkowski, Alex Jones, Tracy Beanz/George, and X22 Report on X
A new congressional task force has been assembled to declassify documents and expose “federal secrets,” including the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s “client list.” James Comer, the House Oversight Committee chairman, announced the establishment of the investigative unit on Tuesday. Florida Representative Anna Paulina Luna will lead the task force, which aims to publish materials related to federal government interests and “end an era of secrecy.” “This will be a relentless pursuit of truth and transparency and we will not stop until the American people have the answers they deserve,” she said...
#6 Vance Tells Europeans That Heavy Regulation Could Kill AI - Jeffrey Dastin and Ingrid Melander for Reuters, JD Vance, Josh Dunlap, and John Matze on X
#5 Hegseth Visits NATO as Allies Await US Ukraine Plans - Lorne Cook for AP News/ABC, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, U.S. Mission to NATO, Howard Mortman/C-SPAN and The American Conservative on X
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Wednesday made the first trip to NATO by a member of the new Trump administration, as the allies wait to learn how much military and financial support Washington intends to provide to Ukraine's government. Hegseth held talks with U.K. Defence Secretary John Healey, before a meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group at NATO headquarters in Brussels. Hegseth's predecessor, former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, set up the forum for drumming up arms and ammunition for Ukraine in 2022. Over nearly three years, around 50 countries have collectively provided Ukraine with more than $126 billion in weapons and military assistance. But the meeting this week was convened by another country for the first time: the United Kingdom. All previous gatherings of the forum were chaired by the United States...
#4 Federal Judge Orders Trump Admin to Restore Public Health Web Pages - Rachel Wolf for Fox News, Elon Musk/Mike Lee (community note), Amuse, Right Angle News Network, The Gateway Pundit, Marauder Magazine, and Holland & Knight on X
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Center for Disease Control (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restore web pages and datasets that were taken down in accordance with President Donald Trump’s executive order. Under U.S. District Judge John Bates’ order, HHS, the CDC, and the FDA are required to restore data sets and pages that were "removed or substantially modified" last month "without adequate notice or reasoned explanation."
#3 Appeals Court Rejects Trump Administration Bid to Immediately Reinstate Funding Freeze - NBC News, Desiree (community note), Arch Kennedy/Daily Caller, Publius, Kyle Becker, and Tracy Beanz on X
A federal appeals court on Tuesday rejected the Trump administration's bid to pause a lower court's order that temporarily halted a massive freeze in federal funding. A judge in Rhode Island blocked the funding freeze Monday and ordered the government to “immediately restore frozen funding.” In its ruling Tuesday, a three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that the "defendants do not cite any authority in support of their administrative stay request or identify any harm related to a specific funding action or actions that they will face without their requested administrative stay."
#2 Rep. Chip Roy: Congress May Need to ‘Amend’ This Statute That Activist Judges Are Abusing - Fox News, Mike Davis, Chip Roy, Mike Davis, William Wolfe/Ed Markey, Paul A. Szypula/CNN, Scott Jennings/CNN, Juanita Broaddrick, Charlie Kirk,
House Judiciary Committee member Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, breaks down judges blocking President Donald Trump's anti-government waste agenda on 'The Ingraham Angle.'#1 GOP Lawmakers Set Sights on PBS, NPR Amid Trump’s DOGE Crackdown - Elizabeth Elkind Fox News, Mike Lee, John Kennedy, Resist the Mainstream, Jim DaBink/Pete St.Onge, Ph.D., and Rep. Claudia Tenney on X
Republican lawmakers are renewing efforts to gut federal funding to NPR and PBS amid the Trump administration’s upheaval of the federal bureaucracy. Rep. Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., is leading a bill in the House of Representatives that would halt taxpayer dollars from going to either media broadcaster and reroute existing federal funds to reducing the national debt, according to legislative text previewed by Fox News Digital. "As a former newspaper owner and publisher, I understand the vital role of balanced, non-partisan media. Unfortunately, these taxpayer-funded outlets have chosen advocacy over accuracy, using public dollars to promote a political agenda rather than report the facts," Tenney told Fox News Digital...
