“House Democrats are ramping up their efforts to respond to President Donald Trump’s sweeping overhaul of the federal government by creating a task force that could lead to lawsuits against the administration,” Politico reports.
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Judge Says Trump Administration Is Violating His Order
“A federal judge says the Trump administration has been violating his order to resume funding federal grants that the White House attempted to block with a blanket spending freeze last month,” Politico reports.
“U.S. District Judge John McConnell ordered the administration to ‘immediately restore frozen funding’ while his order remains in effect, including to the National Institutes of Health and to fulfill the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act and Infrastructure Improvement and Jobs Act.”
Said McConnell: “The broad categorical and sweeping freeze of federal funds is, as the Court found, likely unconstitutional and has caused and continues to cause irreparable harm to a vast portion of this country.”
22 States Sue to Block Trump Cuts to Research Grants
“Attorneys general representing 22 states sued the Trump administration on Monday, asking a federal judge to temporarily block a major policy change by the National Institutes of Health that would substantially limit payments for research overhead to universities, medical centers, and other grant recipients,” Stat reports.
Politico: States sue Trump administration over health research grant cuts.
Hamas Delays Next Hostage Release
“Hamas announced on Monday it is suspending the next release of hostages planned for Saturday until further notice and claimed Israel violated the ceasefire agreement,” Axios reports.
New York Times: “The move threatens to derail both the six-week truce agreed to last month and the prospects for agreement on a lasting end to the war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel was consulting with his top advisers on Monday night, and planned to move up a scheduled meeting with his security cabinet to Tuesday morning, a top official said.”
“Both Hamas and Israel have accused each other of violating various aspects of the cease-fire agreement, but they have continued to release Israeli hostages and Palestinian prisoners each week.”
Trump Orders Purge of Military Academy Visitor Boards
President Trump said Monday he had ordered the “immediate dismissal” of four military Boards of Visitors, claiming the advisory bodies had been “infiltrated by Woke Leftist Ideologues,” Axios reports.
DHS Wants IRS Officers to Help With Deportation
The Department of Homeland Security has asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to deputize some law-enforcement workers, including IRS criminal investigators, to assist in immigration enforcement, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Iran Shows Mock Video of Trump’s Arrest
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards posted a mock video of President Trump’s arrest.
Lawsuit Will Test Trump’s Power to Fire Workers
“A federal ethics enforcer swept up in a spree of firings President Donald Trump carried out Friday night is suing to get his job back,” Politico reports.
“The lawsuit from Special Counsel Hampton Dellinger is the latest case that will test the president’s power to fire officials across the executive branch despite federal laws that seek to protect those officials from politically motivated firings.”
Trump and Musk Put U.S. at Risk of ‘a Form of Default’
“Five former Treasury secretaries warned Monday that recent actions at the Treasury Department by Trump administration officials and Elon Musk’s DOGE team raise ‘substantial cause for concern’ that the United States’ financial commitments are being ‘unlawfully’ undermined,” CNBC reports.
Wrote the former secretaries in the New York Times: “We have during our service in the Treasury Department faced moments of crisis, when the specter of an American default loomed. Any hint of the selective suspension of congressionally authorized payments will be a breach of trust and ultimately, a form of default. And our credibility, once lost, will prove difficult to regain.”
Kevin Hassett, a top economic advisor to President Trump dismissed such concerns as “poppycock.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“What security clearance?”
— New York Attorney General Leticia James, quoted by the New York Times, when told President Trump revoked her security clearances.
Trump Says Palestinians Would Not Return to Gaza
President Trump said that Palestinians displaced from Gaza to neighboring countries under a U.S. proposal to develop the land would not have the right to return, the Washington Post reports.
Said Trump: “No, they wouldn’t because they’re going to have much better housing. In other words, I’m talking about building a permanent place for them.”
Trump Yanks Security Clearance from Antony Blinken
Donald Trump ordered that the security clearances of Antony Blinken, the now former secretary of state, be revoked just days after doing the same to Joe Biden late on Friday, The Guardian reports.
He said Blinken was “a bad guy.”
French President Posts Bizarre AI-Generated Videos
French President Emmanuel Macron posted a video featuring his face superimposed onto scenes generated by artificial intelligence.
Kremlin Warns Over U.S.-Russia Relations
“The Kremlin issued a warning on Monday about the fragility of current U.S.-Russia relations, after refusing to confirm that President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin recently spoke,” Axios reports.
“Trump repeatedly pledged on the campaign trail to speedily end the Russia-Ukraine war, but Russian leaders said on Monday that Putin’s stipulations had to be met before any resolution would be possible.”
Quote of the Day
“Trump’s tornado has changed the world in just a couple of weeks. Yesterday we were the heretics. Now we are the mainstream.”
— Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, quoted by the New York Times. at a gathering of far-right leaders whose slogan was “Make Europe Great Again.”
Another Musk Staffer Amplified White Supremacists
Reuters identified another staffer on Elon Musk’s government efficiency team “who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online.”
Trump Signals He Might Ignore the Courts
Jonathan Chait: “The United States is sleepwalking into a constitutional crisis. Not only has the Trump administration seized for itself extraconstitutional powers, but yesterday, it raised the specter that, should the courts apply the text of the Constitution and negate its plans, it will simply ignore them…”
“Donald Trump is unilaterally declaring the right to ignore spending levels set by Congress, and to eliminate agencies that Congress voted to create. What makes this demand so astonishing is that Trump could persuade Congress, which he commands in personality-cult style, to follow his demands. Republicans presently control both houses of Congress, and any agency that Congress established, it can also cut or eliminate.”
“Yet Trump refuses to even try to pass his plan democratically. And as courts have stepped in to halt his efforts to ignore the law, he is now threatening to ignore them too.”
Earlier for members: What If Trump Ignores the Courts?
Third Judge Blocks Trump on Birthright Citizenship
“A third federal judge indefinitely blocked President Trump’s executive order to restrict birthright citizenship, dealing another stark blow to the controversial directive,” The Hill reports.
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