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China Is Building Fortress Against U.S. Pressure

February 11, 2025 at 5:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Wall Street Journal: “China is racing to make itself less reliant on the outside world’s products and technology — part of a yearslong effort by leader Xi Jinping to make China more self-sufficient and impervious to Western pressure as tensions with the U.S. rise.”

“Beijing has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into favored industries, especially in high-end manufacturing, while exhorting business leaders to fall in line with the government’s priorities. In many ways, the effort is succeeding.”

Musk’s Team Slashes the Education Department

February 11, 2025 at 4:13 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Elon Musk’s cost-cutting effort announced a variety of cuts at the Education Department totaling over $900 million, apparently aimed at hobbling the department’s research arm, the Institute of Education Sciences,” the New York Times reports.

“The team Mr. Musk has assembled, which has operated in relative secrecy in shuttering other agencies such as USAID and slashing government programs, said on Monday that the Education Department had ‘terminated’ 89 contracts, as well as 29 grants associated with diversity and equity training.”

“Most, if not all, of the contract cuts hit the Institute of Education Sciences’ portfolio, including Education Innovation and Research grants and review projects associated with the What Works Clearinghouse, which produces and curates research on best practices in education.”

All Eyes on This Week’s Inflation Report

February 11, 2025 at 4:01 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Wall Street Journal: “Not every monthly inflation report is created equally. In an economy with price pressures, January has packed a bigger punch. Price hikes in recent years have been exceptionally strong in the month of January, reflecting outsize turn-of-the-year price resets.”

“The upshot is that inflation reports due this week could show whether the Federal Reserve’s fight to bring inflation down has cleared a key hurdle.”


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Trump Vows to Undo Biden’s Environmental Rules

February 11, 2025 at 3:40 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that his administration would reverse former President Joe Biden’s efforts to make a host of consumer products more efficient, from toilets to showerheads — including reverting back to incandescent light bulbs no longer made in the United States,” Politico reports.

Why Voters Rejected Bidenomics

February 11, 2025 at 3:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“In a scathing new essay on what went wrong with Biden-era economic policy, longtime Democratic economic adviser Jason Furman argues that the last administration was too quick to toss aside traditional economic orthodoxy around fiscal policy and other issues,” Axios reports.

“Furman, writing in Foreign Affairs, argues that the Biden administration’s willingness to run the economy hot — to risk higher inflation in exchange for a turbo-charged rebound from the pandemic — turned out to be a bad bet.”

Can Democrats Win Back Latinos?

February 11, 2025 at 2:55 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Amid the turmoil and controversies of President Trump’s opening weeks, Democrats see an opening with working-class voters wooed by Trump’s movement,” the New York Times reports.

Quote of the Day

February 11, 2025 at 2:51 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“We’re gonna have it. And we’re gonna keep it… nobody is gonna question it… we’ll have lots of good things built there, including hotels.”

— President Trump, speaking to reporters in the Oval Office about Gaza.

Almost $500 Million in Food Aid at Risk of Spoiling

February 11, 2025 at 2:39 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Almost $500 million in food aid is at risk of spoilage as it sits in ports, ships and warehouses after funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, was paused by the Trump administration,” CBS News reports.

Trump Moves to ‘Significantly’ Reduce Federal Workers

February 11, 2025 at 2:37 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order Tuesday directing agencies to work with the Department of Government Efficiency to cut staff and limit hiring, with the goal of ‘significantly’ reducing the size of the federal government,” Semafor reports.

The Hottest Stop on the D.C. Media Circuit

February 11, 2025 at 2:21 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast has become the stop on the D.C. media circuit for Trump World, the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Congressional aides say they know when their boss is on the program because the calls, emails and social-media posts coming into the office surge, even more so than during hits on Fox News or CNN. Only the late-night shows can compete.”

White House Will Not Release Visitor Logs

February 11, 2025 at 2:18 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“The White House will not release visitor logs during President Donald Trump’s second term, a move that aligns with the policy of his first administration,” the Washington Examiner reports.

Johnson and Thune to Meet

February 11, 2025 at 2:16 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Speaker Mike Johnson and Senate Majority Leader John Thune will meet today to discuss the budget reconciliation process,” Punchbowl News reports.

“Thune and Johnson frequently meet when Congress is in session. But House and Senate Republicans are now on completely different trajectories when it comes to advancing President Donald Trump’s agenda.”

“Thune said he also talked to Johnson on Monday. And it’s clear Thune and Senate Republicans will move ahead with the markup, despite Johnson’s warning that he won’t bring a Senate-passed reconciliation bill up on the House floor.”

House Freedom Caucus to Introduce Its Own Plan

February 11, 2025 at 2:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“House Freedom Caucus Chair Andy Harris (R-MD) said Tuesday that the group would be releasing its own plan this week for achieving President Donald Trump’s tax priorities,” Politico reports.

“The plan, which the hard-right HFC wants to take up after a separate bill addressing border and defense initiatives, is a new speed bump in Speaker Mike Johnson’s effort to unite fractious House Republicans around leadership’s own plan.”

Russia Releases U.S. Prisoner

February 11, 2025 at 1:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Trump on Tuesday secured the release of an American imprisoned in Russia as part of a deal with the Kremlin negotiated by Mr. Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, Steve Witkoff,” the New York Times reports.

Republicans Try to Save USAID Food Program

February 11, 2025 at 1:25 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“One of the first efforts to restore a program run by the U.S. Agency for International Development has begun—and it is coming from Republicans,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“Congressional Republicans from farm states are trying to save a $1.8 billion U.S. food-aid program that purchases U.S.-grown food and is administered by USAID, which has been largely closed by the Trump administration in recent weeks.”

FEMA Official Ignores Judge’s Latest Order

February 11, 2025 at 1:19 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“A senior official at the Federal Emergency Management Agency instructed subordinates to freeze funding for a wide array of grant programs Monday, just hours after a federal judge ordered the Trump administration — for the second time — to stop such pauses,” NBC News reports.

Trump’s Clash with the Courts Escalates

February 11, 2025 at 1:17 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Politico: “On Monday alone, six judges took steps to rein in the new president. More emergency orders are expected Tuesday and later this week. They follow nine other orders in the previous two weeks abruptly halting some of Trump’s aggressive executive actions, at times warning that they flagrantly violate federal laws and the Constitution.”

“The escalating confrontation between the president and the courts is riling Trump and his allies…”

“The Justice Department, meanwhile, has insisted the administration is scrupulously abiding by the orders even as the department calls them ‘impermissible’ and even ‘anti-constitutional.’ The White House, too, has said Musk’s ‘Department of Government Efficiency’ is following every court order ‘to a T.'”

Insider Threats Loom as Elon Musk’s Team Gains Access

February 11, 2025 at 12:49 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“As Elon Musk and his people weave their way through federal agencies, security experts warn that the team’s wide-reaching access poses unprecedented risks — including potential data leaks, insider threats, and violations of federal security protocols,” Axios reports.

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