French President Emmanuel Macron posted a video featuring his face superimposed onto scenes generated by artificial intelligence.
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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.”
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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.
Former Fox News Hosts Return Home
“Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson and Bill O’Reilly are going home — sort of,” Variety reports.
“Fox Corp., the backer of Fox News Channel, where all three of the aforementioned hosts led shows, is acquiring Red Seat Ventures, a digital media company that helps create content for a bevy of news personalities who have gone independent.”
How ‘Flooding the Zone’ Helps Trump
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Trump Reveals Plan to Kill New York’s Congestion Pricing
“President Trump has formulated a plan to force New York to ‘kill’ congestion pricing in Manhattan through the federal Department of Transportation,” the New York Post reports.
“Among potential penalties available to the agency are withholding millions of dollars in funding and reopening the environmental review process that authorized the toll under the Biden administration.”
Republicans Not United on Dismantling USAID
Playbook: “In truth, not even all Republicans are united on this. USAID has long enjoyed support from a certain type of Republican in Washington who sees it as an effective promotion of soft power abroad.”
One veteran staffer told Jonathan Martin that its destruction places American workers abroad “in dangerous situations.”
House Republicans Eye Deeper Medicaid Cuts
“House Republican leaders are looking to cut federal spending by $2 trillion to $2.5 trillion as part of their reconciliation push,” Punchbowl News reports.
“House GOP negotiators now believe they will have to dig deeper into Medicaid spending to meet those targets, including potentially cutting benefits for enrollees, according to these sources. This will be a complicated political challenge. Some House Republicans are going to be skeptical about slashing Medicaid spending so heavily, and the White House will have to agree as well. We scooped last week that Republicans were eyeing $4.7 trillion in tax cuts.”
Democrats Approach Their Enabling Moment
Brian Beutler: “If Democrats provide the decisive votes to fund this government, it will reverberate through history for all time.”
U.S. Spy Planes Hunt for Mexican Drug Cartels
“The US military has significantly increased its surveillance of Mexican drug cartels over the past two weeks, with sophisticated spy planes flying at least 18 missions over the southwestern US and in international airspace around the Baja peninsula,” CNN reports.
“The flights, conducted over a 10-day period in late January and early February, represent a dramatic escalation in activity, current and former military officials say, and come as President Donald Trump directs the military to secure the border and deter cartels’ drug smuggling operations.”
Trump Stiffs Farmers After He Freezes Funds
“Farmers report missing millions of dollars of funding they were promised by the U.S. Agriculture Department, despite promises from the Trump administration that a federal funding freeze would not apply to projects directly benefiting individuals,” the Washington Post reports.
Make Trump Ubiquitous Again
“President Donald Trump began the morning golfing with Tiger Woods under a baby blue sky after a weekend dining with Senate Republicans, revoking security clearances for his predecessor and relaxing at his Mar-a-Lago estate,” the Washington Post reports.
“By midafternoon, he was en route to New Orleans, offering extensive commentary to reporters on matters ranging from tariffs to Gaza to Canada’s sovereignty to the entertainment selections at the Kennedy Center. By nightfall, he was making history as the first sitting president to attend the Super Bowl, and, three weeks after being sworn in to office, he completed at least one goal: Make Trump Ubiquitous Again.”
Trump Euphoria Is Fading Fast for CEOs and Bankers
“It took less than a month for the second Trump administration to cool the enthusiasm of chief executives and dealmakers,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Consumer sentiment is down and inflation expectations are rising, driven in part by worries about the impact of a threatened trade war. The deals market just ended its quietest January in a decade. A Justice Department that was expected to wave through acquisitions instead sued to block a big technology merger.”
“Corporate bigwigs are now using phrases like ‘fragility,’ ‘volatility’ and ‘wait and see’ to describe their outlooks.”
New Trump Tariffs Won’t Be So Easily Averted
“President Trump said that he plans to impose 25% tariffs Monday on imports of steel and aluminum, part of the structural change to the country’s trade system that the president promised on the campaign trail,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“He also said he plans to make an announcement about reciprocal tariffs on Tuesday or Wednesday.”
China Is at Heart of Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum
New York Times: “China does not export a lot of steel or aluminum directly to the United States. A succession of presidents and Commerce Department rulings have already imposed many tariffs on steel from China. Tariffs have also gone up lately on Chinese aluminum. Just last September, President Joseph R. Biden raised existing tariffs on many Chinese steel and aluminum products by up to 25 percent.”
“But China dominates the global steel and aluminum industry. Its vast, modern mills make as much or more of both metals each year as the rest of the world combined. Most of it is used within China’s borders, to build everything from high-rises and ships to washing machines and cars.”
“Yet lately, China’s steel and aluminum exports are on the rise because its economy is struggling, sapping domestic demand.”
Wall Street Journal: China’s strategy in trade war: Threaten U.S. tech companies.
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