Wednesday, January 29th, 2025
Today, in the middle of the night Monday night, Trump tried to seize the power of Congress by halting all appropriations - and a Biden appointed judge blocked it hours later; Trump has asked two million federal workers to voluntarily resign; the CDC has been ordered to stop working with the World Health Organization; top USAID staff have been put on administrative leave; federal employees have filed a lawsuit over the HR at OPM government wide email for privacy concerns; Republican state attorneys general are pressuring Costco to drop their DEI programs; Jim Acosta announces he’s leaving CNN; Trump has moved to fire Dem members of the EEOC and NLRB; six transgender service members are suing Trump and Pete Hegseth over the ban on trans people serving in the military; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News.
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Stories:
Republican attorneys general call out Costco for maintaining DEI policies - Kate Gibson | CBS News
More than 50 career civil servants at USAID are placed on administrative leave - Abigail Williams, Vaughn Hillyard and Raquel Coronell Uribe | NBC News
CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal - MIKE STOBBE | AP News
Trump administration will offer the roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign - Garrett Haake and Amanda Terkel | NBC News
Lawsuit alleges new Trump administration email system for federal employees raises privacy concerns - Tierney Sneed | CNN Politics
D.C. federal judge temporarily blocks Trump plan to pause federal aid spending - Daniel Barnes | NBC News
Dem AGs set to challenge Trump’s ‘clearly unlawful’ federal aid freeze - KYLE CHENEY | POLITICO
Six active duty service members file first lawsuit challenging Trump's transgender troop ban - TARA COPP | AP News
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