Semafor • Sep 30, 2025
Shutdown threatens goverment-linked sectors
Unanswered questions about President Donald Trump’s tariffs risk compounding any damage.
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Semafor • Sep 29, 2025
Washington hurtles toward a shutdown
The first sitdown between President Donald Trump and congressional leaders in both parties was short and yielded no breakthrough.
Lever News • Sep 29, 2025
Welcome To The Shutdown Circus, Where Everybody Loses
Everyone agrees antics around the spending-bill deadline are nothing but callous political stunts — so why do we agree to be governed like this at all?
Semafor • Sep 29, 2025
Supreme Court grants 20th Trump emergency request
The top court’s conservative majority on Friday allowed President Donald Trump to withhold $4 billion in foreign aid appropriated by Congress.
Semafor • Sep 29, 2025
Shutdown odds high ahead of Trump meeting with lawmakers
Still, the fact that they're even talking is a good sign.
Mother Jones • Sep 26, 2025
The Biggest Hurdle to Trump’s Medicaid Work Requirements: The War on Disabled Workers
Armond Dai has been living with Long Covid since his second infection, in September 2023. In December, his symptoms forced him to leave his job in architectural design; since March, he’s been on Medicaid. Dai, who lives in California, is one of many chronically ill and disabled people who, under new Medicaid work requirements included […]
Mother Jones • Sep 26, 2025
Trump’s Energy Secretary Aims to Claw Back Billions Slated for Clean Energy Projects
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The US energy secretary, Chris Wright, on Wednesday announced that his department will return to the treasury billions of dollars set aside for green projects, while dodging questions about affordability and grid reliability and claiming international climate policy has […]
Semafor • Sep 26, 2025
Trump imposes 100% tariffs on pharma imports
The move will apply from Oct. 1, the US president said.
Semafor • Sep 26, 2025
Fed board member Cook asks SCOTUS not to fire her
Donald Trump has demanded the removal of the Biden-appointed Cook over allegations of mortgage fraud.
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ICE and Border Patrol in Minnesota − accused of violating 1st, 2nd, 4th and 10th amendment rights − are testing whether the Constitution can survive
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Congress has exercised minimal oversight over ICE, but that might change
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Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost-saving measure that could risk denying needed care
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Kristi Noem’s Throttling of FEMA Funds Constitutes a Preventable Disaster
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American Reich: Kristi Noem’s DHS is the Department of Homeland Subjugation
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Federal power meets local resistance in Minneapolis – a case study in how federalism staves off authoritarianism
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Report: Education Department’s “Efficiency” Layoffs Cost At Least $28 Million
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Trump Goes Public With Plan to “Take Over” Elections
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Denmark’s generous child care and parental leave policies erase 80% of the ‘motherhood penalty’ for working moms
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