Feb24.md

Febuary 24th

Hypothetical Ongoing Categories

• Ukraine
• DOGE
• US Appointments
• Courts vs Executive
• Budget
• Tarrifs

Ukraine

UN condems Russian Invasion, US dissents

• China abstained
• Post

Macron in Washington

• Said Ukaraine needs security guarentees
• NYT

Rare Earths

• US Plan to take half of Ukraine rare earths makes progress AP News

Zelensky responds to "Unelected" comment

• Says he will step down for NATO
• BBC

DOGE

Email Elon or You're Fired

• Elon emailed every federal employee
• FBI, DoJ, other department Heads say hold off
• Link

Rehire Attempts Continue

• Agencies trying to hire folks back after the mass layoffs
• USDA
• FDA Workers

Appointments

Bongino for Deputy Director of FBI

• Secret Service to Podcaster to DD FBI
• Usually Deputy Director is an internal hire
• NYT

Courts v Executive:

Supreme Court On Hiring Independent Agency Heads

• Court Paused Emergency Request from Trump to stop Firing Department of Independent Council Head
• Different job than DoJ independent council
• Link

Budget

Congressional Bill

• Congress wants "one big bill"
• $2tn in "mandatory" (ie Medicaid) spending cuts
• $4tn debt ceiling increase
• $110bn for Border
• Link

Senate Bill

• Senate wants Split border/defense bill from budget cuts
• $175bn increase in border spending
• PBS

Tarrifs

Trump said Tarrifs on Mexico and Canada March 1

• Reuters

Memes

AP banned from White House for saying Gulf of Mexico

• Newsmax and Fox back AP
• Judge Upholds Ban

Deepfake Trump Sucking Toes at HUD

• Yuck

Pope is Dying

• Pope got pneumonia, is in the hospital
• Things are getting worse, early kidney failure
• AP

France has another Super Rapist

• Gross