Delivery company FedEx said in a statement on Thursday that it will return any tariff refund it might get to shippers and customers who paid them.
TONIGHT: Funding for DHS runs out at midnight – Top Goldman Sachs lawyer departs amid reported ties to Epstein – & Attorney confirms Mark Zuckerberg to go to trial Wednesday.
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Minnesota SOS Steve Simon tells @ms.now states now have to plan for “federal interference with our elections” like fed agents showing up at polls
“This now belongs in the same category as a power outage, a bomb threat”
New reporting w/ @davidrohde.bsky.social
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“Remain in Mexico” forced migrants to stay in Mexico border cities while waiting for court dates. Often staying in unsafe conditions and exposed to kidnapping and extortion.
Source believe some of the families set to be moved could be from Minnesota, and a number used CBP One app to enter legally
Scoop: Trump admin plans to remove ~400 individuals, including children and families, to Mexico in first known restart of controversial “Remain in Mexico” policy during Trump’s 2nd term, sources tell me and Jake Traylor @ms.now
They’re set to be removed as early as Tuesday from TX and AZ to Mexico
Exclusive: ICE plans to deport 40 Iranians days after mass killings of thousands of protesters in Iran. Two of the deportees are gay & terrified of returning to a country where homosexuality is punishable by death, their lawyer says. w/
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MS NOW EXCLUSIVE:
“The deportation flight is scheduled to depart from Arizona on Sunday, these people said, just days after the country’s hardline regime crushed mass protests by killing at least 3,000 demonstrators.”
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A lawyer on her Iranian national client set to be deported on a Sunday flight: He “calls every 45 minutes begging me to save his life.”
Relative of another Iranian national, who has U.S. citizen kids, and also set to be deported: “It’s completely destroyed our family”
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SCOOP: Trump admin plans to deport at least 40 Iranians days after mass killings in Iran, sources tell me, @davidrohde.bsky.social
Flight is as early as Sunday. Two men set to be on it are gay & “terrified” of returning to Iran where being gay is punishable by death
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These troops are with the Army’s 16th Military Police Brigade and at least one battalion (500) were put on prepare-to-deploy orders, two sources told @ms.now
ICE operations in Maine are starting. @ms.now reported last Weds that ICE HSI were eyeing Maine to target Somali immigrants, with op similar to Minnesota
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NEWS: Pentagon ordered active-duty soldiers with a military police unit in NC to prepare for possible deployment to Minneapolis, three people familiar told @ms.now
Prepare to deploy order was issued yesterday for at least a few hundred members of an Army military police brigade based at Fort Bragg
President Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota. MS NOW Reporter Nnamdi Egwuonwu and MS NOW White House Reporter @lbarronlopez.bsky.social report. Former DC Homeland Security & Intelligence Chief Donell Harvin shares his insights.
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Trump is considering removing DHS secretary Kristi Noem as early as Jan, four sources told @ms.now
Stephen Miller isn’t happy with pace of detention capacity expansion. Gov. Glenn Youngkin, possible contender for job, recently met with DHS/CBP officials
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Multiple sources who read/were briefed on Pentagon IG's Signalgate report told MS NOW:
DOD Secretary Hegseth’s actions put troops “at risk"
Hegseth refused interview request
Hegseth would not turn over his phone, per two sources, including one who read report
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Senators gave themselves a tailor-made ticket to court to sue federal gov for damages
But Americans who’ve been arrested/detained by fed immigration agents, or suffered collateral damage, have no effective, direct legal path to sue federal gov or individual fed agents
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“The main thing is that you control everything by controlling money. So Trump controls universities by threatening their grants, their tax-exempt status. It’s all financial stuff when you get down to it, and that was something that [Viktor] Orbán pioneered.”
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A House Republican told MSNBC “our oversight is not being maximized” due to the shutdown. The House Republican was “skeptical” that Trump would seek congressional authorization if the president escalates to land strikes.
One House Democrat said the administration has provided “nothing” on the identities of who has been killed, their direct links to narcotics trafficking groups and no explanation of the administration’s long-term strategy in the campaign.
New from @msnbc.com: Pentagon officials are expected to brief House Armed Services Committee on Thursday about US military strikes against alleged drug boats, five lawmakers told us.
Officials expected to brief include legal counsel to Joint Chiefs, officers overseeing special operations
Many of the companies donating funds for the 90k sq ft ballroom have business before the federal gov, some (like Google) face DOJ lawsuits, others would need federal approval for mergers
The WH has not provided the amount of each donation made by donors
A group of Senate Dems led by @warren.senate.gov want answers from the nonprofit entity managing $$ from big companies funding Trump’s $300M ballroom
Is the entity responsible “facilitating corrupt access to and favor-seeking from President Trump” they write
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A veteran and federal worker was fired amid the government shutdown. @lbarronlopez.bsky.social interviews Doug Jackson who says: “This does feel like a betrayal.”
FULL INTERVIEW: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuY2...
I asked Tom Homan as he walked past reporters on White House North Lawn: “Did you take the $50k cash in a bag?”
Homan: “Give me a break”
The “suggested” OOO language sent via the Chief Human Capital Officer of SBA goes on: “Every day that Senate Democrats continue oppose a clean funding bill, they are stopping an estimated 320 small businesses from accessing $170 million in SBA-guaranteed funding.”
Furloughed SBA employees were sent similar email, suggesting they blame Dems in their out-of-office reply, per an email obtained by MSNBC
“I am out of office for the foreseeable future because Senate Democrats voted to block a clean federal funding bill…” SBA advised employees to say
In 2016, when Trump made racist comments that Judge Gonzalo Curiel couldn’t do his job because of his Mexican heritage, then Speaker Paul Ryan called it “the textbook definition of a racist comment”
GOP today when President Trump posts racist AI video of a sombrero on Hakeem Jeffries
Multiple fed employees tell me they think it’s a Hatch Act violation
Some are also waiting on lists of who will be furloughed. Typically, sources said, those are lists they’d have by now
