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Trump administration finalizing plans to shutter Education Department An executive order — which President Donald Trump is expected to sign sometime this month — was expected to lay out a two-part strategy for shuttering the agency.

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The FBI is full of tough minded, hard charging, patriotic people—mostly Republicans—who have devoted years of their lives serving the country and placing mission over money. Many there now feel unfairly targeted by political operatives for doing things they were assigned to do. They are furious.

Today from Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny:

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Can’t beat a Kansas sunset!

Opinion | Kash Patel Is a Warning Shot Senators, take heed.

“It took immense courage to create our constitutional republic, and now immense cowardice is placing our system of justice under threat,” our columnist David French writes.

the point is not that it's fast -- the point it that it's systematic.

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Trump slaps tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, risking higher prices for U.S. consumers The new levies on America’s top trade partners could drive prices higher for cars, electronics, lumber and more, threatening to crimp an economy that the president has vowed to improve.

Trump slaps tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China, risking higher prices for U.S. consumers.

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

It’s alarming that Elon Musk has access to government payment systems used to deliver Social Security and Medicare benefits. 
 
He also drove out the senior career official at Treasury responsible for preventing a potential default on U.S. debt.
 
Congress must investigate.

Tracking the Economic Impact of the Trump Tariffs The Trump administration imposed nearly $80 billion worth of new taxes on Americans by levying tariffs on thousands of products in 2018 and 2019, amounting to one of the largest tax increases in decad...

Businesses will pass these higher costs onto consumers—costing the average family almost $830 MORE this year.

That’s BEFORE we account for the cost of retaliatory tariffs from Mexico and Canada, which could launch us into a trade war and recession.
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Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.