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Trump moves with dizzying speed on his to-do list. But there are warning signs in his first month

By WILL WEISSERT, JOSH BOAK and LINDSAY WHITEHURST
Updated 9:02 AM CST, February 15, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — As President Donald Trump approaches the first-month mark in his second term, he has moved with dizzying speed and blunt force to reorder American social and political norms and the economy while redefining the U.S. role in the world.

At the same time, he has empowered Elon Musk, an unelected, South African-born billionaire, to help engineer the firing of thousands of federal employees and potentially shutter entire agencies created by Congress.

Those efforts have largely overshadowed Trump’s crackdowns on immigration and the U.S.-Mexico border, and his efforts to remake social policy by wiping out diversity, equity and inclusion programs and rolling back transgender rights.

The president has also imposed scores of new tariffs against U.S. trade partners and threatened more, even as economists warn that will pass costs on to U.S. consumers and feed inflation. ...

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John Dickerson on admiration for George Washington and its effect on modern-day politics

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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It's Presidents Day, the holiday that started in honor of George Washington -- the president with an enormous birthday candle on the Mall. But do we revere the father of our country too much? It was a question from the very birth of the presidency. John Dickerson discusses.
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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow firing of whistleblower agency head

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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President Trump's firings of the members of independent agencies and boards have prompted a string of legal fights that could set the Supreme Court up to reconsider and potentially overturn a 90-year-old decision that shields certain executive branch officials from being removed after political shifts in the White House. Jessica Levinson explains.
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NYC comptroller asks Mayor Eric Adams to prove he can govern or else he will seek to remove him from office

  • News source: FOX News
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New York City Comptroller Brad Lander (D) on Monday called on Mayor Eric Adams to prove he can still govern the city amid calls for his resignation after the Justice Department dropped bribery charges against him and four deputy mayors submitted their intent to resign.

In a letter to Adams, Lander said the potential resignations of the deputy mayors could "create an unprecedented leadership vacuum at the highest levels of City government and wreak havoc on the City’s ability to deliver essential services to New Yorkers."

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4 NYC deputy mayors resign from Adams administration amid growing City Hall turmoil

  • News source: Melissa Russo, Erica Byfield and Jennifer Vazquez
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Four New York City deputy mayors from the Adams administration have confirmed their resignations Monday because they could not fulfill their oath of office as they are being asked by Mayor Eric Adams not to criticize President Donald Trump's administration on policies that conflict with their work, according to sources familiar with the matter.

NBC New York broke the news Sunday that Adams met over the weekend with at least three deputy mayors who have expressed their intention to resign from his administration.

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Mexico awaits response from Google on dispute over Gulf of Mexico name

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Mexico says it’s awaiting a new response from Google to its request that the tech company fully restore the name Gulf of Mexico to its Google Maps service before filing a lawsuit
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A look at recent aviation disasters in North America

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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The crash of a Delta Airlines plane in Toronto is the fourth major aviation disaster in North America in the last month
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris to be honored by NAACP with Chairman's Award

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris is to receive the NAACP’s Chairman’s Award during the civil rights organization’s Image Awards ceremony this weekend
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DOGE says it found nearly untraceable budget line item responsible for $4.7T in payments

  • News source: FOX News
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The Trump administration's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) discovered an identification code linking U.S. Treasury payments to a budget line item, which accounts for nearly $4.7 trillion in payments which was oftentimes left blank.

"The Treasury Access Symbol (TAS) is an identification code linking a Treasury payment to a budget line item (standard financial process)," DOGE wrote in a post on X. "In the Federal Government, the TAS field was optional for ~$4.7 Trillion in payments and was often left blank, making traceability almost...
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What the bleep?

  • News source: FOX News
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"Profanity is the parlance of the fool." — President Teddy Roosevelt

"Be on time. Never criticize a teammate. Never use profanity." — UCLA 10-time NCAA Basketball Champion Head Coach John Wooden

"I’ve been accused of vulgarity. I say that’s bulls---." – Filmmaker Mel Brooks

Do members of Congress curse?

GOP REP WHO RETURNED TO CONGRESS AFTER EIGHT-YEAR BREAK CREDITS TRUMP WITH UNIFYING PARTY

Of course.

Democrats aren’t fussing about President Trump and Elon Musk.

They’re cussing about President Trump and Elon Musk.

It’s customary for...
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Department of Homeland Security preparing to fire hundreds of senior leaders this week

  • News source: Julia Ainsley | NBC News
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The Trump administration is preparing to fire hundreds of high-level Department of Homeland Security employees this week as part of a move to rid the country’s third-largest agency of people deemed to be misaligned with the administration’s goals, three sources familiar with the matter told NBC News.

The sources said the Trump administration has a “centralized plan” and a list of people in high-level positions across every component of DHS who are to be targeted this week.

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'Elon Musk doesn't even know my job exists,' fired federal worker says

  • News source: ABC News: Top Stories
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Among the hundreds of people protesting in front of the U.S. Capitol on Monday were recently fired federal workers left devastated and uncertain by their terminations.
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Kamala Harris mocked over 'word salad' speech to cast of ‘A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical’

  • News source: FOX News
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Former Vice President Kamala Harris delivered a so-called nonsensical "word salad" during an attempt to deliver an inspirational message to the cast of Broadway’s "A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical."

Harris and her husband, Doug Emhoff, were seen attending two Broadway productions over the weekend, the other being "Gypsy," the New York Post reported.

Following a standing ovation for "A Wonderful World," Harris delivered her speech to the cast and crew.

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Boston police commissioner doubles down on ICE resistance: 'We don’t enforce' detainers

  • News source: FOX News
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Democrat-appointed Boston Police Commissioner Michael Cox is echoing Mayor Michelle Wu's pledged resistance to the Trump administration's deportations, saying on a local news station on Sunday that "we don’t enforce" civil immigration detainers filed by ICE.

While speaking on a segment of WCVB’s "On the Record" show, Cox, who was appointed as police commissioner by Wu in 2022, said that in line with state and city laws, Boston police officers "don’t have authority to enforce federal immigration law."

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Fox News Politics Newletter: Duffy Calls Out Clinton

  • News source: FOX News
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The Fox News Politics newsletter for Monday, Feb. 17, 2025, with the latest updates on the Trump administration, Capitol Hill and more Fox News politics content.

Here's what's happening…

-Trump chooses team of four to negotiate end of the Russia-Ukraine war

-Elon Musk says there are millions in the Social Security database between the ages of 100 and 159

-Iran says Israel and US 'can't do a damn thing' to thwart Tehran's nuclear ambitions

SpaceX workers will visit the Air Traffic Control System Command Center on Monday, Transportation Secretary...
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Watch: Why European leaders held emergency Ukraine summit

  • News source: BBC News - World
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European leaders met at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Monday for an emergency summit on Ukraine.
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