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Today's Political News Compilation - Monday, February. 24, 2025

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Trump backs Musk as he roils the federal workforce with demands and threats

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST and CHRIS MEGERIAN
Updated 8:06 PM CST, February 24, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump backed Elon Musk’s demand that federal employees explain their recent accomplishments by the end of Monday or risk getting fired, even as government agency officials were told that compliance with Musk’s edict was voluntary.

Confusion and anger over the situation spawned new litigation and added to turmoil within the federal workforce.

“What he’s doing is saying, ‘Are you actually working?’” Trump said in the Oval Office during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron. “And then, if you don’t answer, like, you’re sort of semi-fired or you’re fired, because a lot of people aren’t answering because they don’t even exist.”

The Republican president said Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has found “hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud” as he suggested that federal paychecks are going to nonexistent employees. He did not present evidence for his claims. ...

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Judge orders Trump administration to pay bills to foreign aid contractors

  • News source: Politics - CBSNews.com
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Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to comply with a temporary order preventing it from pausing foreign assistance funding issued earlier this month, and gave the State Department until Wednesday night to pay all bills for work completed before Feb. 13.

U.S. District Judge Amir Ali granted a motion to enforce his temporary restraining order from Feb. 13. It required the State Department and the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID, to restore foreign-assistance funds for contracts and other awards...
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Federal judge rules Trump administration has to pay millions in foreign aid

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Judge Amir Ali said the Trump administration violated a court order about foreign aid and is ordering them to pay millions to nonprofits.
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Southwest plane has close call with business jet while landing

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A Southwest Airlines plane landed safely at Chicago Midway International Airport after a close call with a business jet.
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Trump surprises first White House tour of the year

  • News source: FOX News
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President Donald Trump surprised guests at the first White House tour of the year Tuesday, drawing a "USA!" chant after thanking them for visiting.

"I want to thank you very much for coming. The tour is so great... the First Lady worked very hard in making it perfect and I think you are going to really love it," Trump was heard telling the group in a video shared by the White House. "And I heard you were here and I said ‘let’s stop by and say hello.’"

"It's a group of very smart looking people I must say, very smart, maybe someday you'll be here...
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Dems demand Trump resume cash flow as they finally get leverage in race to prevent shutdown

  • News source: FOX News
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Congressional Democrats want to make sure President Donald Trump and his administration don't attempt to impound, or choose not to spend some of the money that is allocated in a new spending bill to avoid a government shutdown on the March 14 deadline.

They are specifically demanding assurance that Trump spends the money as Congress has appropriated, and this could take shape in a provision in the bill to stop the government from shutting down next month, four sources familiar with the discussions shared with Fox News Digital.

The demand comes as...
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A Biden-era legal win paved the way for Trump's Kennedy Center board firings

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A Biden-era legal win that allowed the president to fire certain board members set the stage for President Donald Trump to can several people who sat on the Kennedy Center board.

Former Trump press secretary Sean Spicer – one of the plaintiffs in that case, Spicer v. Biden – told Fox News Digital that, evidently enough, the suit was "about sending a message to the President of the United States."

With Trump under fire for removing multiple Kennedy Center board members earlier this month, Spicer says his loss is Trump's win.

"The idea was to make...
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More than 1 million federal employees complied with Musk's 'what did you do last week' email: WH

  • News source: FOX News
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More than one million federal workers participated in the Elon Musk and the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) directive to provide a bullet-point list of their work accomplishments from the previous week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday in a press briefing.

"I can announce that we've had more than one million workers who have chosen to participate in this very simple task of, again, sending five bullet points to your direct supervisor or manager and CC'ing OPM," Leavitt told Fox News' Jacqui Heinrich when asked about...
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BBC Verify: How much has the US spent on aid to Ukraine?

  • News source: BBC News - World
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US President Donald Trump claims the US has outspent Europe on aid to Ukraine by over $200bn. BBC Verify's Nick Eardley fact-checks Trump's claims.
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Conservatives threaten to tank House budget vote needed to advance Trump agenda

  • News source: Scott Wong, Sahil Kapur and Syedah Asghar | NBC
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Speaker Mike Johnson said Tuesday he is plowing forward this week with a vote on House Republicans' multitrillion-dollar budget blueprint, a crucial test for President Donald Trump's legislative agenda.

But a band of unruly conservatives is threatening to tank the vote.

Wary moderate Republicans appeared to be moving toward supporting the budget resolution after receiving some assurances from Johnson about Medicaid in a future package.

Still, at least four GOP rabble-rousers — Reps. Victoria Spartz of Indiana, Tim Burchett of Tennessee, Warren...
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Budget vote in jeopardy as Johnson plays Republican whack-a-mole

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House Republicans remain divided over the budget blueprint to jumpstart the process to advance Trump's agenda, putting a vote planned for Tuesday evening in jeopardy.
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After getting an earful from constituents, GOP reps have a message for Trump

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After hearing from constituents at town hall meetings in their districts last week, one Republican congressman says he wants to convey their concerns about DOGE to Trump.
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Consumer confidence plummets in largest drop since 2021

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A gauge of consumer confidence registered its largest monthly drop since 2021.
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Frustration at Elon Musk spills over after closed-door House GOP meeting: 'Fed to the wolves'

  • News source: FOX News
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EXCLUSIVE: Some House Republicans are increasingly frustrated with Elon Musk's handling of his role in the federal government – frustrations that flared during a closed-door meeting on Tuesday.

Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga., raised concerns about Republican lawmakers not being on the "same page" as the White House and Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), three people in the room told Fox News Digital.

And he's not the only GOP lawmaker who feels that way.

"He wants to see better communication between DOGE, the president, and the House...
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NASA should dump DC for the Sunshine State, DeSantis and other Florida Republicans suggest

  • News source: FOX News
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and others are advocating relocating the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's headquarters from Washington, D.C., to the Sunshine State.

The governor, who expressed support for the idea last month, has continued to do so, saying in comments last week that he thinks relocating the headquarters to Florida would "probably save about a billion dollars, quite frankly."

Sen. Ashley Moody, R-Fla., who DeSantis selected to replace Marco Rubio in the U.S. Senate, is also pushing the idea — Rubio left the Senate in order...
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Meet the far-left groups funding anti-DOGE protests at GOP offices across the country

  • News source: FOX News
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The left-wing groups backing the anti-DOGE protests across the country have been funding a variety of progressive causes in recent years, including defunding the police, pushing socialism, anti-Israel protests and opposing President Donald Trump’s agenda in general.

In a press release earlier this month, MoveOn.org announced that it was mobilizing resources as part of a "Congress Works for Us, Not Musk" initiative "aimed at pressuring lawmakers to fight back against the Trump-Musk agenda."

MoveOn.org has taken millions of dollars from George Soros...
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