Two Jan. 6 Boosters Are Now Trump Appointees Strangling USAID From The Inside
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Two Jan. 6 Boosters Are Now Trump Appointees Strangling USAID From The Inside

For some of the thousands of USAID employees left in limbo after the Trump administration…

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Inside The ‘Bizarre’ Meeting Where DOGE Requested ‘Extensive System Access’ At IRS 
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Inside The ‘Bizarre’ Meeting Where DOGE Requested ‘Extensive System Access’ At IRS 

The Internal Revenue Service has now joined the list of federal agencies and offices experiencing…

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Important Note for Federal Civil Servants
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Important Note for Federal Civil Servants

There are probationary employees who are new in government service and those who are labeled…

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Cowed Republican Senators Now Worried About Primary Challenges Backed By Trump OR Musk
Cowed Republican Senators Now Worried About Primary Challenges Backed By Trump OR Musk

There is new reporting in The Hill today that suggests that the threat of primary challengers against Senate and House...

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Judge Finds Admin Not Complying With Court Order After Musk, Vance Rail Against Judiciary
Judge Finds Admin Not Complying With Court Order After Musk, Vance Rail Against Judiciary

It’s quite a split screen: The president, vice president, White House deputy chief of staff and unelected co-president publicly goad...

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How Interpret Schumer’s ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter
How Interpret Schumer’s ‘Dear Colleague’ Letter

I’ve written clearly a few times that Democrats have one key leverage point with a plausible shot of ending the...

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Blue State Law, Red State Law
Blue State Law, Red State Law

Here’s an interesting little detail behind the headlines. The medical news website StatNews has a whole package of pieces out...

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Stephen Miller Is The White House Point On Investigating The Investigators
Stephen Miller Is The White House Point On Investigating The Investigators

A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version....

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The Most Dangerous Line Trump Could Still Cross
Trump Says Some Treasury Notes May Not Be Real

I suspect this will just end up being something Old Man Trump said on a plane and we won’t hear...

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Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL), State of the Union GOP response 2024
Bama Senator Howls Like Stuck Pig After She Sees NIH Cuts Impact in State

Yesterday I made the point that while research universities and academic medical centers may be coded-blue in many ways, they’re...

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More on Trump’s Effort to End Basic Medical Research in the United States
More on Trump’s Effort to End Basic Medical Research in the United States

Last night I noted news which has spread like wildfire through the American scientific and medical research communities. The NIH...

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The Huge NIH Funding Cuts
The Huge NIH Funding Cuts

Let us say that TPM Readers are almost unimaginably over-represented in the country’s colleges and universities, and perhaps even more...

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As Congressional GOP Cheers Trump’s Rampage, The Courts Are The Last Hope To Stop Him
As Congressional GOP Cheers Trump’s Rampage, The Courts Are The Last Hope To Stop Him

Hello. It’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕️ The country’s in a mighty precarious situation when the anti-Trump contingent...

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