GOP House members threatened DC over its Black Lives Matter Plaza. (By Bdward3 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0)

What Happened Today – March 10

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The cracks keep widening: Trump shrugs off a recession, ICE revokes a protester’s green card, and Panama dumps deported migrants. Meanwhile, Musk picks fights, Iran wavers on talks, and Kristi Noem wants lie detector tests for Homeland employees to find out who is leaking information. Stay sharp.

Elon Musk called Sen. Mark Kelly a traitor after Kelly described conditions he observed in Ukraine last weekend.
NIH’s National Cancer Institute must flag all communications and research containing up to 23 terms, including vaccines, fluoride, autism, and peanut allergies.
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Secretary of State Marco Rubio says 83% of USAID’s programs have been eliminated, with the State Department taking over the rest.
Disaster ReliefEnvironmentForeign RelationsHealthOversight
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DC began the 6-8 week process of erasing Black Lives Matter Plaza at a cost of $610K following GOP threats.
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Trump warned that the arrest and jailing of a recent Columbia University grad student with permanent U.S. residency “will be the first of many.”
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The Dow plunged over 1,000 points, and Nasdaq had its worst day in years, which the White House Economic Council Director dismissed as “a blip.”
Economy
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NIH will cancel or cut back grants studying vaccine hesitancy or how to increase acceptance.
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Washington, DC lawmakers urged GOP leaders to reverse a spending bill that treats the city as a federal agency and arbitrarily slashes $1.1 billion from its services.
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HHS Secretary Kennedy blamed a deadly measles outbreak on poor diet and overall health.
Health
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The Justice Department’s pardon attorney was fired one day after refusing to recommend restoring Mel Gibson’s gun rights due to his domestic violence conviction.
Justice Dept
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Federal Judge Amir Ali barred the administration from “unlawfully impounding congressionally appropriated foreign aid funds.”
CourtsForeign Relations
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The Education Dept. warned 60 universities, including Harvard and Yale, that they could face penalties from antisemitism investigations.
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A judge ruled that Elon Musk’s DOGE unit is likely subject to FOIA laws and ordered DOGE and OMB to turn over emails in a lawsuit over federal employee firings.
CourtsFederal PersonnelOversight
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NASA eliminated 23 senior positions, including its Chief Scientist, and closed an office studying space and tech policy.
Federal PersonnelOversightScience
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Perkins Coie, the elite law firm barred from federal buildings and employees by Trump has hired another firm to sue the government.
Courts
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The Trump administration is proposing to shorten the Affordable Care Act enrollment period and eliminate some subsidies that lower costs.
Health
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The hacktivist group Dark Storm claimed responsibility for an ongoing X outage, saying the attack protests Elon Musk and Trump’s actions.
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