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What Happened Today – April 29

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from firing 1,500 remaining workers at the CFPB.

🚧💸 Trump’s default playbook today is clear: fortify the border with troop-policed “defense strips,” mass-deport declaring Haitian migrants as terrorists, and even using postage images as clues to their whereabouts. Judges, watchdogs, and charities are pushing back, but the squeeze keeps tightening until enough of us raise hell. There are marches and events all over … Read more

What Happened Today – April 28

The FDA is reportedly slowing vaccine approvals, including a new COVID vaccine, and relying on a sports medicine doctor to review some cases.

🥊 This is bullying, not governing. Trump’s team is using federal power to punish anyone they disagree with: immigrants, universities, cities, prosecutors. It is not leadership. It is a flood of cruelty meant to dominate headlines and crush opposition. Lawsuits and rallies are fighting back because there is no other choice. Today’s news shows the … Read more

What Happened Today – April 27

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Sen. Corey Booker lead a sit-in on the U.S. Capitol steps. (Photo by J. Kay for GovBrief Today)

🧱 America is being divided in two. The split isn’t coming. It’s already here. Inside the gates, loyalty buys you protection, wealth buys you access, and history is rewritten by decree. Trump’s inner circle is building a private empire where $500,000 gets you a key to power, human rights offices are shuttered, Indigenous people are … Read more

What Happened Today – April 26

Historic meeting: President Trump and President Zelenskyy seated knee-to-knee at St. Peter’s Basilica, Vatican. Photo posted publicly by Trump on Truth Social, April 26, 2025.

📖✝️✈️ Trump met Zelenskyy knee-to-knee inside St. Peter’s Basilica, a rare moment of solemn diplomacy. At home, the brutality never paused: ICE raids tore through cities. Citizen children were deported, including a four-year-old with stage four cancer and no medical assistance. A Coast Guardsman’s wife was arrested over an old immigration charge while settling into … Read more

What Happened Today – April 25

Rochester, NY, a sanctuary city since 1986, is now facing a federal lawsuit challenging its policies on cooperation with ICE. (Image: Theresa Marconi, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia)

A two-year-old American citizen was sent to Honduras after ICE ignored her family’s legal plan to keep her safely in the U.S. and exiled her alongside her undocumented mother. A conservative federal judge is furious. Meanwhile, a Wisconsin judge was arrested, cuffed, and detained for telling ICE to get the right warrant for a man … Read more

What Happened Today – April 24

Pete Hegseth's Chief of Staff Joe Kasper is the FIFTH senior Pentagon aide to leave in the last week.

🤡 They still think they’re in charge. We see their panic. Courts crushed Trump’s crackdown today, blocking his attacks on voting, immigration, public schools, and civil rights. The Pentagon is leaking. DOJ lawyers are faceplanting. Trump is posting desperate pleas to Russia from his phone. Meanwhile they’re selling “Trump 2028” hats and picking fights with … Read more

What Happened Today – April 23

News broke late Wednesday that Defense Sec. Pete Hegseth installed Signal on classified government PCs. (Image courtesy of Signal Corp.)

💵💰 Trump went full-on rich guy trying to control the economy today. He said millionaires would flee the country if taxed more, then turned around and attacked the World Bank, IMF, and Federal Reserve—all while his personal crypto spiked 58% after he promised a private dinner for the 200 biggest holders. Trump always makes sure … Read more

What Happened Today – April 22

Gov. Laura Kelly today asked unvaccinated Kansas residents to vaccinate. 37 Kansans currently have measles.

⛔ The guardrails protecting our society keep disappearing. Imagine any other U.S. president insisting on the right to deport people without trials. Or imagine a government building registries of people with autism. What could those possibly be used for? The outrages come daily. So do the lies. And we can’t stop calling them out.Remember: “First … Read more

What Happened Today – April 21

A federal judge has temporarily blocked ICE from setting up facilities at NYC's infamous Riker's Island prison complex.

🚓🚨 Trump is done pretending that the courts matter. People fumed about his refusal to follow orders from the Supreme Court and a federal judge last week. Today, he attacked the justices because they won’t rubber-stamp the parts of his deportation agenda that they say are illegal. He claims that trials aren’t possible for migrants. … Read more