🔴 GovBrief Intensity Score 144
High intensity. Big news cycle.
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⚙️ 🏭 🤖 The authoritarian machine is burning hot and cold—unleashing chaos while pretending it’s all under control.
Trump’s economic blitz hits 60 countries (and a few penguins), while law firms and corporations keep folding to pressure, striking deals that trade integrity for survival. At home, mass firings rip through federal agencies. The CDC was gutted, the Social Security chief’s hanging on by a thread, and even the FDA’s vaccine process has been hijacked. Meanwhile, his DOJ is stuffed with Musk loyalists and former hackers, and a clown-car senator mocks constituents for losing their jobs.
This isn’t drift. It’s design. The purge is real—and it’s accelerating.
IRS tells 7,000 reinstated employees to return by April 14, says they can keep outside jobs.
April 3, 2025
Nation’s largest law firm in talks to avoid Trump order as 4 firms capitulate and over a dozen face White House pressure.
April 3, 2025
Trump admin forces nearly all staff at foreign policy think tank Wilson Center on leave after Musk review.
April 3, 2025
Judge Boasberg considers contempt charges against administration at hearing over Trump deportations under 1798 law.
April 3, 2025
Trump administration continues blocking court-ordered funding to Radio Free Europe, forcing layoffs.
April 3, 2025
Volkswagen announces it will itemize Trump’s 25% auto tariff on U.S. window stickers for imported cars.
April 3, 2025
Kennedy says 20% of HHS layoffs were mistakes but claims he always planned to get some wrong.
April 3, 2025
Education Department tells schools to end DEI programs that ‘favor one race over another’ or lose federal funds.
April 3, 2025
Judge says she’ll temporarily block Trump’s $11B public health cuts, with full injunction hearing still ahead.
April 3, 2025
Pentagon Inspector General opens investigation into Hegseth for sharing classified military info on unclassified app.
April 3, 2025
Senate confirms TV’s ‘Dr. Oz’ to lead Medicare and Medicaid, overseeing coverage for 160 million people, in party-line vote.
April 3, 2025
Trump backs proxy voting for new parents serving in Congress, undercutting Speaker Johnson’s opposition.
April 3, 2025
Trump moves to cut $510 million in federal funding to Brown University over campus protest response.
April 3, 2025
Measles outbreaks spread across five states as U.S. sees more cases in 3 months than in all of last year.
April 3, 2025
Trump fires six national security staffers after Oval Office meeting with Laura Loomer.
April 3, 2025