April 4, 2025
GovBrief Intensity Score 152 🔥
Extreme, off the charts. 100 = average over past 60 days.
Previous 5 Days 144 | 144 | 152 | 152 | 104
7 Day Trending Story Categories: Economy, Courts, Human Rights
7 Day Trending Topics: ICE, DHS, Pam Bondi
7 Day Trending Topics: ICE, DHS, Pam Bondi
🧨 Trump breaks things on purpose — and dares you to stop him.
He tanks the markets, targets dissent, opens forests to industry, and turns the federal government into a personal vendetta machine — then smirks from the golf course and tells you to “get rich.” While he defunds disaster prep, mass-fires civil servants, and forces law firms to swear loyalty oaths, Obama and Harris are stepping up. So must we.
Please be safe if you’re rallying today.
Obama and Harris urge Americans to resist Trump’s second-term crackdowns on dissent, press, and legal rights.
April 4, 2025
Trump opens 176,000 square miles of forest to faster logging, ends key protections in wildfire-prone areas.
April 4, 2025
Supreme Court, in narrow vote, lets Trump freeze $65M in teacher-training grants tied to diversity efforts.
April 4, 2025
Trump administration ends disaster prep grant program for communities, cancels pending funds and past awards.
April 4, 2025
Judge says Columbia must give 30 days’ notice before handing student records to Congress in antisemitism probe.
April 4, 2025
IRS begins firing up to 20,000 employees, starting with civil rights office in broader push to cut 25% of agency.
April 4, 2025
Trump extends TikTok sale deadline until June after China pulls deal over new tariffs.
April 4, 2025
Interior secretary orders national parks to keep all areas open despite staff cuts and mass layoffs.
April 4, 2025
Hegseth to visit Panama military sites next week as follow-up to Trump’s call to ‘reclaim’ the canal.
April 4, 2025
Prosecutors seek 7 years for former GOP congressman George Santos over donor fraud and falsified campaign finances.
April 4, 2025