First, they came for the rules. Now, they are coming for the people who enforce them. 🧹
The goal is to leave no one inside the government who still believes in facts. A CDC director is fired and vaccine access is restricted not because of new science, but because the people in charge reject it. A senior CIA expert who briefs the president is purged days later, and an independent regulator is fired just before he can rule on a massive corporate merger. They’re even rewriting the rules so that new immigration judges only need the right political outlook, not experience.
When expertise becomes a fireable offense, the entire system is designed to fail us. 🌪️
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Today’s GovBrief News
Key Trump allies in Congress launch a probe into Wikipedia, alleging coordinated campaigns to inject anti-Israel and pro-Russia bias.
In a major reversal, Louisiana’s attorney general now asks the Supreme Court to find a key provision of the Voting Rights Act unconstitutional.
DHS proposes a new rule to limit foreign student stays to a fixed four-year period, ending a policy in place since 1978.
Justice Department eliminates experience requirements to allow any attorney to serve as a temporary immigration judge.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia requests asylum to prevent his deportation to Uganda after being re-detained by immigration authorities in Baltimore.
Judge orders U.S. to repay a Jan. 6 rioter on a legal technicality, ruling her conviction appeal was vacated by a presidential pardon.
Trump threatens Mexico with tariffs over its failure to deliver water owed to Texas farmers under a 1944 treaty.
Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard outs a senior covert CIA officer in a public memo without first consulting the agency.
Trump and his intelligence director bypass the CIA to fire a top Russia expert four days after she briefed the president for his Putin summit.
CDC confirms it cut its foodborne illness surveillance program in July, reducing the number of pathogens it tracks from eight to two.
FDA restricts fall COVID shots to high-risk groups, a major reversal of the previous universal recommendation for everyone 6 months and older.
White House fires CDC director after she refused to resign over ‘unscientific’ orders, prompting four other top officials to quit.
Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner joins Tony Blair for a White House meeting on post-war Gaza despite holding no official government role.
Trump claims he stopped the war in Congo, but Amnesty International and local residents report ongoing fighting two months after a peace deal.
White House tells Denmark to ‘calm down’ after its top U.S. diplomat was summoned over a reported covert influence operation in Greenland.
Venezuela deploys warships after the U.S. dispatches a cruiser and nuclear submarine to the naval force pressuring President Nicolas Maduro.
Judge fines Fulton County Commission $10K per day for refusing to seat two GOP election board nominees who promoted baseless fraud claims.
National Guard troops deployed under Trump’s D.C. crime emergency shifted from policing support to trash pickup and landscaping duties.
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