May 5, 2025
GovBrief Intensity Score (All Time): 176 🔥
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Recent Intensity (vs. 60 Days): 134 🔴
⚠️⛰️ The avalanche is roaring; Newark’s radar fails, FEMA stops knocking, health labs go dark, and wind energy stalls while the White House hollers about migrants.
Courts pulled a few people from the slide, yet the mountain keeps charging toward us all.
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Trump officials and Pelosi press Jordan’s king to honor pledge to treat sick Gazan children.
May 5, 2025
Democratic senators press Trump administration over plan to gut endangered species habitat protections.
May 5, 2025
Trump administration halts air-quality monitoring at all national parks, citing contract disputes.
May 5, 2025
Trump administration tells judge states have no standing to sue over mifepristone access.
May 5, 2025
Trump administration demands court-enforced decree to control Columbia’s admissions and hiring.
May 5, 2025
Trump admin blocks future federal grants to Harvard unless it meets the president’s demands.
May 5, 2025
Hacked Signal clone used by Waltz to archive U.S. military messages shuts down amid security breach.
May 5, 2025
FEMA ends door-to-door disaster outreach as Trump administration shifts aid responsibilities to states.
May 5, 2025
Army halts D.C. helicopter flights after nearly hitting two jets, echoes January’s deadly Black Hawk crash.
May 5, 2025