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What Happened Today – October 7, 2025

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🖕 Trump breaks the law. His cabinet enables him. And they’ll attack you if you speak up.

Troops are now on the ground in Illinois over the governor’s objections. Trump says he’ll decide which federal workers get their back pay, and OMB deleted the law requiring it from their website. When the Senate Judiciary Committee called in AG Bondi today, she refused to answer questions, instead calling Democratic senators “liar” and “failed lawyer.”

If they treat senators and governors that way, how are they going to treat you? That’s why you need to plan now for which No Kings protest you’ll join one week from Saturday on October 18.

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I wish you loved Chicago as much as you hate President Trump, and currently the National Guard are on the way to Chicago. If you’re not going to protect your citizens, President Trump will."
AG Bondi to Senator Durbin, the Ranking Member on the Senate Judiciary Committee on October 7.
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Today’s GovBrief News

ArtsDissentFighting BackImmigrationMilitary

Country star and fourth-generation Navy vet Zach Bryan says song snippet criticizing ICE and police was “misconstrued” after White House denounced lyrics and Homeland Security official told him to “stick to Pink Skies.”

October 7, 2025
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Immigration

ICE plans to hire contractors at Vermont surveillance center to monitor social media to track immigrants, their families and their associates for deportation.

October 7, 2025
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CongressImmigrationJustice DeptMilitary

Trump appoints retired Marine Col. Daren Margolin to lead immigration courts despite 2013 firing from Quantico security command for negligently discharging gun in his office.

October 7, 2025
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CongressScience

Senate confirms Neil Jacobs as NOAA chief despite 2019 ethics violation when he criticized forecasters who corrected Trump’s false claim that Hurricane Dorian would hit Alabama.

October 7, 2025
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CongressJustice Dept

AG Bondi calls senators “liar” and “failed lawyer” during hearing while refusing to answer questions about Epstein files, Homan bribery probe and politicization of Justice Department.

October 7, 2025
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CongressForeign Relations

Senate Republicans use month-old rule allowing group confirmations to approve more than 100 Trump nominees at once, including former football star Herschel Walker as ambassador to the Bahamas.

October 7, 2025
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Environment

White House energy official says Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council provides “concierge, white glove service” to fast-track fossil fuel projects while blocking renewable energy permits.

October 7, 2025
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Transportation

Air traffic controller sick calls during shutdown force Nashville airport flights to average 2-hour delays while Dallas and Chicago experience delays averaging 30 to 40 minutes.

October 7, 2025
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CongressCriminal JusticeJustice Dept

GOP senators reveal FBI analyzed cellphone records of nine Republican lawmakers during Jack Smith’s Jan. 6 investigation, calling it privacy violations and promising consequences.

October 7, 2025
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CongressFederal Personnel

Trump says he will decide which furloughed federal workers receive back pay after OMB deletes from its website reference to 2019 law he signed guaranteeing retroactive pay for all employees.

October 7, 2025
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CourtsHealth

Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway subpoenas Planned Parenthood patient abortion records to defend regulations that voters rejected when they approved Amendment 3 protecting reproductive rights.

October 7, 2025
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CourtsImmigrationMilitary

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem visits Portland ICE facility as federal appeals court prepares to hear arguments on blocked National Guard deployment ordered by Trump.

October 7, 2025
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ImmigrationMilitary

Texas National Guard troops arrive at Illinois military facility to support Trump’s immigration enforcement despite Governor Pritzker blocking state facilities and calling the deployment an “invasion.”

October 7, 2025
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