NEW: A new court order blocking President Trump's spending freeze is imminent, but affected nonprofits acknowledge there are other ways agencies could cut off funding even if the blankey freeze is permanently ended.

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JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington says she's concerned that the White House is still implementing the spending freeze that she and a Rhode Island judge have ordered temporarily halted.

Judge AliKhan is inclined to issue a restraining order.

This is a crisis response app. If a diplomat is in danger, for any reason, this sends their whereabouts to diplomatic security in country and DC

Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.

These are the stakes

Is Musk is *just now* being made a “special government employee” just confirms how illegal this has all been!

Elon Musk claims to have "deleted" the office in the IRS which has enabled people to file their tax returns electronically, simply, and for free.

Any news outlet reporting Mexico conceded anything to Trump to get him to delay tariffs has not done its homework.
Trump boasts he got Mexico to commit to stationing 10K troops at our border. Apparently he didn't realize Mexico already has 15K troops deployed there
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CBS NEWS: “.. the water released from dams at Lake Kaweah and Lake Success is rushing into a dry lakebed in the Central Valley, where experts say it can't flow to Southern California and will likely go to waste.”

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Musk has as much legal authority to shut down USAID as I do to shut down Tesla, which is to say: none.

If only there was a word for when an unelected oligarch moves quickly to take over control of the government.

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