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Breaking news: President Donald Trump is preparing an executive order aimed at eventually closing the Education Department and, in the short term, dismantling it from within, according to three people briefed on its contents.
Trump preps order to dismantle Education Dept. as DOGE probes data
Closing the agency would require congressional approval, so the new administration hopes to diminish it in the meantime.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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NBC News has learned that some of those arrested during the Trump administration's post-Inauguration Day crackdown on undocumented immigrants have already been released back into the U.S. on a monitoring program, sources familiar with the operations say.
Some migrants arrested in Trump’s immigration crackdown have been released back into U.S.
Space constraints and court orders have led ICE to release migrants on monitoring programs after they’re arrested.
www.nbcnews.com
February 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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Bernie Sanders: "We are living in an unprecedented moment in American history. We are looking at a rapid growth of oligarchy. We are looking at a rapid growth of authoritarianism. And I fear we're looking at a rapid growth of kleptocracy as well."
February 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Ron Johnson: "Tariffs are a tax. When you tax something, you get less of it, so we'll probably get fewer imports, but then with retaliation, fewer experts. Smoot-Hawley was not particularly successful and helped sparked the Depression, so I share the markets' concern."
February 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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Hassan, through tears: "I am the proud mother of a 36 year old with severe cerebral palsy. And a day does not go by when I don't think about what I did I do when I was pregnant with him... So please do not suggest that anybody in this body doesn't want to know what the cause of autism is"

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January 30, 2025 at 7:00 PM