3/3
White House directs officials to draft proposal to lift US sanctions on Russia (Guardian)
Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber (Guardian)
After mass firings, the IRS is poised to close audits of wealthy taxpayers, agents say (ICIJ)
Universities Are Under Attack. Silence Is Not an Option. (Nation)
Trump Suspends Military Aid to Ukraine After Oval Office Blowup (NYT)
Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency (ProPublica)
UC Davis Launches 'From Labs to Lives' to Highlight Federally Funded Research (UC Davis; direct to website)
Protesting the Federal Government’s Erasure of Transgender History in Our Neighborhood (VillagePreservation.org)
Elon Musk’s $1 Spending Limit Is Paralyzing Federal Agencies (Wired)
3/4
Will Democrats fight for trans rights? Their first big test just played out in the Senate. (19TH News)
Trump’s trade war draws swift retaliation as Mexico, Canada and China impose tariffs on the US (AP)
Justice Department is reviewing prosecution of Colorado clerk who supported Trump’s election lies (AP)
Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges (AP; see also, SCOTUS opinion)
Federal Judge Says Trump Illegally Fired Chair of Federal Workers Protections Board (Democracy Docket)
OPM retroactively edits probationary firing guidance to note it did not order probationary firings (GovExec)
Trump launches fresh attacks on US abortion rights (Guardian)
Trump Abruptly Walks Back His Directive To Fire Thousands Of Federal Employees (HuffPost)
In a sudden reversal, CDC rescinds some staff firings (NPR)
The Big Government Contracts DOGE Hasn’t Touched (NYT)
Removed Acting Commerce IG Returns in Wake of Trump’s IG Purge (POGO)
Trump admin moves to drop fight over emergency abortions, reversing Biden admin stance (Politico)
DOGE website offers error-filled window into Musk's government overhaul (Reuters)
Trump threatens funding cut to colleges allowing 'illegal protests' (Reuters)
Low US policy visibility equals big economic trouble (Reuters; see also, Economic Policy Uncertainty Index website)
3/5
How DHS Laid the Groundwork for More Intelligence Abuse (Brennan Center)
'We’re losing our environmental history’: The future of government information under Trump (Bulletin of Atomic Scientists)
Hundreds of State Dept. Officials Sign Dissent Cable Urging Rubio to Stop Killing USAID (Bulwark)
Fact-checking Trump’s address to Congress (CNN)
In Major Development, Merit Systems Protection Board Grants Reprieve to All USDA Employees, Restoring Employment to More Than 5,000 Federal Workers (Democracy Forward)
Elon Musk suggests the U.S. should privatize the Postal Service and Amtrak (NBC News)
Cuts Could Close Campsites and Trails in California, Forest Service Memo Says (NYT)
French university opens doors to 'threatened' US scientists (phys.org)
Email trove reveals CFPB turmoil after Vought’s work stoppage (Politico)
Supreme Court rebuffs Trump in fight over foreign aid bills (Politico)
How DOGE’s Cuts to the IRS Threaten to Cost More Than DOGE Will Ever Save (ProPublica)
US judge bars Trump administration from cutting NIH research funding (Reuters)
3/6
Screaming match breaks out in House after vote to censure Democrat Al Green (ABC News; see also, roll call vote)
President Donald Trump changes course and delays some tariffs on Mexico and Canada (Chicago Tribune)
Trump’s Funding Freeze Violated Separation of Powers, Judge Rules (Democracy Docket)
FEMA’s top lawyer placed on leave after less than one week in role (The Handbasket)
'The Entire System Will Collapse”: Inside the Purge of US Immigration Courts (Mother Jones)
NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants (Nature; requires subscription for full article)
MAGA world turns against Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett (NBC News)
Trump administration must pay debts to USAID partners by Monday, judge rules (NBC News)
The fired head of a federal watchdog agency says he's ending his legal fight [re: OSC] (NPR)
Trump puts new limits on Elon Musk (Politico)
IKEA beds? Dressers? Inside the ‘exceedingly odd’ DOGE office setup (Politico)
Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections (ProPublica)
Secretive D.C. Influence Project Appears to Be Running a Group House for Right-Wing Lawmakers (ProPublica)
Trump to revoke legal status for 240,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations (Reuters)
"Not fit to have a job": Trump victim-blames veterans, workers for his war on the economy (Salon)
A Sensitive Complex Housing a CIA Facility Was on GSA's List of US Properties for Sale (Wired)
3/7
Judge Signals Musk’s DOGE Should Be Preserving Its Work Records (Bloomberg/MSN)
CDC to study potential links between vaccines and autism despite research showing no connection (Guardian)
Trump fires two DoJ senior career officials including pardon attorney (Guardian)
US Coast Guard Academy Censors ‘Climate Change’ From Its Curriculum (Inside Climate News, with link to provost statement – note: archived at archive.ph instead of IA)
Trump’s "Crypto Reserve" is a world historical grift (Public Notice)
Trump Makes Aggressive New Claim of Executive Power To Circumvent The Senate (TPM)
3/8
House GOP releases stopgap bill to avert shutdown (ABC News)
FEMA cancels classes at national fire training academy amid federal funding cuts (AP)
Trump Order Could Overhaul PSLF Program (Inside Higher Ed)
Trump lashes out, acting as an authoritarian in attacks on perceived opponents (Law Dork)
Republicans Aim to Generate Support for Selling Off America’s Public Lands (Mother Jones)
DHS has begun performing polygraph tests on employees to find leakers (NBC News)
Inside the Explosive Meeting Where Trump Officials Clashed With Elon Musk (NYT)
The Mint restored the January 6 Congressional Gold Medal to the website, allowing duplicates to be purchased again! (@semperwry on Bluesky; see also, 2/28 NBC News article for background)
HHS grants DOGE access to child support database, overriding objections (WaPo)
3/9
DHS Detains Palestinian Student from Columbia Encampment, Advocates Say (Zeteo)
