3/10
Trump administration halts funding for two cybersecurity efforts, including one for elections (AP)
Supreme Court will take up state bans on conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ children, in a Colorado case (AP)
Trump’s Firings Target 90-Year-Old Precedent Protecting Independent Agencies (Democracy Docket)
Postal workers conducting the census is part of a Trump pitch for taking over USPS (NPR)
Judge orders urgent release of DOGE records, citing ‘unprecedented’ power and ‘unusual secrecy’ (Politico)
USDA cancels $1B in local food purchasing for schools, food banks (Politico)
US labor board opts not to defend law barring Trump from firing Democratic member (Reuters)
NIH to ax grants on vaccine hesitancy, mRNA vaccines (Science)
NASA closes offices, lays off staff as it prepares for larger workforce reductions (Space News; see also, OCS and OTPS websites)
3/11
Dept. of Education plans to cut nearly half of staff, paving way for closure (The 19th)
Trump administration halts program that keeps aging affordable housing livable (ABC News)
USDA cuts more than $1bn in local food purchases for schools, food banks (Guardian)
U.S. to restart intelligence sharing and security assistance to Ukraine (NBC News)
U.S.A.I.D. Official Orders Employees to Shred or Burn Classified and Personnel Records (NYT)
USDA halts millions in funding for University of Maine System programs (Portland Press Herald)
A Key Official Is Trying to Weasel Out of Testifying About Trump’s Mass Firings. Good Luck! (Slate)
A Turning Point for University Leadership (Slate)
Trump says he will label violence against Tesla as domestic terrorism (TechCrunch)
Elon Musk Has Wanted the Government Shutdown (Wired)
3/12
Remaining migrants at Guantanamo Bay moved to Louisiana to await deportation (ABC News)
House Dems go into "complete meltdown" as Schumer folds (Axios)
The Nation’s Archivist Should Not Be Political (Bulwark)
Trump official tasked with defending DOGE cuts posted fashion influencer videos from her office (CNN)
‘Students will suffer harm’: Education Department’s civil rights office gutted by layoffs, closures (CNN)
As Education Department Slashes Nearly Half Its Staff, Special Ed Worries Mount (Disability Scoop)
US pauses water-sharing negotiations with Canada over Columbia River (Guardian)
Federal judge blocks Trump order against law firm, calling it a "personal vendetta" (Law Dork)
Trump is trying to remake the presidency. Here's why (NPR)
Judge slams EPA’s climate grant cancellations: ‘You have to have some kind of evidence’ (Politico)
Turns out DOGE can't beat FOIA by shouting NOT AN AGENCY (Public Notice)
US federal judiciary undertakes review of its own DEI programs (Reuters)
‘Deliberate trauma’: SAMHSA employees detail a federal agency in shambles (Stat)
3/13
Trump administration issues list of demands Columbia must meet to maintain federal funding (Columbia Spectator)
Emergency Motion Filed After Reports of Trump Administration Violating Preliminary Injunction on Anti-DEIA Executive Orders (Democracy Forward)
Pete Hegseth to overhaul US military lawyers in effort to relax rules of war (Guardian)
Trump White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal, officials say (NBC News)
Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona dies at 77 (NBC News; see also, H Natural Resources ranking member statement)
Trump's hiring freeze has halted local head counts and could threaten the U.S. census (NPR)
DOGE Makes Its Latest Errors Harder to Find (NYT)
Judge [Bredar] orders sweeping rehiring of fired workers at 18 federal agencies (Politico)
Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge [Alsup] rules (Politico)
US FDA's top lawyer Hilary Perkins resigns two days into role (Reuters; see also, original HHS press release via IA)
White House withdraws vaccine critic Weldon for CDC director (Reuters)
3/14
DHS arrests another student involved in Columbia university protests (ABC News)
Rubio says South African ambassador ‘no longer welcome’ in US (CNN)
US Senate passes Republican funding bill to dismay of House Democrats (Guardian)
Trump vents fury about his criminal cases in extraordinary speech at DoJ (Guardian)
Chaos and confusion as the statistics arm of the Education Department is reduced to a skeletal staff of 3 (Hechinger Report)
Farmers face steep losses in the middle of Trump's trade war and funding cuts (NBC News)
Tariff timeline: How Trump turned global trade into an economic battlefield (NBC News)
Trump Admin Nixed Contract Helping Kidnapped Ukrainian Kids: Sources (New Republic)
USPS head agrees to let DOGE find 'efficiencies' — with limits to employee data access (NPR)
Draft List for New Travel Ban Proposes Trump Target 43 Countries (NYT)
Elon Musk Shared, Then Removed a Post Absolving Dictators for Genocide (NYT)
After JD Vance booed, Kennedy Center head urges 'diversity and inclusion' (WaPo/Yahoo)
Trump Can Enforce Ban on DEI Programs for Now, Court Says (WSJ/MSN)
3/15
ACLU and Democracy Forward Sue Trump Administration Over Expected Invocation of Alien Enemies Act (Democracy Forward)
Will Trump try to eliminate Chuckwalla, Sattitla national monuments or not? (Desert Sun; see also Chuckwalla and Sáttítla webpages)
Judge blocks Trump from using 18th-century wartime act for deportations (Guardian; see also, AG and Secretary of State statements)
Trump signs order to gut Voice of America, other agencies [inc. CDFI, FMCS, IMLS, MBDA, USICH, Wilson Center] (Reuters)
Nervous about Trump, international tourists scrap their U.S. travel plans (WaPo/MSN)
3/16
How the White House ignored a judge's order to turn back deportation flights (Axios)
The Foilies 2025 (EFF)
Top broadband official exits Commerce Department with sharp Musk warning (Politico)
