Updated Day 1471 and 1 other file

_posts/2025-01-29-day-1471.markdown

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ categories:
 - trump
 description: '"Fork in the road."'
 image: "/uploads/day-1471-trump.jpg"
-todayInOneSentence: 'The White House rescinded an order freezing federal grants and
+todayInOneSentence: The White House rescinded an order freezing federal grants and
   loans after facing legal challenges and widespread confusion; the Trump administration
   offered buyouts to roughly 2 million federal workers; the Justice Department dropped
   its appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon’s ruling that special counsel Jack Smith was unlawfully
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ todayInOneSentence: 'The White House rescinded an order freezing federal grants
   Chiefs of Staff; Trump cut federal funding for gender-affirming medical care for
   transgender individuals under 19; Trump plans to order the Pentagon and Homeland
   Security to prepare Guantanamo Bay as a detention facility for up to 30,000 undocumented
-  migrants; and 45% of Americans approve of Trump''s performance as president – down
-  from 47% a week ago.'
+  migrants; and 45% of Americans approve of Trump's performance as president – down
+  from 47% a week ago.
 ---
 
 1/ **The White House rescinded an order freezing federal grants and loans after facing legal challenges and widespread confusion**. The directive, issued Monday by the Office of Management and Budget, instructed federal agencies to “temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all federal financial assistance,” but was blocked by a federal judge on Tuesday. Chuck Schumer said, “Americans fought back and Donald Trump backed off.” However, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt insisted, “This is NOT a rescission of the federal funding freeze,” clarifying that Trump’s broader efforts to curb certain spending remained intact. The administration framed the freeze as a way to eliminate funding for what it called “woke ideologies,” with Trump defending the move as necessary to “get the most out of every single tax dollar for our great citizens.” The order briefly disrupted funding for Medicaid, housing, and other public services, prompting lawsuits from multiple states. Last year the federal government awarded more than $1.2 trillion in grants, and another $2 trillion in loans. ([New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01/29/us/trump-federal-freeze-funding-news/federal-freeze-grants?smid=url-share) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/01/29/white-house-budget-office-spending-freeze/) / [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-administration-rescinds-order-attempting-freeze-federal-aid-spen-rcna189852) / [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/29/politics/white-house-rescind-federal-funding-freeze/index.html) / [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-29/white-house-reverses-spending-freeze-order-that-sparked-chaos) / [Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-administration-rescinds-order-to-freeze-federal-aid-funding-45729ca1) / [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/29/white-house-rescinds-federal-funds-freeze-memo.html) / [Axios](https://www.axios.com/2025/01/29/federal-funding-freeze-memo-rescinded))

_posts/2025-01-31-day-1473.markdown

@@ -3,7 +3,21 @@ title: Day 1473
 date: 2025-01-31 22:14:18 -08:00
 description: '"Infamous and disgraceful."'
 image: "/uploads/day-1473-trump.jpg"
-todayInOneSentence: Trump’s Justice Department fired dozens of federal prosecutors and FBI officials involved in the Jan. 6 investigations; Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker blocked Jan. 6 rioters from state jobs; the Trump administration ordered the removal of HIV, LGBTQ+, and gender identity-related data from the CDC website; Elon Musk’s aides at the Office of Personnel Management  blocked career civil servants from accessing key federal employee data systems; Trump announced 25% tariffs on imports from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on Chinese goods starting Saturday; the Trump administration emailed air traffic controllers urging them to quit their jobs; Trump ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to release large amounts of water from two California dams; a Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York doctor for prescribing abortion pills to a minor; a federal judge blocked Trump’s attempt to freeze federal aid, ruling that the policy likely violates the Constitution and that the administration’s rescission of the freeze was "in name-only"; and Paramount is in talks with Trump to settle his  $10 billion lawsuit against CBS, which accused "60 Minutes" of deceptive editing.
+todayInOneSentence: Trump’s Justice Department fired dozens of federal prosecutors
+  and FBI officials involved in the Jan. 6 investigations; Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker
+  blocked Jan. 6 rioters from state jobs; the Trump administration ordered the removal
+  of HIV, LGBTQ+, and gender identity-related data from the CDC website; Elon Musk’s
+  aides at the Office of Personnel Management  blocked career civil servants from
+  accessing key federal employee data systems; Trump announced 25% tariffs on imports
+  from Canada and Mexico and 10% tariffs on Chinese goods starting Saturday; the Trump
+  administration emailed air traffic controllers urging them to quit their jobs; Trump
+  ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to release large amounts of water from
+  two California dams; a Louisiana grand jury indicted a New York doctor for prescribing
+  abortion pills to a minor; a federal judge blocked Trump’s attempt to freeze federal
+  aid, ruling that the policy likely violates the Constitution and that the administration’s
+  rescission of the freeze was "in name-only"; and Paramount is in talks with Trump
+  to settle his  $10 billion lawsuit against CBS, which accused "60 Minutes" of deceptive
+  editing.
 ---
 
 1/ **Trump’s Justice Department fired dozens of federal prosecutors and FBI officials involved in the Jan. 6 investigations**, initiating a broad review of thousands of agents and staff who worked on cases related to Trump and the Capitol riot he inspired. More than 30 federal prosecutors were dismissed from the D.C. U.S. Attorney’s Office, and at least eight senior FBI executives were fired or pressured to retire. Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove accused the Biden administration of improperly hiring these officials and cited Trump’s executive order to “end the weaponization” of law enforcement. FBI officials were ordered to provide a list of all employees involved in Trump-related investigations. The FBI Agents Association warned that these removals could "severely weaken" the bureau’s ability to address national security threats. Trump denied direct involvement but said, "If they fired some people over there, that’s a good thing." ([Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/01/31/jan6-prosecutors-fired-dc-martin/) / [Bloomberg](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-01-31/fbi-mass-exodus-is-latest-shakeup-at-trump-s-justice-department) / [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/us/politics/prosecutors-us-attorneys-office-trump-firings.html) / [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/trump-administration-forces-multiple-senior-fbi-officials-rcna190138) / [CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/31/politics/fbi-agents-who-investigated-january-6-fired/) / [Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/01/31/fbi-considering-mass-purge-agents-involved-trump-investigations/) / [Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/31/doj-purges-prosecutors-january-6-cases-00201904) / [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/us/politics/trump-fbi-firing.html))