From Reuters Daily Briefing |
By Robert MacMillan, Reuters.com Weekend Editor |
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- A blunt Sharpie: The president is acting with stunning speed to remove or sideline hundreds of government workers while giving himself the power to fire thousands more whom he perceives as disloyal or ideological enemies. He is working hard to destroy diversity initiatives wherever he finds them, including an executive order by President Lyndon Johnson from 1965. The administration urged federal workers to inform on their colleagues if they are trying to hide DEI programs with "coded or imprecise language." A memo warned of consequences for failing to snitch. Trump also would like companies to abandon their DEI efforts, a move that threatens legal consequences. Target complied. Federal employees also must return to their offices for the entire work week.
- A long shortlist: If we made a list of everything Trump touched this week, we'd have a book, not a newsletter. Here are some highlights: A judge blocked the administration's bid to curtail birthright citizenship, Trump said he knows more about interest rates than the Fed governors, he pardoned nearly 1,600 of the Jan. 6 rioters and freed hundreds from prison, he backed off immediately slapping other nations with tariffs, and he withdrew the U.S. from the World Health Organization and the Paris climate agreement, which put him into rare discord with his friends in Big Oil. He floated a trial balloon to shut down the Federal Emergency Management Agency. But... could this be as good as it gets for Team Trump?
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- Entrenched: The group's officials, gunmen and police are supervising rubble clearance and delivery as well as providing police patrols. This hold on power represents a challenge to making the ceasefire with Israel permanent. Our World News podcast takes a closer look at Hamas' hold on the strip. The deal also puts Benjamin Netanyahu in a squeeze between his far-right allies and Trump. Israel's military raided the West Bank in an offensive against militants, providing another threat to the Gaza deal.
- And in Ukraine: Trump's attempts to use tariff threats to force Russia into ending its war with Ukraine struck some Russian politicians and nationalists as disrespectful, insulting and ill-informed. Vladimir Putin is concerned about the economy, and some in the Russian elite harbor the view that labor shortages, high interest rates and record military spending make a negotiated settlement desirable.
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