President Shitshow’s First 100 Days; Day 15…

February 5, 2025 12:41 pm EST Tiff Editorial (Open Thread) Comments Off on President Shitshow’s First 100 Days; Day 15…
Donald Trump - Riding the Wrecking Ball. Image by DonkeyHotey.

It’s Wednesday…

President Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Wednesday, February 5 2025
9:00 AM
In-Town Pool Call Time
In-Town Pool
1:00 PM
Press Briefing by the White House Press Secretary
James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 
On Camera
2:30 PM
The President meets with the Governor of Texas
Oval Office 
Closed Press
3:00 PM
The President signs No Men in Women’s Sports Executive Order into law
East Room 
Pre-Credentialed Media
4:00 PM
The President meets with the Governor of California
Oval Office 
Closed Press

The White House has not posted a feed to today’s press briefing.

They still didn’t post a live feed; I did find this one:

I’m gonna start off a bit different today…

This morning looking for something else, I stumbled across this handy litigation tracker posted by Just Security. It’s tracking the current 33 lawsuits that have been filed so far against President Shitshow’s admin.

For example:

New Hampshire Indonesian Community Support v. Donald J. Trump (D.N.H.)ComplaintJan. 20, 2025Trump’s executive order seeks to revoke birthright citizenship for the children of undocumented immigrants on the basis that people in the United States illegally are not “subject to the jurisdiction thereof.” The ACLU sued the Trump administration on behalf of individuals in New Hampshire who would have their childrens’ citizenship revoked. The ACLU argues that the plain text of the 14th Amendment, as confirmed in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), explicitly grants birthright citizenship for all people born in the United States.

Update 1: On Jan. 23, 2025, responding to State of Washington et al v. Donald J. Trump et al, Judge John Coughenour of the Western District of Washington issued a temporary restraining order against the Executive Order.		Jan. 31, 2025

I have obviously not had enough time to read every link. But I thought this would be a good resource that shows what is currently pending in the courts.

While I know the New York Times is frowned upon; I had to resub, in order to see what the hell they were reporting now, on this current Shitshow…

This morning they posted Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab. The article says it’s a 13 minute listen.

Snips:

For example, Mr. Trump shut down three agencies by ousting Democratic members before their terms had ended. That effectively hobbled the agencies, the National Labor Relations Board, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, because they were left with too few officials to have a quorum to act.

[snip]

During transitions, the normal process is for a career lawyer in that office, walled off from the exiting administration’s political appointees, to vet drafts of directives the president-elect is considering issuing upon taking office. But Mr. Trump’s transition team did not use that mechanism for his slew of early directives, instead vetting drafts with handpicked lawyers from outside.

[snip]

During the campaign, Mr. Trump’s advisers outlined their hope to fundamentally overhaul the structure of the federal government to curb the civil service and expand presidential power. But it was not clear at the time that the incursion would be effectively outsourced to Elon Musk, the billionaire whom Mr. Trump has unleashed upon the executive branch in search of “efficiency.”

Mr. Musk and employees from his various companies have also been rampaging through the federal bureaucracy, including by seizing access to a Treasury Department system that handles federal payments and has sensitive information, like Social Security numbers, whose disclosure is limited by the Privacy Act. Mr. Musk’s team also got into a standoff with employees at U.S.A.I.D. over its demand for access to classified information.

Federal employees at both the Treasury and U.S.A.I.D. who resisted him were placed on administrative leave. Mr. Musk’s team also shut down U.S.A.I.D.’s headquarters overnight, emailing employees not to come in, and its website went dark.

The Trump team has been opaque about exactly what legal status allows Mr. Musk to be exercising executive power, even at Mr. Trump’s behest, but The New York Times reported this week that Mr. Musk has been deemed a “special government employee.”

The administration has not said when he acquired that status, nor whether or to what extent Mr. Trump has waived a criminal conflict-of-interest law that binds even special employees from touching government matters that could affect their personal interests. For Mr. Musk, that category is vast given how heavily his companies rely on federal contracts.

Trump Brazenly Defies Laws in Escalating Executive Power Grab. 02/05/2025.

The Federal Register posts EO’s as they get inputted into the system. So far President Shitshow has 45 EO’s posted at the Federal Register.

It was reported yesterday evening, during the Shitshow’s joint-press conference, that CIA employees have all received a buyout letter.

It was first reported by the Wall Street Journal, but it’s paywalled.

NBC News (02/04/2025):

The CIA has offered so-called buyouts to its workforce, a CIA spokesperson said, the latest move by the Trump administration to overhaul and scale back the federal government.

The offer of eight months of pay and benefits is similar to deferred resignation offers proposed to employees at other federal agencies. But at the CIA, some employees — including those handling high-priority tasks — will not be eligible for the offer.

[snip]

Federal employee unions and lawyers, as well as Democratic lawmakers, have warned federal workers not to accept the offers, saying that they are legally dubious and that Congress has not authorized funds for such sweeping packages.

The size of the CIA’s workforce, as at other intelligence agencies, has always been closely guarded and remains classified.

NBC News (02/04/2025).

This morning from AFL-CIO:

Now let’s talk about US Ownership of Gaza…

Here was how R elected officials reacted on Twitter:

Show more =’s There is plenty of money in the Middle East to pay for this endeavor. American leadership with support from our allies can bring historic and lasting peace to this troubled region.

President Shitshow’s Secretary of State:

Hannity from Fox Entertainment said:

So it’s clear: I do believe that the US should in fact support Israel’s right to exist. What I do not support is this idea that the US ethnic cleanse to claim ownership of Gaza.

I also don’t support the idea that we take over the Panama Canal, make Canada a 51st state, or buy Greenland for their natural resources.

What President Shitshow said this morning on his social media site:

Happening now on the Hill:

This is an open thread

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