Musk’s Doge gets more strength and winter weather across the United States: Morning Treatment

Donald Trump has gave Eileon Musk more strength on the federal workforce. Millions of people are warning with the absorption of a pair of winter storms. And Trump raises another American release after Russia freed the teacher Mark Vogel from his care.

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Trump gives musk and more strength

While Elon Musk stood beside him in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump announced an executive order that gives the richest person in the world and the Dog office more power over the federal workforce. The new executive matter directs federal agencies to “coordination and consultation” with the Ministry of Governmental efficiency to reduce jobs and reduce employment, according to a summary of the White House. Each agency “implementing plans for large -scale discounts” and restricting employment in “basic positions” will only.

“The reckless and unjustified discounts” of the Trump administration was aimed at rewarding “musk and billiard comrades in Trump.”

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Trump praised Musk’s work so far and said he wanted to do Musk more, even while Dog is facing lawsuits from trade unions and general lawyers about whether he is acting within the law. Musk wore a great “Make America” ​​hat again, and one of his 11 children was present to surround the media.

For weeks, musk against what he said was waste, fraud or abuse within the federal government. But when Trump took and caught questions from journalists, the two often spoke in general and did not give details of the alleged fraud they said had found.

Musk also told the correspondents that it was not a conflict of interests to interfere in the operations of the Ministry of Defense, whose company Spacex is a major contractor. Trump cleaned a reporter’s question about whether he would eventually need Congress’ approval to reduce spending.

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While Trump ordered MUSK to make more cuts on the federal workforce, driving changes in various agencies were also under implementation. The Inspector General of the United States Agency for International Development has been dismissed A day after his office released a report showing in detail the negative impact to reduce the size of the Trump administration’s dramatic agency. and Four Fema officials have been dismissedAn Internal Security spokesman, claiming that they had made “terrifying payments for New York City Luxury Hotels for Immigrants.”

More news of the Trump administration and policy news:

• After meeting with Trump at the White House, King of Jordan Abdullah II Repeat “opposition” his country and the “fixed opposition” region To the president’s plan to resettle millions of Palestinians from Gaza.
• “Borders Caesar” Tom Human Republican begging in the Senate for more money To implement the immigration campaign plans from Trump.
• The Federal Appeal Court rejected the Trump administration’s offer To freeze a huge financing immediately.
• Many of Trump’s early losses on the legal challenges of his executive actions and its business schedule have a relationship Mysterious, but routinely summoned federal law.
• Vice President JD Vance warned European allies against “Tightening screws on American technology companies” When it comes to artificial intelligence.
• The Senate Democrat in the Senate Judicial Committee, Cash Patel, accused Trump’s choice of the FBI director, From the FBI officials, the FBI officials.
• Emile Bouv, the Acting Deputy Prosecutor of Trump, is leading the Ministry of Justice to learn about everyone who worked on January 6. Some of those who know him are shocked – because Bove himself helped himself to investigate January 6 cases.

A stomach brings winter weather to many of the United States

More than 99 million people were at weather warnings in the winter or winter weather consulting from last night, as a pair of storms threatened most of the country, extending from Denver and northwest of Texas to Michigan, and from Tennessee and Virginia and along the northeast to Massachusetts. By last night, Washington has recorded 5 inches of snow. The stormy weather was forced to vote for the Senate confirmation in favor of Toulcy Gabbard, which is the choice of President Donald Trump for a major intelligence center, to be postponed until this morning.

Meanwhile, the Kansas City region, Missouri, was expected to get up to 7 inches of snow this morning, according to the national weather service. Northern Dakota can become cold like 55 degrees Fahrenheit when the cold is placed in the wind. California is preparing for rain and snow in the higher height areas. In Los Angeles, recent forest fires have increased the risk of debris flows and clay collapses. Here’s what we know too.

Mark Vogel returns to us after his release from the Russian reservation

Mark Vogel, an American teacher held by Russia for 3 and a half years before his release yesterday, expressed his gratitude to President Donald Trump at a meeting at the White House shortly after Vogel returned to the American soil. “I want you to know that I am not a hero in this at all,” said Vogel before Trump and the employees who helped secure the real heroes released.

Vogel, 63, from Pennsylvania, was studying in Russia before the authorities sentenced him to 14 years in prison due to the presence of 17 grams of medical cannabis, which he described in the United States due to back pain but was illegal in Russia. The United States considered it “wrongly detained.”

While he was waiting for Vogel’s visit to the White House, Trump said another American will be released today, but he did not say.

Officials said that Vogel’s release may strengthen Trump’s efforts to reach a ceasefire in the Russian invasion for a period of three years for neighboring Ukraine. It was not immediately clear what the Russians gained from this version. Read the full story here.

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• Some black leaders and residents of the Greater Cincinnati Investigate After the disguised new Nazis was allowed to gather on a highway bridge to present a demonstration and have not been arrested.

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