Reuters: A federal appeals court has blocked the Trump admin's plans to immediately slash the workforce at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau by about two-thirds.
A business tied to a longtime Trump supporter was given the no-bid contract to install a water-purification system in the Reflecting Pool.
The National Park Service bypassed the competitive-bidding process typically required and gave a $1.7 million contract to the firm, Greenwater Services.
MORE: The Reflecting Pool has more algae in it than at any recorded point in the month of June for at least five years, according to a specialized analysis of satellite data. tinyurl.com/3r4th9fc
Trump admits: The problems with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool have become so severe that the pool will have to be at least partly drained for "necessary repairs."
BREAKING:
Iranian officials said they have closed the Strait of Hormuz — citing what they said was the U.S. failure to stop the fighting in Lebanon as required under the agreement signed by Trump.
The paint is already peeling in Trump's Reflecting Pool that cost $14 million to renovate.
BREAKING on MS NOW:
The Trump Justice Department has just REFUSED to indicate in a sworn declaration that it's backing off the Trump slush fund — claiming to Judge Brinkema in the EDVA that Todd Blanche's in court testimony should suffice.
Trump's family crypto business is expected to soon be allowed to operate like a bank — a decision, made by the Trump administration, that would give U.S. companies a new route to steer money to the president.
NYT Exclusive:
ICE spent $700 million on 7 warehouses.
Now it wants to get rid of them.
A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu.
