Politics

It’s not surprising that the government’s crypto reserve involves Bitcoin and Ethereum, but the other three coins seem kind of random — Cardano (have you heard of it???), XRP, and Solana.

RestoredCDC.org mirrors the Centers for Disease Control website as it was before the current administration removed critical information about HIV, reproductive, vaccine, and transgender-related healthcare. While some pages on the real CDC site have since been restored under court order, many now feature a yellow banner rejecting “gender ideology.”

As Bloomberg reports:

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick tells Fox Business that President Trump’s administration may announce some kind of changes to the tariffs in place on Mexico and Canada tomorrow, though it apparently won’t be a full pause.

The National Republican Congressional Committee is instructing representatives to stop holding in-person town halls, Politico reports. In recent weeks videos have gone viral of heated town hall meetings, where Republican representatives are being grilled for their support of DOGE and Donald Trump’s agenda.

The Wall Street Journal reports that this afternoon, we’ll hear about how the chipmaker that Apple, Nvidia, and many others rely on “intends to invest $100 billion in chip manufacturing plants in the U.S. over the next four years,” likely linked to the president’s tariffs.

The US General Services Administration (GSA) laid the team off in an overnight email explaining the decision came from “top levels of leadership within both the Administration and the GSA,” reports NextGov.

Agency chair Brendan Carr criticized Verizon’s “lack of progress” on ending DEI initiatives in a letter telling its executives to contact FCC staff working on its pending Frontier acquisition, according to Bloomberg. That implies the merger’s approval is tied to Carr’s DEI agenda, fellow Commissioner Geoffrey Starks told the outlet in a statement critical of the move.

Following owner Jeff Bezos’ opinion section changes, the Post has lost more than 75,000 digital subscribers, NPR reports. More than 300,000 subscribers canceled their subscriptions between when Bezos reportedly killed the paper’s Kamala Harris endorsement and Election Day, NPR says.

CNN delves into the February 28th call to boycott Amazon, Walmart, and other companies — as an act of resistance in a time of political turmoil, but also an influencer-sparked, celebrity-supported viral phenomenon that’s taken on a life of its own:

After questions were raised earlier this month about the line item proposing $400 million for “Armored Tesla (Production Units),” the State Department said the solicitation stemmed from a Biden-admin request. However, an NPR reporter says a document shows the Biden administration had approved less than $500k to look into armoring electric vehicles, while experts said the new figure would just about account for replacing the department’s entire 3,000-vehicle fleet with Tesla trucks.

Javier Milei, president of Argentina who appeared with Elon Musk at CPAC, will be investigated for his involvement with $Libra, which collapsed just hours after its launch. His sister appears to be involved — the token co-creator says he bought the president’s endorsement through her. The US’s putative president, Donald Trump, has meme coins of his own.

As shown in a clip posted by The Handbasket writer Marisa Kabas, people in the Department of Housing and Urban Development HQ were greeted on day one of their mandatory return to office with what appears to be an AI-generated video of Donald Trump kissing Elon Musk’s feet. It is visible in the post, and they are both left feet, for some reason.

Apparently responding to a President Trump post saying he wanted Elon Musk to be “more aggressive,” the Musk-led organization emailed federal workers — even some placed on leave — demanding “approx. 5 bullets of what you accomplished last week” by Monday at 11:59PM ET, reports Business Insider.

The Securties and Exchange Commission’s investigation was related to an almost two-year-old lawsuit against the struggling NFT marketplace, but has now been dropped as the agency backs off of its campaign against digital assets, reports Axios.

President Trump signed a memo to have his administration “consider responsive actions like tariffs to combat the digital service taxes (DSTs), fines, practices, and policies that foreign governments levy on American companies.”

The administration has blocked the Associated Press from attending some events, including at the Oval Office, because of the publication’s policy to use the name Gulf of Mexico “while acknowledging” the Gulf of America name.