Shutdown / Budget
- House passes deal to end shutdown by Melanie Zanona, Cristina Marcos (The Hill)
- Trump Signs 2-Year Spending Pact by Susan Davis, Jessica Taylor, Kelsey Snell, Scott Neuman (NPR)
- Shutdown averted as Trump signs budget bill (BBC)
- Trump signs spending bill into law, ending short shutdown (Reuters)
- U.S. budget deals grants $1.5 billion for opioid-addicted babies, families by Duff Wilson, John Shiffman (Reuters)
- Congress Passes Massive Spending Deal, Ending Shutdown Before It Ever Really Started by Matt Fuller, Elise Foley (Huffington Post)
- Congress Finally Has a Budget; but still no path for Dreamers. by Jim Newell (Slate)
- ‘A colossal waste of time’: Senators blast Rand Paul for pushing government into brief shutdown by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)
- Trump Signs Spending Package, Ending Short Shutdown by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
- For Republicans, the tea party is over by Carl Hulse (The NY Times)
- The era of fiscal austerity is over. Here’s what big deficits mean for the economy by Neil Irwin (The NY Times)
Memo / Russia Investigation
- Trump Will Clear Dems’ Intel Memo for Release by John T. Bennett (Roll Call)
- Trump will not release Democrats’ memo on FBI surveillance by Karoun Demirjian, Rosalind S. Helderman and Matt Zapotosky (Washington Post)
- Trump won’t declassify Democratic memo on Russia probe by Chad Day and Mary Claire Jalonick (AP)
- Trump Is Using Rod Rosenstein to Block the Release of a New Classified Memo by Jeremy Stahl (Slate)
- Trump Won’t Declassify Democratic Rebuttal to Nunes by Natasha Bertrand (The Atlantic)
- Trump blocks release of Democratic Russia memo by Kyle Cheney (Politico)
- The Official Next in Line to Oversee the Russia Investigation Just Stepped Down by Pema Levy (Mother Jones)
News
- White House Counsel Knew About Rob Porter Accusations For A Year: Report by Mary Papenfuss (Huffington Post)
- Trump praises ex-aide Rob Porter accused of domestic abuse (BBC)
- Trump prefers oral report to reading daily intel briefing: report by Jacqueline Thomsen (The Hill)
- Trump defends top official accused of domestic abuse: ‘He did a very good job’ by staff (Guardian)
- Pence skips Olympics dinner in snub to North Korean officials by Benjamin Haas (Guardian)
- Rob Porter’s abuse scandal is roiling the White House to its core, and the knives are coming out for John Kelly by Allan Smith (Business Insider)
- Cardin and Schneider Introduce Bills to Block Trump’s Military Parade by Eric Garcia (Roll Call)
- No. 3 official at the justice department is stepping down by Katie Benner (The NY Times)
- Kelly offers account of Porter exit that some White House aides consider untrue by Philip Rucker and Josh Dawsey (The Washington Post)
- Trump lavishes praise on Rob Porter, former top aide accused of domestic violence by Jenna Johnson (The Washington Post)
- Breaking with tradition, Trump skips president’s written intelligence report and relies on oral briefings by Carol D. Leonnig, Shane Harris, and Greg Jaffe (The Washington Post)
- Kelly says he’s willing to resign as abuse scandal roils the White House by Maggie Haberma, Julie Hirschfeld Davis, and Michael S. Schmidt (The NY Times)
- Donald Trump Has a Long History of Defending Men Accused of Sexual Assault by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
Analysis
- Democrats’ ‘Resistance’ to Trump Is Eroding, and So Are Their Poll Numbers by Will Stancil (The Atlantic)
- Donald Trump, Fox News, and the logic of alternative facts by Ezra Klein (Vox)
- John Kelly’s true self and ICE’s mission creep: Tyranny is spreading by Helen Digby Parton (Salon)
- The strange tale of Carter Page: Republicans built a defense of Trump around this guy? by Matthew Sheffiel (Salon)
- The White House’s weekly ‘immigrant crime’ tally includes non-crimes and nonimmigrants by Philip Bump (Washington Post)
- Trump believes the men by Edward -Isaac Dovere (Politico)
- Trump, Tell Us About Your Flu Shot by Donald G. McNeil Jr. (NY Times)
Opinion
- Why domestic abusers thrive in Trump’s White House by Jessica Valenti (Guardian)