Budget
- Trump Budget Would Slash Science across Agencies by Scott Waldman (Scientific American)
- Trump’s Budget Proposal Is a Manifesto Against the Poor by Harry Cheadle (VICE)
- Trump’s Budget Would Partly Replace Food Stamp Benefits With Canned Goods by Arthur Delanay (Huffington Post)
- Trump’s infrastructure plan aims to sweep away ‘inefficient’ environmental reviews by Oliver Milman (The Guardian)
- How Trump’s budget would cut the safety net for the poorest Americans (The Guardian)
- Trump budget ends US funding for International Space Station by 2025: report by Avery Anapol (The Hill)
- Trump’s budget plan would once again eliminate funding for the Legal Services Corp. by Debra Cassens Weiss (ABA Journal)
- Trump asks Democrats to negotiate on infrastructure plan by David Shepardson (Reuters)
- 17 WTF Items From Donald Trump’s Budget by Tim Dickinson (Rolling Stone)
Immigration / DACA
- For Immigrants in Trump’s America, the Dystopian Future Has Already Arrived by Moustafa Bayoumi (The Nation)
- The Republican Immigration Bill Has Virtually No Chance of Passing. Here’s Why. by Noah Lanard (Mother Jones)
- How Unions Help Immigrants Resist Deportations by David Bacon (The American Prospect)
- The Great Senate Immigration Debate That Wasn’t by Russell Berman (The Atlantic)
- Second U.S. judge blocks Trump administration from ending DACA program by Dan Levine (Reuters)
- Second judge blocks Trump administration from ending DACA by Max Greenwood, John Bowden (The Hill)
Russian Investigation / Russian Influence
- Russia Is Trying to Bury This Video—And Might Shut Down YouTube to Do It by Hannah Levintova (Mother Jones)
- The Mueller Investigation Has Shown That the Policing of Foreign Lobbying Is a Joke by Dan Friedman (Mother Jones)
- Russian Threat To U.S. Elections To Persist Through 2018, Intel Boss Warns Congress by Miles Parks (NPR)
- Intelligence officials say Russia intent on disrupting U.S. elections by Josh Gerstein, Kyle Cheney (Politico)
- Trump’s Top Intelligence Officials Contradict Him on Russian Meddling by Natasha Bertrand (Atlantic)
Porter
- FBI Director’s Account Conflicts With White House Timeline Of Porter Investigation by Scott Horsley (NPR)
- FBI Alerted the White House to Rob Porter Red Flags Nearly a Year Ago by Inae Oh (Mother Jones)
- FBI director puts responsibility for Porter on White House by Josh Gerstein, Martin Matashak (Politico)
- Rob Porter Information Was Sent to White House Twice Last Year, FBI Says by Deb Riechmann, Zeke Miller (TIME)
- White House Let Rob Porter Keep Job Even After Receiving Final F.B.I. Report by Julie Hirschfeld David and Michael D. Shear (NY Times)
News
- ‘Trump, Inc.’ Podcast Extra: Trump’s Company Is Getting $175 Million Annually in Previously Undisclosed Rent by Andrea Bernstein, Eric Umansky (ProPublica)
- Jeff Sessions ‘Anglo-American heritage’ remark sparks race row (BBC)
- Bill and Melinda Gates Took On President Trump and the Privileges of Wealth in Their Annual Letter by Flora Carr (TIME)
- Trump weighs tariffs, quotas on U.S. steel, aluminum imports by Roberta Rampton (Reuters)
- 3 Trump properties posted 144 openings for seasonal jobs. Only one went to a US worker. by Alexia Fernández Campbell (Vox)
- Blumenthal Dubious of White House Interim Security Clearance Trend by Griffin Conolly (Roll Call)
- Trump’s Top Spies Just Contradicted the White House on 3 Big Issues by Tessa Berenson (TIME)
- Devin Nunes’ Fake News Site Suggests Male Privilege Doesn’t Exist by Bryan Schatz (Mother Jones)
Analysis
- What’s the immigration status of Melania Trump’s parents? by Glenn Kessler (NY Times)
- Trump held a freewheeling White House meeting on trade — and it sounds like some of economists’ worst fears could come true by Bob Bryan (Business Insider)