Feb 23, 2025 · Originally published at: Why PRAMS Got Shuttered - TPM – Talking Points Memo Yesterday I broke the news that the CDC has indefinitely shuttered the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), a comprehensive federal data collection program “designed to identify groups of women and infants at high risk for health problems, to monitor changes in health status, and to measure ...

Mar 6, 2025 · Originally published at: Acting DC US Attorney Ed Martin Is Out Of Control A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Criminalizing Higher Education In another reckless, unethical, and highly politicized move, acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin is implicitly threatening Georgetown Law School with criminal investigation ...

Mar 11, 2025 · Originally published at: At Best, A Pointless Detour - TPM – Talking Points Memo It’s amazing what can happen without JD Vance in the room. American and Ukrainian negotiators agreed after a summit in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to bring things back to what appears to be square one, nearly the status quo ante-Trump-um. The U.S. agreed to resume security assistance to and intelligence sharing ...

Feb 20, 2025 · Originally published at: Trump’s DC US Attorney Nom Targets House Dem, Expanding Effort To Stifle Trump Admin Criticism - TPM – Talking Points Memo Acting Washington, D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin is escalating his psuedo-investigations of what he describes as purported threats to billionaire Elon Musk, the staff of Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency and other federal workers by ...

Feb 21, 2025 · Originally published at: Judge Ho Appoints Former GOP Solicitor General To Help Him Mull DOJ’s Corrupt Adams Deal - TPM – Talking Points Memo A Manhattan federal judge signaled on Friday that he won’t rubber stamp the Trump DOJ’s effort to drop the prosecution of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, part of an allegedly corrupt quid pro quo acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove hammered ...

Mar 10, 2025 · Originally published at: Senior Ranks Of DOJ Hit With New Wave Of Trump Purges A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Friday News Dump The Trump administration took new steps to hollow out the Justice Department and bring it more firmly under White House control with a new round of purges of senior officials Friday ...

Feb 12, 2025 · Originally published at: EXCLUSIVE: Judicial Branch Swept Up In Trump-Musk Lease Termination Spree - TPM – Talking Points Memo Elements of the judicial branch, including public defender offices, have been caught up in the Trump administration’s headlong rush to terminate thousands of leases of government office space, TPM has learned. Unlike the vast majority of federal workers whose ...

Jan 28, 2025 · Originally published at: Trump Fires Democratic EEOC Commissioner - TPM – Talking Points Memo President Donald Trump fired one of the Democratic commissioners on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission late on Monday night in a move that experts said violated legal statute. Democratic commissioner Jocelyn Samuels, whose term was supposed to end in 2026, released a statement Tuesday ...

Feb 17, 2025 · Originally published at: Understanding the Taxonomy of DOGE - TPM – Talking Points Memo Here’s an important resource being maintained by ProPublica. It’s a list of everyone associated with the DOGE operation. (Nice to see two TPM alums on the list of those compiling and maintaining it.) The page says it hasn’t been updated since February 11th, which by today’s standards is semi ...

Feb 18, 2025 · Originally published at: Trump Preened As A Strongman For Presidents Day - TPM – Talking Points Memo A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. So Much Has Happened Since last we convened on Friday, President Trump’s rampage against the rule of law at home and the international order abroad has intensified in alarming ...