Voices, The Peoples News
April 2, 2025
Published by Jedi Selman Since March 2000 to Inform and Educate
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# Indigenous
Trump grants clemency to man who stole millions of dollars from Oglala Sioux Nation. Jason Galanis was sentenced to more than 14 years in prison for a scheme that defrauded a Native American tribe
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/31/trump-pardons-jason-galanis-fraud-00262087
# Border / Immigration / Migrants / Gangs / Drugs
‘No ability to bring him back’: Trump lawyers forced to admit they permanently sent an innocent man to a nightmare prison. It’s a stunning admission by the Trump administration, but outside of court its key figures are refusing to admit any wrongdoing.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-admin-admits-wrongfully-deported-151733434.html
Trump’s Arrests Take Dark, Unnerving Turn, and MAGA Rage Boils Over. As JD Vance and press secretary Karoline Leavitt angrily defend the removal of a Maryland man to a Salvadoran prison in “error,” a shrewd immigration observer says we’re now in alarmingly lawless territory. Here’s the real story: They’re all fine with “accidental” deportations because they want immigrants to fear they’re going to be next.
https://newrepublic.com/article/193460/trump-arrests-take-dark-unnerving-turn-maga-rage-boils
With Detention of Farmworker Organizer, ICE Comes for the Labor Movement. “We believe he was targeted,” says the political director of the farmworker union that Alfredo Juarez helped to create. People to whom Juarez has spoken say he requested to see a warrant, and when he attempted to get his ID after being asked, the ICE agents smashed his car window and detained him.
https://truthout.org/articles/with-detention-of-beloved-farmworker-organizer-ice-comes-for-the-labor-movement/
Pentagon has spent about $376M on new border ops that NORTHCOM general expects to last ‘years not months.’ New military deployments have surged to the southern border since Jan. 20
https://www.stripes.com/theaters/us/2025-04-01/border-security-troops-pentagon-17332934.html
# Business / Industry / Corporations
Trump makes history by pardoning a corporation
https://thehill.com/opinion/criminal-justice/5224229-trump-makes-history-by-pardoning-a-corporation/
How Corporate Pardons Create Monopolies: Rocket wants to became the only mortgage company in America. The CFPB found its tactics to be illegal—until Donald Trump let the company off the hook.
https://prospect.org/power/2025-04-02-how-corporate-pardons-create-monopolies-rocket-mortgage/
# DOGE [Department of Government Efficiency]
DOGE’s access to the payroll system of 276,000 federal employees puts government on path to have ‘unprecedented power and control’ over Americans’ information, experts say.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/doge-musk-federal-payroll-system
Federal Judge Allows DOGE to Take Over $500 Million Office Building for Free. It’s the culmination of a weeks-long standoff between Elon Musk’s DOGE team and the United States Institute of Peace.
https://www.newsweek.com/doge-wins-control-500-million-building-washington-dc-2054209
# Economy / Finance / Trade / Banks / Taxes
Donald Trump is considering tariffs so high it would be a shock to the entire global economy. The president will announce his full tariff plan at 4 p.m. Wednesday, while 20 percent tariffs are under consideration, there is still no final decision about how big or extensive the tariffs will be, and what else they will specifically target.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193440/trump-liberation-day-tariffs-draft-plan
Untraceable $4.7 Trillion Treasury Payments: Implications and Proposed Solutions. The report has prompted Republican senators to propose legislation aimed at holding the agency accountable.
https://nbcmontana.com/news/nation-world/doge-reports-140-billion-savings-amid-unaccounted-treasury-funds-elon-musk-republicans-legislation-next-steps-trump
Former British ambassador to the United States, Lord Kim Darroch, has expressed concern over the potential US-UK trade deal in light of President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs that have ignited global trade wars.
https://thehill.com/business/trade/5222652-ex-british-ambassador-to-us-who-criticized-trump-urges-starmer-not-to-concede-on-retaliatory-tariffs/
Trump’s Tariffs Are Coming, but at a Cost to U.S. Alliances. President Trump is already showing signs of concern that his targets may team up against him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/trump-tariffs-nato-allies.html
The European Union is warning President Donald Trump as tensions continue to heighten ahead of the April 2 “Liberation Day” announcement. For weeks, Trump has been promoting April 2 as “Liberation Day” in America, when various hefty tariffs will be unveiled to implement his administration’s radical economic agenda.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/eu-issues-two-word-threat-to-donald-trump-as-tensions-high-ahead-of-liberation-day-announcement/ar-AA1C5fwS
Texas will be among states hardest hit in trade war, EU ambassador warns. $100B a year in EU investments in Texas in jeopardy, EU ambassador to US says
https://www.foxbusiness.com/fox-news-world/texas-among-states-hardest-hit-trade-war-eu-looming-car-tariffs
Trump tariffs live updates: Bessent says Trump will impose high tariffs as cap for countries to bring down
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/live/trump-tariffs-live-updates-bessent-says-trump-will-impose-high-tariffs-as-cap-for-countries-to-bring-down-191201577.html
GOP tax proposals could add $9 trillion to nation’s deficits: Analysis
https://thehill.com/homenews/5226077-republican-tax-cut-proposals-debt/
# Education / Schools
Republicans advance bills to create book removal process in public schools. Texas Bill Threatens Jail Time for Teaching Books Like “The Catcher in the Rye.” It’s a pretty “crummy” situation, as Holden Caulfield might say.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/03/texas-bill-prison-teachers-librarians-books-sexual-profane-content-ban/
Librarians Are Mad As Hell At The Trump Administration. They Think You Should Be, Too.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/librarians-trump-administration-cuts_l_67e59789e4b0455df70b3aa2
NC GOP bill would allow school librarians to be charged over books ‘harmful to minors’: Wide-ranging legislation filed Monday by North Carolina Republican lawmakers would make it easier to prosecute librarians on obscenity charges, restrict what books can be in school libraries and change how sex education is taught.
https://www.aol.com/nc-gop-bill-allow-school-154809576.html
Texas Senate approves bill changing how schools select library books. Senate Bill 13 would create school library advisory councils largely made up of parents. It would give school boards, rather than librarians, the final say over new books.
https://www.texastribune.org/2025/03/05/texas-school-library-book-bans-senate-bill/
A new bill could ban Huck Finn and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” from Texas public schools.
https://www.txftrp.org/first_look_at_sb13
# Energy / Pipelines / Mining / Oil
Entire staff responsible for utility assistance included in HHS cuts, sources say. The Trump administration on Tuesday eliminated the entire staff of a federal program that helps low-income households pay utility bills, sources said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/entire-staff-responsible-utility-assistance-224807665.html
# Food General News
Trump administration cancels program that paid Wisconsin farmers to grow for food pantries
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/03/31/funding-cuts-food-banks-farmers/82705776007/
# Gov / Politics
U.S. Senate Session: Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) delivered the longest-ever Senate floor speech, speaking for over 25 hours in protest of the Republican budget and Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts being implemented by the Trump administration. The New Jersey senator concluded by quoting civil rights leader and former Representative John Lewis (D-GA): “He said for us to go out and cause some ‘good trouble, necessary trouble,’ to redeem the soul of our nation. I want you to redeem the dream. Let’s be bold in America.”
https://www.axios.com/2025/04/02/cory-booker-senate-speech-record-thurmond
Trump has largely followed Project 2025 playbook — but its key goal still to come: The Heritage Foundation’s sweeping guidebook laid out four goals for preserving its version of freedom: dismantling the federal bureaucracy, defending U.S. sovereignty, securing “our God-given individual rights to live freely,” and placing the family “as the centerpiece of American life” – and it contains detailed descriptions for how the government can decide how families should operate, wrote The Atlantic’s David Graham.
https://www.rawstory.com/project-2025-family-life/
Trump Lawyer Seriously Explored Options for Third Term. It’s not just talk: Trump’s team is really thinking about how to make a third term possible.
https://newrepublic.com/post/193465/trump-lawyer-explored-options-third-term
# Gov / Politics / Global
Putin Suddenly Gives Trump the Middle Finger on Ukraine Peace Talks. Russia has poured cold water on Donald Trump’s efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/putin-suddenly-gives-trump-middle-180815175.html
# Medical / Health News
The health industry is starting to express alarm about RFK Jr: Drug and medical device makers didn’t oppose Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s confirmation as health secretary but are speaking up in opposition to the agency downsizing he ordered.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/01/the-health-industry-is-starting-to-express-alarm-about-rfk-jr-00265159
RFK Jr.’s massive cuts stun staff, leave senior employees scrambling. The cuts sent shockwaves through the department’s sprawling workforce, prompting a scramble among senior agency officials to figure out which employees and policy priorities were affected.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/very-few-people-know-whats-happening-rfk-jr-cuts-surprise-and-alarm-00254822
RFK Jr. purges CDC and FDA’s public records teams, despite “transparency” promises. Teams handling Freedom of Information Act requests at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration were gutted Tuesday as part of the widespread job cuts ordered
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-purges-cdc-fda-records-transparency-teams/
US is on track to have the worst measles outbreak of this century, former Covid response coordinator warns. “We should not be at this point in our country,” he noted, “And yet, here we are because of bad information being spread by Secretary [Robert] Kennedy and others.”
https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-track-worst-measles-outbreak-163227468.html
‘Gut punch’: Approximately 10,000 people were fired or laid off from the Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday and, if those affected had any discrimination complaints, they were told to contact a woman who died last year.
https://www.rawstory.com/health-and-human-services/
Thousands laid off as Kennedy and Musk take aim at health agencies. Overnight notices hit civil service leaders as well as the rank and file.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/04/01/hhs-senior-leaders-put-on-leave-nih/
‘An attack on the well-being of millions’: Trump admin sued by 23 states over ‘illegal and irresponsible’ decision to ‘claw back life-saving health funding’
https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/an-attack-on-the-well-being-of-millions-trump-admin-sued-by-23-states-over-illegal-and-irresponsible-decision-to-claw-back-life-saving-health-funding/
‘It makes me kind of rage’: Special ed parents furious as RFK Jr. seizes control. Another fast-growing controversy concerns his influence over how neurodivergent kids are treated in special education
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-2671650197/
HHS layoffs put Meals on Wheels and other services for seniors, disabled at risk
https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/04/01/g-s1-57716/hhs-layoffs-seniors-disabled-liheap-acl
‘People Are Going to Die’—Doctors Condemn Mass Firings at CDC Amid Measles Outbreak
https://www.newsbreak.com/inquisitr-news-522568/3945751778875-people-are-going-to-die-doctors-condemn-mass-firings-at-cdc-amid-measles-outbreak
The CDC Has Been Gutted. DOGE Moves to Gut CDC Work on Gun Injuries, Sexual Assault, Opioid Overdose Data
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/rfk-jr-cdc-layoffs-doge-musk/
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH. Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz.
https://lemmy.world/post/27678964
# Military / DOD / General News
Leaked Pentagon file reveals US will not step in to help Europe if Russia attacks. Leading UK defence voices have warned that the memo will “embolden” and “encourage” Putin to launch a new assault on Europe.
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/2035101/us-not-help-europe-russia-attacks-memo
Naval Academy removes nearly 400 books from library in new DEI purge ordered by Hegseth’s office
https://apnews.com/article/military-academies-dei-hegseth-trump-ba9731f24b4eb4bd9c02b568209f97af
# Science / Science Engineers
Top scientists warn that Trump policies are causing a ‘climate of fear’ in research. “A climate of fear has descended on the research community,” the letter says. Researchers fearing for their jobs are “removing their names from publications, abandoning studies, and rewriting grant proposals and papers to remove scientifically accurate terms (such as ‘climate change’) that agencies are flagging as objectionable.”
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/01/nx-s1-5347411/scientists-trump-research-national-academies-open-letter#:~:text=Nearly%202%2C000%20leading%20American%20scientists,fear%22%20that%20jeopardizes%20independent%20research
Top US Scientists Write Open Letter To The American People: “We See Real Danger In This Moment”: Almost 2,000 US scientists and engineers warn the public that the Trump administration is decimating science.
https://www.iflscience.com/top-us-scientists-write-open-letter-to-the-american-people-we-see-real-danger-in-this-moment-78642
# Social / Social Programs
Trump’s Social Security sleight of hand: MAGA’s magic trick will make your benefits disappear. The president’s promise to make Social Security great again is a charade
https://www.salon.com/2025/04/02/trumps-social-security-sleight-of-hand-magas-magic-trick-will-make-your-benefits-disappear/
Trump’s Social Security Sleight of Hand Is Another Scam. Don’t Fall for It. Trump has a long record of unfurling legally laughable nonsense orders when the political heat is on. This is that.
https://truthout.org/articles/trumps-social-security-sleight-of-hand-is-another-scam-dont-fall-for-it/
Social Security Administration At ‘Risk Of Collapse’ After DOGE Cuts, Former Head Martin O’Malley Warns. “The Musk/Trump co-presidency has already taken 90% of the actions necessary to drive Social Security into a total system collapse.”
https://www.newsweek.com/social-security-total-system-collapse-martin-omalley-2050747
# Veterans / VA
2 Democratic senators pledge to block VA nominees over plans to fire 83,000 workers. A Senate confirmation hearing for three nominees to assume leadership posts at the Department of Veterans Affairs was derailed Tuesday
https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2025-04-01/veterans-nominees-workforce-firings-senators-17333829.html
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