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    Santos Breaks Silence Following Trump Commutation

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    Disgraced former congressman George Santos broke his silence after President Donald Trump unexpectedly commuted his sentence for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

    During an interview on Sunday, Santos said he wanted to make it clear he was not “getting away” with his crimes.

    “I understand people want to make this into ‘He’s getting away with it.’ I’m not getting away with it, I was the first person to ever go to federal prison for a civil violation … I don’t want to focus on trying to rehash the past and want to take the experience and do good and move on with the future. Repentance is an understatement. I have been dealt a second chance,” Santos said.

    As part of his plea deal, Santos agreed to pay nearly $600,000 in restitution and forfeiture.

    Asked on CNN’s “State of the Union” if he planned to pay back donors, Santos said he would “do my best to do whatever the law requires of me.”

    According to the clemency grant, a photo of which was posted on X by U.S. Pardon Attorney Ed Martin, Trump granted Santos an “immediate commutation of his entire sentence to time served with no further fines, restitution, probation, supervised release, or other conditions.”

    In an interview on Fox News’ “Fox & Friends Weekend,” Santos said, “I do not have any pendencies with the law anymore. I have no restitution. I have no probation.”

    Santos, 37, was less than three months into serving a seven-year sentence in federal prison when President Trump shared the news.

    In announcing the commutation on his social media platform, Trump said Santos had been “horribly mistreated” and called him a “bit of a ‘rogue,'” but “at least Santos had the Courage, Conviction, and Intelligence to ALWAYS VOTE REPUBLICAN!”

    Santos pleaded guilty in August 2024 and admitted to claiming relatives had made contributions to his campaign when, in fact, they had not. Santos conceded he was trying to meet the fundraising threshold to qualify for financial help from the National Republican Congressional Committee.

    He also stipulated that he committed other fraud, including charging donor credit cards without authorization and convincing donors to give money by falsely stating the money would be used for TV ads. He also stipulated he stole public money by applying for and receiving unemployment benefits during the pandemic to which he was not entitled.

    Santos claimed Sunday that others, like former President Joe Biden, had also used their pardon power for politically charged reasons, “So pardon me if I’m not paying too much attention to the pearl-clutching of the outrage of my critics, and of the people, predominantly on the left, who are going to go out there and try to make a big deal out of something like this.”

    “People are going to like me. People are going to hate me. It doesn’t matter whoever gets clemency in the future, or whoever that person might be,” he said. “I’m pretty confident if President Trump had pardoned Jesus Christ  off the cross, he would have had critics. So that’s just the reality of our country.”

    Santos said he wasn’t ruling out future political plans, but said he likely wouldn’t consider it within the”next decade.”

    “I’m 37 years old. I can tell you this, not that I can see in the next decade,” he said. “I am all politicked out.”

    Santos said his time behind bars made him want to focus on prison reform. 

    “America today has 250,000 federal inmates, approximately, and I think it would be much nicer to look at reducing that number. And if I can be a part of helping that, I would, I think that would be a great road to follow in the future,” Santos said.

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    Trump Signs Bill To End Partial Government Shutdown

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    President Trump has signed a bill to end a partial government shutdown after the funding legislation was held up by lawmakers over the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) immigration recent enforcement efforts.

    The bill funds DHS for the next 10 days, with a new deadline set for that agency’s funding to expire on Feb. 13 as Democrats demand for increased oversight of Trump’s Immigration Customs Enforcement and Border Protection.

    Surrounded by a swath of Senate and House Republicans, including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), Trump lauded the bill’s passage, which also includes funding until Sept. 30 for the departments of Energy, Defense, Treasury, State, Labor, Transportation, Heath and Human Services, Education and funding to the judicial branch and independent agencies.

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    Supreme Court Greenlights Trump NIH Cuts Targeting DEI, COVID Research

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    The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the Trump administration to move forward with nearly $800 million in cuts to National Institutes of Health grants.

    The decision allows the administration to withhold funds that had been frozen by a lower court — grants largely tied to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, as well as studies focused on minority health, LGBTQ+ issues, vaccine hesitancy, COVID-19, and similar public health topics.

    A federal trial court in Massachusetts had previously ruled in June that many of the cuts were “arbitrary and discriminatory,” ordering the temporary restoration of those grants.

    But the Supreme Court, acting through its emergency — or so-called “shadow” — docket, overrode that ruling in a narrow 5–4 decision.

    Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the liberal bloc in dissent. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson issued a sharply worded dissent of her own, criticizing the court’s reliance on the emergency process and the brevity of the majority’s explanation.

    As SCOTUSBlog reports, the court — also by a 5–4 margin — left in place another part of the lower court’s ruling affecting internal NIH guidance documents outlining the agency’s policy priorities:

    Justice Amy Coney Barrett provided the key vote on each issue. She joined Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch, and Brett Kavanaugh in voting to allow NIH to terminate the grants, but she joined Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson in voting to leave the lower court’s ruling on the guidance documents in place.

    Jackson had sharp words for her colleagues, describing the ruling as “Calvinball jurisprudence” – a reference to the Calvin and Hobbes cartoon – “with a twist. Calvinball has only one rule: There are no fixed rules. We seem to have two: that one, and this Administration always wins.”

    NIH ended hundreds of grants it linked to DEI-related studies in response to a series of executive orders issued by President Donald Trump after his inauguration in January. The first order, titled “Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing,” instructed the director of the Office of Management and Budget, assisted by the attorney general and the director of the Office of Personnel Management, to work to end “discriminatory programs, including illegal DEI” programs in the federal government. It was followed by two other executive orders, titled “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government” and “Ending Illegal Discrimination and Restoring Merit-Based Opportunity.”

    Two separate groups of plaintiffs went to federal court in Massachusetts to challenge the termination of the grants. One group is made up of 16 states whose public universities receive funding from NIH, while the other consists of the American Public Health Association, individual researchers, a union, and a reproductive health advocacy group. They contended that the termination of the grants violated both the Constitution and the Administrative Procedure Act, the federal law governing administrative agencies.

    The administration argues the research in question lacks scientific rigor and was driven more by ideology than merit. Officials also say the cuts are consistent with their broader push to eliminate DEI-related spending across federal agencies.

    Democrat-led states and advocacy groups claim the funding loss could have “incalculable” consequences for underserved communities.

    This case fits a broader pattern: The court has recently upheld rollbacks on DEI-based spending in areas like teacher training. Critics say the use of the emergency docket limits public transparency and bypasses full hearings. Supporters say it’s a legitimate tool to keep activist courts in check.

    Legal challenges are still moving through the lower courts.

    In the meantime, universities, NIH personnel, and left-leaning advocacy groups are mobilizing in protest, warning of long-term damage to public health research and institutional equity efforts.

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    Biden Considered Pardoning Trump Before Leaving Office

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    Joe Biden may have come closer than anyone knew to handing Donald Trump the ultimate political get-out-of-jail-free card.

    Utah Gov. Spencer Cox claims Biden revealed during a private 2023 conversation that he and first lady Jill Biden had discussed pardoning Trump as the former president faced a growing pile of criminal charges.

    The startling exchange appears in Cox’s upcoming book, Off Ramp: How to Be a Peacemaker in an Age of Contempt, according to an excerpt published by The Atlantic and reported by Mediaite.

    Cox said the conversation unfolded inside a limousine during Biden’s August 2023 visit to Salt Lake City.

    The Republican governor decided to make a wildly unexpected pitch: Biden should use his presidential pardon power to spare the man who could soon become his general-election opponent.

    Biden’s reported response was even more surprising.

    “You know, I’ve actually considered this for a while,” Biden told him, according to Cox.

    The then-president allegedly added that he and Jill Biden had held a lengthy conversation about the idea in bed earlier that same week. Cox said Biden promised to give the proposal serious consideration.

    At the time, Trump was facing two federal prosecutions—one involving classified documents kept at Mar-a-Lago and another tied to his efforts to challenge the 2020 election results.

    Those were the only cases Biden could have touched. A presidential pardon applies to federal offenses, not Trump’s state charges or the civil fraud case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James.

    The private conversation reportedly came as Cox publicly went out of his way to welcome Biden to deep-red Utah.

    Cox was the lone high-profile Utah Republican to attend Biden’s speech at a Salt Lake City veterans hospital, where the president promoted expanded benefits for veterans exposed to toxic substances.

    “There has been some question over whether or not the governor of the state of Utah would welcome the president of a different party,” Cox told the crowd, according to KUTV.

    Cox called the controversy over simply welcoming a president from the opposing party “insane” and urged Americans to find ways to disagree without treating political rivals as enemies.

    That appeal became the central theme of his new book—and apparently drove his extraordinary pardon proposal.

    Biden ultimately kept the pardon pen away from Trump.

    But he certainly did not put it away altogether.

    After repeatedly insisting that he would not intervene in his son’s criminal cases, Biden issued Hunter Biden a sweeping pardon in December 2024 covering potential federal offenses committed over nearly 11 years.

    Hours before leaving office, Biden also granted preemptive pardons to five family members, Dr. Anthony Fauci, retired Gen. Mark Milley, members of the House Jan. 6 committee and police officers who testified before it, according to Roll Call.

    Cox was not the only prominent Utah Republican who believed pardoning Trump could have lowered the nation’s political temperature.

    Then-Sen. Mitt Romney made the same argument publicly in May 2024, saying Biden should have acted immediately after the federal indictments were announced.

    “I’d have pardoned President Trump,” Romney said, arguing that the country did not want to endure the prosecution of a former president in the middle of an election.

    No pardon ever came.

    Trump instead won his way back to the White House, and the federal cases against him were abandoned after the 2024 election under the Justice Department’s longstanding policy against prosecuting a sitting president.

    Cox later endorsed Trump after the 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, hoping the near-tragedy would push him toward a more unifying political style.

    House Democrat Puts Trump Chief Of Staff ‘On Notice’ Over Vanity Fair Article

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    Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is escalating his rhetoric against the Trump White House, warning chief of staff Susie Wiles to preserve internal communications as he vows to launch investigations into what he claims is political “retribution” by President Donald Trump.

    The threat follows months of controversy surrounding criminal referrals involving prominent Democrats, including Swalwell himself, Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), and New York Attorney General Letitia James—cases Democrats have repeatedly framed as evidence of a politicized justice system, despite a lack of formal charges to date.

    In a video posted Monday to his social media accounts, Swalwell said he had formally put Trump officials “on notice,” citing remarks by Wiles in a recent Vanity Fair interview that he claims amount to an admission that Trump is willing to pursue perceived enemies when opportunities arise.

    “I want you to hear from me first. I’m going on offense against Donald Trump, and I just put senior Trump officials on notice,” Swalwell said. “Donald Trump once again is trying to weaponize the Department of Justice to go after his enemies list. That’s me, Adam Schiff, Tish James, and (Federal Reserve Governor) Lisa Cook.”

    Background: Referrals, Not Charges

    The confrontation comes after Trump-appointed Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte referred Swalwell to the Justice Department earlier this year over alleged mortgage and tax irregularities. Swalwell dismissed the referral as politically motivated. Similar referrals or allegations have been made against Schiff and James, though James’ case was dismissed in early December.

    Republicans have argued that referrals themselves are routine and that Democrats are attempting to preemptively discredit oversight efforts by framing them as retaliation—particularly given Democrats’ own extensive use of investigations, subpoenas, and prosecutions during Trump’s first term.

    The Vanity Fair Interview That Sparked the Fallout

    Swalwell’s latest escalation centers on comments made by Wiles—widely viewed as one of Trump’s most disciplined and media-averse operatives—in an unusually candid Vanity Fair interview that has drawn criticism from both sides of the aisle.

    When pressed by the magazine about whether prosecutions of Trump critics could appear vindictive, Wiles acknowledged the political optics were problematic.

    “I mean, people could think it does look vindictive. I can’t tell you why you shouldn’t think that,” she said.

    Wiles added that Trump is not consumed by revenge but does not shy away from confrontation when opportunities present themselves.

    “I don’t think he wakes up thinking about retribution,” she said. “But when there’s an opportunity, he will go for it.”

    On New York Attorney General Letitia James—who built her political profile around investigations and prosecutions of Trump—Wiles was more blunt.

    “Well, that might be the one retribution.”

    The remarks quickly circulated online and were seized upon by Democrats as proof that Trump’s critics are being targeted for political reasons, despite the absence of new indictments.

    Swalwell Escalates With Threat of Investigations

    Swalwell framed Wiles’ comments as an admission that undermines claims that the referrals are routine or apolitical. He said his office has already sent a letter to Wiles demanding the preservation of records.

    “So we just sent a letter to Susie Wiles telling her, save your sh*t: your emails, your text messages, everything that records or documents Donald Trump going after his political enemies,” Swalwell said. “Save it because we’re coming for it because we want the truth.”

    He vowed to pursue inquiries into Trump’s decision-making process and the actions of his administration.

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    “What did Trump know? What did he order? What do others do on his behalf?” Swalwell asked. “We’re not going away. And the American people are always going to choose the truth over Trump.”

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    Mexico Agrees To Extradite 26 Cartel Leaders To US

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    Mexico reached a deal with the United States to hand over 26 top cartel leaders.

    The cartel figures were scheduled to fly to the U.S. on Tuesday.

    “Today is the latest example of the Trump administration’s historic efforts to dismantle cartels and foreign terrorist organizations,” Attorney General Pam Bondi told Fox News. “These 26 men have all played a role in bringing violence and drugs to American shores — under this Department of Justice, they will face severe consequences for their crimes against this country. We are grateful to President Sheinbaum and the Mexican government for their collaboration in this matter.”

    Abigael González Valencia, a leader of the “Los Cuinis,” cartel, which is aligned with the notorious Jalisco New Generation cartel (CJNG) and Roberto Salazar, who is accused of participating in the 2008 killing of a Los Angeles sheriff’s deputy, are among those being handed over to the U.S. 

    Mexico’s Attorney General’s Office and Security Ministry confirmed the men were being handed over, saying the deal was made after the U.S. Justice Department said it wouldn’t seek the death penalty.

    President Donald Trump has also reportedly secretly authorized U.S. military force against cartels in Latin America designated by the U.S. as terrorist organizations, which would allow U.S. forces to engage with them.

    The move, reported by the New York Times, would give U.S. forces permission to engage the cartels, which traffic drugs like fentanyl across the US-Mexico border,

    “The president is determined to not just dismantle – but completely destroy – [Venezuelan dictator Nicolas] Maduro’s Cartel de Los Soles and obliterate their operations in the Western Hemisphere,” a source close to the White House said, the New York Post reported. 

    The anti-cartel effort is being coordinated among several departments, including the Department of Defense, Justice Department, Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Treasury, the source added.

    “President Trump’s top priority is protecting the homeland, which is why he took the bold step to designate several cartels and gangs as foreign terrorist organizations,” deputy White House press secretary Anna Kelly said in a statement to Fox News.

    It also comes ahead of 25% tariffs on Mexican goods coming into the U.S. imposed by Trump. 

    Mexico also extradited 29 cartel leaders in February, including Rafael Caro Quintero, who prosecutors say was behind the torture and murder of a DEA agent in 1985. 

    “The previous Administration allowed these criminals to run free and commit crimes all over the world. The Trump Administration is declaring these thugs as terrorists, because that is what they are, and demanding justice for the American people,” the White House said at the time. 

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    Trump Official Refers New York AG Letitia James For Prosecution – Again

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    A senior Trump administration official has made new criminal referrals against New York Attorney General Letitia James.

    Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte said in a letter Wednesday to prosecutors in Florida that James may have falsified information on a homeowner’s insurance application submitted to Fort Lauderdale-based Universal Property Insurance. In a separate letter to prosecutors in Illinois, Pulte alleged that James may have also provided false information on an application to Allstate.

    The referrals mark the latest development in a series of legal actions pursued by officials in President Trump’s administration against James, a longtime political adversary. In a Truth Social post Wednesday night, President Trump wrote that James had been “referred again for criminal prosecution for alleged homeowner insurance fraud.”

    One of the referrals was sent to Jason Reding Quiñones, the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Quiñones is currently leading an investigation into Obama-era officials, including former CIA Director John Brennan, related to intelligence findings that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election to benefit Trump. Last year, Quiñones also sought records connected to special counsel Jack Smith’s investigations into Trump.

    The second referral was sent to Andrew Boutros, the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois.

    Abbe Lowell, an attorney for James, rejected the allegations and criticized the administration’s actions.

    “abusing their power to pursue a vendetta against her by trying to rename, refile, and repeat baseless allegations.”

    “These desperate tactics will fail — just as every previous attempt has failed — and exposes an Administration that has abandoned its responsibility to the American people in favor of petty political payback,” Lowell said.

    The new referrals follow a previously dismissed federal case against James. Last fall, she was charged in federal court with bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution, based on allegations that she misrepresented details about a property in Virginia to secure more favorable mortgage terms. James denied wrongdoing, and the charges were later dismissed.

    The earlier indictment came after Pulte referred James for possible mortgage fraud, though the charges ultimately focused on a different property than the one cited in his referral. A federal judge dismissed the case in November, ruling that interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan had been unlawfully appointed. A separate case brought by Halligan against former FBI Director James Comey was also dismissed, and two federal grand juries later declined to re-indict James on bank fraud charges.

    According to the original indictment, James purchased a Virginia home in 2020 using a mortgage that required the property to be used as a second residence, but she allegedly rented it out as an investment property to obtain a lower interest rate.

    James has argued that she is being targeted for political reasons, particularly after she sued Trump in civil court during the period between his presidential terms. A New York judge found Trump and his company liable for fraud and ordered them to pay hundreds of millions of dollars, though an appellate court later overturned the financial judgment.

    In court filings last year, James’s attorneys accused Pulte of using the Federal Housing Finance Agency — which oversees Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — as a “weapon to be brandished against President Trump’s political enemies.”

    CBS News previously reported that prosecutors have also examined financial transactions between James and her longtime hairdresser, Iyesata Marsh, as part of a separate line of inquiry. Pulte has since sought a protective security detail, citing threats he said were connected to the case.

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    White House And Kevin Hassett Slam Reports Of Imminent Exit

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    Both the White House and National Economic Council (NEC) Director Kevin Hassett are pushing back forcefully against media rumors claiming President Donald Trump’s top economic adviser is preparing to step down following the November midterm elections.

    After Semafor and other outlets circulated reports on Friday suggesting Hassett was exploring private-sector roles — and floating Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent or Treasury counselor David Zervos as potential replacements — Hassett directly shot down the story as “not true.”

    ‘Kevin Hassett Is A Key Member Of President Trump’s Economic Team’

    In a direct text message to CNBC on Friday afternoon, Hassett dismissed the departure claims outright. Shortly thereafter, a senior White House official went on the record to rebuke the media narrative and reaffirm Hassett’s standing in the administration.

    “There is no factual basis for this reporting. Kevin Hassett is a key member of President Trump’s economic team and will continue working to advance President Trump’s economic policies.”

    — White House Official Statement

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    A veteran conservative economist who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers during Trump’s first term before returning to lead the NEC in January 2025, Hassett has served as one of the administration’s most articulate defenders of domestic manufacturing, deregulation, and pro-growth tax policy.

    Despite inflationary pressures and global supply chain disruptions tied to Middle East hostilities, Hassett has repeatedly pointed to surging domestic factory construction and capital investment as the bedrock of long-term American job creation.

    Media Speculation Follows Chief of Staff Transition

    The reporting regarding Hassett follow genuine leadership adjustments inside the West Wing after Stephen Miller replaced Susie Wiles as White House Chief of Staff on Nov. 9, alongside the transition of Cabinet Secretary Meghan Bauer and Deputy Chief of Staff Richard Walters.

    While political commentators have speculated that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent — already leading the administration’s economic pressure campaign against Iran — could take on expanded coordination duties if a vacancy ever arose, both Hassett and the White House made clear on Friday that no such transition is underway.

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    Federal Judge Orders Limited DOGE Access To Treasury Payment System

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    On Thursday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) from obtaining access to certain Treasury Department payment records.

    Treasury officials “will not provide access to any payment record or payment system of records maintained within the [Treasury] Bureau of Fiscal Service,” Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a temporary restraining order.

    That program handles an estimated 90% of federal payments. 

    The order comes after the Justice Department on Wednesday agreed in a proposed court order to limit access to the sensitive records to only two “special government employees” within DOGE, who will have read-only permission. Kollar-Kotelly approved the motion in a brief order Thursday.

    Several government employee unions brought suit over who could access the material as part of a government-wide evaluation of programs and systems, led by DOGE. 

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    White House Budget Office Rescinds Federal Funding Freeze

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    Just in…

    The Trump’s administration’s Office of Management and Budget released a memo Wednesday rescinding a controversial order that froze a wide swath of federal financial assistance, which had paralyzed many federal programs and caused a huge uproar on Capitol Hill.

    The decision came amid strong behind-the-scenes pushback from Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill, according to a GOP senator who was apprised of the decision to reverse the policy order.

    The reversal was signed by Matthew Vaeth, the acting director of the White House budget office.

    The order, issued Monday evening from Matthew Vaeth, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, sent shockwaves across the country and drew outrage from politicians

    The funding freeze was originally scheduled to kick in at 5:00 pm ET on Tuesday and expected to remain in place through at least mid-February, The New York Times reported. Vaeth’s memo ordered that all federal agencies “must temporarily pause all activities related to obligation or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance, and other relevant agency activities that may be implicated by the executive orders, including, but not limited to, financial assistance for foreign aid, nongovernmental organizations, DEI, woke gender ideology, and the green new deal.”

    The memo swiftly drew a legal challenge filed by several nonprofit groups, arguing that it violated both the First Amendment and federal law on how executive orders can be implemented, and the plaintiffs secured an emergency hearing that took place just minutes before the funding freeze was set to go into effect.

    This is a breaking news story. Please check back for updates.

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