Today’s notice: DOGE’s “thanks, Obama” moment. Tom Cole thinks Democrats won’t shut the government down. A GOP “No!” to Trump’s Gaza idea. But first: disorder in the court.
Trump vs. ‘The Biggest Law Firm in the Country’
The number of legal challenges to White House executive actions is mounting, leading some to wonder if the sheer scale of the effort to expand the president’s power will overwhelm the court system’s ability to check it.
Two separate federal courts have ruled that Donald Trump’s administration must restore funding paused by the OMB memo, but we’re still hearing reports of groups being unable to access their authorized funds. This includes some Head Start groups, which were directly exempted from the freeze before it was blocked by the courts. (A senior administration official told NOTUS that money is flowing, but has been delayed in some cases by a technical problem that predates the freeze.)