White House taps Kennedy deputy as acting head of CDC; Fed governor Lisa Cook sues over removal
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Vice President JD Vance visited Wisconsin today as part of his effort to sell the GOP’s sweeping domestic policy legislation dubbed the “big, beautiful bill.”
Highlights from Aug. 28, 2025
- CDC UPHEAVAL: The Trump administration will tap Jim O’Neill — a deputy of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention after the firing of Director Susan Monarez, who had refused to resign under pressure. Her departure prompted at least four top officials to exit the CDC.
- VANCE'S BATTLEGROUND VISIT: Vice President JD Vance traveled to Wisconsin today as part of his effort to sell the GOP’s sweeping domestic policy legislation dubbed the “big, beautiful bill.” He visited a steel fabrication facility in La Crosse, a city in Republican Rep. Derrick Van Orden's district that Democrats are targeting as a potential pickup in next year's elections.
- FED'S COOK SUES: Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook sued President Donald Trump today to have her attempted firing declared "unlawful," beginning a landmark legal fight involving the independence of what is considered the world's most important central bank.
Vance cites ‘mental health crisis’ in remarks about seeking out ‘root causes’ of mass shootings
Vice President JD Vance said today that it’s time to start asking tough questions about what’s at the heart of mass shootings and appeared to connect the violence to what he called a “mental health crisis.”
“We really do have, I think, a mental health crisis in the United States of America. We take way more psychiatric medication than any other nation on Earth, and I think it’s time for us to start asking some very hard questions about the root causes of this violence,” Vance said at an event in Wisconsin in his first public remarks about yesterday’s church shooting in neighboring Minnesota, in which two children were killed.
In an interview today on Fox News, Vance called the shooter a “mentally deranged human being.”
FHFA Director Pulte says he sent Justice Dept. a '2nd criminal referral' on Fed's Lisa Cook
Bill Pulte, director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, said tonight on X that he sent Attorney General Pam Bondi a "2nd criminal referral" related to Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook's mortgages.
Last week, Pulte first accused Cook of "mortgage fraud" in a letter to Bondi. Trump immediately called for Cook's resignation following his accusations and days later said he was firing her.
Cook sued Trump today over what her lawyers called an "unprecedented and illegal" attempt to remove her from her position at the central bank.
“President Trump did not purport to remove Governor Cook for ‘inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office,’ or for any actions that were carried out in the course of her official duties," Cook's lawyers wrote in a filing.
The Fed declined to comment, and Cook's representatives did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
A judge is scheduled to hold a hearing in the matter at 10 ET tomorrow morning.
GOP Rep. Barry Moore exits through back door after he's heckled at Alabama town hall
Rep. Barry Moore, R-Ala., exited a town hall in his home district through the back door last night after he faced relentless heckling from attendees in Baldwin County.
Moore made the hasty departure after he responded to what a staffer announced would be the last question on the topic of the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts — as seen in a roughly 40-minute video from the advocacy group Indivisible Baldwin County — after he was repeatedly mocked and laughed at for his comments at the event in Daphne, a suburb of Mobile.
In the video, Moore did not offer concluding remarks or bid good night to the rowdy crowd, as many chanted “Shame!”
China urges U.S. to welcome Chinese students and end ‘harassment’
China said it hoped the United States would follow through on Trump’s pledge to welcome Chinese students and end what it described as unwarranted harassment.
The Trump administration said in May that it would “aggressively revoke” Chinese student visas and apply stricter scrutiny to future applications, citing national security concerns. But Trump took a different stance Tuesday, saying he would allow 600,000 Chinese students into the country — more than double the current number — because U.S. colleges would struggle without them and because the United States is “honored to have Chinese students here.”
“Exchanges and cooperation on education help enhance interactions and understanding between people from all countries,” Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters in Beijing yesterday. “We hope the U.S. will act on President Trump’s commitment to welcoming Chinese students to study in the country, stop groundlessly harassing, interrogating or repatriating them and earnestly protect their legitimate and lawful rights and interests.”
On Monday, the Chinese Embassy warned students to “exercise caution” if they were flying to the United States through Houston, where, it said, some had their electronic devices searched and were held for more than 80 hours before they were deported “without justification.” The embassy said Beijing had lodged a “stern representation” with Washington.
Trump’s remarks quickly drew backlash from conservatives, who accused him of displacing American students and opening the door to espionage.
There were about 280,000 Chinese students in the United States in the 2023–24 academic year, who contributed more than $14 billion to the economy in 2023 alone. That is down from more than 350,000 before the Covid-19 pandemic, as Chinese nationals think twice about studying in the United States amid rising tensions.
Campaign hitting California Democrats' redistricting plan begins online
The first ads against California's Democratic redistricting ballot measure have started running online, with digital ads inveighing against the measure for "threatening what voters built" with the state's independent redistricting commission.
"Voters approved an independent commission," the narrator says, according to the ad posted on Google's political ad disclosure site, before it quotes columnists and others calling the ballot measure an "attack on democracy." The ad from "No on Prop. 50" says Charles Munger Jr. is the group's top donor.
Californians will vote in November on whether to replace the state's independent commission-drawn map with one Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom and other leading Democrats have pushed as a counterweight to the new Republican-drawn map in Texas.
The ballot measure fight is expected to be extremely expensive, given the national stakes and the high cost of advertising in the country's largest state.
Man who threw sandwich at federal officer in D.C. charged with misdemeanor assault
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s office today charged a man accused of throwing a sandwich at a Customs and Border Protection agent in Washington this month with misdemeanor assault, issuing the charge one day after she failed to persuade a grand jury to return a felony indictment.
Sean Dunn, who Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed was a Justice Department employee at the time of the incident, was seen in a now-viral video throwing a salami sub at the immigration agent, days after Trump directed the deployment of National Guard troops and federal law enforcement personnel to D.C. Trump framed the move as an effort to address crime in the city, even though data suggested criminal activity was already trending downward.
Democrats probe Trump administration’s retreat from public corruption cases
Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel have given a “green light to would-be lawbreakers” by gutting the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section and folding one of the FBI’s public corruption squads, a group of congressional Democrats wrote in a letter today.
“DOJ’s refusal to enforce anti-corruption laws betrays the public trust and will create lasting harm to Americans’ faith in the integrity of government officials,” Democrats wrote in their letter to Bondi and Patel, which was first obtained by NBC News.
DNC vice chair to walk from Philadelphia to Harrisburg to protest transit cuts in his state
Pennsylvania state Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta, a Democratic National Committee vice chair, will walk from Philadelphia to Harrisburg over five days to raise awareness of cuts to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority.
Kenyatta's walk will start tomorrow and conclude Tuesday, spanning 105 miles.
"I will walk a marathon a day to Harrisburg because that’s the reality riders are living," Kenyatta said in a statement. "My colleagues and I have delivered solutions. Republicans are blocking them—and it’s part of a bigger national pattern. Whether it’s public transit, schools, or healthcare, Republicans don’t want efficient public services; they want to break them.”
Kenyatta points to state Senate Republicans as responsible for the cuts, which were triggered last month amid a budget impasse in the state. Democrats maintain narrow control of the state House, while Republicans control the Senate.
Vance says Trump 'is not forcing anybody' to use National Guard in cities
Vice President JD Vance said today that the Trump administration isn't "forcing" the National Guard to deploy to American cities if it isn't invited by local leaders.
“We want governors and mayors to ask for the help. The president is not going out there forcing this on anybody," Vance said in response to a reporter's question about whether governors have the right to stop Trump from deploying the National Guard to cities around the United States.
Vance argued that Trump is simply asking “Why don’t you invite us in?” to help lower crime rates, he added.
“Why is it that you have mayors and governors who are angrier about Donald Trump offering to help them than they are about the fact that their own residents are being murdered and carjacked in the streets? It doesn’t make an ounce of sense," he said.
His remarks came after he delivered a speech at Mid-City Steel in La Crosse, Wisconsin, touting the Trump administration's agenda and the massive domestic policy package that GOP lawmakers passed in July.
The Trump administration deployed the National Guard and federal law enforcement officers to Washington, D.C., this month in what it said was an effort to help reduce crime alongside the local Metropolitan Police Department.
And after reports last week that the Defense department was planning a military mobilization in Chicago in a stated effort to combat crime and homelessness, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, both Democrats, blasted the potential move.
Trump signs executive order to end collective bargaining for several government agencies
Trump signed an executive order today taking aim at government unions.
The order aims to end collective bargaining for several government agencies by invoking an exception to a law allowing organizing and collective bargaining for federal employees whose primary work function isn’t tied to national security.
The order named units in the Bureau of Reclamation tasked with operating hydropower facilities, NASA, the Office of the Commissioner of Patents, the Patent and Trademark Office and the U.S. Agency for Global Media, which funds news outlets like Voice of America, that Trump issued in an executive order to gut this year.
The order also aims to end collective bargaining with two agencies that are a part of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration: the National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service and the National Weather Service.
The executive order cited authority under the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, which makes exceptions to organizing and collective bargaining for "agencies or units within an agency which has as a primary function intelligence, investigative, or national security work."
The White House contended that the U.S. Agency for Global Media is an “arm of U.S. public diplomacy; supporting U.S. national security is one of its key functions.”
The order says the agencies will no longer be included in the federal labor-management relations program, which helps resolve unfair labor practice complaints and plays a role in determinations about union representation. The program was administered for 2.1 million non-postal federal employees, according to the Federal Labor Relations Authority.
CDC employees rally outside HQ in support of colleagues who resigned in protest
Hundreds of people rallied across from the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta this afternoon to protest the departures of several senior leaders from the agency.
Supporters were attending a rally billed as a "clap-out" for three officials who resigned after CDC Director Susan Monarez was ousted yesterday: Debra Houry, former chief medical officer; Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; and Daniel Jernigan, former director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases.
The three leaders were escorted out of the agency's headquarters this morning after their resignations. They returned this afternoon to greet the supporters, who showered praise on them.
Employees and supporters of the CDC hold signs and clap and cheer outside its global headquarters in Atlanta to honor former CDC officials Dan Jernigan, Deb Houry and Demetre Daskalakis. Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Images
The supporters included several former and current CDC workers, many bearing signs thanking the former health officials for their work, including one that praised them as "heroes." They rebuked the departures from the agency, which came amid policy clashes with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his allies.
"What makes us great at the CDC is following the science. So let's get politics out of public health," Jernigan said, holding a bouquet of flowers he received from a crowd member. "Let's get back to the objectivity and let the science lead us."
Houry told reporters that the leaders' departures were rooted in concerns over Kennedy allies' making critical decisions at the agency "before we have the data and the science." She more specifically told MSNBC today that the concerns pertained to an "upcoming vaccine meeting in a few weeks."
Kennedy has been a longtime critic of vaccines and has suggested potential links between them and chronic diseases such as autism, despite data that has debunked such a connection.
Former CDC officials Dan Jernigan, Deb Houry and Demetre Daskalakis smile as employees and supporters of the CDC line up outside its global headquarters. Elijah Nouvelage / Getty Images
CDC staffers have expressed frustration at Kennedy's vaccine skepticism, particularly after a gunman attacked the agency's headquarters this month and allegedly cited concerns that vaccines made him ill. A police officer, David Rose, was killed in the shooting.
In his departing message to the crowd of supporters, Daskalakis cited a quotation from the eulogy remarks at Rose's funeral.
"What I said to my team in the last email that I sent was what they said at the end of every eulogy at his funeral: 'We have to go, but now you all got this. The watch is yours.'"
White House to name RFK Jr. deputy Jim O’Neill as acting CDC director
The White House will tap Jim O’Neill, a deputy to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to be acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official.
The Washington Post first reported the personnel shake-up, which comes after the Trump administration fired Director Susan Monarez when she refused to resign under pressure.
White House says it was Trump who fired CDC director
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters at the White House today that Trump himself terminated Susan Monarez as CDC director after she refused Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s request to resign.
“It was President Trump, who was overwhelmingly re-elected on Nov. 5; this woman has never received a vote in her life, and the president has the authority to fire those who are not aligned with his mission,” Leavitt said at a briefing this afternoon.
The White House said in a statement late last night that Monarez was terminated after she refused to resign under pressure. Leavitt said a replacement “will be announced by either the president or the secretary very soon.”
Monarez’s legal team said overnight that only the president, not his staff, has the authority to fire Senate-confirmed presidential appointees.
Trump to address U.N. General Assembly next month
Trump will travel to New York City next month to address the United Nations General Assembly, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced.
She said Trump will speak on Sept. 23. He will arrive in the city the day before.
Today's White House press briefing has begun
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt has begun today's White House briefing, her first since Trump's marathon Cabinet meeting Tuesday. Trump and his top officials spoke for 3 hours and 17 minutes at that meeting, delving into a variety of subjects — his longest public event ever as president, in either of his administrations.
Rwanda says 7 deportees arrived from the U.S. in August under agreement with Washington
Seven migrants were transferred from the United States to Rwanda in August under a deportation agreement with the United States, authorities in the East African country said today.
Rwanda said this month that it would accept up to 250 deportees from the United States.
Rwanda is one of four African countries that have reached deportation agreements with Washington. The others are Uganda, Eswatini and South Sudan.
RFK Jr. to testify before Senate committee
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will appear for a general oversight hearing before the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday at 10 a.m., two sources confirmed to NBC News.
The existence of the hearing, which a committee spokesperson said had been scheduled before the recent shake-up at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was first reported by Politico.
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., a physician, chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee and expressed concern about Kennedy's anti-vaccine stances during his confirmation process.
Cassidy is also a member of the Finance Committee and was the deciding vote on that panel in reporting Kennedy to the full Senate in a 14-13 vote. Had he voted no, Kennedy's nomination would not have made it to the full Senate for a floor vote.
Democratic senators call for RFK Jr.'s firing over the CDC director's attempted removal
Several Democratic senators are calling for Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s firing over the attempted ouster of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez last night.
“RFK Jr. is a catastrophic failure and a clear danger in office. He never should’ve been confirmed in the first place, and every day he stays in power puts the American people at risk. He needs to be fired,” Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo., wrote on social media.
Sen. Jon Ossoff, D-Ga., called Kennedy a “quack” who is engaged in a “campaign to destroy the CDC.”
“The Administration’s extremism and incompetence are putting lives at risk,” Ossoff said.
Democrats on the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, including Ed Markey of Massachusetts, Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland, Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware and Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire, joined ranking member Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in expressing outrage over Monarez’s firing.
“It is not Dr. Monarez or other CDC leaders who should have lost their jobs; it should be RFK,” Alsobrooks said in a statement shared with NBC.
Monarez said yesterday that Kennedy was removing her for political reasons, and she refused to resign.
The White House then said it had terminated her, prompting at least four top CDC officials to resign in protest.
Fed governor Lisa Cook sues Trump over ‘unprecedented and illegal’ effort to fire her
Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook sued Trump today, the beginning of a landmark legal battle over what she calls Trump’s “unprecedented and illegal” efforts to remove her from the central bank and the committee that makes decisions about the nation’s interest rates.
Cook also seeks an “emergency temporary restraining order, to remain in effect until such time as the Court can further consider the merits of her claims.”
In her lawsuit, Cook seeks a “declaration that President Trump’s August 25, 2025 purported firing ... is unlawful and void and that Governor Cook remains an active member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.”
Cook also seeks a declaration from the court that “that an unsubstantiated allegation of mortgage fraud prior to a Governor’s confirmation is not cause for removal.” Trump has sought to remove her over the allegations, which were first levied by Federal Housing Finance Authority Director Bill Pulte on Aug. 20.
Trump floats 2026 Republican National Convention ahead of midterm elections
Trump is floating the idea of his party holding a Republican National Convention next year ahead of the midterm elections as it seeks to defend its slim majorities in the House and Senate.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the Republican Party is "doing really well" and is "poised to WIN BIG IN THE MIDTERMS."
"I am thinking of recommending a National Convention to the Republican Party, just prior to the Midterms. It has never been done before. STAY TUNED!!!" he wrote.
This comes after Axios published a report yesterday that Democrats are considering their own national convention ahead of the midterms.
Both parties typically only hold national conventions during the general election period of presidential races.
Trump refers to Chicago crime amid National Guard deployment in D.C.: 'STAY TUNED!!!'
Trump appeared to refer to prior comments on deploying National Guard troops to Chicago, telling people to "STAY TUNED!!!"
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, a Democrat, "doesn’t want to ask me for help," Trump said.
"Can this be possible? The people are desperate for me to STOP THE CRIME, something the Democrats aren’t capable of doing," he wrote in a post to Truth Social. "STAY TUNED!!!"
Trump has floated Chicago as being one of the next cities he'd target in an effort to reduce crime. Pritzker, though, has slammed the possibility, saying that Trump "wants to use the military to occupy a U.S. city, punish his dissidents and score political points."
Russian attack on Kyiv kills at least 15 as Trump’s peace push stalls
Russia unleashed a massive attack overnight on the Ukrainian capital that killed at least 15 people, including four children, and injured 38, local officials said early Thursday.
The combined strikes were the most significant to hit Kyiv since President Donald Trump intensified his push for an end to the Kremlin’s war, an effort that has stalled in the past week. A total of 629 drones and missiles were fired at the country overnight, Ukraine’s air force said, one of the largest attacks of the war.
Mexico suspends postal shipments to the U.S. over latest tariff confusion
Mexico said yesterday its postal service was suspending package shipments to the United States ahead of an end to the exemption on tariff duties for low-value packages by the Trump administration.
The announcement follows similar moves by postal services from the European Union and several other countries to pause shipping as they await more clarity on the U.S. measure. It also comes during monthslong negotiations between the Mexican government and the Trump administration to avoid wider tariffs.
CDC director's lawyer says she ‘remains’ in the role
Following a public dispute between the Trump administration and lawyers for Susan Monarez over her ouster as CDC director, her counsel maintains that she continues to lead the agency.
Late last night, the White House issued a statement formally terminating Monarez after her lawyers said she refused to resign.
The Department of Health and Human Services posted on X earlier in the day that Monarez was “no longer” director of the agency.
“As her attorney’s statement makes abundantly clear, Susan Monarez is not aligned with the President’s agenda of Making America Healthy Again. Since Susan Monarez refused to resign despite informing HHS leadership of her intent to do so, the White House has terminated Monarez from her position with the CDC,” White House spokesman Kush Desai said.
Just after midnight this morning, one of Monarez’s lawyers, Mark Zaid, pushed back, saying on Bluesky: “As a presidential appointee, senate confirmed officer, only the president himself can fire her.”
He added that “she remains as CDC Director.”
Jared Kushner and Tony Blair participated in White House meeting on Gaza
Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair were among the participants at the White House meeting the president led yesterday on the future of Gaza.
Two White House officials said that the meeting was aimed at making progress on negotiations between Israel and Hamas to end the war.
Other attendees included Secretary of State Marco Rubio and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff.
The officials said they discussed the latest on the hostages in Gaza — getting the roughly 20 surviving hostages out, as well as the remains of two Americans returned. They also talked about efforts to get more humanitarian aid into the territory and postwar plans for Gaza, the officials said.
In Trump's first term, Kushner was the president's point person on Middle East issues and helped craft the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between Israel and some Arab nations.
Blair is a longtime ally of Israel, and as prime minister, contributed to efforts to bring peace to the region. He supported, for example, the so-called Road Map for Peace between Israel and Palestine in the mid-2000s. The Guardian reported in July that Blair's think tank worked with a project focused on the future of Gaza.
Japan's top trade negotiator cancels U.S. trip
Japan's top trade negotiator canceled a planned trip to the U.S. at the last minute after it emerged that some issues between the U.S. and Japan required further talks.
"It was decided that discussions will continue at the administrative level, a spokesperson said overnight. "We will continue to strongly urge the U.S. to take measures to amend the Presidential Order on reciprocal tariffs as soon as possible and issue a Presidential Order lowering tariffs on automobiles and auto parts."
On Monday night, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told Fox News that he would be announcing an update on trade relations with Japan "later this week."
Vance heads to Wisconsin to sell GOP's signature legislation
Vance will head to Wisconsin today as part of his effort to sell the GOP's sweeping domestic policy legislation dubbed the "big, beautiful bill." He will visit a steel fabrication facility in La Crosse, which sits on the western edge of the state.
In the news release announcing the trip, the White House said Vance would highlight "Trump’s Tax Cuts for Working Families." That messaging comes after Trump acknowledged this week that the phrase he originally pushed to describe the legislation — the "one big, beautiful bill" — did not tell voters about the law's content.
"I’m not going to use the term ‘great, big, beautiful’ — that was good for getting it approved, but it’s not good for explaining to people what it’s all about," Trump said earlier this week. "It’s a massive tax cut for the middle class."
Republicans have leaned into messaging about how the bill includes provisions for no taxes on tips or overtime work. At the same time, Democrats have zeroed in on how the bill would cause millions to lose health insurance while enacting certain tax cuts that disproportionately benefit wealthier Americans.
Lisa Cook’s path to Fed governor prepared her for a fight in the spotlight
At Spelman College in Atlanta, Lisa Cook is the “personification of excellence,” said Darlene Smith-Garner, a 2023 graduate of the historically Black women’s college, where Cook also studied.
“We see her as one of our great alumnae, a model,” Smith-Garner said. “To get where she is, she had to overcome a lot and fight. And that’s what she will do now, as a Spelman woman. And not just a fight not for her job, but a fight for what’s right.”
Fighting has been the hallmark of Cook’s academic and professional career, highlighted by her becoming the first Black woman to serve as a governor of the Federal Reserve. She was confirmed after Vice President Kamala Harris cast a tiebreaking Senate vote in 2022. Federal Reserve governors are expected to fulfill 14-year terms.
Cook’s latest fight is with Donald Trump to keep her position on the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve.
Texas enacts MAHA bills as Kennedy joins Gov. Abbott for signing ceremony
Texas became the latest state to enact a host of public health measures driven by the Trump administration’s “Make America Healthy Again” agenda with new laws taking aim at additives and sugary foods.
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. praised the Legislature yesterday as he joined Gov. Greg Abbott at a signing ceremony for a trio of MAHA-inspired bills.
“There are no states, with the possible exception of Louisiana, that have done more far-reaching legislation than this, and there’s no state that fought a harder battle to get here,” Kennedy said, adding that Texas is “leading the nation” in his MAHA push.
Researcher who has distorted voter data appointed to Homeland Security election integrity role
A conservative election researcher whose faulty findings on voter data were cited by President Donald Trump as he tried to overturn his 2020 election loss has been appointed to an election integrity role at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Pennsylvania activist Heather Honey is now serving as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the department’s Office of Strategy, Policy and Plans, an organizational chart on its website shows.
Grand jury declines to indict man who threw a sandwich at federal officer in D.C.
You could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, the saying goes, but, in Washington, a federal grand jury just declined to indict a man for throwing a salami sub.
The grand jury did not return an indictment against a former Justice Department employee who was seen on camera throwing a hoagie at the chest of one of the federal officers Trump has deployed in the nation’s capital, according to two people familiar with the matter.
Mayor Muriel Bowser says Trump’s surge of federal law enforcement has lowered crime in D.C.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser credited Trump’s directed surge of federal law enforcement with lowering crime in the nation’s capital, but made it clear that the presence of immigration agents and National Guard troops is “not working.”
Yesterday, Bowser conveyed her ambivalent view of the Trump administration’s federalization of D.C. in a situational update since Trump announced efforts to combat crime in the city on Aug. 7. On one hand, she said the changes have resulted in less crime, but on the other she also expressed deep concern about residents’ “living in fear.”
CDC Director Susan Monarez fired by Trump administration after refusing to resign, citing ‘reckless directives’
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention leadership was in stunning disarray yesterday evening after the Trump administration fired the agency’s director hours after she refused to resign under pressure.
The director, Susan Monarez, said she was resisting being ousted by the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., for political reasons after about a month in office.
