This post will be updated daily as the Biden administration works to Trump-proof our government as much as it can before January 20, 2025.
More student loans canceled in Biden’s final round of forgiveness before leaving office
President Joe Biden is abandoning his effort to cancel student loans for more than 38 million Americans, the first step in an administration-wide plan to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from retooling them to achieve his own aims.
The White House expects to pull back unfinished rules across several agencies if there isn’t enough time to finalize them before Trump takes office. If the proposed regulations were left in their current state, the next administration would be able to rewrite them and advance its agenda more quickly.
Read at WUSA TV 9, Washington D.C.
Democrats pledge to work through Christmas on funding to rebuff Trump’s demands
“Senate Appropriations Committee Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) on Friday said she’s ready to stay in Washington “through Christmas” to fight off President-elect Trump’s demand to strip negotiated provisions out of a bill to fund the government into 2025.”
Read at The Hill
Musk says he’ll fund ‘moderate’ Democratic primary challengers
“Oh … forgot to mention that I’m also going to be funding moderate candidates in heavily Democrat districts, so that the country can get rid of those who don’t represent them, like this jacka‑‑,” Musk wrote Thursday night on his social media platform X.
Read at The Hill
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