Q: A young child just died of measles in Texas. Do you have a comment?
RFK Jr.: It's not unusual. We have measles outbreaks all the time
(This is the first Measles death in the US in 10 years)
- Trump’s Veterans Affairs Secretary announces he has “approved” firing 80,000 VA employees, who are disproportionately veterans
- Padilla: Will you defend birthright citizenship as the law of the land? Bondi: I will study birthright citizenship Padilla: You're asking to be considered for Attorney General and you still need to study the 14th Amendment of the Constitution?
- Senator Bernie Sanders has launched an investigation into the Trump administration's sudden purge of top federal labor officials.
- New polling finds Trump's approval rating is just 37%, making him the least popular president in history at this point in their term.
- Trump's Joint Address by topic: 0 mentions of health care affordability 0 mentions of housing affordability 0 mentions of veterans 0 mentions of prescription drug costs 2 mentions of the Gulf of “America” 3 mentions of annexing Greenland 3 mentions of Elon Musk 5 mentions of tax
- New photo shows House Democrats in full attendance to stop government shutdown while the Republican side of the chamber is empty.
- A Federal Reserve bank is now projecting that the US economy will shrink by 2.8% during the first quarter of 2025. This is a major decline from when President Biden left office, when the economy was projected to grow by 3%.
- Gov. Newsom has announced California will be the first state to sell insulin through a state-backed program. It will cost just $11.
- Trump was president in July 2020, btwA Federal Reserve bank is now projecting that the US GDP growth rate is -2.8% in the first quarter of 2025. This number has not been this low since July of 2020.
