Are We Having Fund Yet

Trump continues to deploy federal money as a weapon, even in cases where it’s unclear that he has the power to do so. Trump says he’s ending federal funding for NPR and PBS. They say he can’t. And in his latest salvo in an ongoing battle, Trump again threatened Harvard’s tax-exempt status, saying, ‘It’s what they deserve!'” (Full disclosure: I went to Harvard for grad school, but I identify as a Cal Bear.)

+ Maybe Trump should put Marco Rubio in charge of collections. He seems to be in charge of everything else. It almost seems like this is all part of a DOGE plan to save government funds by giving Marco Rubio every job. “In addition to running the State Department, the onetime Trump critic-turned-ally is also serving as acting administrator for USAID, acting archivist, and now also Trump’s interim national security adviser.” (During dark times you have to look for the bright side. One day soon Marco Rubio is gonna get fired from all of these jobs at once.)