About this episode
Wednesday, January 29th, 2025 Today, in the middle of the night Monday night, Trump tried to seize the power of Congress by halting all appropriations - and a Biden appointed judge blocked it hours later; Trump has asked two million federal workers to voluntarily resign; the CDC has been ordered to stop working with the World Health Organization; top USAID staff have been put on administrative leave; federal employees have filed a lawsuit over the HR at OPM government wide email for privacy concerns; Republican state attorneys general are pressuring Costco to drop their DEI programs; Jim Acosta announces he’s leaving CNN; Trump has moved to fire Dem members of the EEOC and NLRB; six transgender service members are suing Trump and Pete Hegseth over the ban on trans people serving in the military; and Allison and Dana deliver your Good News. Thank You HomeChef For a limited time, HomeChef is offering you 18 Free Meals PLUS Free Dessert for Life and of course, Free Shipping on your first box! Go to HomeChef.com/DAILYBEANS . Guest: Steve Vladeck Steve Vladeck | Substack @stevevladeck on Bluesky Federal workers - feel free to email me at fedoath@pm.me and let me know what you’re going to do, or just vent. I’m always here to listen. Stories: Republican attorneys general call out Costco for maintaining DEI policies - Kate Gibson | CBS News More than 50 career civil servants at USAID are placed on administrative leave - Abigail Williams, Vaughn Hillyard and Raquel Coronell Uribe | NBC News CDC ordered to stop working with WHO immediately, upending expectations of an extended withdrawal - MIKE STOBBE | AP News Trump administration will offer the roughly 2 million federal workers a buyout to resign - Garrett Haake and Amanda Terkel | NBC News Lawsuit alleges new Trump administration email system for federal employees raises privacy concerns - Tierney Sneed | CNN Politics D.C. federal judge temporarily blocks Trump plan to pause federal aid spending - Daniel Barnes | NBC News Dem AGs set to challenge Trump’s ‘clearly unlawful’ federal aid freeze - KYLE CHENEY | POLITICO Six active duty service members file first lawsuit challenging Trump's transgender troop ban - TARA COPP | AP News Good Trouble Determine whether Wisconsin’s highest court remains controlled by liberals — as it has since 2023 — or flips to conservatives, who had the majority for 15 years before then. You can volunteer for Judge crawford’s campaign a Susan Crawford - JUDGE CRAWFORD FOR WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT From The Good News Contributors - TRANS MILITARY VOICES Twin Cities Pride Parade Twin Cities Pride raises more than $70,000 to fill gap after dropping Target sponsorship Help Autumn I- FidoRescue.org Shiny Box Pictures The Stewpot Listener Survey: http://survey.podtrac.com/start-survey.aspx?pubid=BffJOlI7qQcF&ver=short Follow the Podcast on Apple: https://apple.co/3XNx7ck Want to support the show and get it ad-free and early? https://patreon.com/thedailybeans https://dailybeans.supercast.com/ https://apple.co/3UKzKt0 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.