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This Week…
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Trump Announces $700 Million Taxpayer Dollars for
Coal Slush Fund | Public CitizenOpinion: Trump’s coal initiative smacks of central planning The Washington Post
Federal Pause Of Renewable Energy Grants Could ‘Financially Ruin’ MI Farmers
MIRS News
In the News
Michigan Politics and Policy
- Attorney General Memorandum: Election Statutes, Enforcement
- Trump administration investigating potential noncitizen voters in Macomb County | Votebeat
- Rx Kids fact check: No tax money for undocumented moms, no spending limits | Bridge Michigan
- Consumers Energy to seek $456M electric rate hike | Detroit Free Press
- Sen. Sam Singh proposes new plan for overhauling university boards | Detroit News
- Debbie Stabenow not interested in being MSU’s interim president | Detroit News
- Could Whitmer Change Her Mind On MSU Prez Job? | MIRS News
- You can’t handle a little critique? You’re not the leader MSU needs | Kyle Melinn/Lansing City Pulse
- State legislators push back against sanctions on MSU trustees | Lansing State Journal
- Rx Kids faces scrutiny from GOP lawmakers as study shows health gains | Detroit Free Press
- As energy prices rise, Senate candidates clash over clean power future | Bridge Michigan
- Michigan Senate Poll | Lake Research Partners
- Abdul El-Sayed nabs UAW endorsement in U.S. Senate race | Detroit Free Press
- Mallory McMorrow backs Supreme Court age limits, corporate PAC spending ban | Bridge Michigan
The Economy
- Michigan Medicaid rolls drop 5%, prompting fears of surge in uninsured | Bridge Michigan
- WMU offers voluntary separation program to senior faculty amid budget concerns | WWMT News Channel 3
The Trump Administration
- How Trump has used the presidency to benefit himself and allies | AP News
- Grading Trump’s cognitive test claim | Politifact
- Trump Is Plundering National Parks to Pay for His Vanity Projects | The New Republic
- Trump’s Disastrous Freedom 250 Concert Organizers Get Mystery Millions | Daily Beast
- America’s Bipartisan Birthday Commission Is Losing to Trump | NOTUS — News of the United States
- Kushner’s Albanian resort faces corruption probe, mass protests | Judd Legum/Popular Information Substack
- Trump Wins Fight to Blow $125 Million on ‘Dumbest Thing Ever’ | Daily Beast
- U.S. attorney’s office in California announces probe into elections | The Washington Post
- Park Service orders removal of ‘woke’ quotes at Boston’s Bunker Hill monument | The Washington Post
- Trump library says no Twitter DMs can be found, despite evidence he sent them | The Washington Post
Grifters and Thieves
- Bessent won’t say if Trump remains exempt from IRS audits | AP News
- Trump’s Ballroom Donors Are Already Cashing In | The New Republic
- Spike in border wall spending goes mostly to 2 firms with GOP, White House ties | The Washington Post
- Trump pardons former congressman convicted of insider trading | AP News
Across the Nation
