🚨NEWS in Punchbowl News AM: THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION is girding for a long shutdown. They are in the process of finding money to pay for law enforcement officers. They're using tariff revenue to pay for WIC for the foreseeable future. “OMB is making every preparation to

CEO of US steel giant Cleveland Cliffs: "I am very happy with 50 percent [tariffs]. And without giving any details, I have my fingerprints on that 50 percent. In other words, I influenced that." Same as it ever was. share.google/AWG0MKZC9c4TV3…

This is all we had to sign to be credentialed for the Pentagon until now - no restrictions on news gathering. It’s what we’ve signed for years. The new 21 pages of requirements are not about safety - they are about limiting what the public will know.

"Sticker shock: Car prices top $50K for first time in US" "Meanwhile, the $20,000 market for cars is 'extinct'" "One big factor boosting prices has been tariffs, KBB said, which have, not surprisingly, introduced 'new cost pressure' to the business." finance.yahoo.com/news/sticker-s…

Reporters could never go in classified areas ever. Facts matter

Daniel DePetris It's possible it tries to reflect Trump's actual worldview, which would be interesting.

Almost all of reporters featured on wall in the Pentagon — who collectively have been covering DoD for decades if not more than a century — are set to hand in their credentials. Based on public statements, only one reporter on the wall will be credentialed by the end of tomorrow.

IMF'S GEORGIEVA SAYS MOST COUNTRIES IN THE WORLD SO FAR HAVE OPTED NOT TO RETALIATE AGAINST U.S. TARIFFS AND ARE CONTINUING TO TRADE

Lol still a bailout

The accredited reporters at the Pentagon- including yours truly. I guess they’ll take this down now.

Turned in the badge today. My colleagues and I will stay on the beat, but in a new way. The work continues. Danlamothe.30

After covering the Pentagon for 35 years, I’m turning in my building badge today rather than submit to DoD’s vague new policies that restrict my right to engage in ordinary and legal news gathering. My Pentagon press corps colleagues and I will continue to inform the public

Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Henry Kissinger in 1973. A choice so controversial two committee members resigned in protest.

They're trying so hard to spin China's rare earth controls as some sort of unprovoked "attack on the world" 🤦‍♂️ Which is pretty rich considering it's a reaction to Trump literally starting starting a trade war against the entire planet. The truth is that the immense majority of

Pentagon beat reporters have been handing in their press passes all day long today. It is one of the most striking examples of news media solidarity we've seen this year.

Signal ?

BREAKING: Journalists exited the Pentagon after refusing to agree to the Trump administration's new restrictions on access. apnews.com/article/pentag…

🚨 BREAKING: The Pentagon has just confiscated the badges of nearly every major media organization in the United States, barring their access, after they refused to sign on to Pete Hegseth's new security rules to guard sensitive information. Reporters were seen leaving. "Today,

It is a dark day for free press of all stripes in this country. Nobody voted for a Pete Hegseth to limit Americans from knowing what is happening to its military every day. But buckle up—this is a press corps that never EVER stops reporting. The news will keep coming.

You've got to laugh at Bessent's audacity (or, maybe, complete delusion). All the countries he says that he wants to enlist against China are, first and foremost, victims of the very same U.S. attack that China is responding to. As I type this: - India is suffering from 50%