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The Audit Exemption They Buried in the Fine Print
The $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund dominated headlines. The one-page addendum posted the next day permanently bars the IRS from auditing Trump, his family, and the Trump Organization, closing an active $72.9 million dispute. That part was quieter. It was designed to be.
The Overtime Rule Is Gone. The DOL Called It a Technicality.
The DOL called rescinding the overtime rule “a technical correction.” What it actually did was permanently eliminate overtime protections for 4 million workers. The language is designed to ensure it doesn’t read like a policy decision. It was.
The Election Was the Point. They Took That Too.
A bourbon distillery in Kentucky is not where most people would expect federal labor law to get rewritten. But the Sixth Circuit just used it to dismantle one of the most significant worker protections built in the last decade. Most workers don’t know it happened.
The Streets Were Full. The Question Is What Comes Next.
Thursday happened. Thousands marched. The coalition was the broadest it has been in years. The administration dismissed it before the marches ended. That gap is the thing worth sitting with this Monday morning.