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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Thursday, February 27th, 2025.

Today, the Office of Personnel Management sent out a memo directing massive reductions in force.

The Trump administration threatens a permanent visa ban for trans athletes. Elon Musk has

canceled contracts that help veterans only to reinstate them the next day. Jeff Bezos announced a revamp

to the Washington Post op-ed section, causing the editor to quit. A Democrat in Maine won her state

special election by 43 points. The U.S. logs its first measles death in a decade.

Judge Amy Berman-Jackson extends the restraining order,

keeping special counsel Hampton Dellinger in his job through Saturday.

And Republicans in the House have passed Trump's budget that includes sweeping cuts to Medicaid.

I'm Allison Gill.

And I'm Dana Goldberg.

Ah, that was weird.

I'm Allison Gill.

It actually set me up really well for an I'm Dana Goldberg.

Like you went up and I went up.

And I went, now it's getting weird.

You went up and I went down.

And then I set him up, you knock him down. That's right. That's how it goes getting weird. You went up and I went down. And then I set him up, you knock them down.

That's right. That's how it goes. So Wednesday as we're recording this, Thursday as you're hearing this,

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