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Hello and welcome to the Daily Beans for Friday, January 30th, 2026.

Today, Democrats in the Senate have blocked the government funding package over ICE and Customs and Border Protection.

Pam Bondi has appointed a special attorney to oversee Trump's probe into fake

2020 election fraud claims. The Justice Department has filed federal charges against the man

who attacked Ilhan Omar. A former deputy has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the murder of

Sonia Massey. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals says the Department of Homeland Security illegally

ended the Venezuelan temporary protected status program, and the Federal Reserve says it won't cut interest rates

this month. I'm Alison Gill. And I'm Dana Goldberg.

Ooh, Donald Trump's going to be pissed at Jerome Powell for not cutting interest rates. Of course he is.

I'm sure there'll be lots of trothing at 2 a.m. in the morning on the toilet. There will be ketchup on the walls, people. The walls will run red with ketchup tonight. Yes. Well, they're not going to, he's not going to cut interest rates this month. Maybe he said later in the year, but the feds aren't going to cut rates.

And that's according to the entire board, which includes Lisa Cook, which Donald Trump,

he's also trying to fire. It's Fuglesang Friday here on the Daily Bean. We'll be joined by

John Fuglesang later. And everyone, it is the ice out economic blackout day, January 30th.

And because of that, we achieved a small feat here at the Daily Bean. You will not hear any ads today on the Daily Bean's in solidarity with Minneapolis and other cities being terrorized by ICE and Customs and Border Protection for this economic blackout. Thanks to all of our sponsors for agreeing to it. Like I said,

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Plus early tickets to stuff. We've got a big event coming up in June. We're going to talk about that as soon as all the details are hammered out. We'll probably have a live election night gala, usually. Amazing. Buy like the food and the drinks and we have an open bar and patrons can come to that. We have our Zoom happy hours, which we're having one tonight, Thursday night as we record this and it's going to be

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