The News Roundup For February 7, 2025
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🗓️ 7 February 2025
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Millions of federal workers now have more time to make a decision after a judge suspended the Office of Personnel Management's deadline for them to accept, or reject, the agency's "deferred resignation" offer.
Meanwhile, President Trump suggested that the U.S. might take over Gaza and that Palestinians will relocate to neighboring countries.
And the trade war with China is heating up. Tariffs on goods imported from the country are causing the prices of clothes, toys, and electronics to surge.
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| 0:53.8 | Once again, the power of the presidential pen has been put on full display this week. |
| 0:59.1 | We have an executive order that would withdraw the United States from the UN Human Rights Council |
| 1:03.8 | and would also review American involvement in UNESCO, which has also exhibited anti-American bias. |
| 1:10.4 | So I've always felt that the UN has tremendous potential, but they've got to get their act together. |
| 1:16.6 | But it's no magic wand. |
| 1:19.0 | President Trump's signature doesn't change the congressional math. |
| 1:22.1 | It can't buy him extra days as time runs up against a key deadline. |
| 1:25.9 | And the presidential pen can't disguise the disagreements |
| 1:29.6 | within his party over a mammoth budget he's promised to deliver. What it has been doing is |
| 1:35.2 | help write a fast-moving drama here in Washington, and our guests have had front row seats |
| 1:39.7 | this week. With us to round up the biggest domestic news headlines is Megan Scully, Bloomberg News's |
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