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- 2025/01/25 06:17 UTC [L..T] Wall Street banks prepare to sell up to $3 billion in X loans next week, sources say «Wall Street banks are getting ready to sell up to $3 billion of debt holdings in X, the social-media platform controlled by Elon Musk, two people with knowledge of the matter said on Friday.» [...] «Banks expect to get 90 to 95 cents on the dollar, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported preparations for the sale. Musk denied the Journal report as "false," posting on X that the newspaper was "lying."»
- 2025/01/25 01:09 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Administrator of the United States for International Development «I further direct the Secretary of State to take all necessary actions, to the extent permitted by law, to ensure that U.S. taxpayer dollars do not fund organizations or programs that support or participate in the management of a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.» Also revokes the Presidential Memorandum of January 28, 2021 and reinstates the Presidential Memorandum of January 23, 2017 (to be researched).
- 2025/01/25 00:58 UTC [L..T] [US:EO] ENFORCING THE HYDE AMENDMENT «For nearly five decades, the Congress has annually enacted the Hyde Amendment and similar laws that prevent Federal funding of elective abortion, reflecting a longstanding consensus that American taxpayers should not be forced to pay for that practice. However, the previous administration disregarded this established, commonsense policy by embedding forced taxpayer funding of elective abortions in a wide variety of Federal programs. It is the policy of the United States, consistent with the Hyde Amendment, to end the forced use of Federal taxpayer dollars to fund or promote elective abortion.»
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