🗞️Democrat looks to impeach Trump

...also CIA shakeup and Disney+ losing subscribers

February 5th, 2025

What happened today 🇺🇸,

  • House Rep. Al Green (D-TX) has said he will bring forward impeachment articles for President Trump because of his comments about what he wants to do in Gaza

  • The CIA has given a buyout opportunity to its entire workforce and if they take it will receive about 8 months of pay and benefits, CIA Director John Ratcliffe is leading the charge attempting to make the agency leaner

  • The Senate has officially confirmed Pam Bondi as Attorney General

  • All USAID missions overseas are ordered to shut down by Friday and workers to return home

  • Trump has signed an executive order banning transgender women from competing in female sports

  • The U.S. goods trade deficit increased in 2024 to a record $1.2 trillion, meaning the U.S. imported $3.3 trillion worth of goods while only exporting $2.1 trillion worth of goods

  • In Cleveland, the median home sale price rose 15% year over year that was the largest increase among the 50 most populous metros followed by Milwaukee (14.5%), Philadelphia (14%), Miami (11.8%) and Chicago (11.1%), per Redfin

  • Disney+ lost 700,000 subscribers over the final three months of 2024

  • Spotify says they have hit a new high of 675 million monthly active users

  • DOW up .71% /S&P up .39%

  • Trump has said that the U.S. will “take over” the destroyed Gaza strip and be responsible for redeveloping it, clearing out weapons and bombs, and take an ownership position of the area

  • Argentina will pull out of the World Health Organization

Plus: A look at what institutions Americans trust the most and the least

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