WTF Just Happened Today? Day 1525

This is a newsletter I subscribe to and I share parts of it here.
I think it's a good summary of the day that is fairly well sourced.
One can subscribe here: http://wtfjht.com

Today's was late because the creator is having technical issues.
This is a draft I made from today’s as of yet unsuccessfully published newsletter.

Welcome to Day 1525.

Today in one sentence: Top Trump administration officials planned military strikes on Yemen in an unclassified Signal group chat that accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief; Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth denied a report that Elon Musk would receive a classified Pentagon briefing on potential war plans with China, despite multiple news outlets confirming Musk’s visit was originally scheduled to include China-related discussions; the Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to block a federal judge’s order requiring the rehiring of over 16,000 probationary federal employees who were fired; the Trump administration eliminated three watchdog offices inside the Department of Homeland Security that investigated complaints and advocated for immigrants; the IRS is close to approving a plan that would give ICE access to confidential taxpayer data to verify names and addresses of immigrants targeted for deportation; a federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s request to resume deportations under the Alien Enemies Act; the Trump administration will end a Biden-era immigration program that allowed over 530,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela to live and work in the U.S.; the White House confirmed it will scale back Trump’s April 2 “Liberation Day” tariff rollout; the U.S. could default on its debt as early as July if Congress fails to act on the debt ceiling; J.D. Vance is polling worse than any modern VP at this point in office; and Colorado will remove Trump’s portrait from the state Capitol after he claimed it was “purposefully distorted” and “truly the worst."

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/

https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/trump-us-war-plans-atlantic-editor-c1589558

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-24/atlantic-editor-included-in-trump-advisers-war-plan-text-group

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/hegseth-national-security-group-chat-atlantic-reaction-00244983

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/atlantic-yemen-signal-hegseth-jeffrey-goldberg

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-goldberg-the-atlantic-trump-officials-group-chat-signal/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-officials-accidentally-shared-yemen-war-plans-group/story?id=120106043

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/03/24/trump-leak-signal-jeffrey-goldberg-atlantic/

https://apnews.com/article/mass-firings-trump-administration-supreme-court-bfe86f68e9877bf58c64bbc3b01db9c6

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-supreme-court-fired-probationary-workers-00244890

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/supreme-court-trump-federal-workers-reinstatement/

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-admin-asks-supreme-court-block-reinstatement-fired/story?id=120102207

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-block-order-reinstating-federal-employees-788a2d45

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/24/supreme-court-fired-probationary-workers-trump/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/trump-supreme-court-probationary-workers.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/us/politics/trump-civil-rights-homeland-security-deportations.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/21/dhs-immigrant-advocates-watchdogs-oversight/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2025/03/22/ice-irs-immigrants-deport/

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/irs-nears-deal-to-share-data-for-immigration-enforcement-df60eaad

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/irs-close-finalizing-data-sharing-agreement-ice-sources/story?id=120063278

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/judge-trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations/

https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-hear-arguments-deportation-alleged-venezuelan-gang/story?id=120094673

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/judge-alien-enemies-act-case-defends-ruling-ahead-key-appeals-court-he-rcna197804

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/24/judge-trump-venezuelan-deportations-restraining-order

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-24/judge-denies-trump-bid-to-resume-deporting-accused-gang-members

https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5210416-bondi-boasberg-deportation-case/

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/judge-says-deported-venezuelans-should-get-chance-to-fight-gang-label-e4ca226c

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/boasberg-trump-venezuela-deportations-ruling-00244726

https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-5338794/appeals-alien-enemies-act-trump

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/24/trump-says-any-country-that-purchases-oil-from-venezuela-will-have-to-pay-25percent-tariff-on-trade-with-us.html

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-24/trump-announces-25-charge-on-nations-buying-venezuelan-oil-gas

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/24/trump-tariff-venezuela-oil-00244832

https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/24/business/trump-venezuela-oil-tariffs/index.html

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5210665-trump-secondary-tariff-venezuela/

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/x-date-debt-limit-treasury-republicans-trump.html

https://thehill.com/business/budget/5210371-federal-government-debt-default/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/03/22/irs-tax-revenue-loss-federal-budget/

https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-university-trump-demands-federal-funding-e94d41ca

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/21/columbia-trump-federal-funding-protests

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/03/24/columbia-university-funding-trump-mcmahon/

One can read the expanded version of each topic and its sources here: http://wtfjht.com