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Trump’s Shutdown Enters Day 38: Flights Grounded, Food Stamps Denied, Data Hidden—While Epstein Files Loom
What looked like isolated crises—canceled flights, missing jobs data, military purges—reveals itself as the thrashing of an administration that knows something devastating is coming. Dean and I traced the panic from the Pentagon to Capitol Hill, and it all leads back to one place: those unreleased Epstein files.
5️⃣ The Economic Blackout
For the second consecutive month, there is no jobs report. The longest data blackout on record leaves economists navigating by starlight while companies announce 150,000 layoffs—triple last October’s numbers. Amazon, UPS, and IBM are shedding workers, but…
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