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  • Trump’s move to target a 90-year-old SCOTUS precedent.
  • Why Ozempic may be inflating your electricity bill.
  • Bankers’ new ally at the CFPB.
  • Elon Musk’s DEI past.
TODAY'S NUGGETS

💊 RFK Jr. is confirmed — will he now deliver? The Senate this morning confirmed Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary. Will he now follow through on his vow to ban all those annoying — and in some cases harmful — drug commercials? And will he do anything about this huge FDA scandal in America’s medicine cabinet? Or will he just push raw milk on everybody?

🏛️ Trump’s purge vs. John Roberts’ memo. The Trump administration announced that it “intends to urge the Supreme Court to overturn” a 90-year-old precedent preventing presidents from firing appointees at independent agencies without cause. In seeking to purge the heads of the Federal Trade Commission, Consumer Product Safety Commission, and the National Labor Relations Board, the administration insists the 90-year-old precept is unconstitutional.