SHERO on Sunday

A lightning-fast comprehensive rundown of the week's biggest events for February 3rd - February 9th, 2025.

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Welcome to the Sunday Recap, where you can quickly check in to review the week with a minimal time commitment, and make sure you did not miss anything. There are also several links within each snippet to give you more detail from credible and free sources if you want to dive deeper on any issue.

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Gun Violence This Week

At SHERO, we document all mass shooting incidents for the week every Sunday, so please take a moment to review them and remember to keep up the fight for sensible gun reform. There were six separate mass shooting incidents in the United States this past week, where eight people were killed and 24 were injured.

1. Sunday, February 2, 2025:

2. Tuesday, February 4, 2025:

3. Thursday, February 6, 2025:

4. Friday, February 7, 2025:

5. Saturday February 8, 2025:

6. Saturday February 8, 2025:

• The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities published an analysis on Wednesday warning that work requirements for Medicaid recipients could put 36 million Americans, or 44% of all Medicaid enrollees, at risk of losing their health insurance.

• In a memorandum sent to Justice Department employees this week, newly confirmed Attorney General Pam Bondi warned employees that any attorney who “delays or impedes the Department's mission” because of their personal political beliefs or judgements “will be subject to discipline and potentially termination…” in her pledge to “root out corruption.” She also announced the retaliatory creation of a new “Weaponization Working Group” that will review the previous work of the Justice Department over the last four years as well as the work of former special counsel Jack Smith.

  

• Representatives of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have been working at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services this week, where they have gotten access to “key payment and contracting systems,” according to people familiar with the matter.

• Former Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) Executive Director Adam Piper, who resigned in the aftermath of the attack on the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is back and working to help Trump's agenda at every turn. For more on this issue, read: