Good morning! Welcome to MSNBC's Sunday Spotlight, where you can find a selection of the week's most important and interesting stories. President Donald Trump attempted to fulfill a long-standing conservative goal to shut down a Cabinet agency. Meanwhile, the attorney general needs to reread her law books, an election in New Hampshire showed the risks with a Republican bill, and the U.S. created its own space problems. Plus, the Kennedy Center is now basically the Trump Center. Don't forget to check out more top columns and videos from the week below. |
Closing time: Trump followed through on a campaign promise to shut down the Department of Education, signing an executive order seeking to do exactly that. But while it takes an act of Congress to actually end the agency, Trump is going to start cutting now, writes Steve Benen. |
Outsourcing outer space: A desire for a more cost-effective space program led NASA to become needlessly dependent on private businesses such as billionaire Elon Musk's SpaceX. That's now become a significant national security risk, writes Hayes Brown. |
Show stopper: Trump's attempts to stage-manage the lineup at the Kennedy Center show he doesn't have a clue about how to run an arts venue, what kinds of shows its audience wants to see or what's even technically feasible, writes culture critic Rebecca Ritzel. |
