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Just how tight was the battle for control of the House? Well, consider that if just three additional races had broken in Democrats’ favor, we would have had to wait for nearly a month on vote counting in California to determine which party had won the majority. And if that had happened, we might still [...]The post At the Races: Full House appeared first on Roll Call.

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Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-N.J., leaves a meeting of the House Democratic Caucus on July 9.

Democrats and good government groups are skeptical of how much influence President-elect Donald Trump’s outside advisory commission chaired by billionaire Elon Musk and onetime presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will have over government spending and the state of the federal workforce, NBC News reports.Since Trump announced his plans for a “Department of Government Efficiency,” or “DOGE” — a play on a cryptocurrency Musk has promoted — both Musk and Ramaswamy have talked up their big plans to slash government regulations and spending while downsizing the federal workforce. Despite its name, it won’t actually be a “department,” like the Department of Education or the Department of Homeland Security. Creating a government agency would require approval from Congress. The effort won’t even be inside the government.Trump said in his statement Tuesday that DOGE “will provide advice and guidance from outside of Government, and will partner with the White House and Office of Management & Budget to drive large scale structural reform,” adding that Musk and Ramaswamy’s work will be completed “no later than July 4, 2026.”“It will be done much faster,” Musk said Wednesday on his X platform.But the commission’s place outside the formal government structure raised plenty of questions about just how likely it is to accomplish its goals.Max Stier, president and CEO of the Partnership for Public Service, a nonprofit group devoted to making government work more effectively, said the real authority rests with the Cabinet secretaries and agency heads Trump is choosing. “From the outside, will Musk and Ramaswamy be able to do a whole lot? It’s very difficult to see how that will be the case,” Stier said in an interview. “There are 450 departments when you look at the major components of our government. The people who run them are the leaders who are being named right now. You can say ‘Do this’ or ‘Do that’ from the outside, but to get it done, you need people who really know how to make things happen and to execute effectively.”Stier said he has yet to see the Trump transition team put forward a plan that would genuinely improve the workings of government.Trump appointments and nomineesHere are some of the people that President-elect Donald Trump has named for high-profile positions in his administration. Positions in orange requires Senate confirmation.var pymParent = new pym.Parent('trump-admin', 'https://media.nbcnewyork.com/assets/editorial/national/2024/trump-admin-noms/index.html', {title: '', parenturlparam: '', parenturlvalue: ''});Source: NBC NewsThe so-called DOGE “is again an example where it does not yet appear to be a serious effort,” Stier said. “It’s understandable why the goal of making our government more effective is a good one, but there are all kinds of reasons why this is not the way to achieve that.”Both Musk and Ramaswamy have already put forth some of their ideas for government reform. Musk has pledged to cut $2 trillion from the federal budget — though he has offered few specifics about what he would look to cut. The total amount of discretionary spending in the federal budget is about $1.7 trillion, and Trump has pledged not to cut Social Security and Medicare, two of the government’s largest expenses. During a late-October town hall on X, Musk suggested his ideal spending cuts could trigger economic pain for people.“We have to reduce spending to live within our means,” he said. “And, you know, that necessarily involves some temporary hardship, but it will ensure long-term prosperity.”Maya MacGuineas, president of the nonpartisan group Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, highlighted federal spending on Social Security and Medicare, saying the new commission “should look beyond just cutting fraud and reducing bureaucracy to also identify places where the taxpayer is not getting the best value for their dollar.”“Importantly, the process will need to be as bipartisan as possible in order to help with the deliverability and implementation of ideas,” she said in a statement, adding, “It will take an all-hands-on-deck approach to fix our fiscal situation, and this effort could make a tremendous contribution.”One area Musk targeted after the panel was announced was spending on medical research. Ramaswamy, meanwhile, said Wednesday on X that the government shouldn’t appropriate money for programs that have expired.“There are 1,200+ programs that are no longer authorized but still receive appropriations,” he wrote. “This is totally nuts. We can & should save hundreds of billions each year by defunding government programs that Congress no longer authorizes. We’ll challenge any politician who disagrees to defend the other side.”Ramswamy’s post prompted some users to note that among those expired programs is veterans’ health care — one of the largest expenses in that bucket.“It’s unclear at this point what the exact role or mandate will be of this advisory committee,” said Joe Spielberger, policy counsel at the Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan government watchdog. “But first of all, just putting two knuckleheads in charge of government efficiency sounds pretty counterintuitive as a starting point.”Ramaswamy, the founder of the biotech company Roivant Sciences, had a laser focus on slashing the federal bureaucracy during his time as a GOP presidential primary candidate. Speaking with NBC News as a candidate, he outlined his desire to use what’s known as “reduction in force” regulations to trim the federal workforce while also shuttering a number of federal agencies. news3 hours agoMajor Trump Media shareholder ARC Global unloads nearly all DJT stocknews2 hours agoTrump Defense pick Hegseth investigated in 2017 for alleged sex assault; no charges filednews5 hours ago‘Political malpractice' if Trump undoes climate-geared Biden projects, outgoing U.S. energy secretary saysHe predicted he would overcome any legal challenges because he wasn’t proposing to fire individual career officials, who are covered by civil service protections, but to institute widespread layoffs, eliminating jobs altogether. Ramaswamy also sought to eliminate the FBI; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Education Department; the Nuclear Regulatory Commission; and the Food and Nutrition Service within the Agriculture Department.Speaking recently with conservative media personality Tucker Carlson on X, Ramaswamy predicted Republicans could trigger a mass exodus from the federal workforce by simply mandating a five-day, in-office workweek across the government, estimating that “25%” of civil servants would hit the exits soon after.Democrats acknowledged they had little ability to prevent the Trump administration from enacting the changes Musk and Ramaswamy suggest.“Here’s the truth: The only governing force that can stop or temper that [is] going to be the bravest Republicans in the House or in the Senate,” Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., said. “It’s not going to be us, because we won’t have the votes. We don’t have the votes. We’re in the minority. It’s going to come down to how much craziness, how much absurdity will the Republicans in the House or the Senate want to jam up or not.”Civil servants and their advocates had already been concerned over a cornerstone of Trump’s pledged agenda — reinstituting the “Schedule F” executive order briefly implemented at the end of his first term, which enables his administration to reclassify tens of thousands of federal civil workers with roles in shaping policy into at-will political positions, making them much easier to fire and replace.“In many ways, this sounds like just the latest iteration of the war against the federal civil service and targeting federal workers as ideological opponents or enemies of the people, not based on their ability to do the jobs they’re hired for but because folks [like] Elon and Vivek are ideologically opposed to those agencies or those departments or the specific roles that they are performing,” Spielberger said. “This should be seen as a real attempt not to try to get more government accountability but just to gut agencies and departments and purge the federal workforce where they see fit.” Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is the world’s richest person, and he launched a super PAC that spent more than $200 million on boosting Trump’s electoral chances this year. He has been by Trump’s side throughout the transition process, with one person familiar with Trump telling NBC News he’s “behaving as if he’s a co-president and making sure everyone knows it.”When Musk took over the social media company Twitter — which he renamed X — he laid off a sizable proportion of its workforce. SpaceX also has $3.6 billion in government contracts, which advocates said presented a clear conflict of interest for his ability to recommend spending and regulatory slashes to the government. “Placing Elon Musk, the ultimate corporate tycoon, in authority over government efficiency is laughable,” Lisa Gilbert, a co-president of the progressive consumer rights advocacy group Public Citizen, said in a statement. “Musk not only knows nothing about government efficiency and regulation, his own businesses have regularly run afoul of the very rules he will be in position to attack in his new ‘czar’ position. This is the ultimate corporate corruption.”Democratic response to the commission has been mixed. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., said on X that the committee “is off to a great start with split leadership: two people to do the work of one person. Yeah, this seems REALLY efficient.” But Rep. Dean Phillips, D-Minn., who briefly ran for president this cycle, responded to the news on X: “I’m a Democrat for Government Efficiency. 🙋🏼‍♂️”Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn., said: “I have no idea what they’re going to do, who’s going to work for them, but I suspect that the task may be a little more difficult than they think. Rather than just slashing $2 trillion, they may want to look at exactly what the priority should be right now. And I’m hopeful they’ll be a little more careful and thoughtful than slash and burn might be.”Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said he was willing to give the Musk- and Ramaswamy-led commission a chance, saying President Bill Clinton similarly tried to highlight and root out government inefficiencies. “I’ve been saying this for a long time. You start with your defense agencies,” Booker said. “There is a procurement problem we still have that has never been addressed that could save our country billions of dollars. There are legacy systems that we invest in that are not what we need for the 21st century. So again, I’m not reflexively going to be condemning the things that Donald Trump does. I’m going to be evaluating them.”He added, however, that Democrats wouldn’t go along with DOGE if it became a way of “undermining our democratic traditions, the agencies that are holding corporations accountable.”Thomas Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, was upbeat about the DOGE initiative and predicted that it could achieve meaningful efficiencies in government operations. With Trump’s party controlling both the House and the Senate, Congress is positioned to pass the recommendations the committee devises, he said.“In this second term in particular, President Trump has a better understanding of what needs to be done and how to do it,” Schatz said. “He didn’t do this in his first term, and he knows how hard it is to get these things implemented.” The closest parallel to the initiative Trump laid out may be the Grace Commission, which President Ronald Reagan set up in 1982 to root out those inefficiencies. The commission was named after a private-sector businessman, J. Peter Grace.Reagan, through executive actions, saved $100 billion out of the $424 billion the Grace Commission’s recommended savings would have provided over three years, said Schatz, whose group grew out of the Grace Commission.A young White House lawyer wrote in an internal memo in 1985 that it would be a “disaster” to set up an advisory committee of private-sector executives to implement the Grace Commission’s recommendations.In a warning that may prove prophetic given Musk’s business dealings with the federal government, the lawyer wrote, “Serious conflict of interest problems arose from having corporate CEOs scrutinizing the internal workings of agencies charged with regulating their businesses.”The lawyer who wrote that memo? John Roberts, who is now the chief justice of the United States.This story first appeared on NBCNews.com. 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Six days remain to campaign in the presidential race, and no stone is being left unturned.Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro made multiple stops in New Hampshire Wednesday in support of Kamala Harris and Granite State gubernatorial candidate Joyce Craig.“We feel good about where things are going, but you’ve got to run through the tape here in New Hampshire,” Shapiro said.The Granite State still appears to be a priority for the Harris-Walz campaign. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey have all passed through in recent weeks.Political analyst Scott Spradling says the strategy is smart.“This is an enthusiasm build for Democrats in New Hampshire,” Spradling said. “The idea here is, ‘We can win this thing if our people turn out.'”That said, it’s been an up-and-down week for the Harris campaign. At first, it seized on comments from a comedian who called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage” at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. But then, she had to respond after President Joe Biden seemed to counter that by disparaging Trump supporters.“That’s not a way I would ever speak about a fellow Pennsylvanian or a fellow American,” said Shapiro. “But the focus here is not on Joe Biden, it needs to be on the difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.”Shapiro will bring that mindset back to Pennsylvania, where Trump has ramped up baseless claims of election fraud in recent days.“The people who are working on this election, Republican and Democratic clerks alike, are doing an outstanding job,” Shapiro said. “Donald Trump keeps trying to do what he did in 2020, throw gasoline on the fire, make all kinds of noise, create chaos and undermine faith in the system.”The Keystone State is expected to play a pivotal role in deciding the election.“It’s a toss-up, it’s a close race,” said Shapiro. “We’re not afraid of that because in Pennsylvania, the last two races have come down to less than a point.”Shapiro won’t be the last high-profile Democratic surrogate coming through New Hampshire this year. Former President Bill Clinton is expected to pass through the Granite State in the final days before the election.Decision 2024Decision 2024Oct 29Harris says fear and division stirred by Trump is ‘not who we are'Decision 2024Oct 29Fact Focus: A look at false and misleading claims surrounding the 2024 electionDonald TrumpOct 29Why it would be difficult for Trump to reverse the 2024 election results

The House Small Business Committee is issuing another attempt before Election Day to compel the Small Business Administration to cooperate with its oversight of Michigan electioneering claims.

Six days remain to campaign in the presidential race, and no stone is being left unturned.Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro made multiple stops in New Hampshire Wednesday in support of Kamala Harris and Granite State gubernatorial candidate Joyce Craig.“We feel good about where things are going, but you’ve got to run through the tape here in New Hampshire,” Shapiro said.The Granite State still appears to be a priority for the Harris-Walz campaign. Sen. Cory Booker of New Jersey, Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and Massachusetts Gov. Maura Healey have all passed through in recent weeks.Political analyst Scott Spradling says the strategy is smart.“This is an enthusiasm build for Democrats in New Hampshire,” Spradling said. “The idea here is, ‘We can win this thing if our people turn out.'”That said, it’s been an up-and-down week for the Harris campaign. At first, it seized on comments from a comedian who called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage” at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. But then, she had to respond after President Joe Biden seemed to counter that by disparaging Trump supporters.“That’s not a way I would ever speak about a fellow Pennsylvanian or a fellow American,” said Shapiro. “But the focus here is not on Joe Biden, it needs to be on the difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.”Shapiro will bring that mindset back to Pennsylvania, where Trump has ramped up baseless claims of election fraud in recent days.“The people who are working on this election, Republican and Democratic clerks alike, are doing an outstanding job,” Shapiro said. “Donald Trump keeps trying to do what he did in 2020, throw gasoline on the fire, make all kinds of noise, create chaos and undermine faith in the system.”The Keystone State is expected to play a pivotal role in deciding the election.“It’s a toss-up, it’s a close race,” said Shapiro. “We’re not afraid of that because in Pennsylvania, the last two races have come down to less than a point.”Shapiro won’t be the last high-profile Democratic surrogate coming through New Hampshire this year. Former President Bill Clinton is expected to pass through the Granite State in the final days before the election.Decision 2024Decision 202424 hours agoHarris says fear and division stirred by Trump is ‘not who we are'Decision 2024Oct 29Fact Focus: A look at false and misleading claims surrounding the 2024 electionDonald TrumpOct 29Why it would be difficult for Trump to reverse the 2024 election results

Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) warned donors last week that internal polling for her Senate campaign shows Vice President Kamala Harris is "underwater" in Michigan, according to a video clip obtained by Axios.Why it matters: Winning Michigan, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania is Harris' simplest path to victory. If former President Trump sweeps the Sun Belt, he'd only need to pick off one of those Blue Wall states to win the election.FiveThirtyEight's average of polls has Harris up by about 2.4 points in Michigan. The latest New York Times/Siena College poll has her up by just one.Michigan is also a top pickup opportunity for Senate Republicans, with millions of dollars now flooding the race between Slotkin and former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.).What she's saying: "I'm not feeling my best right now about where we are on Kamala Harris in a place like Michigan," Slotkin said during a virtual fundraiser on Wednesday with Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.), according to a recording."We have her underwater in our polling," Slotkin added.Spokespeople for Slotkin's campaign did not respond to requests for comment.Between the lines: It's not unusual for campaigns to paint themselves as the polling underdog as a fundraising tactic.RCP's polling average has Slotkin up 48% to 43%, and the recent NYT/Siena poll has her up by five points. Republicans have also raised alarm about Democrats' 2:1 money advantage in the state.But there are some signs the Senate race could be tightening — Republican internal polling shows the candidates are statistically tied, according to a source familiar with the matter.Senate races in ruby-red Ohio and Montana have been getting more money and attention, but a Republican win in Michigan would be a major upset and virtually guarantee a GOP majority.

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Democrats brought the bill back to the Senate floor after Republicans previously blocked the measure from advancing in June.

Republicans on Tuesday blocked a bill that would have created a right to access IVF treatments and mandated that insurance plans cover the practice, deriding the vote as a political ploy. Senators voted against advancing the bill, 51-44, marking the second time Democrats have sought to put Republicans on the record on the contentious issue. [...]

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Former President Donald Trump has begun to shut down the possibility of a second match against Vice President Kamala Harris after debating her Tuesday night, claiming he doesn't need to debate her again because he won the debate.

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New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is slated to resign by the end of the day, about a month after a jury convicted him on federal bribery charges

New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez is expected to resign by the end of the day Tuesday, about a month after a jury convicted him on federal bribery charges.Menendez signaled his resignation last month in a letter to Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy, who said Friday he’s tapping a former top aide to succeed the three-term incumbent.George Helmy will succeed Menendez until the November election results for the Senate seat are certified late in the month, the governor said. At that point, Murphy said Helmy will resign and he’ll name the winner of the election to the seat.The stakes in the Senate election are high, with Democrats holding on to a narrow majority. Republicans have not won a Senate election in Democratic-leaning New Jersey in over five decades.Democratic Rep. Andy Kim and Republican hotel developer Curtis Bashaw are facing off in the general election.Helmy, 44, served as Murphy’s chief of staff from 2019 until 2023 and currently serves as an executive at one of the state’s largest health care providers, RWJBarnabas Health. He previously served as Sen. Cory Booker’s state director in the Senate.Menendez, 70, was convicted on charges that he used his influence to meddle in three different state and federal criminal investigations to protect the businessmen. Prosecutors said he helped one bribe-paying friend get a multimillion-dollar deal with a Qatari investment fund and another keep a contract to provide religious certification for meat bound for Egypt.He was also convicted of taking actions that benefited Egypt’s government in exchange for bribes, including providing details on personnel at the U.S. Embassy in Cairo and ghostwriting a letter to fellow senators regarding lifting a hold on military aid to Egypt. FBI agents also said they found stacks of gold bars and $480,000 hidden in Menendez’s house.Menendez denied all of the allegations, and in in a letter to Murphy last month, he said he’s planning to appeal the conviction.The resignation appears to mark the end of a nearly lifelong political career for Menendez, who was first elected to his local school board just a couple of years after his high school graduation. He was also elected to the state Legislature and Congress before heading to the Senate.Menendez is the only U.S. senator indicted twice.In 2015, he was charged with letting a wealthy Florida eye doctor buy his influence through luxury vacations and campaign contributions. After a jury couldn’t reach a unanimous verdict in 2017, New Jersey federal prosecutors dropped the case rather than put him on trial again.He served as a Democrat in Congress but decided not to run in the primary this year as his court case was unfolding. He filed to run as an independent in the fall, though he withdrew his name from the ballot on Friday, according to a letter he sent to state election officials.

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George Helmy will serve as a caretaker until January 2025.

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy has tapped his former chief of staff to serve temporarily as a U.S. senator to replace convicted Sen. Bob Menendez. Murphy announced George Helmy's appointment on Friday. Helmy's term will end when a permanent...

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New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy will name his former chief of staff George Helmy to serve as interim senator when Bob Menendez resigns later this month after his conviction on federal bribery charges. A person familiar with the decision...

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Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will reportedly tap former chief of staff, George Helmy, to hold Sen. Bob Menendez's seat until January.

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Then-Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., attends the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.

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A coalition of 17 youth-led groups endorsed Kamala Harris, and groups in several states thanked President Joe Biden for stepping aside.