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02/03/2025 --mercurynews
Musk has been named as a special government employee, which subjects him to less stringent rules on ethics and financial disclosures than other workers.
02/03/2025 --timescall
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said that after a conversation with Donald Trump that the planned tariffs are on hold for a month
01/30/2025 --foxnews
EXCLUSIVE: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch and GOP senators on Thursday are expected to roll out a measure that would prohibit the use of U.S. foreign aid funds for abortions, Fox News Digital has learned.
01/29/2025 --dailygazette
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has promised to veto a sweeping immigration bill. It’s the latest escalation in a statehouse showdown between DeSantis’ office and the Republican leaders, who have sparred over whose proposals would best carry out President Donald Trump’s...
01/29/2025 --oanow
Some of President Trump's working-class and middle-class supporters see a lack of emphasis on lowering consumer costs and making daily American life more affordable.
01/25/2025 --orlandosentinel
Shift by Nuñez aligns with Gov. Ron DeSantis’s efforts to repeal the law
01/25/2025 --morganton
The South Dakota governor will oversee a sprawling agency that is essential to national security and a clampdown on illegal immigration.
01/25/2025 --abcnews
Nikki Fried was reelected Saturday as chair of the Florida Democratic Party, which is seeking to regain relevance in a state that has tilted decidedly toward the Republicans
01/22/2025 --cbsnews
"I didn't want to get out of my seat because I didn't want to lose it," said one guest at President Trump's pre-inauguration Candlelight Dinner.
01/22/2025 --foxnews
Pete Hegseth's lawyer dissected and refuted a new affidavit from the defense secretary nominee's former sister-in-law in a letter to SASC chairman Wicker on Wednesday.
01/21/2025 --dailykos
Fearing the wrath of Dear Leader, congressional Republicans are either refusing to comment on Donald Trump's disgusting pardons of violent Capitol insurrection convicts, or are flat-out lying about what Trump actually did to avoid having to criticize his behavior.Hours after being sworn in to his second term, Trump gave unconditional pardons to 1,550 people who either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of crimes related to their actions at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. According to The New York Times:The pardons and pending dismissals also covered more than 600 rioters were charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement officers at the Capitol, nearly 175 of whom were accused of doing so with deadly or dangerous weapons including baseball bats, two-by-fours, crutches, hockey sticks and broken wooden table legs.Trump also commuted the sentences of members of right-wing militia groups the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles in planning and encouraging violence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021—leading to the release of those men from prison.But multiple members of the House and Senate, including Republican congressional leaders, told reporters on Tuesday that they couldn’t make a judgement on the blanket pardons Trump issued because they haven't read up on them yet—the least believable lie on earth.“I haven’t gone into the detail,” Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida said.xSEN RICK SCOTT: “If you violate the law you should be prosecuted.”ABC: “What about those [Jan 6 rioters] who assaulted police officers and then were pardoned by the president?”SCOTT: “I haven’t gone into the detail.” pic.twitter.com/TlIU4sidCn— Jay O'Brien (@jayobtv) January 21, 2025“I don't know all the cases. I certainly don't want to pardon any violent actors. But there's a real miscarriage of justice here so I'm totally supportive of it,” Republican Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin told Fox News reporter Chad Pergram, apparently unaware that Trump pardoned violent actors.Republican Sen. Tommy Tuberville of Alabama said he wouldn't be for pardoning the violent insurrectionists, but wouldn't comment because he "didn't see" if Trump did that.Republican Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota knew that Trump issued pardons, but played dumb about what they entailed.“My understanding, there was a range of actions that he took. And I guess I want to look and see what those are,” Hoeven said. Other lawmakers straight-up lied about the pardons, saying Trump issued them on a "case-by-case basis." “We’re not looking backwards, we’re looking forward,” Senate Majority Leader John Thune told CNN’s Manu Raju, adding, “I think they were case-by-case.”Meanwhile, a number of GOP lawmakers refused to comment at all on the pardons, or tried to shift the conversation to former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons of his family members, who were likely to be harassed by the Trump administration.“Republican senators are physically shrugging when reporters ask them what they think of Trump pardoning January 6 defendants,” Haley Byrd Wilt, a Capitol Hill reporter for the nonprofit news outlet NOTUS, wrote in a post on X.Former Sen. Marco Rubio, who is now Trump's secretary of state, said he wouldn't comment."I'm not going to engage in domestic political debates," Rubio told NBC News.In another interview with CBS, Rubio refused to comment again, saying “I work for Trump.”x“You said the images of the attacks stirred up anger in you. You said the nation was embarrassed. How do you reconcile that with the pardons?”RUBIO: “I work for Trump.” pic.twitter.com/enD3dJQRwW— The Tennessee Holler (@TheTNHoller) January 21, 2025“I assume you're asking me about the Biden pardons of his family,” Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley of Iowa told Semafor’s Burgess Everett—a ridiculous whataboutism. “I’m just talking about the Biden pardons, because that is so selfish.”Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Jim Banks of Indiana also tried to pivot to talking about Biden’s pardons.“You've seen President Biden's preemptive pardons. Pardons of his own family. The power presidential pardons is one granted to a president and there's really no role for the Congress ... it's the president's prerogative,” Cornyn said.The pardons go against what Trump's own vice president said just a few days ago that Trump would do. “If you committed violence on that day, obviously you shouldn’t be pardoned,” JD Vance said in a Jan. 11 appearance on “Fox News Sunday.” xWATCH: @JDVance lays out President-elect Trump’s pardon process for January 6th participants. Tune in tomorrow for the rest of Shannon's exclusive interview with Vice President-elect JD Vance. pic.twitter.com/RvqXrL6rO3— Fox News Sunday (@FoxNewsSunday) January 11, 2025To be sure, a few Republicans criticized Trump.“I’m disappointed to see that and I do fear the message that is sent to these great men and women that stood by us,” Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, one of the few Republicans who’s actually stood up to Trump in the past, said."Anybody who is convicted of assault on a police officer, I can't get there, at all. I think it was a bad idea," Republican Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, said.“Well I think I agree with the vice president,” Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky told Semafor, referring to Vance’s belief that violent insurrectionists shouldn’t have been pardoned. “No one should excuse violence. And particularly violence against police officers.”Of course, we don’t want to praise anyone for doing the bare minimum and speaking the truth about Trump’s awful actions.And McConnell is largely to blame for the fact that these pardons took place at all, as he refused to convict Trump in the impeachment trial in January 2021, allowing Trump to run for president again.Thank you to the Daily Kos community who continues to fight so hard with Daily Kos. Your reader support means everything. We will continue to have you covered and keep you informed, so please donate just $3 to help support the work we do.
01/18/2025 --scnow
"Your head will spin when you see what's going to happen," Trump said. Here's a closer look at what he promised to do on Day 1.
01/14/2025 --nbcnews
Kevin Guthrie, executive director of the Florida Division of Emergency Management, is at the top of Trump's list of potential FEMA nominees, three sources tell NBC News.
01/14/2025 --foxnews
House Republicans are beginning early discussions about whether aid to California should be conditioned on changing liberal policies they blame for helping the disaster.
01/14/2025 --kearneyhub
Democrats say Hegseth’s lack of experience, comments about women and Black troops, and allegations of excessive drinking and sexual misconduct make him unfit to serve. Some takeaways from the hearing:
12/29/2025 --nbcnews
Democrats and Republicans began honoring former President Jimmy Carter for presidency and humanitarian work shortly after the Carter Center announced his death.
12/26/2024 --bismarcktribune
First it was Canada, then the Panama Canal. Now, Donald Trump again wants Greenland.
12/22/2024 --kenoshanews
Donald Trump is suggesting that his new administration could try to regain control of the Panama Canal.
12/22/2024 --foxnews
President-elect Trump took the stage of Turning Point's AmericaFest on Sunday, where he took a victory lap following his electoral victory over Vice President Kamala Harris.
12/18/2024 --theepochtimes
Elon Musk joined the debate earlier, urging lawmakers to reject the 1,547 page funding measure.
12/18/2024 --theepochtimes
A growing GOP coalition supports a two-track reconciliation process to secure border funding and extend Trump-era tax cuts.
12/18/2024 --dailycaller
Johnson acknowledged the criticisms from Burlison, Norman and Roy
12/18/2024 --kron4
A Republican brouhaha is emerging after President-elect Trump called to eliminate daylight saving time, setting up battle lines between prominent GOP lawmakers in their hopes to lock the clock. Trump waded into the longtime sore subject Friday, surprising — and perplexing — some lawmakers. Each side — those in favor of permanent standard time, which [...]
12/18/2024 --theepochtimes
President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for HHS Secretary hopes to make a positive impact on lawmakers during one-on-one discussions.
12/14/2024 --dailykos
by Mitch Perry, Florida Phoenix When Ron DeSantis sidles up next to Donald Trump Saturday in Landover, Maryland, to watch the Army-Navy football game, the topic of whom the Florida governor appoints to the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Marco Rubio might be a topic of conversation.Trump and parts of MAGA World — including Sen. Rick Scott — are lobbying intensely for the governor to select the president-elect’s daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, for the seat.Ms. Trump’s resignation as co-chair of the Republican National Committee earlier this week has only fueled such speculation. Palm Beach County State Attorney Dave Aronberg says it gives the Florida governor leverage in negotiating with the president-elect.“There has to be something in it for DeSantis because this is a piece of gold that DeSantis has that he’s not going to give up without something in return,” said Aronberg, a Democrat who announced more than a year ago that he was stepping down after 12 years in office.“And DeSantis wants to run for president again, so this is very valuable to him. He could name himself. He could name his wife. He could name an ally. To give it up to someone outside of his circle, especially Lara Trump, who actively worked against him in his own presidential race would be foolish unless he got something significant in return, and that something significant could be the position of Defense Secretary.”Born and raised in North Carolina, Lara Trump, 42, met Eric Trump in 2008 and around that time began working as a producer for the television program “Inside Edition”, according to TIME magazine. Lara Trump, Florida’s next senator?She married Eric in 2014 (they now live in Palm Beach County) and launched a “Women for Trump” bus tour for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 (which included a stop in Tampa). She moved up to become a fundraiser and senior adviser on Trump’s 2020 re-election bid. And she served as co-chair of the Republican National Committee from March of 2024 to this past week.“Lara Trump would be a great choice for anything,” said Judith Zentmeyer, a member of the Pinellas County Republican Party who spoke to the Phoenix during the party’s monthly meeting in Clearwater this week. “A Senate seat would be wonderful because obviously she’s very smart. She’s well spoken. She’s totally loyal, and she’s really strong.”Darryl Paulson, emeritus professor of government at USF-St. Petersburg, is extremely skeptical that DeSantis would appoint her to replace Rubio in the Senate.“Trump has ‘yanked the chain’ on DeSantis too many times,” he said. “The last thing DeSantis wants is to nominate Lara Trump to Rubio’s Senate seat, only to see that Trump’s current nominee for Secretary of Defense is confirmed and DeSantis is left with nothing.”DeSantis has said that he is likely to name his choice to replace Rubio by the beginning of January.‘Pressure campaign’ for HegsethTrump has nominated Army National Guard veteran and Fox News host Pete Hegseth to become his Secretary of Defense, but DeSantis’ name was floated last week as a possible alternative choice after it looked like Hegseth might have a problem being confirmed by the Senate due to allegations of sexual misconduct and excessive drinking that have surfaced in recent weeks.However, Politico reported this week that a “pressure campaign” on the part of allies of Trump has revived Hegseth’s chances of getting confirmed.Polk County Republican Committeewoman Kat Gates-Skipper is a veterans advocate who says either would be a great choice for that community.“I know the governor personally, and I know Pete Hegseth from Conservative Veterans for America,” she said, referring to the organization she served as a regional director, and Hegseth as executive director from 2013 to 2016. “We helped pass the first VA accountability act in 2014. We did that, so Pete is very much about veterans.”Gates-Skipper is well aware of the heat surrounding Hegseth, however. “If you’re going to be in political office, be careful what you say and do,” she said, adding, “I’m just saying, if you’re going to be in the limelight, just be careful.”Cavalcade of FloridiansThe Rubio seat is open because Trump nominated the Miami Republican to serve as his secretary of state. The president-elect followed up by nominating or appointing at least a dozen more Floridians to join his administration, including U.S. Rep. Mike Waltz for national security adviser, Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Janette Nesheiwat for surgeon general, and former U.S. Rep. Dave Weldon to head the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Trump’s pick for secretary of stateOn Wednesday night Trump announced that he was nominating Orlando attorney Dan Newlin to serve as U.S. Ambassador to Colombia.Gaetz withdrew for consideration for AG after it was apparent that he would have difficulty being confirmed following years of investigations into alleged drug use and payments for sex, including with an underage girl. Trump selected another Floridian, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, to serve in the role.Shortly after that Trump named Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister to head the Drug Enforcement Agency, although Chronister ended up bowing out of consideration just days later.“The nominees seem to have one or more of the following traits in common: Several have been TV personalities, usually on FOX News, which may indicate a preference for great communicators,” said Paulson.“Second, many have been defense attorneys, and several were involved in defending President Trump. Third, several have been family members, such as Lara Trump. Finally, and most importantly, all have been intensely loyal to Trump. Loyalty, more than any other trait, is a key factor in getting Trump to appoint you to a government position. No loyalty, no job.”“I have been saying for the last couple of years that Florida has become the lab rat of Project 2025, so it’s not surprising that a lot of Floridians are heading up to Washington, D.C.,” Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried said on Sirius/XM’s “The Briefing” last month.“I feel like Florida has conquered Washington, and you’re going to be having more meetings at Mar-a-Lago than we’re going to have at the White House,” Fried added.The spate of high-profile Florida Republicans joining Trump’s second administration has thrilled party members in the state.“It’s always good to have people from Florida representing us in the government,” said St. Petersburg Republican Angelo Cappelli. “We have all kinds of problems here, like in most of the country, and we tend to be a microcosm for the rest of the country, so it’s exciting.”Score settlingAlthough several MAGA Republicans were undoubtedly disappointed about Gaetz’ inability to survive more than two weeks as a nominee for Justice, others the Phoenix spoke with this week were fired up about his selection of Bondi as AG. Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick for attorney generalAnd they expressed excitement about how she could team up with Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to lead the FBI, to go after elected officials who pursued criminal charges against Trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and his involvement in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.Bondi predicted more than a year ago on Fox News what would happen if Trump retook the White House in 2024. “The Department of Justice, the prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones,” she said. “The investigators will be investigated, because the Deep State last term for President Trump, they were hiding in the shadows, but now they have a spotlight on them, and they can all be investigated.”That’s music to the ears of Pinellas County conservative activist Cathi Chamberlain.“Pam Bondi is very loyal to Trump,” she said this week, before the Pinellas County Republican Executive Committee December meeting began. “I just hope that she has the cojones to push this stuff through.”Camberlain added, “I do think that with Kash Patel at the FBI and Bondi at DOJ — as long as [Patel] brings her hardcore evidence, I think she has a really sweet way of making sure that gets through.” ‘Tethered to the law’Aronberg speaks positively about Bondi, who appointed him in 2010 after she was elected as attorney general to a newly created post focusing on prescription pill abuse.“I know Pam and I ran in the same race for attorney general back in 2010 and, after the race, even though I was on the opposite side of the aisle and had supported her Democratic opponent [Dan Gelber], she had appointed me her drug czar, so it shows that she has cared more about policy than politics,” he said.“But she is loyal to Donald Trump, and when he asks her to investigate the investigators, I believe she will. The difference, though, is that, unlike Matt Gaetz, I do not believe that she will knowingly violate the law to walk Trump’s enemies out in handcuffs. She has always been tethered to the law, and I think that although there will be investigations, I anticipate they will end up similar to the John Durham investigations, which is a whole lot of nothing.”On Saturday, The New York Times reported that applicants for government posts in the Trump administration, including inside the Pentagon and the intelligence agencies, are being asked their opinions of Jan. 6 and who they believe won the 2020 election.“We’re going to hear all the truth about the J6 committee, you bet, every single one of them should go to jail for destroying evidence,” said Chamberlain. “Trump can’t say that right now. Nobody’s going to be saying that, not Pam Bondi, not anyone, for fear of recusing themselves.”Aronberg notes that while Republican primary voters in the 2023-24 GOP presidential campaign heard about “the Florida way,” it’s now coming from a different source. “DeSantis ran on a platform to make America Florida and, ironically, it’s Donald Trump who seems to be doing that,” he said. Florida Phoenix is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Florida Phoenix maintains editorial independence. Campaign Action
12/13/2024 --dailycaller
'Border security must move first'
12/13/2024 --qctimes
More than a month after the November election, Iowa-based pollster Ann Selzer still is searching for answers.
12/13/2024 --cumberlink
President-elect Donald Trump's lawyers urged a judge again Friday to throw out his hush money conviction, balking at the prosecution's suggestion of preserving the verdict.
12/10/2024 --foxnews
The Fox News Politics newsletter, with the latest updates on the Trump transition, exclusive interviews and more Fox News politics content.
12/10/2024 --sun_sentinel
The measure spreads out the establishment of the new district judgeships over about a decade to give three presidential administrations the chance to appoint the new judges.
12/10/2024 --foxnews
President-elect Donald Trump is pressing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to name Lara Trump as Sen. Marco Rubio's Senate successor, a source told Fox Digital.
12/10/2024 --qctimes
Iowa Republican U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst issued a more positive assessment on Monday after a second meeting with Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s embattled pick for Defense Secretary.
12/10/2024 --foxnews
The Trump transition team is rolling out a video highlighting the support Pete Hegseth has received from some Republican senators as he looks to sell himself to others.
12/09/2024 --salon
Lara Trump told the AP that she would "seriously consider" joining the U.S. Senate
12/09/2024 --rollcall
Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be director of the FBI, leaves a meeting Monday with Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in the Hart building.
12/09/2024 --sltrib
The state committee that rules on access to government records should be able to start meeting again soon — and tackling the backlog of cases that has been exacerbated by Utah lawmakers delaying to appoint new members.
12/05/2024 --gazettetimes
WASHINGTON — Pete Hegseth spent the week on Capitol Hill trying to reassure Republican senators that he is fit to lead President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Defense in the wake of high-profile allegations about excessive drinking and sexual assault.
12/02/2024 --forbes
Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration as attorney general and was replaced by Pam Bondi, as Trump names RFK Jr., Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Kristi Noem to key posts.
12/02/2024 --abcnews
Democrats need to flip four Senate seats in 2026 to reclaim a majority, but have few clear targets.
12/02/2024 --stltoday
Schmitt joins U.S. Senate group that identifies $1 trillion in potential federal cost cuts, an area to be probed by Trump advisors Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy
12/02/2024 --theepochtimes
The incoming Senate majority leader, Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.), said, 'None of this is going to be easy.'
12/02/2024 --rollcall
Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, testifies during a House Budget Committee hearing in 2020.
12/02/2024 --bostonherald
Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, who served as the 45th president's third-but-not-last first term National Security Advisor, went so far as to say that Trump had found his own personal Lavrentiy Beria in nominating Patel, comparing the former prosecutor to a Stalin-era Soviet Union secret police chief infamously known for mass rape and murder.
12/01/2024 --forbes
Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration as attorney general and was replaced by Pam Bondi, as Trump names RFK Jr., Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Kristi Noem to key posts.
12/01/2024 --forbes
Matt Gaetz has withdrawn from consideration as attorney general and was replaced by Pam Bondi, as Trump names RFK Jr., Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard and Kristi Noem to key posts.
12/01/2024 --hoodline
Trump plans to nominate Sheriff Chad Chronister as DEA Administrator, emphasizing his law enforcement experience and dedication to fighting drug trafficking.
12/01/2024 --theepochtimes
If confirmed, Chronister will work with the Justice Department and incoming U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to tackle the fentanyl crisis.
 
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