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Trump asserts leadership, dismisses claims of Musk’s presidential influence

President-elect Donald Trump made it clear on Sunday that while Elon Musk plays a prominent role in his administration but he will not be the one calling the shots. While praising Musk as a “great guy,” Trump clarified that Musk’s role would be in leading the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency, an agency aimed at reducing the size of …

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Trump's spending fight: What it means for the next four years

India Today

WASHINGTON: After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal in the early hours of Saturday, narrowly averting a pre-Christmas government shutdown. Charlie Kirk, the prominent conservative activist, wrote on X that Trump “is already running Congress before he takes office!” House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he had …

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What Trump’s decision to wade into spending fight tells us about the next 4 years

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal in the early hours of Saturday, narrowly averting a pre-Christmas government shutdown. A Coast Guard patrol boat cruises near Mar-a-Lago, President-elect Donald Trump’s Palm Beach home, in Palm Beach, Fla., Saturday, Dec. 21, 2024. Share Share Copy Link …

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2 days, 14 hours ago

Top House Republican makes major prediction for next year — even as colleagues less sure

Raw Story

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise predicted Friday that Speaker Mike Johnson would hold on to his job when the next Congress convenes in January – but he still has a tall order to win over a majority of member votes. Tensions rose on Capitol Hill after Wednesday’s collapse of the spending bill prompted suggestions that Johnson should be replaced as …

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2 days, 15 hours ago

'Foolish': McConnell blasts Republicans pushing Christmas shutdown in leadership farewell

Raw Story

Sen. Mitch McConnell gave a leadership farewell speech in the Senate on Friday as he prepares to step down as Senate Republican Leader, reported CNN — and took a parting shot at his colleagues in the House whose last-minute obedience to threats from tech billionaire Elon Musk led to a bipartisan funding agreement falling apart, and a possible government shutdown. …

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3 days, 10 hours ago

'Do you want to debate?' CNN anchor presses frustrated GOP lawmaker

Raw Story

A CNN host’s persistent interjections during an interview with Rep. Mike Lawler caused the exasperated lawmaker to ask if she wanted an answer – or a debate. The moment happened Thursday night on CNN’s “The Source” when host Kaitlan Collins refused to let Lawler get by on his outrage that Democrats sunk a revised temporary spending bill that collapsed in …

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4 days, 3 hours ago

Looming government shutdown a 'terrifying preview' of Trump and DOGE

Raw Story

U.S. President Trump and his allies, including billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, are blowing up bipartisan efforts to prevent a government shutdown that could begin this weekend with statements opposing a proposed stopgap measure. White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a Wednesday statement that "Republicans need to stop playing politics with this bipartisan agreement or they will …

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4 days, 14 hours ago

Trump rejects bipartisan plan to prevent Christmas-time government shutdown

India Today

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday disrupted bipartisan efforts to avert a government shutdown as he pressured his fellow Republicans in Congress to reject a stopgap bill to keep the government funded past the end of the week. Trump instead urged Congress to pass legislation that would tie up loose ends before he takes office next month by raising the government's …

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US funding plan collapses as Trump makes demands days before shutdown

India Today

WASHINGTON: President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan Wednesday to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown, instead telling House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans to essentially renegotiate — days before a deadline when federal funding runs out. Jeffries said “an agreement is an agreement,” and by backing out of it “the House Republicans “will now own any harm that is …

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4 days, 14 hours ago

Like old times: Trump sends Congress scrambling to avoid a shutdown

NPR

Like old times: Trump sends Congress scrambling to avoid a shutdown toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images President-elect Donald Trump hasn't been sworn in yet but he's already running Washington again in his familiar style of upheaval and intraparty drama, starting with the decision to kill a bipartisan spending bill without a strategy to avoid a government shutdown. Trump and his …

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4 days, 14 hours ago

The Trump-Musk governing duo is clearly a work in progress

Politico

The sequence highlighted the evolving dynamic with his high-profile benefactor-turned-adviser and raised an awkward question for Trump of whether he or Musk was running the show. In phone interviews with reporters at ABC, CBS and NBC, Trump also called for the debt ceiling to be eliminated or extended and emphasized that if the government did in fact shut down, “it’ll …

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4 days, 14 hours ago

Biden keeps quiet as Washington spirals into shutdown chaos

Politico

“I haven’t gotten any message from President Biden, or heard of anything that he’s saying,” said Rep. Mark Takano. Biden had not spoken with Speaker Mike Johnson, and top House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries declined to say whether he’d connected personally with the president in the last 24 hours — allowing only that he’d been in “close contact with the administration.” …

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4 days, 19 hours ago

Government funding plan collapses as Trump makes new demands

Associated Press

▶ Follow live updates on federal funding negotiations as a government shutdown looms. WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump abruptly rejected a bipartisan plan Wednesday to prevent a Christmastime government shutdown, instead telling House Speaker Mike Johnson and Republicans to essentially renegotiate — days before a deadline when federal funding runs out. AP AUDIO: Government funding plan collapses as Trump makes …

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‘Isn’t this banana republic stuff?!’ CNN anchor presses MAGA lawmaker on GOP’s Liz Cheney investigation

The Independent

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Get our free Inside Washington email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy CNN anchor Jim Acosta confronted Rep. Tim Burchett on Wednesday …

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5 days, 22 hours ago

'Total dumpster fire': Republicans rage at Mike Johnson over new government funding chaos

Raw Story

House Republicans lashed out at Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday after a closed-door meeting about a stopgap government funding bill. "It's a total dumpster fire," Rep. Eric Burlison told reporters. Burlison noted that Johnson was prepared to add a billion dollars to the budget even as Republicans were celebrating the creation of President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, chaired …

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6 days, 14 hours ago

'I do not need to be involved in circuses': GOP lawmaker refuses committee assignments

Raw Story

Rep. Victoria Spartz is locking horns with her own party ahead of the new Congress. Despite being re-elected to her Indiana district last month for a third term, Spartz said Monday she will refuse committee assignments when the House of Representatives convenes next month and will not caucus with Republicans. I would rather spend more of my time helping @DOGE …

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1 week, 3 days ago

About 3 in 10 are highly confident in Trump on Cabinet, spending or military oversight: AP-NORC poll

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Americans may have recently elected Donald Trump to a second term, but that doesn’t mean they have high confidence in his ability to choose well-qualified people for his Cabinet — or effectively manage government spending, the military and the White House, according to a new poll from the AP-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. A large share of …

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Biden issues veto threat on bill expanding federal judiciary as partisan split emerges

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — House Republicans teed up a vote this week on bipartisan legislation to gradually expand by 66 the number of federal judgeships across the country. Rep. Jim Jordan, the Republican chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, explained the timing this way: “We just didn’t get to the legislation.” The change of heart about the bill from some Democrats and …

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2 weeks ago

New California Sen. Adam Schiff wants to be more than a Trump antagonist

Associated Press

WASHINGTON — Democrat Adam Schiff stood on the Senate floor almost five years ago as a House impeachment manager and made a passionate case that Donald Trump should be removed from office for abusing the power of the presidency. He says those priorities will frequently be at odds in the era of Trump, “and so I’ll have to try to …

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'Undergrad level of knowledge': Reporter dismantles claim perpetuated by House Republicans

Raw Story

Politico reporter Jonathan Martin on Sunday dispelled a claim — perpetuated by House Republicans — that President-elect Donald Trump "dragged" the Senate "into the majority," as GOP infighting takes center stage leading up to Trump’s second term. CNN on Sunday reported a rift between Senate and House Republicans over the “sequencing” of Trump’s agenda. Rep. Eric Burlison on Thursday tweeted …

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2 weeks, 1 day ago

'Landmines loom over' GOP agenda with warning Congress not 'on the same page' with Trump

Raw Story

Republicans in Congress and the incoming Donald Trump administration are facing an internal battle over the president-elect’s “first 100-day agenda” as senators prepare to push border security and energy production over House GOP calls for a tax bill, CNN reports. The strife represents “a preview of the landmines looming over the GOP’s ambitious agenda despite controlling all of Washington,” according …

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3 weeks ago

House Republicans brand Joe Biden ‘liar’ for pardoning ‘criminal’ son Hunter

Hindustan Times

House Republicans have branded Joe Biden a “liar” for pardoning his son Hunter. Republicans fume at Joe Biden for pardoning son Hunter Republicans, including the future president, swiftly called out Biden after he pardoned Hunter of all “offenses against the United States which he has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 1, …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

‘Cost us seats’: GOP turns on libertarians as it laments small House majority

Raw Story

House Republicans just barely managed to retain their majority in the election — a weak showing compared to their largest presidential victory since 2004 and their gain of seats in the Senate. These two PACs combined "spent $840,000 to boost Libertarian candidates in three races that Republicans narrowly lost in Ohio, North Carolina and Oregon." Those races involved Democratic incumbent …

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3 weeks, 5 days ago

Tim Walz accepts turkey presentation as he eases back into his duties as Minnesota’s governor

Associated Press

ST. PAUL, Minn. — As feathers flew, Tim Walz accepted the symbolic presentation of a turkey Tuesday as he eases back into his duties as Minnesota’s governor following the Harris-Walz ticket’s defeat in the presidential election. Unlike the Minnesota-grown turkeys that President Joe Biden pardoned at the White House on Monday, Walz didn’t pardon this turkey, he said, “because in …

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Trump asserts leadership, dismisses claims of Musk’s presidential influence

Trump's spending fight: What it means for the next four years

What Trump’s decision to wade into spending fight tells us about the next 4 years

Top House Republican makes major prediction for next year — even as colleagues less sure

'Foolish': McConnell blasts Republicans pushing Christmas shutdown in leadership farewell

'Do you want to debate?' CNN anchor presses frustrated GOP lawmaker

Looming government shutdown a 'terrifying preview' of Trump and DOGE

Trump rejects bipartisan plan to prevent Christmas-time government shutdown

US funding plan collapses as Trump makes demands days before shutdown

Like old times: Trump sends Congress scrambling to avoid a shutdown

The Trump-Musk governing duo is clearly a work in progress

Biden keeps quiet as Washington spirals into shutdown chaos

Government funding plan collapses as Trump makes new demands

‘Isn’t this banana republic stuff?!’ CNN anchor presses MAGA lawmaker on GOP’s Liz Cheney investigation

'Total dumpster fire': Republicans rage at Mike Johnson over new government funding chaos

'I do not need to be involved in circuses': GOP lawmaker refuses committee assignments

About 3 in 10 are highly confident in Trump on Cabinet, spending or military oversight: AP-NORC poll

Biden issues veto threat on bill expanding federal judiciary as partisan split emerges

New California Sen. Adam Schiff wants to be more than a Trump antagonist

'Undergrad level of knowledge': Reporter dismantles claim perpetuated by House Republicans

'Landmines loom over' GOP agenda with warning Congress not 'on the same page' with Trump

House Republicans brand Joe Biden ‘liar’ for pardoning ‘criminal’ son Hunter

‘Cost us seats’: GOP turns on libertarians as it laments small House majority

Tim Walz accepts turkey presentation as he eases back into his duties as Minnesota’s governor