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Trump orders Senate GOP not to ‘fast-track’ confirmations — Will some nominees change?
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Trump orders Senate GOP not to ‘fast-track’ confirmations — Will some nominees change?

Raw Story  

After strongly defending even his most controversial nominees, and amid growing skepticism, pushback, and occasional mockery, even from Republican senators, President-elect Donald Trump issued a confusing statement Tuesday night, ordering Senate Republicans to not "fast track" any "nominations." "To all Senate Republicans: NO DEAL WITH DEMOCRATS TO FAST TRACK NOMINATIONS AT THE END OF THIS CONGRESS," Trump wrote Tuesday night …

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House and Senate Republicans debate which priorities to move on first
3 weeks, 4 days ago

House and Senate Republicans debate which priorities to move on first

NPR  

House and Senate Republicans debate which priorities to move on first Senate and House GOP leaders plan a wide-ranging policy agenda but have a short window to act; and passing bills using rules to get around a filibuster requires near unanimity. NPR congressional correspondent Deirdre Walsh reports that House and Senate Republicans are debating what to do first. DEIRDRE WALSH, …

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Tommy Tuberville insists it’s not GOP’s ‘job’ to vet Trump’s cabinet picks
1 month ago

Tommy Tuberville insists it’s not GOP’s ‘job’ to vet Trump’s cabinet picks

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 Tommy Tuberville, a Donald Trump loyalist, said it wasn’t the …

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Trump wanted to build an anti-#MeToo Cabinet — but it's backfiring badly
1 month ago

Trump wanted to build an anti-#MeToo Cabinet — but it's backfiring badly

Salon  

While this was never explicitly stated, one of Donald Trump's most obvious campaign promises to his mostly-male fan base was that he could bring American women to heel. As Leigh Gilmore, the author of “The #MeToo Effect: What Happens When We Believe Women," told the New York Times, this kind of backstory is "appealing" to Trump, because "it normalizes his …

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Scandals Are Sinking Some of Trump’s Cabinet Picks. But a Big Question Remains for the Senate.
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Scandals Are Sinking Some of Trump’s Cabinet Picks. But a Big Question Remains for the Senate.

Slate  

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Defense Department, has spent his week crisscrossing Senate office buildings as he tries to save his nomination. After Trump’s initial Cabinet picks were stocked with more traditional selections, like Florida Sen. Marco Rubio to lead the State Department, Hegseth was the first in a slew of controversial nominations. Within a matter …

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Democrats win final seat in US House, cutting into Republican majority
1 month, 1 week ago

Democrats win final seat in US House, cutting into Republican majority

Al Jazeera  

Republicans hold a 220-215 majority in House of Representatives but will have to deal with three early vacancies. Washington, DC – Democrats have won the last race to be called in the United States House of Representatives, leaving their Republican rivals with a razor-thin majority in the chamber after the November 5 elections. The Republicans’ narrow edge in the chamber …

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'Red line': Trump legal ally threatens to make Senate Republicans' 'political lives hell'
1 month, 1 week ago

'Red line': Trump legal ally threatens to make Senate Republicans' 'political lives hell'

Raw Story  

Donald Trump on Saturday announced he would appoint Kash Patel to be director of the FBI, causing outrage among critics and leading to a pre-emptive strike to Senate Republicans from an ally of the president-elect. Kash will bring much-needed reforms to a badly broken and corrupt agency," Davis wrote on social media, noting that his legal group Article III Project …

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Senators took down one Trump Cabinet pick. But the fight over their authority is just beginning
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Senators took down one Trump Cabinet pick. But the fight over their authority is just beginning

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — It’s a short phrase in the Constitution, mentioned in passing. The withdrawal of Matt Gaetz as Trump’s nominee for attorney general dramatically affirmed that the Senate still maintains its “advice and consent” powers when it comes to vetting and installing a president’s Cabinet. “From what I’m hearing from my Republican colleagues on everything from defense secretary to other …

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GOP says good riddance to Gaetz — with most refusing to even say his name
1 month, 2 weeks ago

GOP says good riddance to Gaetz — with most refusing to even say his name

Raw Story  

WASHINGTON – Republicans on Capitol Hill are privately celebrating after former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his nomination for attorney general. “So you don’t even want to talk about Matt Gaetz?” Raw Story asked the incoming chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee in a cramped Capitol elevator. “If you got a non-Gaetz question, you’re first,” Sen. Thom Tillis told Raw Story. …

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After Gaetz withdraws as attorney general choice, Trump names another Florida loyalist
1 month, 3 weeks ago

After Gaetz withdraws as attorney general choice, Trump names another Florida loyalist

LA Times  

Rep. Matt Gaetz arrives to speak before Sen. JD Vance at a campaign event on Nov. 4 in Atlanta. After Gaetz announced his withdrawal, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said the decision was “appropriate.” Sen. Charles E. Grassley said he respected Gaetz’s decision and looked forward to confirming “qualified” nominees moving forward. But clearly with Gaetz, Trump was given a …

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The Danger of Making the Matt Gaetz Nomination About Sexual Misconduct
1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Danger of Making the Matt Gaetz Nomination About Sexual Misconduct

Slate  

Coverage of President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz to be attorney general has concentrated largely on his sex scandals and the question of whether the House Ethics Committee will release its long-awaited and probably damaging report on Gaetz’s alleged sexual encounter with an underage girl. Also, so the theory in some Democratic circles presumably goes, it would give Senate …

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Trump demands the Senate stop doing its job confirming judges before he takes office
1 month, 3 weeks ago

Trump demands the Senate stop doing its job confirming judges before he takes office

The Independent  

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One-party rule can be democratic or dangerous
1 month, 3 weeks ago

One-party rule can be democratic or dangerous

Salon  

The 2024 election has installed a regime of one-party government in Washington. The Framers did not establish safeguards against the possibility that national-party solidarity would transcend state boundaries because they did not imagine such a thing was possible.” Crucially for the present moment, they also did not “foresee that members of Congress and perhaps members of the judicial branch, too, …

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The Disturbing Reason Senate Republicans Might Greenlight All of Trump’s Nominees
1 month, 3 weeks ago

The Disturbing Reason Senate Republicans Might Greenlight All of Trump’s Nominees

Slate  

Just days after he won reelection, Donald Trump began rolling out his Cabinet picks, the people who’ll run the machinery of the federal government over the next four years. On this week’s episode of Amicus, Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern discussed the harrowing possibility of a government staffed by dangerous conspiracy theorists, alleged sex offenders, and apologists for Vladimir …

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What does the Republican ‘trifecta’ mean for Trump and his agenda?
1 month, 3 weeks ago

What does the Republican ‘trifecta’ mean for Trump and his agenda?

Al Jazeera  

Trump will enter the White House with Republicans in control of both the House and Senate, creating a chance for lasting changes. “The level of opportunity that Donald Trump has right now is very high,” said Todd Belt, a professor at George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management. “This is a trifecta, but a relatively weak one, and Trump’s …

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'Middle finger': Columnist says Trump just issued a 'dare' for Republicans to disobey him
1 month, 3 weeks ago

'Middle finger': Columnist says Trump just issued a 'dare' for Republicans to disobey him

Raw Story  

Donald Trump is kicking off his new presidency with a power move aimed at humiliating Senate Republicans, wrote Karen Tumulty for The Washington Post — and he's daring them to step out of line. Specifically, that move is the nomination of far-right MAGA loyalist Rep. Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general, mere days before the House was set to …

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How Donald Trump Could Bypass Congress To Install Matt Gaetz As Attorney General
1 month, 3 weeks ago

How Donald Trump Could Bypass Congress To Install Matt Gaetz As Attorney General

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — The mood in Congress among Republicans following Donald Trump’s announcement of former Rep. Matt Gaetz as his pick for attorney general was best summed up by Rep. Mike Simpson : “Are you shittin’ me?” Several Republicans on Wednesday said they were “shocked” and skeptical that the Senate would approve Gaetz next year — but there …

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Matt Gaetz Trump pick: His attorney general choice is even more horrifying than it looks.
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Matt Gaetz Trump pick: His attorney general choice is even more horrifying than it looks.

Slate  

On Wednesday, Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Republican Congressman Matthew Gaetz to lead the Department of Justice—the same agency that once investigated Gaetz for the sex trafficking of an underage girl. Trump’s desire to nominate Gaetz for attorney general marks an effort to simultaneously degrade and weaponize the DOJ, subverting its mission of principled, nonpartisan law enforcement while …

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Watch live: Senate Republicans speak for first time since John Thune elected Senate majority leader
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Watch live: Senate Republicans speak for first time since John Thune elected Senate majority leader

The Independent  

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US Senate Republicans pick insider John Thune as next leader, reject Trump loyalist push
1 month, 4 weeks ago

US Senate Republicans pick insider John Thune as next leader, reject Trump loyalist push

Firstpost  

Republican senators have elected a well-regarded insider John Thune of South Dakota as their new leader, bypassing calls from Trump supporters for a loyalist US Sen. John Thune arrives for the Senate Republican leadership elections at the US Capitol on Wednesday in Washington, DC. AFP Republican senators have elected a well-regarded insider John Thune of South Dakota as their new …

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Senate Republicans choose new leader amid MAGA pressure campaign
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1 month, 4 weeks ago

Senate Republicans choose new leader amid MAGA pressure campaign

Raw Story  

Senate Republicans on Wednesday chose their next majority leader to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell and brought to a close an intense pressure campaign from President-elect Donald Trump's MAGA allies. Thune and Cornyn both boast lengthy tenures in the Senate, dating back to former President George W. Bush’s administration, and strong ties to the institutionalist wing of the GOP. Carlson mounted …

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Trump to steamroll his own party in Congress with 'recess appointments' and demands Republicans elect Senate leader who will comply
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2 months ago

Trump to steamroll his own party in Congress with 'recess appointments' and demands Republicans elect Senate leader who will comply

Daily Mail  

President-elect Donald Trump has demanded that any Republican senator vying to be the next majority leader must back his use of recess appointments. Trump posted on X: 'Any Republican Senator seeking the coveted LEADERSHIP position in the United States Senate must agree to Recess Appointments, without which we will not be able to get people confirmed in a timely manner. …

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Opinion: Trump and our disappearing checks and balances
2 months ago

Opinion: Trump and our disappearing checks and balances

LA Times  

If ever a U.S. president needed the checks and balances that the founders established, it’s law-breaking, oath-violating Donald Trump. Republican Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, House speaker in 2017 and 2018, broke with Trump in 2016 over the “grab ’em by the pussy” tape, but became accommodating enough once Trump was president. As Punchbowl News reported : “Now Trump gets …

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From the pages of The Hindu, November 7, 1974: Democrats triumph in U.S. elections
2 months ago

From the pages of The Hindu, November 7, 1974: Democrats triumph in U.S. elections

The Hindu  

Washington, Nov. 6: The Democrat Party routed the Republicans in the mid-term elections held yesterday, and for the next two years President Ford will face a theoretically veto-proof Congress dominated by his opponents. The voter hostility generated by the Watergate scandals, Mr. Ford’s pardon of Mr. Nixon, six per cent unemployment and 12 per cent inflation swept even incumbent Republicans …

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