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'Politburo of MAGA movement': CNN writer sees ominous message at Army vs. Navy game

Donald Trump’s lauding it over the Army vs. Navy football game over the weekend, flanked by the cohorts he's picked for Cabinet positions or that he reviles as staunch allies in Congress, sent shivers down a CNN columnist’s spine Monday. “When Trump, Vance and the congressional leaders — as well as the ubiquitous Elon Musk — peered over the loudly …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Senior Republican plots 'scheme' to derail 4 Trump nominations: MSNBC's Katty Kay

Raw Story

According to MSNBC contributor Katty Kay, incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune is working behind the scenes with his GOP colleagues to cripple the nominations of at least four of Donald Trump's nominees to his cabinet. With Rep. Matt Gaetz already having withdrawn his name for consideration to be the next attorney general, Kay reported to the "Morning Joe" panel …

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Top House Republican sounds alarm: Senate could blow chance to pass Trump tax plan

Raw Story

A key House Republican is already challenging incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune, warning that his strategy risks blowing Republicans' best chance to pass President-elect Donald Trump's tax bill, reported NBC News. This comes a week after reports that Thune wants to split the budget reconciliation process into two parts: one bill to pass an immigration and energy package, and …

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1 week, 5 days ago

GOP Drama: Cotton Blocks Cornyn for Senate Intelligence Chair

Politico

A spokesperson for Thune declined to comment. Asked if he expects to claim the gavel, Cotton on Tuesday said, “No comment.” On Tuesday night, Cotton spokeswoman Caroline Tabler said: “Senator Thune has told Senator Cotton he’s taking over as chair. Cornyn approached Cotton to take his temperature about the post last month after the leader race, I’m told by a …

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1 week, 5 days ago

Outgoing Senate GOP Leader McConnell Has A Fall In Latest Health Episode

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell suffered a sprained wrist but was not otherwise seriously injured after falling following a weekly lunch gathering with his colleagues, his office said Tuesday. Sen. John Barrasso said McConnell’s fall happened after he left the lunch and was going through a Senate reception room. At a weekly press conference not long after …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

GOP lawmakers already divided over sweeping Trump policy bill

Politico

“Our members need to weigh in on that. “We’re all unified around the objectives, how we roll it out, the tactics and strategies, still under discussion.” Supporters of the two-step strategy believe moving quickly on a first bill will let them get an early win on some of their biggest campaign promises — namely border security — right off the …

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2 weeks, 5 days ago

Playbook: Hegseth on the brink, Raskin on the move

Politico

Playbook: Hegseth on the brink, Raskin on the move Presented by With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine DRIVING THE DAY UNITING THE TRIBES — JONATHAN COWAN, co-founder and president of Third Way, is endorsing Wisconsin Democratic Party Chair BEN WIKLER to lead the DNC, he writes in a buzzy, just-posted POLITICO Magazine piece — a notable …

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3 weeks ago

'Last culling': MSNBC host expects midterms to rid GOP of senators not in MAGA 'lockstep'

Raw Story

The MAGA wing of the Republican Party has been successful in taking over the House of Representatives, but there are still those in the U.S. Senate who don't adore Donald Trump. But in two years, one-third of the Senate will be up for reelection again — and an MSNBC reporter thinks that could see a further culling of those not …

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4 weeks ago

Trump news: Forget Project 2025. Steve Bannon is laying out what’s really coming.

Slate

Steve Bannon got out of prison exactly a week before Election Day. In the week I listened to the show, I heard Boris Epshteyn, a top Trump adviser, congratulate Bannon as a “warrior.” William McGinley, Trump’s choice for White House counsel, declared that the War Room posse “really delivered the victory.” Scott Bessent, Trump’s treasury secretary pick, went on the …

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1 month ago

Rebel GOP senators begin to stand up against Trump plan

Raw Story

President-elect Donald Trump has threatened to use a process known as "recess appointments" if GOP senators give him a hard time with his more controversial administration picks, who range from anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to head the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — whose critics consider her an apologist for …

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1 month ago

Donald Trump just blew up any concept of a MAGA mandate

Salon

Contrary to his customary bragging that he won the election in an unprecedented landslide, President Donald Trump's percentage of the popular vote has fallen below 50% and it drops a little bit lower every day as the final votes are tallied up. Ever since Elon Musk and the rest of Trump's crack transition team gathered at Mar-a-Lago to plot his …

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Republicans Are Mad That Democrats Are Confirming Lots Of Biden's Judges

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LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― Senate Republicans are acting pretty mad that Democrats are using the lame duck to confirm lots of President Joe Biden’s judges. “After last night’s voting extravaganza, I wonder what we are doing.” Capito was referring to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer scheduling votes on some of Biden’s court picks on Monday night. “Particularly in the …

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

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. The White House slammed Senate Republicans and its incoming leader, Senator John Thune of …

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Trump can bypass Mitch McConnell to force through recess Cabinet hires: expert

Raw Story

Outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell has vowed that Donald Trump will not be successful in pushing the Senate into recess so that his Cabinet nominees can bypass the confirmation process. Sargent noted that Trump has appointed "profoundly unqualified people" to serve as the heads of top agencies like Fox host Pete Hegseth, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, Gov. "So, the …

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Senate GOP head delivers unwanted 'message to Trump team': report

Raw Story

Donald Trump on Sunday got a potentially devastating message from the Senate GOP leader, according to a report. Trump prior to announcing his nomination of Matt Gaetz said Republican leaders need to be ready to consent to recess appointments to skip the process of confirmation, despite the fact that the GOP just won the majority in the body. But over …

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1 month ago

In an authoritarian regime it’s important to control the news — and here we go

Raw Story

Donald Trump only got about a million more votes than he did in 2020, but Kamala Harris appears to have received somewhere between 6 and 10 million fewer votes than Joe Biden did that year. It appears that millions of voters essentially said, “I’m not going to vote for that nutcase Trump, but Harris isn’t speaking to the explosion in …

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Trump picks loyalists for top jobs, testing loyalty of Senate GOP

NPR

Trump picks loyalists for top jobs, testing loyalty of Senate GOP toggle caption Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images The nominees for several key Cabinet posts in the new administration of President-elect Donald Trump caught officials in Washington off guard this week and ignited a firestorm of criticism — not all of it from Democrats. That is an understatement as at least four …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Donald Trump Already Setting Up A Potential Constitutional Crisis Over His Appointments

Huff Post

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― Four years after sending a violent mob to the U.S. Capitol to coerce Congress into giving him a second term despite his election loss, Donald Trump is again trying to bully lawmakers, this time by demanding they adjourn and let him bypass their constitutional role if they will not quickly confirm his choices for his …

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Trump is determined to see Gaetz confirmed as AG despite controversies

CNN

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump is pressing forward with his decision to put forward former Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general, despite widespread unease on Capitol Hill about entrusting the Justice Department to a figure with limited legal experience who has recently faced investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct. Yet the president-elect has made clear that he views Gaetz as …

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Trump is determined to see Gaetz confirmed as AG despite controversies

CNN

CNN — President-elect Donald Trump is pressing forward with his decision to put forward former Rep. Matt Gaetz as attorney general, despite widespread unease on Capitol Hill about entrusting the Justice Department to a figure with limited legal experience who has recently faced investigations into allegations of sexual misconduct. Yet the president-elect has made clear that he views Gaetz as …

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1 month, 1 week ago

How far can Trump go to get his nominees confirmed?

NPR

How far can Trump go to get his nominees confirmed? His pressure campaign is already underway, with Trump posting on social media ahead of the Senate Republican leader election earlier this week that a majority leader "must agree" to allow for recess appointments if his nominees otherwise stall out during the confirmation process. Thune and other Republicans have worked to …

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1 month, 1 week ago

'What are they afraid of?' Democrat dares GOP to release controversial Matt Gaetz report

Raw Story

Judiciary committee member Sen. Alex Padilla has dared Republicans to release the findings of an Ethics probe into accusations Rep. Matt Gaetz had sex with a minor. "Just what's in the public domain is already disqualifying, I believe, for Matt Gaetz, but hey, this is Donald Trump's choice, and so let's go through the process," Padilla said. Padilla said he …

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1 month, 1 week ago

How Donald Trump loyalists and MAGA hustlers descended on Mar-a-Lago to fight for a role in his White House

ABC

Mar-a-Lago might have a million-dollar membership, but once you're in the club, you're close to the people and the president-elect who are building the next government of the United States. She runs an "anti-woke" PR firm and described the jockeying for White House positions going on at Trump's sprawling Florida estate as "like House of Cards on the lido deck". …

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1 month, 1 week ago

"Absolute abdication of their constitutional power": Trump's one weird trick for filling his Cabinet

Salon

If you wanted to test the loyalty of the U.S. Senate and its members’ willingness to capitulate to you and your agenda, you might do what the president-elect just did: nominate a slew of underqualified and unsavory characters to lead the nation’s most important institutions, all at once, and dare the upper chamber’s majority to say “no.” In the past …

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'Politburo of MAGA movement': CNN writer sees ominous message at Army vs. Navy game

Senior Republican plots 'scheme' to derail 4 Trump nominations: MSNBC's Katty Kay

Top House Republican sounds alarm: Senate could blow chance to pass Trump tax plan

GOP Drama: Cotton Blocks Cornyn for Senate Intelligence Chair

Outgoing Senate GOP Leader McConnell Has A Fall In Latest Health Episode

GOP lawmakers already divided over sweeping Trump policy bill

Playbook: Hegseth on the brink, Raskin on the move

'Last culling': MSNBC host expects midterms to rid GOP of senators not in MAGA 'lockstep'

Trump news: Forget Project 2025. Steve Bannon is laying out what’s really coming.

Rebel GOP senators begin to stand up against Trump plan

Donald Trump just blew up any concept of a MAGA mandate

Republicans Are Mad That Democrats Are Confirming Lots Of Biden's Judges

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

Trump can bypass Mitch McConnell to force through recess Cabinet hires: expert

Senate GOP head delivers unwanted 'message to Trump team': report

In an authoritarian regime it’s important to control the news — and here we go

Trump picks loyalists for top jobs, testing loyalty of Senate GOP

Donald Trump Already Setting Up A Potential Constitutional Crisis Over His Appointments

Trump is determined to see Gaetz confirmed as AG despite controversies

Trump is determined to see Gaetz confirmed as AG despite controversies

How far can Trump go to get his nominees confirmed?

'What are they afraid of?' Democrat dares GOP to release controversial Matt Gaetz report

How Donald Trump loyalists and MAGA hustlers descended on Mar-a-Lago to fight for a role in his White House

"Absolute abdication of their constitutional power": Trump's one weird trick for filling his Cabinet