Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency is calling for volunteers to send in their résumés — via X direct message. DOGE, which uses the same acronym as its X handle, wants to recruit “super high-IQ small-government revolutionaries willing to work 80+ hours per week on unglamorous cost-cutting,” according to its post on X. Musk […]
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The lawyer representing a woman former Rep. Matt Gaetz allegedly had sex with when she was a minor called on the House Ethics Committee to “immediately” release its report into his alleged conduct. “Mr. Gaetz’s likely nomination as Attorney General is a perverse development in a truly dark series of events,” attorney John Clune wrote […]
House Ethics Chair Michael Guest is seemingly sticking to his decision to not release his panel’s report about Matt Gaetz after the Floridian’s abrupt resignation Wednesday. “What happens in Ethics is confidential. We’re going to maintain that confidentiality,” Guest (R-Miss.) told reporters Thursday morning as he left the House floor. “I’ve given my statement yesterday […]
MAGA won big. Now MAHA is ready to take on Washington. President-elect Donald Trump promised Robert F. Kennedy Jr. a chance to implement his Make America Healthy Again vision and Kennedy is in the mix to run the Department of Health and Human Services. That could turn the government’s role in public health upside down. […]
House Republicans have salvaged an agreement on their internal rules, according to six people familiar with the discussions, after it appeared to be on shaky ground for hours earlier on Thursday. If the agreement — struck by opposing factions within the GOP’s narrow majority Wednesday afternoon — had unraveled, it would have been a significant […]
Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy predicted Thursday that the Senate won’t allow the man who took away his speaker’s gavel to become attorney general. McCarthy has long feuded with now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who resigned from Congress Wednesday after President-elect Donald Trump announced plans to nominate him to lead the Department of Justice. It […]
Senate Judiciary Chair Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) on Thursday demanded the House Ethics Committee share its pending report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Justice. “I am calling on the House Ethics Committee to preserve and share their report and all relevant documentation on Mr. Gaetz with the […]
Senate Republicans are skeptical of Donald Trump’s aggressive new tariff plans — especially lawmakers from states with large agriculture industries that could bear the brunt of likely foreign retaliation. “Tariffs have a place, but there is also the other side, which is: what about the repercussions of [countries] putting tariffs in a retaliatory method on […]
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley said she had “no interest” in taking a role in President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet. “I had no interest in being in his Cabinet, he knew that,” Haley said during an episode of her radio show, “SiriusXM’s Nikki Haley Live,” on Wednesday. She said Steve Witkoff, whom Trump has since announced […]
House Republicans tapped their leadership team for the next Congress on Wednesday and formally notched their majority when the Associated Press called Rep. Juan Ciscomani’s (R-Ariz.) reelection. But the size of that razor-thin majority remains in flux — even before factoring in the departures of three GOP members nominated for roles in the Trump administration. […]