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• Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi's release offers hope amid Trump crackdown

  01-05-2025 23:34 via thehill.com
  
  Pro-Palestinian students detained by immigration authorities saw their biggest win to date this week with the release of Mohsen Mahdawi, though both his case and the fight at large have a long way to go. While the ruling is not the kind of slam dunk that would make advocates feel safer about the state of free speech on college campuses, it is the first major breakthrough in the courts for international students who have been besieged by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under Presid
  
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• Stephen Miller claims Americans likely 'willing to pay more' for US-made dolls

  01-05-2025 23:32 via thehill.com
  
  Top White House aide Stephen Miller claimed Thursday that Americans are likely to be “willing to pay more” for American-made dolls.On Wednesday, President Trump said that children could have fewer toys amid high tariffs on trading partners.“You know, someone said, ‘Oh, the shelves, they’re going to be open.’ Well, maybe the children will have two dolls instead of 30 dolls, and maybe the two dolls will cost a couple of bucks more than they would normally,&rdquo
  
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• Almost half of layoffs this year driven by DOGE: Report

  01-05-2025 23:16 via thehill.com
  
  Nearly half of all layoffs so far in 2025 have been driven by cuts related to the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) efforts to slash government funding and reduce the size of the federal workforce, according to a new report from outplacement firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas.The report shows that “DOGE Actions” led to 283,172 job cuts in the first four months of 2025, and “DOGE Downstream Impact” was cited as the reason for another 6,945 job losses, whi
  
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• 38 Republicans call for 'full repeal' of Democrats' energy tax credits

  01-05-2025 23:15 via thehill.com
  
  A group of Republicans called for a “full repeal” of energy tax credits passed by Democrats in 2022 in a Thursday letter.Their letter comes after a different group of 21 Republicans, mostly moderates, called for changes to be “targeted and pragmatic” in March, and four senators expressed opposition to a “full-scale” repeal last month. The two letters underscore the challenges GOP leaders face amid divisions in their caucus as they try to come up with a ma
  
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• Waltz exit adds to 'chaos' in Trump's national security team

  01-05-2025 23:05 via thehill.com
  
  The ousting of national security adviser Mike Waltz triggered a major shake-up in President Trump’s White House team, which is divided between America First-isolationists and traditional Republican hawks. Trump announced Thursday afternoon that Waltz, a hawkish former congressman, would become his nominee for U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio expanding his portfolio to include national security adviser in the interim. Waltz has b
  
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• Trump administration asks Supreme Court to end protected status for 600,000 Venezuelans

  01-05-2025 22:55 via thehill.com
  
  The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Thursday to end deportation protections for more than 600,000 Venezuelans, the administration’s latest plea for the justices to intervene in President Trump’s sweeping immigration agenda. The emergency application seeks to lift a San Francisco-based federal district judge’s ruling that halted the administration’s plans as a legal challenge proceeds, with that decision finding the abrupt poli
  
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• Rubio first since Kissinger to be secretary of State and national security adviser

  01-05-2025 22:08 via thehill.com
  
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio will become the first person other than Henry Kissinger to lead the State Department and serve as national security adviser at the same time.
  Multiple people have held both roles during their career, but at different times, including Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice.President Trump announced Thursday that Rubio would take over as national security adviser on an interim basis, after Mike Waltz was ousted from the post and announced as Trump's nominee for U.N. ambas
  
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• Reporter informs State spokesperson of Rubio's new role during briefing

  01-05-2025 21:37 via thehill.com
  
  A reporter was the one to inform a State Department spokesperson during a briefing Thursday that President Trump had tapped Secretary of State Marco Rubio to take on a new role.The journalist shared Trump’s announcement on Truth Social that he was nominating national security adviser Mike Waltz to be United Nations ambassador and putting Rubio into the adviser position on an interim basis, alongside his State Department work. “It is clear that I just heard this from you,”
  
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• Duffy unveils air traffic controller recruitment, retention program

  01-05-2025 21:09 via thehill.com
  
  Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has launched a new cash incentive program aimed at recruiting and retaining air traffic controllers, he announced Thursday.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will give $5,000 bonuses to all academy graduates and new hires that complete initial qualification training. Academy graduates assigned to 13 facilities that have faced additional hiring struggles will get $10,000.Additionally, certified professional controllers who are younger than 56 and opt not
  
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• Hegseth orders review of Pentagon acquisition program

  01-05-2025 21:05 via thehill.com
  
  Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered the Pentagon to review its Army acquisition program.In an April 30 memo to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, Hegseth ordered wide changes to the division.“To ensure the Army [is] prepared for the complex and evolving battlefield of the future, the Secretary of Defense directed the Secretary of the Army to rebuild out Army, restore the warrior ethos, and reestablish deterrence,” the Defense Department said Thursday in a statement.The memo directs
  
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• Trump taps Mike Waltz as UN ambassador, names Rubio as national security adviser

  01-05-2025 20:27 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump is tapping national security adviser Mike Waltz to be his ambassador to the United Nations following reports of his ouster in the midst of a controversy over a group text chat.Trump also announced Thursday he naming his Secretary of State Marco Rubio to replace Waltz as national security adviser on an interim basis.“I am pleased to announce that I will be nominating Mike Waltz to be the next United States Ambassador to the United Nations. From his time in uniform on the bat
  
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• More than 1,100 undocumented immigrants arrested in weeklong Florida operation

  01-05-2025 20:21 via thehill.com
  
  State and federal authorities arrested 1,120 immigrants lacking permanent legal status during a weeklong joint operation in Florida, officials said.The statewide effort, dubbed “Operation Tidal Wave,” took place April 21-26, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Hundreds of individuals from Guatemala, Mexico and Honduras were taken into custody, and many were listed as alleged members of foreign gangs, officials said.Those arrested included 378 criminal immigra
  
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• GOP lawmakers to introduce bill requiring app stores to verify users ages

  01-05-2025 20:00 via thehill.com
  
  A pair of GOP lawmakers will introduce legislation that would put the onus of age verification on app stores in the latest congressional push to boost online safety for kids.
  The bill, titled the App Store Accountability Act, would require app stores like those offered by Apple or Google to verify the ages of all users. It is being introduced by Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Rep. John James (R-Mich.), Lee's office confirmed to The Hill."Big Tech has profited from leading kids to inappropriate &
  
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• Bill O'Reilly 'fine' with diversity, inclusion

  01-05-2025 20:00 via thehill.com
  
  Political commentator Bill O’Reilly said on Wednesday he’s “fine” with diversity and inclusion efforts but criticized the push for equity in the popularized diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs.  “I’m fine with diversity, OK? I agree with [James] Carville on diversity. It’s a strength. And I’m fine with inclusion. I think everybody should have an equal pathway to pursue happiness,” the former Fox News host told media personalit
  
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• Norcross released from hospital, making 'remarkable and steady progress': Office

  01-05-2025 19:56 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Donald Norcross (D-N.J.) has been released from the hospital after undergoing treatment for a gallbladder infection that progressed to sepsis. Norcross’s office said in a release Thursday that he’s been discharged from the hospital and begun his rehabilitation. He credited the medical staff at Cooper University Health Care, where he was admitted, with saving his life. “The Congressman is making remarkable and steady progress and is well on his way to making a ful
  
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• US deports 131 undocumented Central Asian migrants to Uzbekistan

  01-05-2025 19:38 via thehill.com
  
  The U.S. said it deported more than 130 Central Asian immigrants without documentation to Uzbekistan, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced.In a Wednesday press release, the DHS said Uzbekistan’s government has worked alongside the U.S. in the deportation of more than 100 Uzbek, Kazakh and Kyrgyz immigrants. The department also said that the Uzbek immigrants’ deportations were “fully funded” by their government.“We commend Uzbekistan President Shavkat
  
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• House Democrats demand Musk financial disclosure from White House

  01-05-2025 19:34 via thehill.com
  
  Democratic lawmakers on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee demanded a copy of Elon Musk’s financial disclosure from the White House on Thursday amid concerns about potential conflicts of interest between the tech billionaire’s numerous businesses and his work for the Trump administration. Led by Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), the top Democrat on the panel, the lawmakers requested the financial disclosure that Musk was legally required to submit as a special govern
  
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• Senate Democrat: Waltz was 'fall guy' for Hegseth

  01-05-2025 19:16 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that national security adviser Mike Waltz has become the “fall guy” for the administration’s mistakes on national security and that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should resign as well.“He’s the fall guy. The one who should go is the secretary of Defense,” Blumenthal said.“This entire national security establishment of the Trump administration is a clown show exce
  
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• Whitmer says nation in constitutional crisis: 'This is a very serious moment'

  01-05-2025 19:08 via thehill.com
  
  Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) agreed in a recent podcast interview that she thinks the nation is facing a "constitutional crisis" under President Trump, particularly as he has openly pushed back on court orders that would restrict his executive actions."We are," Whitmer said when asked in an interview that will be released on Friday's episode of "Pod Save America," a progressive political podcast. "The thought that we've got an administration that is just blatantly violating court orders sh
  
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• Jeffries denies report he discouraged Democrats from visiting El Salvador: ‘Phantom conversation’

  01-05-2025 19:00 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday pushed back sharply against a report that he has discouraged members of his caucus from visiting El Salvador to highlight the Trump administration’s mistaken deportation of a Maryland resident to a notorious prison there. Speaking to reporters in the Capitol, Jeffries said the report, published by the Bulwark earlier in the week, was patently false, although he stopped short of endorsing such visits — past or future.&ldq
  
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• US sanctions Mexican cartel linked to drug trafficking

  01-05-2025 18:59 via thehill.com
  
  The Treasury Department announced on Thursday new sanctions against Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), one of Mexico’s largest crime organizations, which has been linked to fentanyl trafficking, fuel theft and crude oil smuggling across the southern border.The sanctions target three Mexican individuals and two Mexican-based entities: a leader of the cartel, Cesar Morfin Morfin, and his brothers Alvaro Noe Morfin Morfin and Remigio Morfin Morfin, as well as two hazardous material compani
  
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• US, Iran nuclear talks postponed, Oman says

  01-05-2025 18:40 via thehill.com
  
  The fourth round of nuclear talks between the U.S. and Iran, which were slated to take place in Rome over the weekend, have been postponed, according to Oman’s foreign minister. "For logistical reasons we are rescheduling the US Iran meeting provisionally planned for Saturday May 3rd. New dates will be announced when mutually agreed,” Omani Foreign Minister Badr al-Busaidi wrote Thursday in a post on social platform X. Washington “never confirmed its participation in
  
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• Chamber of Commerce asks for tariff exclusions, warns of recession

  01-05-2025 18:40 via thehill.com
  
  The U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked the Trump administration Wednesday for tariff exemptions for certain businesses and products, raising concerns about a recession.“The Chamber is hearing from small business owners every day who are seeing their ability to survive endangered by the recent increase in tariff rates. Suzanne Clark, the Chamber’s president and CEO, said in a letter addressed to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and U.S. Trade Representat
  
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• Mike Waltz out as Trump's national security adviser: Reports

  01-05-2025 17:43 via thehill.com
  
  National security adviser Mike Waltz is leaving his post, marking the first major departure of President Trump’s second administration in the wake of a controversy involving a text group chat, according to multiple news outlets.Waltz had been at the center of a controversy involving a group chat on the Signal app in which national security and defense officials were sharing key details of a military strike in Yemen. Waltz is said to be the person who inadvertently invited Jeffrey Goldberg,
  
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• Rubio calls officials in India, Pakistan in push to defuse crisis

  01-05-2025 17:29 via thehill.com
  
  Secretary of State Marco Rubio called officials in India and Pakistan in a push to defuse the escalating crisis between the neighboring countries after the deadly attack in Kashmir last week.Rubio spoke to Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and to Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar on Wednesday and urged them to work together to “de-escalate tensions” in order to “maintain peace and security in South Asia,” according to both State Department rea
  
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• House Democrat: I don't think Trump is 'competent'

  01-05-2025 17:26 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday he doesn’t think President Trump is “competent” in an interview on Fox News.“I don’t think he’s competent, Will, I don’t know what to tell you on whether his cognitive abilities are sufficient to get past the 25th Amendment,” Goldman said on the "The Will Cain Show.”“You know, we don’t know that right now, but I think what is clear is that he has driven our country into a disastrous economy
  
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• Wiles expects Trump to keep all Cabinet secretaries through first year

  01-05-2025 17:08 via thehill.com
  
  White House chief of staff Susie Wiles expects all of President Trump's Cabinet secretaries will stay in their posts through the first year of Trump's second term, she said in a rare interview this week marking Trump's first 100 days in office."They’re all spectacular performers, spectacular professionals. It’s a diverse group, and it’s — some of them are very atypical, so you’re never quite sure — but they have been spectacular, and they like each other," Wil
  
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• Education Department announces reforms to college accreditation process

  01-05-2025 17:00 via thehill.com
  
  The Education Department announced Thursday it would be changing how universities change college accreditors while attempting to make it easier for new accreditors to get on the scene. College accreditation is part of the process universities go through in order to receive federal student aid, with an accreditor evaluating everything a school does from class offerings to admission processes.  The department sent a "Dear Colleague" letter to universities informing them the process will
  
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• House votes to overturn California gas car ban — again defying internal watchdog

  01-05-2025 16:58 via thehill.com
  
  The House voted Thursday to ax California’s electric vehicle mandate — defying Congress’s own internal watchdog for the second day in a row.The House voted to undo the Biden administration’s approval of the California rule, which bans the sale of new gas-powered cars starting in 2035, using a tool known as the Congressional Review Act (CRA).The CRA allows Congress, with a simple majority in both chambers and presidential approval, to reverse recent regulations, evading th
  
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• GM: Tariffs could cut $5B from profits

  01-05-2025 16:25 via thehill.com
  
  American automaker General Motors (GM) said Thursday that President Trump’s tariffs could cut as much as $5 billion from its profits this year.In a letter to investors, GM CEO and Chair Mary Barra said her company has “had continual discussions with the President and his team since before the inauguration."“They have invested the time to understand what it takes to be successful in this capital-intensive and highly competitive global industry, how we can work together to grow A
  
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• Elon Musk leaves the White House - EADaily

  01-05-2025 16:19 via news.google.com
  Elon Musk leaves the White House  EADaily
  
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• Bessent: 'We put China to the side' in trade negotiations

  01-05-2025 16:12 via thehill.com
  
  Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said late Wednesday that the U.S. has “put China to the side” as administration officials work to negotiate deals with other major trading partners.In an interview on Fox News’s “Hannity,” Bessent said the U.S. is prioritizing striking deals with 17 of the 18 major trading partners — all but China — and said the process is moving along “as quickly as possible.”“We've got 18 important trading partners. We
  
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• Johnson, top House Republicans to huddle with Trump on agenda bill

  01-05-2025 15:56 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and a trio of top House Republicans are heading to the White House on Thursday to meet with President Trump about the bill full of his legislative priorities, as GOP leaders struggle to find consensus on two key issues.Johnson will be joined by House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), House Ways and Means Committee Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.), a source confirmed to The Hill.“We’re going
  
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• White House launches Drudge Report lookalike site

  01-05-2025 15:42 via thehill.com
  
  The White House has launched a new website to promote President Trump's agenda, a page that looks similar to the popular Drudge Report that has served as a must-read for conservative media members and political operatives for years.The "White House Wire" site, which uses a .gov URL, on Thursday morning linked to a number of social media posts and articles from conservative outlets with headlines supportive of Trump and his policies.The lead headline Thursday morning directed visitors to a social
  
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• Psaki: News reports will 'get killed,' 'muted down' amid Trump pressure

  01-05-2025 15:24 via thehill.com
  
  Former White House press secretary and current MSNBC anchor Jen Psaki predicted President Trump's hostile posture toward news outlets will have a chilling effect on the media. "I am newly on the media side of things, I’ve worked with media for more than two decades, where the decisions are made are often behind the scenes. So there is no media organization or media outlet or a reporter who is going to say, 'We are going to obey in advance now.' That’s not how it is going to work
  
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• Carney: Trump territorial expansion isn't 'ever going to happen'

  01-05-2025 15:10 via thehill.com
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said in an interview this week that President Trump’s ambitions for territorial expansion will “never” happen under his leadership.Speaking to the BBC as polls were closing amid Canada's election this week, Carney stressed the importance of mutual respect between the neighboring nations before they meet to discuss the nature of the partnership going forward.“I would distinguish between what the president wants and what the president exp
  
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• Tesla chair: No plans to look for Musk replacement

  01-05-2025 14:26 via thehill.com
  
  Robyn Denholm, the chair of Tesla, Inc., pushed back on reports that the electric vehicle (EV) giant's board members have launched a search for a new chief executive to succeed CEO Elon Musk — a key adviser to President Trump and his efforts to revamp the federal government.Denholm's defense came after the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday night that Tesla contacted several executive search firms to begin a search for a new leader, citing people familiar with the discussions. The
  
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• Carville during NewsNation town hall: 'We don’t need to make t-shirts'

  01-05-2025 14:02 via thehill.com
  
  Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville, during a NewsNation town hall Wednesday, went off when debating domestic manufacturing, telling the crowd that the U.S. does not “need to make t-shirts.” “I have on six items of clothes: shoes, socks, jeans, skivvies, t-shirt, and sweatshirt. You know how many of these were made in America? None. None,” Carville said during the event hosted by NewsNation's Chris Cuomo alongside commentators Bill O'Reilly and Stephen A. Sm
  
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• Trump steps up attacks on pollsters

  01-05-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump has stepped up his attacks on pollsters since his victory in November, raising concerns for an industry that was already facing challenges to its credibility.Trump’s latest attacks came this week when he called for pollsters to be investigated as many surveys show him with historically low approval ratings for a president 100 days into a White House term. He is already suing longtime pollster Ann Selzer over a poll released before Election Day that showed him trailing in Io
  
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• The Memo: Trump Cabinet, facing sinking polls, lashes out at media

  01-05-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump’s Cabinet members sharpened their attacks on the media Wednesday, as the administration grappled with falling poll numbers.A plethora of polls have been released to coincide with Trump hitting the 100-day mark in his second term — and they overwhelmingly show the president losing altitude.A new poll released Wednesday by Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ), The Hill’s polling partner, found Trump 12 points underwater on job approval. Only 44 percent of Americans approv
  
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• ‘The biggest utility player’: Rep. Brian Jack sees star rise in Trump’s Washington

  01-05-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  It was a Sunday morning in Las Vegas in December 2023 — after a night of fights at UFC 296 — and Brian Jack marched into the Trump International Hotel suite belonging to his boss, the former and future president, with a message: He wanted to run for Congress.The seat for Georgia’s 3rd Congressional District had opened up three days earlier and Jack — a Trump 2016 campaign staffer, first-administration White House political director and 2024 campaign senior adviser —
  
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• Democrats divided over how to battle a weakened Trump

  01-05-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats newly buoyed by President Trump's steadily sinking approval ratings are stubbornly divided over their resistance strategy and path back to power.One hundred days into Trump’s second term, liberal Democrats on and off Capitol Hill are stepping up their hard-line opposition to the norm-smashing president, advancing aggressive tactics — backed by the party’s progressive base — that now include formal articles of impeachment.Yet such actions are receiving a cold rec
  
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• Cheat sheet: 12 questions for Rep. Brian Jack

  01-05-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Brian Jack (R-Ga.) may be just months in his first term in the House, but his fellow Republicans say he’s already making his mark.The longtime former aide to President Trump and deputy chair of the National Republican Campaign Committee sat down with The Hill for a wide-ranging interview in his Capitol office, which Lyndon B. Johnson occupied when he served in the House.At the end, he answered some quick questions.Five most important legislative priorities, in no particular order?
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• Baby boom push meets skepticism in Republican Party

  01-05-2025 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Don’t count on Republican lawmakers to light the fuse to a new baby boom just yet.The pro-natalist movement may be having a moment as it pitches policies that seek to increase the nation’s birth rate — with the latest boost being President Trump saying a $5,000 baby bonus “sounds like a good idea.”But after some poking around on the prospects for the pro-natalist policies that seem to be gaining steam, I found skepticism from Republican lawmakers on multiple fr
  
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• Musk says he has slept in Lincoln bedroom during late nights at White House

  01-05-2025 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk revealed that he has slept over at the White House, sharing that he has enjoyed late night ice cream that President Trump recommended he indulge in.“Sometimes I stay at the White House,” Musk told a small group of reporters at a briefing Wednesday.When asked where he sleeps, he responded, “The Lincoln bedroom.”“The president’s, very, very, I guess we’re good friends and we’ll be on Air Force One or Marine One and then he’s
  
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• Musk compares leaving DOGE to Buddhism without Buddha

  01-05-2025 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  Tesla CEO Elon Musk expressed confidence Wednesday that his efforts to slash the federal budget and workforce will carry on even after he leaves the White House.“Is Buddha needed for Buddhism?” Musk quipped during a Wednesday briefing at the White House when asked who will fill his void when he leaves the administration.Speaking to a small group of reporters, Musk said he plans to continue working for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) one or two days each week as he pivo
  
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• Harris accuses Trump administration of ‘wholesale abandonment’ of ‘America’s highest ideals’ 

  01-05-2025 06:51 via thehill.com
  
  Former Vice President Harris slammed the Trump administration in a speech Wednesday night at a Democratic women’s group gala, accusing it of “the wholesale abandonment” of “America’s highest ideals."“Now I know tonight’s event happens to coincide with the 100 days after the inauguration, and I’ll leave it to others to give a full accounting of what has happened so far,” Harris said at the Emerge America event in San Francisco.“But I wil
  
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• House panel advances sweeping bill of Trump immigration priorities

  01-05-2025 05:18 via thehill.com
  
  House Republicans on Wednesday advanced legislation to back a series of President Trump’s immigration priorities, raising fees on those seeking refuge in the United States while boosting resources to detain and deport a record number of migrants. The measure advanced by the House Judiciary Committee includes funding to support the removal of 1 million migrants a year — a lofty goal that would well outpace the number of deportations carried out by any prior administration. T
  
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• 5 takeaways from Trump NewsNation town hall

  01-05-2025 04:42 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Wednesday called in to NewsNation for a town hall program marking the first 100-day milestone of his second term in the Oval Office.  Rounding out a media blitz to celebrate the benchmark, Trump brushed off concerns about his polling and policies as he talked with moderators Chris Cuomo, Bill O’Reilly and Stephen A. Smith. After Trump appeared for a little under half an hour, other guests, including Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and
  
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• Speaker Johnson meets with Stefanik as tensions linger

  01-05-2025 04:33 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) met with Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) on Wednesday, as tensions linger between the two lawmakers after the New York Republican withdrew her nomination to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.The gathering — which Johnson confirmed to The Hill — came one day after the spat between the two Republicans entered the public eye, with Stefanik accusing Johnson of lying about alleged conversations they had regarding her potential run for governor or
  
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