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• Elon Musk tries to rehab DOGE after backlash, mistakes

  29-03-2025 11:00 via thehill.com
  
  Elon Musk is pushing to improve the image of his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), suggesting the Tesla CEO is aware of the boogeyman persona he has created for himself and his cost-cutting push since joining President Trump’s team. Musk went on Fox News on Thursday night to claim he is being careful and compassionate with his overhaul of the federal government, amid mounting criticism over his past statements on social media and emails to federal workers. He also intro
  
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• Fine, Patronis sworn in after special Florida election, boosting thin GOP House majority

  03-04-2025 00:45 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday swore in newly elected Florida Reps. Jimmy Patronis (R) and Randy Fine (R).The two won special elections Tuesday, and their quick entry to the House gives Johnson some additional room to navigate the GOP’s razor-thin margin. The House now stands at 220 Republicans and 213 Democrats, meaning Johnson can lose three GOP votes and still pass a party-line bill. At one point this year, that margin stood at one vote.The two lawmakers, who were both endors
  
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• Sean Duffy’s daughter lays into Luna proxy voting push: 'Feel free to resign'

  03-04-2025 00:44 via thehill.com
  
  Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s daughter, Evita Duffy-Alfonso, laid into the effort for proxy voting led by Florida Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna after the House tanked a procedural rule on Tuesday.“When my baby sister was born with two holes in her heart and needed a very risky surgery, my father, @SecDuffy, knew he needed to be at home with his newborn daughter, my mother, and my eight siblings,” Duffy-Alfonso, 25, posted on the social platform X.“So my dad re
  
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• USDA freezes funding for Maine schools over transgender athletes

  03-04-2025 00:27 via thehill.com
  
  The Department of Agriculture said Wednesday it had frozen federal funds for some Maine education programs over the state’s refusal to ban transgender students from girls’ and women’s sports as ordered by President Trump and his administration. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the freeze following a letter sent to Maine Gov. Janet Mills (D) explaining funding would be paused “for certain administrative and technological functions in schools.”
  
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• Trump says Great Depression would never have started if tariffs continued

  03-04-2025 00:20 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Wednesday said that the 1930s Great Depression wouldn’t have happened if tariffs had continued, while announcing his massive tariff plan to hit trading partners.The president argued that before the income tax on U.S. citizens was established in 1913, the U.S. leaned into tariffs and was collecting money from other countries. Then, he argued that the U.S. ended tariffs, despite a tariff act from President Herbert Hoover at the time.“In 1929, it all came to a very ab
  
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• Johnson: ‘Working on every possible accommodation’ for mothers amid parental proxy voting impasse

  03-04-2025 00:19 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday said he is “working on every possible accommodation” to make it easier for mothers to serve in Congress amid the impasse between GOP leadership and Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) over parental proxy voting.“Proxy voting aside, I am actively working on every possible accommodation to make Congressional service simpler for young mothers,” Johnson wrote on X. “As the pro-family party, our aim as Republicans is to support those
  
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• Crockett responds to Bondi's 'threat' over Musk criticism

  03-04-2025 00:17 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas) on Wednesday pushed back against Attorney General Pam Bondi after the Justice Department head criticized the Texas Democrat’s comments about tech billionaire Elon Musk being “taken down” multiple times.“To have her go on Fox News, and to then decide that she wanted to send a threat to me, it was wrong,” Crockett said during a House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight hearing. “Because here it is, she is the highest law enfo
  
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• Senate, House GOP split over size of debt-limit increase

  02-04-2025 23:00 via thehill.com
  
  A major discrepancy has already arisen between Senate and House Republicans in the budget resolution they plan to adopt in order to pass President Trump's domestic agenda.The 70-page resolution Senate Republicans unveiled Wednesday afternoon would serve as a blueprint, laying out instructions lawmakers will use to write a final bill full of Trump's top priorities. The House and Senate previously passed competing resolutions and have spent weeks trying to get on the same page.But Senate Republica
  
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• Trump's 'Liberation Day' tariffs: Here's how much countries are getting hit

  02-04-2025 22:57 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Wednesday announced he was imposing reciprocal tariffs on dozens of nations, citing what he called years of unfair trade practices.Trump announced in the Rose Garden that all foreign countries would face a baseline 10 percent tariff, but several nations are being hit with steeper tariffs on imports.
  Trump said those reciprocal tariffs will be calculated by combining the rate of tariffs and nonmonetary barriers such as currency manipulation, and then dividing that total in half
  
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• Trump reaches deal with another major law firm

  02-04-2025 22:42 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump announced Wednesday that he reached another deal with a major law firm, Milbank LLP, as he seeks to punish organizations with ties to his political critics.
  Milbank is the latest in a string of firms looking to cut a deal with the president after he signed orders in recent weeks reviewing security clearances and government contracts for several Big Law companies, which he says have acted improperly.In his announcement, Trump said Milbank has agreed to perform at least $100 millio
  
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• Trump imposes 10 percent global tariffs; higher rate for ‘worst offenders’

  02-04-2025 22:36 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump on Wednesday announced a baseline 10 percent tariff on imports from all foreign countries, as well as higher tariff rates for dozens of nations that the White House deemed the “worst offenders” when it came to trade barriers.The 10 percent tariff will go into effect on Friday. About 60 countries facing a higher reciprocal tariff will see those rates go into effect on April 9 at 12:01 a.m. Trump also announced a 25 percent tariff on all foreign-made automobiles that wi
  
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• Former aide slams California Democrat in video announcing primary campaign

  02-04-2025 22:22 via thehill.com
  
  Jake Rakov, a former aide to Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), on Wednesday announced he is launching a primary challenge against his former boss.In a video announcing his campaign, Rakov directly criticized Sherman, who is serving his 15th term in the House, as out of touch with his constituents who want him to take a stronger stand against the Trump administration.“If you want to know why we as Democrats are so bad at fighting back against Trump, look at guys like my former boss,” he s
  
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• Most think Trump will attempt to serve third term: Survey

  02-04-2025 22:08 via thehill.com
  
  Most voters in a new poll predicted President Trump will attempt to serve a third term in the White House, despite a constitutional restriction limiting presidents to two terms.A survey from YouGov found 56 percent of U.S. adults thought Trump “probably” or “definitely” would try to serve again, compared to 28 percent who said the opposite and 15 percent who said they weren’t sure. The results come after Trump over the weekend said he’s “not joking&
  
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• Hochul knocks ICE over 'just plain cruel' detention of family

  02-04-2025 21:48 via thehill.com
  
  New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) said it was “just plain cruel” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to detain a family, including a child in third grade, from their home in upstate New York.In a Tuesday statement, Hochul said she is willing to work with the Trump administration on immigration enforcement but said this latest incident went too far by targeting an “innocent family.”“Under Presidents Biden and Trump, I have been clear that I would w
  
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• Charges dismissed against Illinois man accused of assault by Nancy Mace

  02-04-2025 21:41 via thehill.com
  
  WASHINGTON (WCBD) — Federal prosecutors moved Tuesday to dismiss charges against a man who Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) accused of assaulting her during an event at the Capitol last year. Mace accused James McIntyre of Illinois, a national foster care advocate, of accosting her during a Dec. 10 reception celebrating the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Foster Care Independence Act of 1999.She claimed the assault came in response to her efforts to bar transgender women from using wom
  
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• Rand Paul: 'Fallacy' to think tariffs will help country

  02-04-2025 21:02 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday that it is a “fallacy” to think tariffs will help the country's economy as President Trump gears up to impose massive reciprocal tariffs on U.S. trading partners.
  Paul, who has spoken out against tariffs previously, joined The Hill’s “Rising” on Wednesday, where he discussed his disagreement with tariffs, calling them “a tax.”“On tariffs, I think it’s just economically — it’s a fallacy to thin
  
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• US sanctions network helping to get weapons for Houthis

  02-04-2025 20:58 via thehill.com
  
  The United States sanctioned an alleged network of financial facilitators, procurement operatives and companies on Wednesday that are getting weapons, dual-use materials and stolen Ukrainian grain to Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen, the Treasury Department announced on Wednesday. Two operatives — brothers who are based in Russia — Afghani businessmen Hushang Ghairat and Sohrab Ghairat, have assisted Sa’id al-Jamal, a senior Houthi financial operative who is backed by the Iran
  
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• Senate Republican on Trump tariffs: 'Let's give it a shot and see what happens'

  02-04-2025 20:43 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) on Tuesday welcomed President Trump’s tariffs, encouraging others to “give it a shot and see what happens.”“Our country’s going in the wrong direction, $37 trillion in debt,” Tuberville told reporters in a clip that aired on Fox News’s “Fox & Friends” on Wednesday, hours before Trump is expected to announce a new tariff regime.“We’ve got to get manufacturing back to the country, people back to w
  
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• Carville on Trump tariffs: 'It’s just his ego playing itself out in public'

  02-04-2025 20:05 via thehill.com
  
  Democratic strategist James Carville said he believes President Trump’s tariffs are not motivated by policy but instead just represent the president's "ego playing itself out in public."Carville joined MSNBC on Tuesday, a day before Trump’s declared “Liberation Day,” when the president planned to announce reciprocal tariffs on various countries.Host Ari Melber asked Carville if the tariffs are really just going to be a tax on working people in the United States.“Th
  
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• DeSantis slams GOP winner in Florida special election: 'He's a squish'

  02-04-2025 19:12 via thehill.com
  
  Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) tore into Rep.-elect Randy Fine (R-Fla.) following his special election win on Tuesday, arguing he only won the race after President Trump bailed him out.In comments at a press conference in Ocala, Fla., DeSantis said the relatively close margins in the deeply red 6th Congressional District was not because of Trump but because of candidate quality. “I think you have a candidate in Randy Fine, who, one, he’s a squish,” DeSantis said. “He
  
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• Jeffries hammers Trump: It’s ‘recession day,’ not ‘liberation day’

  02-04-2025 19:05 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday hammered President Trump and congressional Republicans with accusations that they’re tanking the economy in the name of boosting it.The Democratic leader noted that the president’s central campaign theme was a promise to bring down the cost of consumer staples. Instead, he charged, the president’s plan to impose a round of new tariffs on Wednesday — what Trump has dubbed “Liberation Day” — will
  
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• Trump, aides meet about TikTok deal ahead of ban deadline

  02-04-2025 18:43 via thehill.com
  
  President Trump will host a meeting with top aides on Wednesday to discuss potential investors for the sale of deal on TikTok ahead of the April 5 deadline, according to a source familiar with the meeting plans.
  Trump will meet with Vice President Vance and national security adviser Mike Waltz, who were tasked with spearheading a divestiture deal that could prevent the popular video-sharing app from shutting down, a source familiar with the plans of the meeting told The Hill.Commerce Secretary H
  
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• 'Unsatisfactory': Dems slam McMahon for dodging questions about end of Education Department in meeting

  02-04-2025 18:41 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats slammed Education Secretary Linda McMahon for dodging their questions about the end of her department in a Wednesday meeting, accusing the secretary of not having a plan for moving forward after firing half of her employees.  Rep. Mark Takano (D-Calif.), one 10 Democratic lawmakers who met with McMahon at the Education Department, said there was "a lot of unsatisfactory, sort of, ambiguity” about her promises to follow statute while also making her goal to “end the dep
  
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• Senate Republicans eye budget resolution vote this week with reduced spending cuts

  02-04-2025 17:53 via thehill.com
  
  Senate Republicans are hoping to vote on a budget resolution this week that would pave the way for President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” encompassing tax cuts, border security and energy extraction.Senators say the resolution calls for far fewer budget cuts to offset the cost of desired tax cuts than the analogous bill passed in February by the House, setting up a fight between the chambers about how much the legislation could add to the deficit.The House and Senate will even
  
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• Judge orders restoration of legal aid to unaccompanied migrant children

  02-04-2025 17:44 via thehill.com
  
  A Northern California judge ruled Tuesday that the Trump administration must temporarily restore legal aid to unaccompanied migrant children in the U.S., effectively blocking a stop-work order issued months prior. In February, the Department of the Interior informed the Acacia Center for Justice that “the Government hereby directs your firm to stop all work associated with the scope of Contract 140D0422C0009,” which provides legal services for unaccompanied children through a ne
  
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• Democrats investigating RFK Jr. bird flu response

  02-04-2025 17:40 via thehill.com
  
  House Democrats are investigating Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over his bird flu response, which they called "dangerous and reckless."In a Tuesday letter addressed to Kennedy, a group of Democrats said they were “troubled to hear that you consider the ‘possibility of letting [avian flu] run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it,’ to be a potentially effective strategy to end the bird flu e
  
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• Musk downplays Wisconsin results, saying he 'expected to lose'

  02-04-2025 16:16 via thehill.com
  
  Elon Musk downplayed the results in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, saying in a post early Wednesday that he had “expected to lose.”Musk was responding to a user on X thanking him for his involvement.“Elon knew that it was a long shot to win the Wisconsin Supreme Court race," the user, MAZE, wrote. "He knew his involvement in the race would bring more violence against his companies but he fully committed his money and time anyway. Thanks Elon. We have amazing warriors on our
  
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• Whitaker confirmed as Trump NATO ambassador

  02-04-2025 16:09 via thehill.com
  
  Matthew Whitaker, who served as acting attorney general during President Trump’s first term, was confirmed late Tuesday by the Senate in a 52-45 vote to be the next U.S. ambassador to NATO. Whitaker, who has an extensive law enforcement background but light foreign policy experience, told senators during his confirmation hearing last month that if he is confirmed for the post, he would urge the alliance’s members to bolster their defense spending and showed commitment to the tra
  
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• Schiff places hold on Trump pick for DC prosecutor's nomination

  02-04-2025 15:35 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) has placed a hold on President Trump’s nominee to lead the U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. after a string of calls for investigations into Ed Martin. Martin, who has never worked as a prosecutor, has described the Justice Department as Trump’s attorneys, launched investigations into two lawmakers, and fired and reassigned Jan. 6 prosecutors — all in the few short weeks he’s served as an interim U.S. attorney.“In every way h
  
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• Scott Walker on Wisconsin race: Trump voters 'don't vote in spring elections'

  02-04-2025 15:30 via thehill.com
  
  Former Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) brushed off the results from Tuesday’s state Supreme Court race, saying that Trump voters often “don’t vote in spring elections.”“I‘ve said this for months. I thought, one, the turnout model was always going to be at the disadvantage of [Brad] Schimel over [Susan] Crawford because there‘s about 200,000 voters that voted for Donald Trump last November who just historically don‘t vote in spring elections,&rdquo
  
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