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• McCarthy on giving Tucker Carlson access to Jan. 6 footage: Press seem 'jealous'

  01-03-2023 20:46 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) doubled down on his decision to hand over Jan. 6 footage to Fox host Tucker Carlson, saying that the press seem "jealous."Earlier this month, McCarthy granted access to 41,000 hours of security footage from the Jan. 6 attacks to Carlson, sparking criticism from other news outlets and security concerns from Democrats. In an interview with The Washington Post, McCarthy said that the footage will be released broadly soon and that his team took actions to mitigate s
  
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• Trump immigration crackdown: Denaturalization just a drop in the bucket

  22-11-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump’s incoming administration is expected to take aim at legal immigration, in addition to cracking down on the illegal variety, slowing the pace of application approvals and redirecting resources to look for fraud in old applications, including naturalizations.The first Trump administration pushed for more denaturalizations, an initiative that incoming White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller has said will be “supercharged” the second time a
  
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• The Memo: Trump gives himself a black eye with Gaetz misfire

  22-11-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump has suffered a self-inflicted black eye with the withdrawal of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) from consideration as attorney general.Trump had startled even some of his supporters by choosing Gaetz for the crucial position atop the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the first place. Now he is seeking to move on as fast as possible by nominating another pro-MAGA figure from Florida — the state’s former attorney general, Pam Bondi — to take Gaetz’s p
  
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• Trump picks Pam Bondi for next attorney general

  22-11-2024 00:42 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump has named former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as his next nominee to the lead the Department of Justice. Bondi was a swift pick just hours after former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.)withdrew himself from consideration for the role. “For too long, the partisan Department of Justice has been weaponized against me and other Republicans - Not anymore. Pam will refocus the DOJ to its intended purpose of fighting Crime, and Making America Safe Again. I have known
  
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• Two House Republicans seek to stop IVF expansion in defense bill

  21-11-2024 23:17 via thehill.com
  
  Two House Republicans, Reps. Matt Rosendale (Mont.) and Josh Brecheen (Okla.), are asking the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees to not include provisions in the annual defense authorization bill that expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF).The Thursday letter to the committee chairs and ranking members, first shared with The Hill, is an example of divisions that remain in the Republican Party amid threats to the fertility treatment. The topic came to the forefront a
  
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• 2 House Republicans seek to stop IVF expansion in defense bill

  21-11-2024 23:17 via thehill.com
  
  Two House Republicans, Reps. Matt Rosendale (Mont.) and Josh Brecheen (Okla.), are asking the leaders of the House and Senate Armed Services committees to not include provisions in the annual defense authorization bill that expand access to in vitro fertilization (IVF).The Thursday letter to the committee chairs and ranking members, first shared with The Hill, is an example of divisions that remain in the Republican Party amid threats to the fertility treatment. The topic came to the forefront a
  
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• Gaetz withdrawal from AG nomination is among quickest in history

  21-11-2024 23:00 via thehill.com
  
  Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) withdrew his nomination as President-elect Trump’s attorney general on Thursday, putting an end to a chaotic several days on Capitol Hill and making him one of the quickest in history to withdraw from Cabinet nominations.His selection was swarmed with controversy, as he’s been accused of sexual misconduct. The House Ethics Committee voted Wednesday to keep its investigation into Gaetz’s allegations private, but lawmakers charged ahead with plans
  
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• Trump eyes what’s next for AG after Gaetz withdrawal

  21-11-2024 22:40 via thehill.com
  
  Former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) withdrawal as a nominee has sent President-elect Trump back to the drawing board on securing an attorney general to lead an agency he sees as key to his plans for retribution. In turning to Gaetz, Trump tapped a fierce loyalist and one who shared his vision that a “weaponized” Justice Department had been turned against the president-elect in the form of federal indictments related to classified documents and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.But jus
  
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• Trump eyes new AG picks after Gaetz withdrawal

  21-11-2024 22:40 via thehill.com
  
  Former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) withdrawal as a nominee has sent President-elect Trump back to the drawing board on securing an attorney general to lead an agency he sees as key to his plans for retribution. In turning to Gaetz, Trump tapped a fierce loyalist and one who shared his vision that a “weaponized” Justice Department had been turned against the president-elect in the form of federal indictments related to classified documents and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.But jus
  
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• What's next for Matt Gaetz: 5 possibilities

  21-11-2024 22:32 via thehill.com
  
  Former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) political future is up in the air following his announcement that he is taking his name out of the running to be attorney general in the Trump administration. Gaetz was under intense scrutiny over past investigations by the Justice Department (DOJ) and the House Ethics Committee. The DOJ was investigating Gaetz as a part of a broad sex trafficking probe, including allegations involving underage women, though it declined to file charges. Gaetz has vigo
  
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• New York Republican after Gaetz drops AG bid: 'Justice has been served'

  21-11-2024 22:25 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) used a meme including a well-known foe of Matt Gaetz to respond to the former Florida lawmakers's withdrawal from consideration as attorney general in the next administration.“Justice has been served,” Lawler said in a post on the social platform X also featuring a photo of former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) with bright red laser eyes.Gaetz led the effort to oust McCarthy from the Speakership last year, capping off a long-standing feud
  
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• Rove: Trump will pay a price for Cabinet pick ‘chaos’

  21-11-2024 21:55 via thehill.com
  
  Republican strategist Karl Rove said President-elect Trump will pay a price over the “chaos” he’s caused by picking controversial Cabinet members.In a Wednesday op-ed in The Wall Street Journal, Rove said Trump’s nominations started “so quickly and so promisingly,” by picking the first woman White House chief of staff, Susie Wiles.As the other choices came rolling in over the next several days, Rove argued that while the choice of former “Fox & Frien
  
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• Pro-Ukraine lawmakers make last-ditch effort to safeguard US support

  21-11-2024 21:37 via thehill.com
  
  Pro-Ukraine lawmakers in both parties are working to get key provisions surrounding U.S. support for Kyiv passed into law by January, an effort to safeguard assistance that is under threat in a transition to a Trump administration and full GOP control of Congress.  If passed into law, the Stand With Ukraine Act would compel the president to request ongoing military and economic support for Ukraine in its defensive war against Russia. The bill's goal is to help overcome increasing parti
  
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• Fetterman on Gaetz: 'Holy s‑‑‑, I didn't see that coming'

  21-11-2024 21:13 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) gave a sarcastic response to the withdrawal of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) from consideration as President-elect Trump’s pick for attorney general.“Holy s‑‑‑, I didn’t see that coming,” Fetterman said mockingly when asked about the withdrawal by a reporter in a clip captured by Scripps News and posted to social platform X.Gaetz said in a post Thursday on X that he had “excellent meetings” with Senators the day
  
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• Fetterman on Gaetz: 'Holy s---, I didn't see that coming'

  21-11-2024 21:13 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) gave a sarcastic response to the withdrawal of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) from consideration as President-elect Trump’s selection for the role of attorney general.“Holy s—, I didn’t see that coming,” Fetterman said mockingly when asked about the withdrawal by a reporter in a clip captured by Scripps News posted to the social platform X.Gates said in a post on X Thursday that he had “excellent meetings” with Senators the d
  
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• House Ethics chair says Gaetz withdrawal ‘should end discussion’ of report’s release

  21-11-2024 20:59 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), the chairman of the House Ethics Committee, said former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) decision to withdraw from consideration for attorney general “should end the discussion” regarding whether the panel should release its report on the Florida Republican.The comments from Guest came shortly after Gaetz announced he would bow out of the process to lead the Department of Justice as his path to the Cabinet position looked increasingly unlikely.&ldqu
  
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• Trump praises Gaetz after AG nod falls through

  21-11-2024 19:17 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump said former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) has a “wonderful future” ahead of him following the former congressman’s withdrawal from serving as Trump’s nominee to become attorney general. Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he “greatly” appreciates Gaetz’s efforts in seeking to lead the Justice Department (DOJ) but recognized he didn’t want to be a distraction. “He was doing very well but, at the same time, did
  
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• Office politics: After appeal to colleagues, House freshman gets workspace once occupied by his great-grandfather

  21-11-2024 19:14 via thehill.com
  
  An incoming Republican congressman is offering bipartisan thanks to his future colleagues for helping him to snag an official workspace that was once occupied by his great-grandfather.Tom Barrett, who earlier this month flipped the open seat vacated by Rep. Elissa Slotkin (D) in Michigan's 7th Congressional District, had circulated a letter on Thursday to fellow House freshmen ahead of the office lottery at the Capitol.During the lottery, new members choose numbers to determine th
  
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• Donalds ‘not surprised’ Trump hasn’t named him for position in new administration

  21-11-2024 19:07 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said he is “not surprised” President-elect Trump has not named him for a position in his new administration.Donalds joined CNN’s “Laura Coates Live” on Wednesday evening and was asked if he was surprised he’d not been chosen as one of Trump’s senior staff or Cabinet positions.“All I will say is I am not surprised that I have not been named, but that doesn’t mean I’m not going to do other things in the future,
  
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• Democrats will push for release of Gaetz report, despite withdrawal from AG running

  21-11-2024 19:01 via thehill.com
  
  House Democrats will push to release the Ethics Committee report on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) despite Gaetz's decision on Thursday to withdraw his name from the running to lead the Justice Department in the second Trump administration. Rep. Sean Casten (D-Ill.), who had introduced a resolution on Wednesday to force a House vote on releasing the report, said the public still has the right to know what Ethics investigators found as they probed allegations that Gaetz had used illicit dru
  
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• Watch live: White House holds press briefing as Biden foreign policy in the spotlight

  21-11-2024 19:00 via thehill.com
  
  White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will brief the press Thursday afternoon following the return of President Biden, who turned 82 this week, from a six-day trip to South America.Biden met with Chinese President Xi Jinping for the last time while in Peru for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit and, over the weekend, gave a historic speech on climate change with the backdrop of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. With two months left until he leaves the White House, the presiden
  
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• Ocasio-Cortez: Mace, Johnson 'endangering all women and girls' with bathroom ban

  21-11-2024 19:00 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday denounced efforts by House Republicans to bar transgender people from restrooms in the Capitol that match their gender identity, calling policies put forward this week by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-S.C.) and Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) “disgusting.” Mace on Monday filed a resolution to prohibit transgender House members and staffers from using single-sex facilities that correspond to their gender identity, a move she later said was &l
  
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• McCaul to next Foreign Affairs chair: ‘God help you’

  21-11-2024 18:44 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), the outgoing chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, offered advice to his successor, who faces enormous global challenges and the unpredictability of the Trump administration: “God help you.”McCaul speaking in a panel discussion at the Atlantic Council, drew a laugh with his response, but said that his exit from chairmanship of the committee is likely to give him more freedom to speak his mind surrounding the Trump admini
  
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• Gaetz withdraws from attorney general consideration

  21-11-2024 18:31 via thehill.com
  
  Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) on Thursday said he was withdrawing from consideration as President-elect Trump's nomination to be attorney general.
  Gaetz announced the decision in a message on X, saying that while he had had "excellent meetings" with senators on Wednesday, "it is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition.""There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle, thus I'll be withdrawing my n
  
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• TSA administrator says he'd like to stay on under Trump

  21-11-2024 17:50 via thehill.com
  
  Transportation Security Administration (TSA) chief David Pekoske said earlier this week that he would like to continue serving under President-elect Trump.CBS’s Tony Dokoupil asked Pekoske if he anticipates staying in the role when Trump returns to the White House.
  “Yeah, I hope to stay,” he replied in the interview Tuesday on "CBS Mornings." “I love the role," Pekoske continued. "I think it's important for continuity in TSA to run the second term to its conclusion.&rdquo
  
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• Former ethics panel chair ‘wouldn’t be at all shocked’ if Gaetz report released

  21-11-2024 16:37 via thehill.com
  
  Former GOP Rep. Charlie Dent (Pa.), who led the House Ethics Committee, said he “wouldn’t be at all shocked” if the report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz’s (R-Fla.) misconduct was released, even after the panel decided Wednesday to keep it confidential.Dent joined CNN’s Kasie Hunt on Thursday morning to discuss the ongoing dilemma about Gaetz as he’s tapped to be President-elect Trump’s attorney general. The committee voted to not release Gaetz’s repo
  
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• Bill Clinton: Trump has done 'everything he could' to 'destroy' confidence in government

  21-11-2024 15:52 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Clinton said that President-elect Trump has done “everything he could” to “destroy” confidence in government.“He believes that his supporters have no confidence whatever in the federal government, and Lord knows, he's done everything he could to destroy that confidence,” Clinton told MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart in a Wednesday interview broadcasted on Chris Hayes’s “All In” about the president-elect.Clinton campaigned for
  
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• Senate Democrat: Trump wants to 'subjugate' GOP senators with Gaetz appointment

  21-11-2024 15:51 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) suggested that President-elect Trump appointing former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) to serve as the head of the Justice Department (DOJ) is somewhat of a power play against Senate Republicans."I think the bottom line here is that there is an element of Trump wanting to sort of subjugate Republican senators here," Whitehouse, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told CNN's Anderson Cooper Wednesday."I think some of these candidates are essentially Trump challen
  
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• Police report details Hegseth sexual assault allegations

  21-11-2024 15:06 via thehill.com
  
  A California woman told police that veteran and media host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick for Defense secretary, sexually assaulted her in 2017 after he took her phone and refused to let her leave a hotel room, a detailed police report said.Hegseth, known for his role in Fox News’s “Fox & Friends,” told police at the time that the encounter was consensual and denied wrongdoing, The Associated Press reported.He was picked by Trump to lead the Pentagon short
  
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• Bill O'Reilly: Donald Trump Cabinet will have zero policy input

  21-11-2024 13:36 via thehill.com
  
  Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly says President-elect Trump is preparing to radically reshape his potential second administration by centralizing policy-making power within the White House and selecting Cabinet members who will strictly follow directives.During a Wednesday interview on NewsNation's "CUOMO," the political commentator compared Trump's approach to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's leadership style, suggesting the president-elect will create a tightly controlled governing structu
  
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