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• Schmitt says it's a 'slur' to call Gabbard a 'Russian asset'

  24-11-2024 21:50 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) said Sunday that it’s a “slur” to call former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) a “Russian asset.”“I think it's — it's really interesting that anybody that has a different political view now is being cast as a Russian asset. It's totally ridiculous,” Schmitt told NBC News’s Kristen Welker on “Meet the Press.”“Tulsi Gabbard has served in our military. She served as a congresswoman from Hawaii, a
  
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• Mulvaney calls DOGE a 'PR campaign,' but respects Musk, Ramaswamy's attempt to reform government

  26-11-2024 04:25 via thehill.com
  
  Former White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney called the inaugural Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) a “PR campaign,” in a Monday interview, but said he respects the efforts by its appointed leaders, Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, to reform the federal government.“Look, I have nothing but respect for what these gentlemen are trying to do,” Mulvaney said in an interview on NewsNation’s “The Hill,” referring to Musk and Ramaswamy.“I was th
  
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• Trump says he will impose new tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China on first day

  26-11-2024 00:59 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump said Monday that he will impose new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China through an executive order on the first day of his new term next year.In a series of posts on Truth Social, the president-elect said he would enact tariffs of 25 percent on all Canadian and Mexican goods, and add another 10 percent tariff to all Chinese goods — many of which are already under tariffs imposed by Trump during his first term.Trump said the new tariffs are meant to push all
  
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• Tons of chicken, pork and beef recalled over listeria concerns

  26-11-2024 00:36 via thehill.com
  
  Yu Shang Food, Inc. is recalling more than 70,000 pounds of its ready-to-eat meat and poultry products because of a listeria outbreak that has sickened at least 11 people, including one baby who subsequently died.The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) on Thursday announced an expanded recall from the distributor, which initially recalled the food products on Nov. 9, 2024.On Monday, the FSIS press release was updated to include an expanded product lis
  
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• Trump names Vance aide as legislative affairs director

  26-11-2024 00:27 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump on Monday announced a trio of appointments to lead different White House offices, including his pick to serve as his top liaison to Capitol Hill.Trump, in a news release, said James Braid would serve as director of the Office of Legislative Affairs. Braid is a top aide to Vice President-elect JD Vance, having been his lead policy staffer during his two years in the Senate. He previously worked in the Office of Management and Budget during Trump’s first term. Brai
  
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• Manhattan top federal prosecutor Damian Williams to resign in December 

  26-11-2024 00:06 via thehill.com
  
  A top federal prosecutor in Manhattan is set to resign in December, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York said in a Monday press release.According to the release, U.S. Attorney Damian Williams said on Monday that he plans to exit his current role at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York at “11:59 p.m. on December 13, 2024.”“Today is a bittersweet day for me, as I announce my resignation as United States Attorney
  
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• Mike Waltz to resign from House day of inauguration to join Trump administration

  25-11-2024 22:56 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Mike Waltz (R-Fla.) will resign from the House on Jan. 20, the day President-elect Trump takes office, to become the national security adviser for Trump's second term, a source familiar with the matter confirmed to The Hill.His upcoming resignation means that House Republicans, who were already slated to have a razor-tight majority, will be at least two members down when Trump takes office until at least April 1 — the date set for the special election to replace both Waltz and former
  
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• Khanna: Bondi's remarks about investigating investigators 'concerning'

  25-11-2024 21:53 via thehill.com
  
  California Rep. Ro Khanna (D) said President-elect Trump’s new attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, has said some “concerning” things about investigating the people who investigated Trump’s various legal battles.Khanna on Monday joined CNN’s Jim Acosta, who asked about Bondi’s comments and the concern that Trump’s attorney general pick might use the department to go after his enemies.“Well, they’re concerning,” Khanna said about Bondi&rsqu
  
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• Khanna: Bondi remarks about investigating investigators ‘concerning’

  25-11-2024 21:53 via thehill.com
  
  California Rep. Ro Khanna (D) said President-elect Trump’s new attorney general pick, Pam Bondi, has said some “concerning” things about investigating the people who investigated Trump’s various legal battles.Khanna on Monday joined CNN’s Jim Acosta, who asked about Bondi’s comments and the concern that Trump’s attorney general pick use the department to go after his enemies.“Well, they’re concerning,” Khanna said about Bondi’s re
  
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• Khanna says Democrats will work with Musk's DOGE on cutting defense budget

  25-11-2024 21:07 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) on Monday suggested that Democrats could work with tech billionaire Elon Musk’s “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) on cutting the defense budget.The issue came up during a Khanna interview with CNN anchor Jim Acosta, who noted the DOGE panel.
  President-elect Trump named Musk and former GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy to be the heads of the government efficiency effort.
  He then asked Khanna if those two should have that much
  
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• Elon Musk calls UK a ‘tyrannical police state’

  25-11-2024 20:51 via thehill.com
  
  Elon Musk criticized the British government, continuing his feud by calling the U.K. a “tyrannical police state” as the country grapples with violent unrest.In a post on X, the social media platform that Musk owns, he shared a post that said a petition going around England has more than 1 million signatures calling for a new general election.“The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state,” Musk wrote.Musk, who is an ally of President-elect Trump and b
  
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• Carville: 'It was a troubling election for Democrats'

  25-11-2024 20:13 via thehill.com
  
  Veteran political strategist James Carville reflected on the 2024 election, calling it a “troubling election for Democrats.”  “Fortunately, my most optimistic thing about the Democratic Party is there's just so much potential talent in it,” Carville said on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on Monday. “And I hope whoever these people are, they get out and start running in 2028 right after the '26 midterms. But two things shouldn’t be true at the same t
  
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• Homan: 'I guarantee' funds will be cut from states not cooperating on deportation

  25-11-2024 20:04 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump’s pick for “border czar,” Tom Homan, on Sunday threatened funding for states that refuse to cooperate in the federal government's deportation plans.Fox News’s Mark Levin, in an interview with Homan aired Sunday, said the border czar will have “a very, very powerful weapon that the Democrats, when they’re in power, use against Republican administrations, state and local, all the time: federal funding.”“If you have a governor wh
  
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• 5 things to know about Trump Agriculture pick Brooke Rollins

  25-11-2024 18:37 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump has tapped Brooke Rollins, a former White House aide in his first administration, to head the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in his second term. “Brooke’s commitment to support the American Farmer, defense of American Food Self-Sufficiency, and the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns is second to none,” Trump wrote in a release.Rollins, who graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in agricultural development
  
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• Biden COVID response coordinator: Trump picks for FDA, NIH 'pretty reasonable'

  25-11-2024 18:16 via thehill.com
  
  Ashish Jha, the dean of the Brown University School of Public Health and former White House coronavirus coordinator under President Biden, said President-elect Trump’s picks to lead the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), National Institute of Health (NIH) and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) are “pretty reasonable.”  Trump in recent days has built out his health team, tapping Johns Hopkins’s surgeon, Marty Makary, to lead the FDA, television p
  
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• Biden pardons turkeys Peach and Blossom for his last White House Thanksgiving

  25-11-2024 17:33 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden pardoned the turkeys Peach and Blossom for the traditional presidential pardon ahead of Thanksgiving, which marks the start of Biden’s last holiday season at the White House.“This event marks the official start of the holiday season here is Washington. It’s also my last time to speak here as your president during this season and give thanks and gratitude. So let me say to you — it’s been the honor of my life, I am forever thankful,” the preside
  
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• Biden pardons turkeys Peach and Blossom for his last Thanksgiving event

  25-11-2024 17:33 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden pardoned the turkeys Peach and Blossom for the traditional presidential pardon ahead of Thanksgiving, which marks the start of Biden’s last holiday season at the White House.“This event marks the official start of the holiday season here is Washington. It’s also my last time to speak here as your president during this season and give thanks and gratitude. So let me say to you—it’s been the honor of my life, I am forever thankful,” the president
  
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• Bill Clinton: Trump interested in 100 percent loyalty ‘no matter who gets hurt’

  25-11-2024 17:27 via thehill.com
  
  Former President Bill Clinton said President-elect Trump is interested in keeping people around him that are 100 percent loyal, “no matter who gets hurt.”“You have to listen to Donald Trump. He’s been very forthright about how he views the world. He’s interested in people who are loyal to him 100 percent of the time, no matter what the issue, no matter what the facts, no matter who gets hurt,” Clinton said Sunday during an interview on MSNBC.As Trump continues
  
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• Congressional Black Caucus PAC launches fight against GOP efforts to implement Project 2025

  25-11-2024 16:51 via thehill.com
  
  The Congressional Black Caucus PAC has vowed to expose what it calls a “dangerous agenda” from “extreme Republicans” following the GOP’s success at the ballot boxes this year. The PAC announced on Monday that it plans to fight back against any proposed legislation aligning with Project 2025. “The CBC will hold the line to protect Americans from the danger of extremist Republicans and their hate-filled Project 2025 agenda,” the PAC said in a mem
  
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• Former Pence adviser: Women entering Trump White House face 'hostile environment'

  25-11-2024 16:44 via thehill.com
  
  An ex-adviser for former Vice President Mike Pence warned last week that women entering the Trump White House face a “hostile environment.”“I’m not going to lie to you. No matter who you are, you are entering a hostile environment. I was fortunate — Mike Pence was a decent, respectful island in Trump’s sea of contempt. It will be much, much worse this time,” Olivia Troye said in a post on her Substack last Thursday.Troye, who served as a national securit
  
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• Schiff on possible Trump retribution: 'That’s dictator talk'

  25-11-2024 16:08 via thehill.com
  
  Senator-elect Adam Schiff is accusing President-elect Trump of talking like a “dictator” as concerns grow over if the next administration will seek retribution against his perceived enemies, which would include the California Democrat.Schiff joined ABC’s “This Week” on Sunday, where he was asked by host Kristen Welker if he was concerned by Trump’s language after he said the lawmaker was a lunatic, the “enemy from within” and suggested he was &ldqu
  
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• Duckworth: Hegseth nomination an 'insult' to Defense Department 

  25-11-2024 16:07 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) spoke out against President-elect Trump’s nomination of Fox News host Pete Hegseth as Defense secretary, calling the nomination an “insult” to the Department of Defense.  “It’s frankly an insult and really troubling that Mr. Trump would nominate someone who has admitted that he’s paid off a victim who has claimed rape allegations against him,” she said on a Sunday “Face the Nation” a
  
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• Christie: Trump ‘overreading his mandate’ with Gaetz pick

  25-11-2024 14:36 via thehill.com
  
  Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) argued Sunday that President-elect Trump was “overreading his mandate” by selecting former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as his first choice for attorney general.In an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Christie, a former GOP presidential candidate and former Trump ally, called out the president-elect over the nomination after Gaetz withdrew from consideration.“Matt Gaetz was an abominable pick, and it was Donald Trump overr
  
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• Christie: Trump ‘over-reading his mandate’ with Gaetz pick

  25-11-2024 14:36 via thehill.com
  
  Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) argued Sunday that President-elect Trump was “over-reading his mandate” by selecting former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) as his first choice for attorney general.In an appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Christie, a former GOP presidential candidate and former Trump ally, called out the president-elect over the nomination after Gaetz withdrew from consideration.
  “Matt Gaetz was an abominable pick, and it was Donald Trump over
  
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• Republicans grapple with controversial Trump recess appointment scheme

  25-11-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  Republicans are grappling with the idea that President-elect Trump could test the limits of his constitutional authority by appointing controversial picks to his Cabinet with recess appointments.One source who has spoken to Trump believes that idea — trying to forcibly adjourn Congress, even if the Senate does not affirmatively agree to do so — has been seriously considered in his circle.Trump’s ideological allies publicly argue that such a move is possible, even as other exper
  
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• Klobuchar says Trump nominees have 'got to get their background checks together' 

  25-11-2024 04:42 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said Sunday that President-elect Trump’s picks for his next administration have “got to get their background checks together.”Earlier in an interview, Klobuchar told ABC News’s Jonathan Karl that as a Senate Judiciary Committee member, she and her colleagues on the panel have a role “to look at the FBI background check and is to ask them questions to make sure they're fulfilling the mission of the department” for Cabinet picks.&ldq
  
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• Trump team working 'hand in glove' with Biden administration on national security: Waltz 

  25-11-2024 03:18 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Michael Waltz (R-Fla.), President-elect Trump’s choice for national security adviser in his next administration, said Sunday that the Trump transition team is working “hand in glove” with the Biden administration on national security.“Jake and I, [White House national security adviser] Jake Sullivan and I have had discussions. We've met,” Waltz told anchor Gillian Turner on “Fox News Sunday.”“For our adversaries out there that think this is a
  
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• McMaster disagrees that Gorka is a 'good person to advise on national security'

  25-11-2024 00:22 via thehill.com
  
  Former national security adviser H.R. McMaster responded negatively when asked if Sebastian Gorka, who President-elect Trump recently named as the deputy assistant to the president and senior director for counterterrorism in his upcoming administration, is “a good person to advise on national security.”“Is he a good person to advise on national security?” CBS News’s Margaret Brennan asked McMaster on Sunday’s “Face the Nation.”“No, no, he's n
  
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• Senate Intelligence Committee will ask Gabbard 'lots of questions,' Lankford says

  24-11-2024 23:21 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) said Sunday that the Senate Intelligence Committee will ask President-elect Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), “lots of questions.”“We’ll have lots of questions,” Lankford said to CNN’s “State of the Union” anchor Dana Bash. “She met with [Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.] We’ll wanna know what the purpose was and what the direction for tha
  
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• The 6 senators who could be key to Hegseth's Pentagon confirmation

  24-11-2024 23:00 via thehill.com
  
  Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump’s pick to head the Pentagon, is facing a tight Senate confirmation as questions continue to swirl around his suitability for the job. The Army veteran and former Fox News host will need to alleviate concerns around allegations of sexual assault, graphic details of which emerged in a police report released Wednesday. His untested status in running a major agency is also under scrutiny.  Though no GOP senator has yet to openly oppose him, se
  
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