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The Daily Beast reports: A MAGA senator said he liked “omelets better than sex” when coming to Elon Musk’s defense for shutting down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Louisiana Senator John Kennedy had a bizarre rant on Fox News when he compared the breakfast food to Musk putting USAID on the chopping block. “I like omelets better than …

CBS News reports: The Senate Finance Committee is considering Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination on Tuesday, with a key vote on whether to advance his confirmation to lead the Department of Health and Human Services after a pair of fiery hearings last week. Kennedy appeared Wednesday before the finance committee for a confirmation hearing, before testifying to the Senate Committee …

NOTUS reports: Tech billionaire Elon Musk is working to shut down government agencies and cancel congressionally approved funding — and many Republican lawmakers are just fine with it. “He’s doing exactly what he should be doing,” Sen. Rick Scott said Monday night. “He’s going through every agency and looking at how to make sure the money’s spent right.” Wait, isn’t …

Florida Politics reports: Eight months after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a 2018 ban on bump stocks that enable semiautomatic rifles to fire at machine gun-like speeds, Florida should do the same, says state Rep. Toby Overdorf. Overdorf, a Palm City Republican, has filed legislation (HB 6013) to repeal a ban on the controversial gun accessories, which have been …

“Promises made, promises kept. Donald Trump told you he was gonna do everything to secure this nation and that’s what he’s done. No talking points, no silly blue-ribbon panels that go nowhere, no meetings that do absolutely nothing. Decisive action with results, that’s what Donald Trump has brought here. “Listen, nobody wants to be in an out-and-out trade war, there’s …

“What’s funny to me as an economist, Sandra, is if you go back to 2018, 2019, when the president, President Trump imposed historic tariffs on China: steel and aluminum, solar, dishwashers, other products. Those very same people, whether they’re on the Hill, or whether they’re in think tanks, or whether they’re in the ivory tower, or whether they’re on the …

The Washington Post reports: Secretary of State Marco Rubio unveiled plans to restructure and potentially abolish the U.S. Agency for International Development on Monday, moving swiftly against an agency that has emerged as a chief target in President Donald Trump’s drive to reshape the federal government and refocus spending at home. n a letter to senior lawmakers from both parties, …

“After extensive consideration of her nomination, I will support Tulsi Gabbard to be the Director of National Intelligence. As one of the principal authors of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 that established this coordinating position, I understand the critical role the DNI plays in the Intelligence Community. “The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, however, …

Mediaite reports: Trump’s State Department is hiring first-term Trump speechwriter Darren Beattie to a top job just 15 weeks after he submitted that “competent white men must be in charge” in one of many controversial, resurfaced tweets. Semafor broke the news on Sunday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio will appoint Beattie as undersecretary of state for public diplomacy at …

“It’s gonna hurt Americans, American companies, American exporters. It will hurt American consumers long term. Sometimes you can use trade to try to get your trading partners to do something they ordinarily wouldn’t do or sometimes to raise revenue. “But in general, tariffs are a tax. When you have something, you get less of it. So you probably get fewer …

The Grand Forks Herald reports: “Wonder if the CIA would help Trump overthrow and kick this Jew out of power in Mexico?” state Rep. Nico Rios, a Republican from Williston, wrote in a post on X on Sunday, Feb. 2. Rios writes many stupid things on social media. He recently argued that an economy where women with children work outside …

“So here’s the thing I think a lot of folks don’t appreciate about Greenland: it’s really important to our national security. There are sea lanes there that the Chinese use, that the Russians use that, frankly, Denmark – which controls Greenland – it’s not doing its job and being a good ally. “So you have to ask yourself, how are …

Mediaite reports: Elon Musk is going after a Republican Senator who could potentially end Tulsi Gabbard’s bid to be Director of National Intelligence. In a post to X on Sunday, Musk raged at Sen. Todd Young (R-IN) — who grilled Gabbard on Thursday during her Senate confirmation hearing after she refused to call Edward Snowden a traitor. “Todd Young is …

“I would say the risks are worth it. With respect to Canada, it is about making sure that they do their job on their side of the border to help secure the northern border that Joe Biden left wide open during his last four years. And if they’re not going to do it out of the kindness of their hearts, …

“The president made very clear that he wasn’t blaming anybody, but he was being very explicit about the fact that DEI policies have led our air traffic controllers to be short staffed. That is a scandal. Thankfully, it’s a scandal that the president has stopped. “We have a massive shortage of air traffic controllers. And in fact, there have been …

Politico reports: Florida’s Republican era of good feelings appears over. President Donald Trump’s home state is caught up in a never-before-seen power struggle between Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Legislature. It’s led to insults, promises of political payback and a mounting media offensive by the governor. The scene is unlike any since Republicans gained control of state government nearly …

NBC News reports: Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Sunday said that “due process will be followed” for all migrants housed at Guantanamo Bay. Noem reiterated the Trump administration’s goal of housing the “worst of the worst” migrants at Guantanamo Bay, referring to those who have committed crimes while living in the U.S. illegally. Still, Noem dodged multiple questions about …

Courthouse News reports: A former aide to Donald Trump can proceed with her civil rape case against Trump’s longtime senior campaign advisor Jason Miller, a New York judge ruled Friday. The lawsuit is an escalation of a yearslong and salacious feud between Miller and former MAGA attorney A.J. Delgado, who claims that she was victimized in her publicized extramarital affair …

The Associated Press reports: New York doctor was indicted by a Louisiana grand jury on Friday for allegedly prescribing an abortion pill online in the Deep South state, which has one of the strictest near-total abortion bans in the country. Grand jurors at the District Court for the Parish of West Baton Rouge issued an indictment against Dr. Margaret Carpenter; …

Via press release: Representative Thomas Massie announces that he has reintroduced H.R. 899, a bill to abolish the federal Department of Education. H.R. 899 is one sentence long, stating, “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2026.” “Unelected bureaucrats in Washington, D.C. should not be in charge of our children’s intellectual and moral development,” said Rep. Massie. “States …