Trump cultists

The Hill reports: House Ways and Means Chair Jason Smith (R-Mo.) said Sunday that President Trump “does not want” the “one big, beautiful bill” encompassing his agenda “to be a health care bill.” “He will not be cutting benefits for individuals, will not allow that,” he added. “He does not want this to be a health care bill. This is …

Fox News reports: As President Donald Trump approaches the 100th day of his second term, a Fox News survey finds voters pleased with the job he is doing on border security, but displeased on most other issues — including inflation. Trump receives his best marks on border security, as a 55% majority approves. That’s the only issue where his ratings …

The Washington Post reports: Interim D.C. U.S. attorney Ed Martin apologized this week for praising a pardoned Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot defendant who supported Nazi ideology and photographed himself posing as Adolf Hitler, saying he didn’t know about the man’s extremist statements. But in videos and podcasts, Martin has defended the man since at least 2023, calling him a …

The Virginia Mercury reports: Days after John Reid became the de facto Republican nominee for lieutenant governor, Gov. Glenn Youngkin has asked him to drop out of the race. Reid vowed he would “not back down” in a fiery video response on his campaign’s Facebook page Friday evening. Youngkin’s request, first reported by The Richmonder, came in response to allegations …

“This is the hardest statement I have ever written. I write this humbled, chastened, and fully accountable for choices that shattered the faith so many placed in me. I betrayed the confidence entrusted to me by many. For that, I offer my deepest apology. “When I pled guilty, I did so without reservation. I said then, and I repeat now, …

The Free Press reports: Ed Martin, the firebrand Republican activist whom President Donald Trump picked to be the top prosecutor in D.C., has a new target: Wikipedia. Martin, the interim U.S. attorney in Washington and Trump’s permanent selection to serve in that role, sent a letter on Thursday afternoon to the Wikimedia Foundation that alleged it “is engaging in a …

NBC News reports: Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., is telling senators that he plans to run for governor of Alabama, according to two sources with knowledge of the situation. One of the sources told NBC News, “He’s been telling anyone and everyone.” Tuberville has long been rumored to be considering a campaign for governor to succeed Gov. Kay Ivey, R-Ala., who …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas lawmakers are considering following President Donald Trump’s lead and renaming the body of water that touches 367 miles of the state’s coast to the Gulf of America. If approved, the bill would require the name to be changed in every official reference made by a state agency, resolution, rule or publication. The Sunset Advisory Committee …

The Daily Caller reports: Republican Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene is seriously considering a run for Senate in 2026, according to two sources familiar with the matter. Greene, one of President Donald Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress, is actively surveying whether to get in the race if Georgia Republican Governor Brian Kemp were to pass on a run. Though Kemp …

Las Vegas’s CBS affiliate reports: President Donald Trump has pardoned former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore weeks before her sentencing for wire fraud, the 8 News Now Investigators have learned. In October 2024, a jury convicted Fiore, suspended in July 2024 from her position as justice court judge in Nye County, after deliberating for two hours. The panel convicted …

“SCOOP: People inside the Trump White House are alerting Wall Street execs they are nearing an agreement in principle on trade with India, according to my sources who are senior Wall Street execs w ties to the White House. “No details on timing, and recall that we have been here before with Japan only to have the goal posts changed, …

Florida Politics reports: Senators voted 30-7 for the bill (SB 140), which would change the standard by which Florida municipalities can turn over a public school’s facilities and operations to a private education company. SB 140, which still needs to pass in the House, would modify state statutes to remove district School Boards, principals, teachers and school advisory councils from …

The Hill reports: Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy warned states Thursday that they will lose federal funding for roads, bridges and other infrastructure projects if they continue to foster diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs; impede President Trump’s immigration enforcement efforts; or defy other directives from the administration. “Federal grants come with a clear obligation to adhere to federal laws,” Duffy …

Law & Crime reports: Right-wing scammers Jack Burkman and Jacob Wohl are facing a $5 million lawsuit by a Washington, D.C., elementary school teacher over an alleged plot to cast him as a pedophile in a video sting in the style of “To Catch a Predator,” a reality TV series in which men arriving at a house to have sex …

The New York Times reports: George Santos is facing his sentencing on Friday with little of his former flair. “Right now, my expectation is I’m going to prison for 87 months,” he said flatly when reached by phone on Wednesday. “I’m totally resigned.” Gone was the pugnacious rhetoric and quick wit that became part of his mystique as he lied …

“Wall Street is very much on the side of the elites. They are trying to punish the president for doing what he promised he was going to do, which is to stand up for the forgotten men and women of the heartland of this country. “You know, the elites are out there acting like if an iPhone suddenly costs more …

TMZ reports: Kanye West is firing off more than just disturbing, antisemitic rants online these days. The rapper is also making a racket with his SUPER LOUD casting calls, and offending neighbors with a prominent racist hate symbol, in Los Angeles, TMZ has learned. Kanye plastered L.A.’s Larchmont neighborhood with an “urgent” advertisement seeking “AFRICAN AMERICAN MALES” for his “hooligan …

“When it comes to these trade policies, I have an inside view on only one industry, and that is the cigar industry because I’m an owner of Mayflower Cigars. I’m the founder of this boutique cigar company. And even though it’s a very large cigar company, thanks to all of you who smoke Mayflower Cigars — but it’s still a …

Gothamist reports: Mayor Eric Adams took an apparent swipe Tuesday at a Maryland senator who met with a man mistakenly deported to El Salvador – saying at a press conference that he would not sip a “tequila drink” with a gang member. “It’s time for all of us to ask the question, particularly those who are in government who find …

“Hi, I’m Kristina Wong. I’m pleased to announce I’ve just been sworn in as director of communications and chief spokesperson for the secretary of the Navy. My job is to keep you up to date on what the secretary’s been doing, his top priorities, and happenings from across the Navy and Marine Corps. Secretary Phelan has been working hard every …