BY HANNA TRUDO AND MIKE LILLIS |
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) is facing an uncertain future after a pivotal setback this week, when she lost her race to lead Democrats on the House Oversight Committee.
The 74-year-old Rep. Gerry Connolly's (D-Va.) victory sparked new anger in liberals pushing for a generational change in leadership, and some are wondering how Ocasio-Cortez will play her cards next. |
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House Republicans are largely brushing aside Elon Musk's threats to unseat members who supported the initial government funding measure he helped torpedo earlier this week.
After the tech billionaire called for the backers of that bipartisan bill to be voted out in two years, some GOP members dismissed Musk's tirade as simply part of the "game" of Washington politics. |
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The drag-out fight over government spending has highlighted how House Republicans — for all the ideological divisions between their clashing in-house factions — are governed by the underlying effort to appease an audience of one: President-elect Trump. Trump's 11th-hour decision to jump into the funding fight — with a big push from billionaire Elon Musk — impelled Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to trash the deal he'd initially cut with Democrats, forced GOP leaders into a crisis-mode scramble for an alternative proposal, and brought the country to the teetering brink of a holiday-season government shutdown. |
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Lara Trump, President-elect Trump's daughter in law and former Republican National Committee (RNC) co-chair, removed her name from consideration to replace Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). "After an incredible amount of thought, contemplation, and encouragement from so many, I have decided to remove my name from consideration for the United States Senate," Trump wrote in a Saturday post on the social platform X. |
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President-elect Trump took issue with fees charged to use the Panama Canal, a vital shipping route, on Saturday night, claiming that he will demand oversight of the waterway be given back to the U.S. when he returns to office if it's not changed. "The fees being charged by Panama are ridiculous, especially knowing the extraordinary generosity that has been bestowed to Panama by the U.S," Trump wrote on Truth Social. "This complete 'rip-off' of our Country will immediately stop…." |
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Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) encouraged incoming lawmakers to support more farmer aid in future bills considered by Congress. "It took a last second vote for us to give farmers a lifeline after losing 150,000 family farms in the last several years under Democrat rule," he wrote in a Saturday post on the social media platform X. |
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With the spread of bird flu in the U.S., the prices of eggs have jumped in recent weeks, throwing another curveball to consumers looking to prepare goods for the upcoming holidays. The price tag for a dozen Grade A large eggs was nearly $3.65 last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, an uptick from $3.37 in October. The price for the same amount of eggs at the beginning of this year was $2.52. |
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President Biden issued his condolences on Saturday over an attack on a Christmas market in Germany that left five dead and injured 200. "No community—and no family—should have to endure such a despicable and dark event, especially just days before a holiday of joy and peace," Biden wrote. |
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President-elect Trump announced that Mark Burnett will serve as the special envoy to the United Kingdom in his next administration in a Saturday post on Truth Social. "With a distinguished career in television production and business, Mark brings a unique blend of diplomatic acumen and international recognition to this important role," Trump told his followers. |
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OPINION | More than a few people have said that I'm the boy who cries wolf. The reason is my decades-long concern with the ever-growing U.S. government debt. For years — in Congress and as a governor — I have sounded the alarm about our federal government's corrosive habit of spending more than it takes in and its need to borrow ever more money to plug that gap. Today, the federal government budget deficit is $1.8 trillion, and the outstanding government bonds and other forms of borrowing — the national debt — totals $36 trillion. |
OPINION | Fixing the U.S. government's finances has rightfully become one of the most critical tasks in politics today. The debt now exceeds $36 trillion, more than the combined debt of over 170 other countries around the world. Millions see Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as governmental messianic saviors, prepared to tackle the entrenched bureaucratic failures of the system. Their proposals have included cutting $2 trillion in spending and providing free tax-filing software. They have captured America's attention. |
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BY BEN HUBBARD, FARNAZ FASSIHI, CHRISTINA GOLDBAUM AND HWAIDA SAAD |
President Bashar al-Assad, who wielded force over Syria for more than two decades, fled the country under the cover of night — and a fake political address. |
BY ELIZABETH FINDELL, TAWNELL D. HOBBS AND TARINI PARTI |
Detention service providers are getting ready to cash in on the expected largest domestic deportation operation in U.S. history. |
BY CHRIS MEGERIAN, STEPHEN GROVES, JILL COLVIN AND JOSH BOAK |
After days of threats and demands, Donald Trump had little to show for it once lawmakers passed a budget deal.
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BY ISAAC ARNSDORF, MARIANNA SOTOMAYOR, MARIANNE LEVINE AND LIZ GOODWIN |
The past week provides a preview of what spending battles could be like in a closely divided Congress and with warring GOP factions. | |
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