The House Intelligence Committee is being given a makeover, with Republicans who have “more MAGA-friendly credentials” replacing some other GOP members. The committee was seen as one of the last bastions of old-school Republicanism in Congress before Trump ordered a reshuffle.
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) on Tuesday said that he disagreed with President Donald Trump's decision to pardon violent Capitol rioters who assaulted police officers.Speaking with reporters, Tillis said he's worried that Trump's pardons could set a precedent that "police officers could potentially be
Trump and MAGA are even more unpopular here than people already thought – including among many Republican-leaning voters. Tens of thousands of them in all parts of the state passed on backing him, and then proceeded to vote for GOP candidates down-ballot.
Representative Michael Waltz left his seat to serve as Trump’s national security adviser—making the House Republicans’ slim majority over the Democrats even tighter at 218-215 .
More broadly, Trump is calling for nothing less than a return to the 19th-century notion of Manifest Destiny (a term he explicitly used) in the manner of William McKinley (whom he described as “a great president”).
Speaker Mike Johnson has made the House Intelligence Committee far friendlier to the MAGA movement, and the adverse consequences are likely to linger.
“Canada is mobilizing to help fight the wildfires in southern California. Canadian water bombers are already in action. 250 firefighters are ready to deploy,” outgoing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wrote on X Thursday. “To our American neighbours: Canada’s here to help.”
During a two-hour meeting with Senate Republicans, Trump said he plans to immediately enact his MAGA vision instead of waiting for Congress to act, according to a new report in the Wall Street Journal. He has already prepared about 100 executive orders, and he has no qualms testing the legal limits of presidential authority, he said.
The farcical nature of the inauguration was a fitting reminder that everything about the MAGA movement is a scam.
MAGA Republicans are offering an outpouring of support for TikTok ... and I don’t think there’s a world where Trump doesn’t fulfill his promise to save it," the strategist said. The GOP insider added that "the fact that [Sen. Mitch] McConnell and ...
Trump’s force of personality united the GOP’s many disparate factions during the campaign. Now comes the hard work of actually governing.
Speaker Johnson bows to Mar-a-Lago in ousting Intel Chair Mike Turner.