Donald Trump served reporters a chocolate pudding-filled boot at an off-the-record dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Semafor reports.
Reporters from outlets including Politico, the Washington Post, NBC News, CBS News and others were in attendance.
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“President Donald Trump on Friday said he would be announcing tariffs next week that match the duties imposed by other countries, in an apparent shift from his previous threat to…
Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) may have improperly allowed another House member to cast two votes for him on Friday morning, a serious violation of chamber’ ethics rules, Punchbowl News reports….
“A federal judge said Friday he will temporarily bar the U.S. Agency for International Development from putting 2,200 workers on paid leave as planned by the end of the day…
“The Trump bump in consumer confidence is already over,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Tariff threats, stock market swings and rapidly reversing executive orders are causing Americans across the political…
“Constituents have flooded the phone lines at the U.S. Capitol this week, many of them asking questions about billionaire Elon Musk ‘feeding USAID into the wood chipper’ and his access…
“Senate Republicans unveiled a plan to fund President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign, proposing to spend close to $350 billion on immigrant detention facilities, deportation raids and national security priorities,”…
“President Trump said on Friday that Elon Musk would soon turn his cost-cutting attention to the Pentagon, a vast bureaucracy that has billions of dollars in contracts with Mr. Musk…
“Edward Coristine, a 19-year-old member of Elon Musk’s squad that’s criss-crossing U.S. government agencies, was fired from an internship after he was accused of sharing information with a competitor,” Bloomberg…
Vice President J.D. Vance said a former DOGE staffer who resigned this week after social media posts of him advocating for racism and eugenics were brought to the White House’s…
“A group of centrist House Democrats met privately with Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) and asked him to give them room to vote for GOP messaging bills,” Axios reports. “Democrats…
“The Trump administration has agreed to keep private a list of FBI employees who worked on Jan. 6 cases unless it first provides a two-day head start for the employees…
Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Friday morning that Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries “seemed to be trying to set up some sort of a government shutdown,” Politico reports. Said Johnson: “We…
President Trump is considering allowing Japan’s Nippon Steel to complete its $14.1 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel, CBS News reports. Save to Favorites
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told business leaders at the Canada-U.S. Economic Summit in Toronto that U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to annex Canada ‘is a real thing,’” CBC reports. Said…
“A vandal targeted a Texas mural depicting X and Tesla CEO Elon Musk by scrawling the words ‘deny, defend, depose’ across his face,” The Independent reports. “The words scribbled on…
Jonathan Last: “Don’t ever do this again.” “Chuck Schumer should not be the face of your party. Leading chants is imbecilic. Showing up outside a building is nonsensical. People don’t…
“President Donald Trump is considering nominating former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, who served eight years in prison on corruption charges, to be U.S. ambassador to Serbia,” Politico reports. “Blagojevich, whose…
Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency staffers are set to gain access to data at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Wired reports. Save to Favorites
“The Federal Highway Administration on Thursday announced the suspension of a Biden-era electric vehicle charging network, the latest in a series of moves by the Trump administration to gut its…
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