“There’s probably a couple of kinks in that slinky.”
— Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), quoted by Politico, on President Trump’s proposal for the U.S. to “own” the Gaza Strip.
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Musk Stopped From Hiring a Noncitizen at DOGE
“As Elon Musk set out to upend the federal bureaucracy on behalf of Donald Trump, he reached out to Trump’s team with an unusual request: U.S. law generally prohibits noncitizens from working for the federal government, but Musk was hoping to make an exception for Baris Akis, a Turkish-born venture capitalist with a green card who had become a close ally,” The Atlantic reports.
“The answer, delivered privately by Trump’s advisers, was an unequivocal no.”
The CIA Is About to Get a Trump Makeover
“The Central Intelligence Agency offered buyouts to its entire workforce Tuesday, in what officials said is a bid to bring the agency in line with President Trump’s priorities, including targeting drug cartels,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The CIA appeared to be the first intelligence agency to tell its employees that they can quit their jobs and receive about eight months of pay and benefits as part of Trump’s push to downsize the federal government. The offer last month made to most civilian federal agencies exempted some categories of federal workers, including those with national security roles.”
Mike Johnson’s Budget Plan Is At Risk of Collapse
“After weeks of promising ‘one big, beautiful bill,’ House Republican leaders are at serious risk of being outmaneuvered by an unlikely GOP alliance as Speaker Mike Johnson struggles to sell his approach to enacting President Donald Trump’s sprawling domestic agenda,” Politico reports.
“Already a rebellion among conservative hard-liners has already forced the speaker to scrap his ambitious timeline for advancing the border, energy and tax bill. Senators, meanwhile, are getting antsy about inaction in the House and are working with Freedom Caucus members on an end-run around Johnson’s strategy.”
Axios: Senate GOP plots to bypass Mike Johnson on reconciliation.
Trump Proposes U.S. Control of Gaza
“President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed that the United States take a ‘long-term ownership position’ over Gaza, moving its residents to a ‘good, fresh, beautiful piece of land’ in another country and rebuilding the war-torn territory under U.S. control, offering a vision of mass displacement likely to inflame sentiments in the Arab world as he welcomed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House,” the Washington Post reports.
“Trump’s proposal was likely to provoke a furious reaction from many Palestinians as well as their Arab allies in the region, since it suggested permanently removing Gaza’s 2.2 million residents from Palestinian territory and settling them outside of their land. It would also pull the United States even more deeply into the conflict by taking over territory that belongs to Palestinians.”
Wall Street Journal: “The proposal, if implemented, would deeply involve the U.S. in a massive development project that Trump officials said earlier in the day could take 10 to 15 years. He left unaddressed how the U.S. would persuade Palestinians to voluntarily surrender their land and whether Israel would ultimately exercise sovereignty in the territory.”
The New York Times reports Trump, sounding like the real estate developer he once was, vowed to turn it into “the Riviera of the Middle East.”
Officials Privately Warn Elon Musk’s Blitz Is Illegal
“The chaotic blitz by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has triggered legal objections across Washington, with officials in at least a half-dozen federal agencies and departments raising alarms about whether the billionaire’s assault on government is breaking the law,” the Washington Post reports.
“Internal legal objections have been raised at the Treasury Department, the Education Department, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the General Services Administration, the Office of Personnel Management, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the White House budget office, among others.”
House GOP Bitterly Divided on Budget Resolution
“Speaker Mike Johnson will meet with members of the House Republican Conference tonight as GOP lawmakers are struggling to rally around a resolution that would jumpstart the reconciliation process,” Punchbowl News reports.
“Remember: Johnson and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise said they would move a resolution through the House Budget Committee this week. Johnson set an incredibly ambitious goal of passing President Donald Trump’s agenda via one massive reconciliation package by the end of April.”
“But the House Budget Committee is deeply divided. Hardline Republicans want trillions of dollars in cuts. Johnson envisioned budgetary savings amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars.”
GOP Lawmakers Rush to Flatter Trump
New York Times: “In the House, Republicans have largely taken on the role of cheerleaders, rather than acting as a constitutional check on the president’s power. A competition of sorts has broken out for whom the Republican base will see as the most pro-Trump member.”
“The rush of flattering legislation, some of which even the lawmakers concede is unlikely to pass, stands apart from merely carrying out Mr. Trump’s agenda. They must still find consensus to do the difficult tasks of cutting taxes, funding the government and passing a massive reconciliation bill.”
J.D. Vance’s Brother to Run for Mayor of Cincinnati
Vice President JD Vance’s half-brother Cory Bowman has pulled petitions to run for Cincinnati mayor, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports.
Trump’s Push to Freeze Grants Leaves Nonprofits Reeling
New York Times: “Last week, the Trump administration briefly froze all federal grant spending, cutting off funding to nonprofit groups that do work under a government contract. It lasted all of two days. Then the memo that announced the freeze was rescinded, and two federal judges blocked it, for good measure.”
“But this week, many nonprofit groups said they still felt frozen, or at least chilled.”
“For some, that was because their funding actually remained blocked into this week, despite what the administration and the judges had said. Those groups laid off staff and cut back on services — canceling job training in West Virginia, immigrant services in Wisconsin and help for disabled children in Vermont.”
“For the lucky others whose access to the funds was renewed, the episode demonstrated how easily the government could break their finances, by canceling contracts that previous administrations had agreed to.”
Trump Plans Sweeping Layoffs of Federal Workers
“The Trump administration is planning widespread layoffs among the federal workforce soon, leaving employees who don’t accept its deferred resignation offer at risk of losing their jobs,” CNN reports.
Trump Gets Little GOP Resistance
“Republicans in Congress have effectively given Donald Trump a green light to extend his presidential power into territory that lawmakers in the Capitol once jealously guarded,” Bloomberg reports.
“Since being sworn in two weeks ago, Trump has fired at least a dozen independent agency watchdogs, attempted to freeze most federal grants, offered buyouts to federal employees and let his efficiency expert, Elon Musk, have access to the Treasury’s payments system and essentially shut down the agency responsible for US international aid.”
“Many of those actions, on paper, step on Congress’ authority.”
For members: Is There Any Chance Republicans Might Stop Trump?
Trump Says Palestinians Must Leave Gaza
“President Trump declared on Tuesday that Palestinians had no choice but to leave Gaza because of the devastation wrought by Israel’s war with Hamas after the terrorist attack of Oct. 7, 2023, suggesting that they be given a new homeland,” the New York Times reports.
Said Trump: “They have no alternative right now… I mean, they’re there because they have no alternative. What do they have? It is a big pile of rubble right now.”
He added: “I don’t know how they could want to stay. It’s a demolition site. It’s a pure demolition site.”
GOP Hardliners Rebel Over Johnson’s Budget Plans
“Conservative backlash has brought Speaker Mike Johnson’s budget plans to a halt, offering an early sign of the struggle Republicans will face as they try to muscle President Donald Trump’s agenda through a narrowly divided Congress,” Politico reports.
“House GOP leaders are struggling to coalesce behind a budget blueprint that will mark the first step toward delivering Trump’s agenda, as some hardliners demanded hundreds of billions more in cuts and more details about how to pay for Trump’s tax cuts.”
“GOP leaders believe they will, ultimately, get consensus to move ahead, but the disagreement is — for now — halting Johnson’s plans to move ahead with the first committee vote on Trump’s big border, tax and energy package this week.”
Trump Weighing Nicaragua’s Future in Free-Trade Pact
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is evaluating Nicaragua’s membership in a regional free-trade agreement as its authoritarian government cracks down on dissent and fuels a surge in migration, Bloomberg reports.
Trump to Ban Transgender Girls from Female School Sports
“President Trump is preparing to issue an executive order Wednesday effectively banning transgender girls and women from participating in female sports events in schools and colleges, fulfilling a promise that fueled his campaign for the White House,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“It wasn’t immediately clear exactly what the contents of the order would entail, but one option is for the president to direct the Education Department to interpret federal Title IX rules as barring the participation of transgender girls and women in female sports categories.”
Senate to Move First on Budget Resolution
“Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) will brief Republican senators Wednesday about moving first on a budget resolution to lay the groundwork for a package focused on border security, energy and defense that could pass the Senate with a simple majority while House Republicans remain deadlocked on how to move forward,” The Hill reports.
“Their plan would move legislation to extend the expiring 2017 tax cuts in a second budget reconciliation package later this year.”
Tulsi Gabbard’s Nomination Advances
The Senate Intelligence Committee narrowly endorsed Tulsi Gabbard to become director of national intelligence after skeptical Republicans threw their support behind President Trump’s controversial nominee to the sensitive Cabinet-level position, USA Today reports.
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