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April 6, 2025
House GOP won't be jammed by Senate on budget, leaders pledge
Posted April 5, 2025 at 3:23pm Speaker Mike Johnson and his GOP leadership team on Saturday sought to tamp down a brewing revolt on the budget resolution that emerged even before the Senate adopted the plan in the wee hours and gained steam later in the morning. Johnson and the rest of the top four House Republican leaders sent a letter to the rank and file ahead of next week’s House vote on the Senate-revised budget blueprint assuring them that they will not accept watered-down spendi ...
Go to discussionDOGE expected to take aim at DHS with staffing cuts, including at US Secret Service
Updated 10:34 PM EDT, Sat April 5, 2025 CNN — Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency is expected to take aim at the Department of Homeland Security in the coming days, seeking potentially major cuts to personnel across its agencies, including the US Secret Service, multiple sources tell CNN. DHS is bracing for what could amount to significant layoffs, four sources familiar with the matter who were granted anonymity to speak freely told CNN, though no final decisions have been made ...
Go to discussionJudge awards $6.6 million to whistleblowers who reported Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to FBI
Updated 4:34 PM EDT, April 5, 2025 A district court judge on Friday awarded more than $6 million combined to four whistleblowers in their lawsuit against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton who were fired shortly after they reported him to the FBI. “By a preponderance of the evidence,” Travis County Judge Catherine Mauzy says in her judgment, the plaintiffs proved liability, damages and attorney’s fees in their complaint against the attorney general’s office. “Because the Office of the Attorne ...
Go to discussionBessent seeks tax cut as big summer win
12 hours ago Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's tax-cut negotiators say big progress has been made on Capitol Hill, and are optimistic about final passage by summer despite the measure's complexity, Treasury officials tell Axios. Why it matters: With markets plunging after President Trump's tariffs, top administration officials see the extension of Trump's first-term tax cuts — set to expire at year's end — as a chance to show consumers and businesses that he has a broad growth and affordabil ...
Go to discussionTrump-Stronghold The Villages in Florida Holds Large 'Hands Off!' Rally
Published Apr 05, 2025 at 6:08 PM EDT | Updated Apr 05, 2025 at 6:12 PM EDT Nearly 2,000 residents of the retirement community known as The Villages, 20 miles south of Ocala, Florida, joined thousands across the United States in a "Hands Off!" protest against President Donald Trump and one of his top advisers, billionaire Elon Musk, a spokesperson for the mobilizing coalition told Newsweek on Saturday. Why It Matters "Hands Off!" is a grassroots movement and coalition of ...
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