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Marjorie Greene

 
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Georgia's 14th District
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02/13/2025 --express
California Rep. Robert Garcia slammed Musk during a House Oversight Committee hearing on his agency, DOGE.
02/13/2025 --rollcall
Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. After months of negotiations, Republicans took formal steps this week toward enacting President Donald Trump’s agenda. The House Budget Committee appears set to approve [...]The post At the Races: Talkin’ ’bout a Resolution appeared first on Roll Call.
02/13/2025 --foxnews
House Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-S.C., waged "war on waste" during first hearing.
02/13/2025 --theepochtimes
Elon Musk, a man absent from the proceedings, was a major focus—but possible solutions to waste, fraud, and abuse in Medicare and Medicaid were addressed too.
02/12/2025 --pressherald
Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette challenges some of President Donald Trump's early moves to increase the efficiency of the federal government, pointing out that the inspectors general he fired focused on rooting out waste, fraud and abuse.
02/12/2025 --dailykos
Rep. Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico is the ranking Democrat on the House’s new Delivering on Government Efficiency subcommittee—and on Wednesday, she showed why. Along with the rest of the Democrats on the dais, Stansbury stood up for democracy at the subcommittee’s first hearing. She excoriated Republicans for their fealty to billionaires like Elon Musk, the unelected meddler who is supposedly cutting government waste with seemingly limitless power and impunity.Chaired by the reprehensible Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the subcommittee purportedly supports the work of the very unofficial Department of Government Efficiency, aka DOGE. President Donald Trump appointed Musk to run the so-called department, which has resulted in chaos as the billionaire and his minions trample through every government agency, recommending and enacting draconian cuts while gaining access to crucial data and information.“We are going to have so much fun in this committee,” Stansbury said before turning her attention to a video presented earlier by the GOP, which showed President Barack Obama signing a 2011 executive order that set up an oversight and advisory board in a push to limit government waste. “I actually worked on the waste EO that was referenced,” Stansbury said. “But there is one fundamental difference between the presidents and vice presidents that were shown on that video and what's happening today, and that is that they followed the law.”“We work for the American people,” Stansbury reminded her colleagues before denouncing Musk and the GOP’s attempts to characterize our federal workforce as waste. “Unfortunately, my colleagues right now are working on a reconciliation deal to cut Medicaid, to cut Medicare, and use that money to give tax breaks to their billionaire buddies. That is the gravy train that is actually going on here.”xxYouTube Video“Because this is the oversight committee, let’s do some oversight,” Stansbury said before digging in on Musk’s dangerous desire to hack our Treasury Department.“This system pays the bills,” she explained. “It pays our soldiers. It pays for the work that we do overseas. It pays your Social Security benefits. It pays your tax refunds. So why is Elon Musk and his hackers trying to access that system?"xxYouTube Video"So what is going on here, and why is this such a threat to the American people?” Stansbury proceeded. “We know they're trying to shut down payments. They're trying to shut down agencies. What's next? Are they going to shut down your Social Security payments? We don't know because they have no oversight,” Stansbury added, pointing out that Republicans have blocked attempts to subpoena the billionaire to appear in front of the committee. “So we are sounding the alarm,” Stansbury continued. “And no matter how many executive orders that Donald Trump signs or how many tweets the VP sends, you cannot rewrite the Constitution and we are going to hold you to account.”Hear, hear.xxYouTube VideoYou can help ensure that Daily Kos remains the paywall-free home for our shared fight for democracy and justice. Daily Kos is supported by readers like you.
02/12/2025 --foxnews
As snow falls on D.C., House Republicans push forward on President Donald Trump's agenda with multiple bills and visits to the Capitol.
02/12/2025 --dailykos
Co-president Elon Musk now has more power, thanks to an order signed by President Donald Trump, and it seems like he’s going to use it to enact further federal spending cuts.The “special government employee” was given more jurisdiction by his second in command, who signed an executive order on Tuesday that effectively compels federal agencies to collaborate with Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.Underscoring his support for Musk’s plans to cut spending, the executive order has specific instructions that direct federal agency heads to “coordinate and consult with DOGE to shrink the size of the federal workforce and limit hiring to essential positions.” Each agency will also be limited to hiring for so-called “essential positions,” according to a summary of the decree. (There are some exceptions for organizations such as immigration enforcement, law enforcement, and public safety.)In addition, the order said federal agencies can only rehire a maximum of a single worker for every four people who leave. This is all a part of DOGE’s “workplace optimization initiative,” which is jargon for bulldozing the bureaucratic apparatus in MAGA’s image. Considering Musk’s unpopularity and the fact that about half of Americans don’t want him involved in spending decisions, it’s somewhat surprising that Trump continues to elevate Musk’s political influence and is fully behind the mega-billionaire efforts to cut red tape. So far, that’s already included basically shuttering the U.S. Agency for International Development and limiting hiring. But these moves haven’t come without consequence: DOGE is facing multiple lawsuits from labor unions and Democratic state attorneys general for potentially running afoul of the law. After all, they can’t shut down federal agencies without first seeking congressional approval.That probably won’t stop the duo from trying, though. That’s especially true for Musk, who was just given more control over “reducing the unnecessary footprint of government.” But as Daily Kos has reported extensively, his plans so far have been short-sighted and could have deadly consequences.Notably, it doesn’t appear that programs and agencies beloved by Republicans are safe from Musk, either. NOTUS reported on Wednesday that Musk and his DOGE team are eyeing Pentagon spending, which has some Republicans worried that Musk will touch their stuff. GOP lawmakers are apparently so desperate to make sure that their precious dollars don’t go bye-bye that they’re putting their faith in alcoholic sexual harasser Pete Hegseth (who also leads the Department of Defense), to keep the DOGE efforts in line.Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth“While we’re certainly looking for efficiencies, there are security concerns,” Sen. Roger Wicker, a Republican of Mississippi, told NOTUS. “I hope the administration and Mr. Musk can be mindful of that.”Trump has ceded so much power to Musk, though, that it’s unclear whether the president will have a say or simply defer to his “first buddy” on what spending should be reduced first. Indeed, Musk’s growing presence was on full display on Tuesday during the signing of the DOGE-related executive order. Musk, who stood over Trump while the president sat behind the Resolute Desk, even answered questions from the press, which surely ought to make Trump feel even smaller than he is. When rationalizing his want for more spending cuts, Musk told reporters, “The people voted for major government reform, and that’s what the people are going to get. They’re going to get what they voted for.” Musk, of course, was never elected by the public to get the role he now has.Indeed, Musk’s power grab makes Trump look feeble by comparison. As MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell said during Tuesday’s joint press conference, Trump was left looking like the “most powerless” president ever caught on camera.Maybe the president and Musk’s most recent moves are because the administration is desperate for more cash and is reportedly running low on it. After all, on Tuesday, members of Trump’s administration practically begged Senate Republicans to find $175 million so they could fulfill the president’s inhumane border and immigration wants. Let’s hope Musk and his team make his plans to gut more agencies clearer at Wednesday’s subcommittee hearing. The panel, chaired by conspiracy-loving, right-wing Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican of Georgia, is set to discuss “stamping out the scourge of improper payments and fraud.”There’s an irony to the fact that Greene, who, four years ago, was completely stripped of her committee assignments, now spearheads one of the most high-profile subcommittees in Congress. But then again, given that Musk seems to employ some of the worst people, she should fit right in. Campaign Action
02/12/2025 --foxnews
House GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene spoke with reporters after the first hearing of her DOGE subcommittee under the House Committee on Oversight.
02/05/2025 --foxnews
Democrat lawmakers were ripped by conservatives over an anti-DOGE rally held outside the Treasury Department on Tuesday night, where Elon Musk was called a "Nazi."
02/05/2025 --foxnews
A new internal memo being circulated among certain Republican lawmakers is encouraging a set of talking points to push back on criticism of Trump's foreign policy.
02/05/2025 --chicoer
For every action, says one principle of both physics and politics, there is a reaction. So when President Donald Trump threatened to put conditions on disaster aid in the wake of California’s unprecedented January firestorms, there was a reaction. Many Californians, according to a poll taken during those Southern California blazes, the most devastating in American history [...]
02/05/2025 --huffpost
The president drew criticism for his response during a press conference with Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
02/04/2025 --abcnews
A 538 politics chat on Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency.
02/04/2025 --huffpost
The congresswoman compared herself to Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert in a fierce takedown of the new regime.
01/28/2025 --benzinga
A January filing shows that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene reported a purchase in Home Depot (NYSE:HD), valued between $1,001 and $15,000. The transaction date is listed as January 27, 2025, with the report published on January 27, 2025.At present, Home Depot shares are trading down 0.97% at $420.75.Representative's Recent Trading ActivityIn the last three years, Marjorie Taylor Greene completed 163 stock transactions totaling more than $1.14 million. Costco Wholesale and Home Depot stocks were among the largest trades. Some of the most notable transactions the Rep. has executed recently include: Adobe (NASDAQ:ADBE): $1,001 - $15,000 PurchaseAmazon.com (NASDAQ:AMZN): $1,001 - $15,000 PurchaseApplied Mat (NASDAQ:Full story available on Benzinga.com
01/27/2025 --huffpost
The far-right lawmaker inspired mockery in a pitch on X to change the map the Trump way.
01/24/2025 --huffpost
Fauci says he has continued to face death threats for his role during the COVID-19 pandemic.
01/24/2025 --reporterherald
The Laken Riley Act would require the detention of unauthorized immigrants accused of theft and violent crimes
01/20/2025 --cbsnews
While a name change for the Gulf of Mexico could be applied for federal references, other nations have no obligation to follow suit.
01/20/2025 --rollcall
Elon Musk is seen on a television during a watch party for the second inauguration of President Donald Trump at Union Pub on Capitol Hill on Monday.
01/20/2025 --fox5sandiego
Trump reportedly has plans to rename the Gulf of Mexico and Mount Denali in his first day in office — but can he?
01/20/2025 --axios
Global leaders, current and former U.S. lawmakers, and heads of major U.S. companies descended on Washington, DC, for President-elect Trump's inaugural events over the long weekend. Why it matters: Trump takes office with Republican control of Congress, support from business and foreign leaders and what's seen as more cultural acceptance of the MAGA movement. Follow Axios' live coverage of Inauguration Day.Trump's inauguration is taking place inside the Capitol Rotunda due to weather.Former Vice President Mike Pence, who served with Trump during his first term, was also in attendance.We'll be tracking some of the notable attendees. Among them: Current and former members of CongressFormer Republican House Speakers Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), Newt Gingrich (Ga.), John Boehner (Ohio) trickled into the Capitol Monday. Notably absent was former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) who said she wouldn't attend the inauguration, multiple outlets reported. Former Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) was in attendance with his wife, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao, who served during Trump's first term and quit her role after the Jan. 6 insurrection. McCarthy greets Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.). Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Gingrich (R) greets McConnell (center) and Chao (left). Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Boehner and his wife Debbie Boehner arrive to the inauguration. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR). Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty ImagesTech CEOsElon Musk, CEO of Tesla and owner of XSam Altman, CEO of OpenAIMark Zuckerberg, CEO of Meta Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) takes a picture with Musk. Photo: Shawn Thew/Getty Images OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talks with boxer Jake Paul (L) and wrestler Logan Paul. Photo: Alexander Drago/AFP via Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg. Photo: Kenny Holston via Pool/Getty ImagesForeign leadersRight-wing leaders including Argentinian President Javier Milei and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni were in attendance. Argentinian President Javier Milei (L) and Prime Minister of Italy Giorgia Meloni arrive to the inauguration. Photo: Kevin Dietsch/Getty ImagesGo deeper: Trump readies executive blitz in White House return
01/20/2025 --dailycamera
People flood the capitol to attend the inauguration of Donald J. Trump on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. Trump takes office for his second term as the 47th president of the United States.
01/20/2025 --rollcall
President Donald Trump speaks to supporters Monday at the Capitol after his inauguration as Vice President JD Vance looks on.
01/20/2025 --unionleader
WASHINGTON - U.S. President Joe Biden issued pre-emptive pardons on Monday for people Republican successor Donald Trump has targeted for retaliation, including former Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley and former White...
01/20/2025 --necn
President-elect Donald Trump wants to end birthright citizenship immediately for the children of migrants not in the country legally. According to Trump’s Agenda 47, he plans to “sign an executive order on Day One to end automatic citizenship for children of illegal aliens.”“Under the correct interpretation of the law, going forward, the future children of illegal aliens will not receive automatic U.S. citizenship,” Trump said.But is Trump’s plan viable? Lawyers expect a legal battle that could end up in the Supreme Court.Northwestern University History Professor Susan J. Pearson says the 14th Amendment cannot be changed by executive order.“It was amended to the constitution through the correct channels, and it can’t be overturned, its provisions can’t be stripped by either the president or Congress,” Pearson said.Changing the amendment would require a constitutional amendment rather than an executive order, many legal scholars argue.Trump says on his campaign website that his plan is meant to address the high number of undocumented migrants crossing the southern border, which reached nearly 10 million during the Biden administration.“My policy will choke off a major incentive for continued illegal immigration, deter more migrants from coming, and encourage many of the aliens Joe Biden has unlawfully let into our country to go back to their home countries,” Trump said.The children will not be issued passports or Social Security numbers or be eligible for certain taxpayer-funded welfare benefits, the website says.The Constitution’s 14th Amendment states, “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”Trump administration5 hours agoLive updates: Trump will start second term with blitz of executive actionsnews7 hours agoTrump inauguration live updates: New president vows to retake Panama Canal, plant flag on MarsInauguration Day8 hours agoLive updates: Donald Trump sworn in as 47th president on Inauguration Day“There’s a 1898 US Supreme Court case called United States V. Wong Kim Ark which establishes that even if your parents are not eligible for citizenship if you were born on US soil, you are still a citizen,” Pearson said.She is referring to a case where a 21-year-old man born in San Francisco to Chinese citizens was denied re-entry to the country on the grounds that he was not a US citizen.In a 6-to-2 decision, the Court ruled in favor of Wong Kim Ark because he was born in the United States.Trump’s position is that U.S. citizenship “extends only to those both born in AND ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States,” according to the campaign website.The National Constitution Center notes that “children born to alien enemies in hostile occupation and children of diplomatic representatives of a foreign state are recognized exceptions to the fundamental rule of citizenship by birth within the country.”
01/19/2025 --columbian
As he assumes the presidency for a second time, Donald Trump brings with him a broad expanse of business relationships and financial entanglements — and the possibility that those associations could influence his decision-making in the White House.
01/16/2025 --axios
Data: Axios research and congress.gov; Chart: Erin Davis/Axios VisualsA group of House Republicans are emerging as frequent co-sponsors of legislation to bring President-elect Trump's vision of an American empire to fruition.Why it matters: This group spans the House Republican conference's ideological spectrum, from some of its most moderate members to its most right-wing."People who were snickering or laughing about it when it was first brought up are starting to actually realize it's a legitimate issue," said centrist Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.)."This is real," said Rep. Andy Ogles (R-Tenn.), a member of the right-wing Freedom Caucus. "There are going to be some serious conversations."State of play: A trio of House GOP bills would codify each one of Trump's proposed moves to either expand the U.S.'s territory or its international influence.Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) has introduced legislation that would allow Trump to enter into negotiations with Panama to try to reassert U.S. control over the Panama Canal.Ogles has introduced a similar bill to authorize negotiations with Denmark about purchasing Greenland.Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) has introduced a bill that would change the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the "Gulf of America" on official maps and documents.By the numbers: Each bill has between 10 and 15 co-sponsors, with a considerable amount of overlap.Reps. Troy Nehls (R-Texas), Mike Collins (R-Ga.), Dan Crenshaw (R-Texas), Claudia Tenney (R-N.Y.) and Neal Dunn (R-Fla.) are each co-sponsoring two of the bills.Lawler and Reps. Mike Rulli (R-Ohio), Randy Weber (R-Texas), Barry Moore (R-Ala.) and Brian Babin (R-Texas) are co-sponsoring all three.What they're saying: Several of the lawmakers who have either introduced or co-sponsored legislation told Axios that a desire to counter China's international influence is at the heart of the effort."We've been talking on the China Committee about ... China's growing influence on infrastructure across the globe, and I think the Panama Canal is hugely important to America," said Dusty Johnson.Lawler also cited rare earth minerals and Arctic waterways as key factors in the push to acquire Greenland, saying Trump is "right in raising these as actual issues of national security and ... economic security."Zoom in: Some of the more right-wing lawmakers involved in these bills pushed back on the notion that they run counter to a growing strain of anti-interventionism within the MAGA movement."'America First' is, simply stated: When you have a foreign adversary who arguably is our greatest existential threat — meaning China — when they're making moves towards Greenland, we can't just sit idly by," said Ogles."This is literally in our backyard, front yard, however you want to look at it," Ogles said.Babin noted that the U.S. controlled the Panama Canal until the 1970s: "This is not intervention. This is not adventurism. This is a U.S.-built canal. There wasn't even a Panama. That was part of Colombia."
01/16/2025 --tulsaworld
Maybe instead of advocating for bipartisanship, Americans ought to pivot to demand breath tests before roll calls, says Editorials Editor Ginnie Graham.
01/16/2025 --tulsaworld
Maybe instead of advocating for bipartisanship, Americans ought to pivot to demand breath tests before roll calls, says Editorials Editor Ginnie Graham.
01/15/2025 --dailykos
Israel and Hamas have reached a ceasefire deal to pause the devastating war after more than 15 months of fighting, according to the U.S. and Qatar. The destruction and violence resulted in the deaths of at least 46,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry, while thousands more have been injured.But amid the news, President-elect Donald Trump made the historic deal about himself and tried to take sole credit for it—all before President Joe Biden’s administration had held a news briefing on the matter.“WE HAVE A DEAL FOR THE HOSTAGES IN THE MIDDLE EAST,” Trump posted to his Truth Social platform. “THEY WILL BE RELEASED SHORTLY. THANK YOU!”In a second post, Trump added, “This EPIC ceasefire agreement could have only happened as a result of our Historic Victory in November, as it signaled to the entire World that my Administration would seek Peace and negotiate deals to ensure the safety of all Americans, and our Allies.”President Joe Biden, center, with Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, right, announced a ceasefire deal in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages on Jan. 15, 2025.Of course, the ceasefire effort was put into motion by Biden and has been carried out while he is president. The deal reached by negotiators is broadly the same as the one Biden proposed last May, which the president noted in a statement, saying, “I laid out the precise contours of this plan on May 31, 2024, after which it was endorsed unanimously by the UN Security Council.”Additionally, on Monday, Jake Sullivan, the Biden White House’s national security adviser, said that a deal was imminent and that he “coordinated very closely” with the incoming Trump team to “present a united message” and “get this deal done as fast as possible.”The deal still needs to be approved by the Israeli cabinet, which is expected to happen on Thursday. If approved as expected, the ceasefire will go into effect on Sunday. That said, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late on Wednesday that final details are still being worked out.If approved, the deal will allow for an exchange and release of all the remaining living Israeli hostages taken by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. Israel would also release some jailed Palestinians and allow for increased humanitarian aid in Gaza. In addition, during the plan’s first 42 days, “Israeli forces will withdraw to the east, away from densely populated areas,” according to ABC News, and eventually, there will be a “permanent cessation of military operations.”The final phase of the plan would see the two sides exchange remains for identification. At that time, the reconstruction of Gaza would begin, “with compensation for all affected individuals under the supervision of several countries and organizations, including Egypt, Qatar and the U.N.,” according to ABC News.Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin NetanyahuNotably, last September, Netanyahu rejected the Biden administration’s claim that a ceasefire plan was nearly finished. Since then, of course, the U.S. has elected a new president, suggesting that Netanyahu is far more prepared to bend a knee to the United States now than he was when Democrats controlled Washington, D.C. It’s also likely that he wanted to harm Democrats’ chances at winning the presidency since the continuing conflict in Gaza was seen as a bad issue for them.Last week, Trump warned reporters that “all hell” would break loose if Hamas did not release the hostages by his Jan. 20 inauguration. It’s possible that the pressure of Trump’s threat shook Netanyahu, who has long shown fealty to the president-elect despite Trump famously accusing him of disloyalty. Of course, Trump is not currently president, so it makes sense that Biden is pushing back on giving the president-elect too much credit. When a reporter asked on Wednesday who gets credit for the deal, him or Trump, Biden responded, “Is that a joke?” Unsurprisingly, Trump’s allies are lapping up his lies that the president-elect was singularly responsible for brokering this deal.“HISTORY: President Trump has ended the war against Israel before he even took the oath of office,” Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene posted to social media. “Thank God President Trump will be back in the Oval Office in just a few short days!”Campaign Action
01/15/2025 --wfaa
The back-and-forth happened during a discussion about civil rights and transgender rights during a House Oversight Committee hearing Tuesday.
01/15/2025 --rollcall
President-elect Donald Trump speaks to reporters at a news conference at his Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Jan. 7. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
01/15/2025 --sgvtribune
Let’s rebuild in the name of the late genius Altadenan Afrofuturist Octavia Butler
12/30/2025 --theepochtimes
The tech tycoon endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson hours after Trump threw his support behind him.
12/30/2025 --theepochtimes
The president-elect's support provides a boost to the embattled incumbent.
12/27/2024 --kron4
A Trump World civil war has erupted over visas for highly skilled workers, with the president-elect’s new tech industry allies like Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy on one side and the anti-immigration MAGA base on the other. The clash is a preview of the challenges in holding the Trump coalition together as his administration executes [...]
12/27/2024 --theepochtimes
The departures of Matt Gaetz, Mike Waltz, and Elise Stefanik will bring the majority down to zero seats. Any more could mean that Democrats take the majority.
12/23/2024 --columbian
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, wants her fellow Democrats to show some backbone and prove they won’t back down from political brawls.
12/19/2024 --dailykos
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul thinks the world’s richest man should lead the U.S. House of Representatives during next year’s Congress because—why the hell not?In a Thursday post to X, Paul suggested that megabillionaire and Tesla CEO Elon Musk should be the Republicans’ next pick for the leadership role, which is currently held by Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson.“The Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress,” Paul posted on Thursday. “Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk ... think about it ... nothing’s impossible. (not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, aka ‘uniparty,’ lose their ever-lovin’ minds).”xThe Speaker of the House need not be a member of Congress . . . Nothing would disrupt the swamp more than electing Elon Musk . . . think about it . . . nothing’s impossible. (not to mention the joy at seeing the collective establishment, aka ‘uniparty,’ lose their ever-lovin’...— Rand Paul (@RandPaul) December 19, 2024Paul is correct about one thing at least: The speaker of the House does not need to be a member of Congress. The Constitution states only that “the House of Representatives shall chuse their speaker and other officers.” However, a nonmember has never been elected to the post. While it’s unlikely that Paul’s MAGA fantasy will come true, that hasn’t stopped other Republicans from publicly endorsing this ludicrous idea. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene quoted Paul’s tweet and added that she, too, would be “open” to having Musk serve as House Speaker.xI’d be open to supporting @elonmusk for Speaker of the House. DOGE can only truly be accomplished by reigning in Congress to enact real government efficiency. The establishment needs to be shattered just like it was yesterday.This could be the way. https://t.co/8YuL56e443— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) December 19, 2024“DOGE can only truly be accomplished by reigning in Congress to enact real government efficiency,” said Green, referring to the toothless advisory commission known as the Department of Government Efficiency, which billionaires Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are expected to head. “The establishment needs to be shattered ... This could be the way.”Then, during an interview on Thursday, Utah Sen. Mike Lee echoed the sentiment. “I think we go outside the box,” Lee said on a right-wing podcast. “I propose Elon Musk or Vivek Ramaswamy. The DOGE movement is extremely popular in the House.” Lee added that electing one of the two billionaires to the role would “revolutionize everything.”What’s gone unsaid in these statements, though, is that even without the speakership, Musk has undue influence over President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Party as a whole. Musk recently helped tank a critical spending bill, calling it a “steal of your tax dollars.” And while Johnson tried to tamp down the DOGE dork’s anger, he may have to grovel some more before the unelected, unofficial, purely advisory leaders of DOGE for at least a few more weeks—if not months or years.Johnson’s initial effort to appease Musk came too late, though. After the Tesla CEO whipped up outrage—mostly via X, Musk’s social media platform, which was formerly known as Twitter—toward the bill, Trump and incoming Vice President J.D. Vance issued a joint statement similarly slamming it.Some Democrats have speculated that it wasn’t Trump who initially wanted to destroy the funding bill. Instead, Trump kowtowed to Musk’s demands. “Donald Trump has been completely AWOL during these negotiations,” said Rep. Daniel Goldman, a New York-based Democrat. “Only after Elon Musk publicly tweets about his displeasure about this budget deal, all of a sudden Donald Trump ... comes trotting in and blows up the deal.”xRep. Goldman: "It's not Donald Trump asking for this. It's very clearly President Elon Musk asking for this. pic.twitter.com/sZbucGtP3T— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 19, 2024Musk has not yet commented on whether he’d be interested in becoming the chamber’s next leader, which the body will elect on Jan. 3. But if he were, he’d likely face competition from one of his texting buds: Johnson. The Louisiana Republican was elected speaker October 2023, after some far-right House members engineered the ouster of former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. But now, with a government shutdown looming, some Republicans have pledged to not vote to reelect Johnson in 2025.Given the Republicans’ razor-thin majority in the House, Johnson cannot afford more than a few GOP defections, assuming all other members are present and voting. With Rep. Matt Gaetz no longer serving as a member of Congress, Republicans are set to have 219 seats—or 218, depending on how you count Republican Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana—at the start of the next Congress. This compares with Democrat’s 215 members.What’s more, the weakness Johnson has so far shown in struggling to pass this essential legislation will draw only more naysayers to the murky waters he must navigate if he wants to maintain control of the gavel.What might help Johnson is the fact that some House Republicans are privately annoyed at Musk for intervening in the budget process. (After all, he’s not a member of Congress and can’t actually vote on this thing.) Plus, of the three lawmakers who have endorsed Musk for the speakership, two are elected to the Senate, meaning they won’t get to vote on whom House Republicans elect. There’s also no consensus on a potential successor among the House Republican caucus.Then there’s the Trump effect. On Thursday, the president-elect expressed confidence that Johnson will “easily remain speaker” if he “acts decisively and tough” on the spending package. (But who really knows what that means?) Surely, it’s a feather in Johnson’s cap that he still—somewhat shockingly—has Trump’s stamp of approval. Well, at least he does for now.Campaign Action
12/19/2024 --dailykos
Freedom Caucus extraordinaire Rep. Chip Roy has found himself in Donald Trump’s crosshairs after the Texas Republican balked at raising the debt limit, as part of a bipartisan spending bill to avert a GOP-created government shutdown.“The very unpopular ‘Congressman’ from Texas, Chip Roy, is getting in the way, as usual, of having yet another Great Republican Victory - All for the sake of some cheap publicity for himself,” Trump wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. “... Weak and ineffective people like Chip have to be dismissed as being utterly unknowledgeable as to the ways of politics, and as to Making America Great Again.”“Chip Roy is just another ambitious guy, with no talent. By the way, how’s Bob Good doing? I hope some talented challengers are getting ready in the Great State of Texas to go after Chip in the Primary. He won’t have a chance!” Trump added in a separate post.Rep. Good, the former chair of the Freedom Caucus, lost his primary to state Sen. John McGuire, who was endorsed by Trump after showing fealty to him during his New York trial. Trump supporters subsequently treated Good like a pariah, who was even thrown out of a Trump store while campaigning.“My position is simple - I am not going to raise or suspend the debt ceiling (racking up more debt) without significant & real spending cuts attached to it,” Roy responded on X, tagging Trump, the Freedom Caucus, and the soon-to-be Republican Majority Leader Sen. John Thune. “I’ve been negotiating to that end. No apologies.”When asked about Trump’s threats, Roy told reporters that “we're working right now on how to actually cut spending, which is what the voters sent me to Washington to do.”Roy has frequently made headlines along with other right-wing lawmakers prone to histrionics. He was recorded saying that the best strategy for Republicans under the Biden administration is to create “chaos and the inability to get stuff done.”In 2023, Roy clashed with fellow chaos agent Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia after he voted against her racist attempt to censure Democratic Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan for her pro-Palestinian statements (Tlaib is a Michigan native born to Palestinian immigrants). The two later made up, appearing together in March at a ludicrous forced-birther symposium to fear monger about harvested baby parts.However, Roy’s original sin could simply be that he was one of only a handful of Republicans who challenged their fellow lawmakers’ attempts to overthrow the 2020 election results. In Trump’s feud with Roy, it’s hard to choose a side when they’re both covered in pig shit and mud.You can help ensure that Daily Kos remains the home for our shared fight for democracy and justice. Can you chip in to help us close the books on 2024 and keep Daily Kos strong in 2025 and beyond?
12/19/2024 --theepochtimes
The details of a new bill have not yet been released.
12/19/2024 --kron4
The odds of a shutdown were rapidly growing on Thursday after President-elect Trump upended the talks by urging GOP lawmakers to shutter the government unless Democrats agree to a clean stopgap spending bill that raises or abolishes the debt limit. “If we don’t get it, then we’re going to have a shutdown, but it’ll be [...]
12/19/2024 --huffpost
A lot of people noted that the manchild mogul hasn't been elected to any position.
12/15/2024 --dailycaller
Privatization of the USPS has become a “prominent target” of federal cost-cutting
 
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