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House Oversight releases Kevin O'Connor deposition in which he takes the fifth on all questions
The House Oversight investigation is looking into the former president's mental decline and whether his inner circle tried to conceal the decline from the public.
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Congressional Budget Office estimates federal spending is up $144 billion in first half of 2025
The office also estimated that the federal budget deficit for the first nine months of the 2025 fiscal year, which began in October, is $1.3 trillion. The number is $65 billion more than it was for the first nine months of the 2024 fiscal year.
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Trump's NOAA chief nominee vows to make staffing at weather service a priority after recent floods
The promise comes after lawmakers in both chambers expressed concern about NWS staffing amid heavy flooding in Texas last week that resulted in over 110 deaths, including the deaths of dozens of children, and storms in the southwest.
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Ex-Trump security adviser Coates: Resuming peace talks with Ukraine possible if Zelensky changes
Coates said that Zelensky initiated the tension in his meeting with Trump and that future negotiations are dependent on his choices going forward.
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Tennessee congressman pursues constitutional amendment to let Trump serve third term
Ogles also is pursuing a second bill certain to garner attention — the PEDO Act — designed to punish any federal worker who destroys evidence from Jeffrey Epstein case.
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Musk agrees with GOP senator who says DOGE critics are addicted to 'spending porn'
"They don't like Elon because of the way he dresses but they never criticize what he's finding because they can't. It's spending porn," Kennedy said in the video.
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Mia Love, first black GOP congresswoman, struggling with worsening brain cancer, says daughter
Love represented Utah’s 4th Congressional District in the House from 2015 through 2019.
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Speaker Johnson says Zelenskyy needs to 'come back to the table in gratitude' or resign
Johnson also says the mineral-rights deal that was not signed at the White House on Friday would have been beneficial for both the U.S. and Ukraine.
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AOC asks Pam Bondi whether she is 'under investigation' over her migrant webinar
"Educating the public about their rights, especially in a time of rising uncertainty, is a key part of our responsibility as elected officials," she wrote. "A government that uses threats of DOJ investigations to suppress free speech is a threat to all, regardless of political ideology."
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Senate Democrats warn that housing migrants at Guantanamo Bay pose threat to military readiness
The senators cited previous reports that alleged abuse and mistreatment of detainees in facilities operated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and expressed concern that those same abuses could happen to migrants at Guantanamo.
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First Democrat to join DOGE caucus blasts Musk for using ‘sledgehammer instead of a scalpel’
Moskowitz on DOGE moving to shutdown USAID: 'You got rid of the agency that literally is fighting every single day against China's influence, because every time we retract from someplace, China steps in."
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Congress scrambles to prevent government shutdown with another stopgap bill
The stopgap, most likely to take the form of a six-month Continuing Resolution (CR), would mark the third time Congress punted the deadline to pass the 12 annual appropriations bills that provide money for federal agencies to spend on programs each year.
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Johnson expresses caution about Trump tariffs but says he'll give president 'benefit of the doubt'
Johnson said he is "concerned" about the tariffs because his home state was badly impacted by the tariffs in the president's first administration, which harmed the Wisconsin agriculture industry.