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DOGE tracker: A running list of what Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy say they will change

Once Musk and Ramaswamy step into their roles, they’ll have to answer for commitments they’ve made, from firing employees to deleting departments.

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Author: Alice Tecotzky

DOGE, headed by Elon Musk and Ramaswamy, undergoing serious analysis of wasteful regulations, invites public feedback

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have been picked by US-President elect Donald Trump to spearhead Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut down federal costs. DOGE said in a post on X that the department is undergoing a serious analysis of wasteful and burdensome regulations, and has invited public feedback.

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Author: ET Online

Reporter’s Notebook: A DOGE in the fight

Congress hasn’t voted to create DOGE, and there’s been no executive order, but President Trump-elect advisers Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy are spearheading the enterprise anyway.

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Author: Chad Pergram

Larry Hogan brags of outperforming Trump in first post-election speech

Ex-governor says Americans blame both parties for Washington dysfunction

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Author: John Bowden

Poll shows what Americans think about Hegseth, Gabbard and RFK Jr. Cabinet nominations

As several of Trump’s choices for high-level positions in his administration face scrutiny on Capitol Hill, a poll from shows that Americans have their own doubts.

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Author: PBS News

Opinion | Will GOP senators resist Trump on Cabinet picks?

And if so, how?

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Author: Ruth Marcus,Dana Milbank,David Von Drehle

Trump picks hardline Republican Kari Lake to lead Voice of America

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was picking Kari Lake, a former news anchor and a hardline Republican who failed to win an Arizona Senate seat last month, to be the director of U.S. government-funded media outlet Voice of America.

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Author: Reuters

Despite public anger, NC legislators override Gov. Cooper’s veto of Helene bill

After an intense veto from the governor, continued protest and initial “no” votes from three Republicans, NC’s third Helene relief bill veto was overridden.

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Author: Sarah Gleason

North Carolina GOP lawmakers override veto to strip power from Democratic officials

Republicans tuck new law into relief bill for Hurricane Helene as they attempt to shift state government control

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Author: Sam Levine

Patel’s Warm Senate Welcome Reflects the G.O.P.’s Turn Against the F.B.I.

Senate Republicans have largely embraced President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to run the bureau, demonstrating that his anti-F.B.I. stance is now party orthodoxy.

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Author: Catie Edmondson

GOP senators fear House chaos could derail Trump’s agenda

Republican senators fear that the narrow House GOP majority in next year’s Congress could rain chaos on President-elect Trump’s agenda and are pushing to finish up work on the overdue annual approp…

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Author: Alexander Bolton

Is This How Democrats Win Back the Working Class?

Embracing populism could help the party build a lasting political coalition—if the Republicans don’t do it first.

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Author: Tyler Austin Harper

Some Republicans fear a DOGE dilemma is setting in

As Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy make sweeping promises to cut $2 trillion dollars of federal spending, senior House Republicans have raised concerns with GOP leadership that efforts to cut wasteful federal spending will put the party on a collision course.

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Author: Annie Grayer, Pamela Brown

The Johnson reconciliation squeeze

Trump allies and Senate GOP leadership want to work on two filibuster-proof reconciliation bills to get Trump an early victory on border security.

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Author: punchbowlnews

House Republicans mulling tax, immigration bills in first months of 2025, Texas Rep. says

Congressional Republicans are figuring out the best path to pass legislation on separate border and economic issues given their thin majority in the House.

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Author: Diego Mendoza

North Carolina GOP changes election rules before losing supermajority

Republicans in the state legislature gave an ally control over the state’s elections board, rewrote ballot-counting rules and chipped away at the power of the incoming Democratic governor.

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Author: Patrick Marley

Did gerrymandering keep Republicans from a bigger majority? Absolutely not

Mike Johnson has an explanation for why the Republican majority is so thin – and it’s misleading and cynical

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Author: Guardian staff reporter

Mast blasts Blinken over ‘tens of billions’ of US taxpayer dollars sent to Taliban post-Afghanistan withdrawal

Secretary of State Antony Blinken was grilled by the incoming chair of the House Foreign Relations Committee on “billions” of U.S. dollars sent to Taliban.

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Author: Danielle Wallace

North Carolina General Assembly overrides veto of bill eroding incoming Democrats powers

The North Carolina House voted Wednesday to override Democratic Governor Roy Cooper’s veto of a bill that will restrict the powers of the incoming governor and other Democrats, clearing the way for the legislation to become law.

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Author: Arit John

Blinken finally speaks out on disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that…

Outgoing Secretary of State Antony Blinken finally expressed remorse that the Biden administration had not done more to protect the 13 US troops who were killed in an ISIS-K suicide bombing during…

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Author: Ryan King

NC Republicans override veto, stripping governor’s powers

A bill that strips power from North Carolina’s Democratic governor became law on Wednesday after state Republicans voted to override Gov. Roy Cooper’s (D) veto in a 72-46 supermajority vote i…

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Author: Sarah Fortinsky

Steve Bannon warns wealthy and corporations will get ‘massive’ tax breaks

Bannon has advocated for raising taxes on wealthy individuals and corporations

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Author: Ariana Baio

Time magazine to name Trump ‘Person of the Year’, Politico reports

Donald Trump is expected to be named Time magazine’s “Person of the Year” and to celebrate the unveiling of the cover, the president-elect will ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday morning, Politico reported on Wednesday citing three people familiar.