Trying to explain this story as if one is speaking to a small child. Members of congress, whose job it is to set federal spending, now get to call Elon, who is for some reason controlling federal spending, to plead for changes to federal spending????? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

In new tariff news from this speech, Trump named the EU, China, Brazil, India, Mexico, Canada, and South Korea are the countries for possible April 2nd tariffs—that would cover the vast majority of US trade. He also reiterated he wants tariffs on food to start April 2nd.

This feels like a sort of carnival-week funeral for the US republic. Beneath deep anger at Trump's orgy of vandalism and self-worship, I feel deep sadness. What a train wreck of a superpower.

What he said about Social Security payments has been repeatedly debunked - so the question isn’t whether he’s lying about this, the question is why.

What is this a pretext for? He and the GOP have long shown interest in going after Social Security. What are they going to try?

Rep. Al Green of Texas stands up and interrupts Trump, condemning him. Mike Johnson has now had Green removed from the chamber.

This whole riff on the ages of people on social security is IDENTICAL to the lies he's told about voter rolls and voting fraud.

Trump now lying about Social Security in his prepared remarks, pretending there's a lot of fraud.

He's talking about a database that includes all the people who've ever received Social Security, but pretending it's the people who actively receive benefits.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth: "It is insulting to ask our servicemembers to uphold the absolute highest standards, only to turn around and lower the standards for Pete Hegseth to lead them."

The lecturing on “meritocracy” by Hegseth and others nominated is so stinking ironic.

The U.S. Air Force has removed a video about the Tuskegee Airmen from its basic training curriculum at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland following Trump’s executive order banning federal DEI initiatives. The Tuskegee Airmen were pioneering Black pilots renowned for their service during World War II.

TIME: “.. nearly two-thirds of the executive actions Trump has issued so far mirror or partially mirror proposals” from Project 2025 — “the blueprint he once dismissed.”

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FACT: The law requires 30 days notice.✅

FACT: Trump has only been in office for 6 days.✅

W. POST: Trump's firings "appeared" to violate the law.👀

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None of these federal workforce executive orders are designed to help the American People. They are designed to stoke fear, sow chaos, and get experts who would otherwise push back on harmful policy to quit their jobs or be fired.

Ask me how I know.

“There may be good reason the IGs were fired. We need to know that if so. I’d like further explanation from President Trump. Regardless, the 30 day detailed notice of removal that the law demands was not provided to Congress," @ChuckGrassley says of the inspectors general

Of course ending birthright citizenship is blatantly unconstitutional. So is a third term in office.

But I thought the same thing about presidential criminal immunity and holding office after inciting an insurrection.

The obvious is not so obvious anymore.

NEW: Trump is now suggesting eliminating FEMA.
 
In North Carolina, he said: "I'll also be signing an executive order to begin the process of fundamentally reforming and overhauling FEMA or maybe getting rid of FEMA, I think, frankly, FEMA is not good."

Jeffries on the bigoted attacks on Rep.-elect McBride:

"This is what we're doing? This is the lesson that you've drawn from the election in November? This is your priority, that you want to bully a member of Congress, as opposed to welcoming her to join this body so all of us can work together."