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'Above Miss Crockett's intelligence level': Marjorie Taylor Greene takes a swipe at Dem

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) attacked her colleague, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), on Wednesday after Greene's first hearing of the so-called Department of Government Efficiency subcommittee.

DOGE hasn't been established by Congress as a real department and hasn't been funded by Congress, but Republicans created a subcommittee that Greene now heads.

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Trump rambles incoherently about 'new theory' of magnets during rant on 'fraud'

President Donald Trump complained about a "new theory" on magnets in a rant against waste, fraud, and abuse.

During Wednesday's remarks at the White House, Trump was asked how he could be sure Elon Musk's so-called Department of Government Efficiency was properly cutting spending.

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'Unbelievable': Nicolle Wallace shares 'most stunning' report she's read since election

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace on Wednesday revealed what she called "unbelievable" reporting on the plans of Emil Bove, calling the news "the most stunning thing I've read since the election."

Wallace began her Wednesday show highlighting a new NBC News report detailing Bove's work on Jan. 6 cases while he was a prosecutor for the Justice Department. Bove is now working to purge anyone who worked on Jan. 6 cases.

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'Change their tone': MTG scolds taunting Dems

Firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), chairwoman of the DOGE oversight subcommittee, did not appreciate the "tone" of some House Democrats who taunted President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the chairwoman herself at Wednesday's meeting.

Greene scolded them for their antics on social media, writing, "Unfortunately, some of the Democrats in today’s @DOGECommittee ignored waste, fraud, and abuse. Instead, they used their five minutes to attack President Trump, attack Elon Musk, and attack me. If they don’t change their tone, they are going to stay on the losing side of this issue."

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Is that 'effective messaging?' CNN anchor calls out rep who used slur at DOGE hearing

CNN anchor Brianna Keilar called out a House Democrat for using a vulgar slur to label Elon Musk at Wednesday's DOGE oversight subcommittee meeting.

Keilar asked Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA), "During the Hunter Biden affair, Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, who now chairs this subcommittee, she had put up some censored, but still quite revealing, photos of the first son who was nude and with alleged prostitutes -- photos that she said were taken from his laptop. Today, you harkened back to that moment with this one in the DOGE subcommittee hearing. I want to play this."

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'Live with consequences': Ex-Trump aide warns GOP its actions can be used against party

A former top staffer to vice president Mike Pence trashed Congress for ceding their authority to President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.

Marc Short, a former Trump White House staffer who then led Pence's team, told CNN he didn't mind the tech billionaire slashing government spending by targeting entire agencies for closure and offering buyouts to millions of government workers, but he preferred that lawmakers were the ones making those cuts and not an unelected outside adviser.

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Karoline Leavitt: Trump retaliated against AP because Gulf of America 'is a fact'

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed that the Trump administration retaliated against The Associated Press because the news agency declined to refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America despite President Donald Trump's executive order on the body of water.

During Wednesday's White House briefing, CNN's Kaitlan Collins noted that officials refused to allow the AP's reporter to cover an event on Tuesday.

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'Color me a skeptic': CNN's Dana Bash dubious about Trump admin's latest claim

CNN's Dana Bash was in disbelief Wednesday when Trump administration officials said Belarus released an American hostage and two others without asking for anything in return.

Bash interviewed Chris Smith, the deputy assistant secretary of state for Eastern Europe, and Kara McDonald, ambassador to Lithuania, from the U.S. embassy compound in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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'Shackles are off' as Mitch McConnell sends Trump 'a signal': CNN's Manu Raju

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was the lone Republican in the Senate to vote against Tulsi Gabbard to be America's director of national intelligence, and he issued a scathing statement afterward that described her as a national security risk.

CNN's Manu Raju told host Dana Bash on Wednesday that McConnell broke dramatically with his colleagues in calling out what he believed was Gabbard's unfitness to serve as DNI.

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Dem lawmaker to GOP members: 'You agree in our private conversations Trump is a child'

Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) reminded Republicans in Rep. Jim Jordan's (R-OH) censorship hearing that conservative members of the committee privately agreed that President Donald Trump "is a child."

Swalwell made the remarks after Jordan called on him at Wednesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing on government censorship.

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'This is just staggering': CNN national security analyst alarmed by Trump's Russia plans

Moments after the Senate confirmed controversial former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to be Donald Trump's Director of Intelligence, the president announced on Truth Social that he wants to work hand-in-hand with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin.

That led CNN national security analyst Alex Marquart to express alarm.

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Dem shames GOP for not investigating '$8 million a day' Elon Musk gets from taxpayers

Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) on Wednesday let loose on Republicans for giving X owner Elon Musk a pass when it comes to government waste.

During a House Department of Government Efficiency hearing, Casar slammed Musk and Trump for firing inspectors general who have traditionally overseen internal investigations into executive branch offices.

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'Something went wrong!': Democratic senator hammers Trump's lawyer in confirmation hearing

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) hammered President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Todd Blanche in the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday during the confirmation hearing for his nomination to serve as deputy attorney general.

Among the questions Durbin probed was whether Blanche had seen the assaults on U.S. Capitol Police officers on Jan. 6 and whether he agreed that those who assaulted the officers should be held accountable. Blanche agreed they should.

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