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'Lies and defamatory allegations': Liz Cheney hits back at Republican over J6 report

Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) hit back at the House GOP's attempts to discredit the Select Committee on January 6 in a scathing statement Tuesday.

Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) released what he called his second "report" on Jan. 6 this week. In it, he sought to absolve President-elect Donald Trump of all responsibility for the attack on the Capitol, instead blaming Democratic leadership, Capitol Police, and members of the intelligence community — and urging the FBI to open a criminal investigation into Cheney over how she engaged with witnesses.

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Short-term funding bill released to avert holiday shutdown amid GOP backlash

Congressional leaders have released about 1,500 pages of a short-term funding bill that would avert a federal government shutdown just in time for the holidays.

The bill would reportedly keep the government open until mid-March. Funding is set to expire late Friday as the House and Senate leave for the holidays, according to NBC News.

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GOP senator: 'Everybody here has lost someone' — possibly from the COVID vaccine

A Republican senator launched into an anti-vaccine rant Tuesday when reporters asked about confirming noted health conspiracy theorist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services.

Kennedy was forced to backtrack this week following reports that one of his key aides tried to get the polio vaccine certification revoked in the United States.

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'Grave juror misconduct': Trump lawyers mount new bid to dismiss hush money case

Lawyers for Donald Trump now say they’ve uncovered evidence of “grave juror misconduct” in their continued push to shed the incoming president of his 34 felony convictions in New York state court, according to reports.

Although details of the juror misconduct references remain murky, attorneys for Trump said they wrote a letter to Judge Juan Merchan after being contacted by a juror who served on the case, NBC News reported.

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No proof 'foreign actors' — or 'little green men' — responsible for NJ drones: Lawmakers

WASHINGTON — A top member of the House Intelligence Committee shared new insight Tuesday on drone activity flying above New Jersey.

The panel exited a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, or SCIF, on Tuesday afternoon after a classified briefing on the machines.

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RFK Jr. botched his financial reports  — omitting $500,000 in anti-vax and law income

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, failed to initially properly report more than half a million dollars in income from his anti-vax nonprofit and a law firm employer, according to new filings with U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

Kennedy's 2023 and 2024 public financial disclosure reports required during his run for president inaccurately reported his salary and bonuses by $503,794.41 from Children's Health Defense, a nonprofit Kennedy founded that has campaigned against vaccines, and JW Howard Attorneys, a California law firm that has litigated more than 40 cases against vaccine mandates and where Kennedy works as a constitutional and environmental litigator.

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'You guys suck': Irate MTG snatches Trump's Social Security promise and throws it on floor

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) literally threw President-elect Donald Trump's promise not to cut Social Security on the floor as she met with the House DOGE Caucus for the first time on Tuesday.

As Greene was heading into a meeting with the caucus that will give recommendations to Trump's Department of Government Efficiency, she was confronted by advocate Alex Lawson, executive director of Social Security Works.

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'Collateral damage': Former GOP finance chair warns Trump tariffs would be a disaster

Former House Financial Services Chair Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) has a stark warning for President-elect Donald Trump and the GOP Congress in the Wall Street Journal: tariffs are not going to balance the budget.

Hensarling, who now works for the libertarian Cato Institute and advises the Koch Brothers' advocacy group Americans for Prosperity, helped to pass Trump's massive tax cut package when he served in Congress, and stands by the accomplishment.

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Trump needs elite military unit protection from 'bowels of Hell': GOP lawmaker

A New Jersey Republican said he doesn’t think the Secret Service is enough to protect President-elect Donald Trump when he returns to the White House next month from what he believes lies ahead.

Rep. Jeff Van Drew said during an interview on the right-wing Benny Johnson Show on Tuesday that he speaks to Trump “on a pretty regular basis” and has told the incoming president – who has been the target of two assassination plots in the last five months – that he should be surrounded by his own elite group of guards.

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'Chilling': ABC News employees reportedly fuming and see Trump settlement as 'surrender'

ABC News employees are reportedly shocked — and livid — after the network settled a defamation lawsuit with Donald Trump over comments made by “This Week" host George Stephanopoulos.

During his March 10, show, Stephanopoulos repeatedly said Trump was “found liable for rape” in the E. Jean Carroll civil case. However, Trump was officially found liable for "sexual abuse" but not rape. Trump claimed that the comments from Stephanopoulos were intentionally misleading the audience by calling it "rape" instead of "sexual abuse."

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GOP lawmaker unconcerned by RFK's nomination for HHS because he 'does pull-ups' at 70

Rep. Ryan Zinke (R-MT) argued Tuesday afternoon on CNN that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is eminently qualified to serve as President-elect Donald Trump's secretary of Health and Human Services — despite his beliefs in debunked conspiracy theories about vaccines — partly because he's physically fit for his age.

Zinke previously served as Trump's interior secretary before being elected to Congress and was forced to resign in disgrace over a series of ethics scandals over how he used federal funds for personal benefit.

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Several indicted 2020 'fake electors' sign on to be Michigan electors again in 2024

At least five fake Michigan electors indicted following their efforts to overturn the 2020 election have signed on to be electors again for 2024.

A photo of the certification posted by Michigan GOP Watch shows the signatures for the electors' lists, with John Haggard, Timothy King, Meshawn Maddock, William (Hank) Choate and Marian Sheridan signing onto the electors' list for Donald Trump a second time.

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Indiana GOP elector once set fire to a cross outside the home of a biracial family: report

A presidential elector from Indiana who has been involved in local Republican Party politics for years once set a makeshift cross soaked in gasoline ablaze outside the home of a horrified biracial family.

Allen Stevens, a GOP political figure in Indiana, is listed among his state’s slate of presidential electors as a representative vote for Congressional District 3. A resurfaced report about an arrest over 30 years ago raised new questions.

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