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GOP lawmakers "are far from sold" on Donald Trump's plan to use "steep new tariffs to pay for tax cuts next year," Semafor reported Tuesday.

"I don’t like tariffs, Number One," Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) told the news outlet. "I think the consumer pays them. So they’re regressive. They’re a sales tax, basically."

Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) used some colorful language during a House committee meeting Tuesday to indicate his excitement for tech billionaire Elon Musk's new advisory role in Donald Trump's White House.

"I can't wait for 'DOGE,' the Department of Government Efficiency, to get in under the next administration and start making this government work more efficiently," said Burlison. "Because this town does need a purge. This town needs an enema. And honestly, I can't wait."

Welcome to Donald Trump’s TV show, where the president-elect is the casting director, and the White House is on the world stage.

That was the message from New York Times reporter Lulu Garcia-Navarro, who appeared on CNN’s “OutFront” Tuesday and made the stark comparison during a discussion about Trump’s latest eyebrow-raising cabinet pick of Dr. Mehmet Oz as the country’s next head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Donald Trump is reportedly expected to appoint Linda McMahon, the former co-founder of WWE and the chief of the Small Business Administration in his previous presidency, to head up the Department of Education.

The appointment, which swiftly followed Trump's announcement of TV personality and former Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, prompted an instant reaction from commenters on social media.

Donald Trump made yet another controversial nomination on Tuesday by announcing celebrity TV Dr. Mehmet Oz to run the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the agency that administers health coverage to tens of millions of elderly and low-income people.

The announcement of Oz, who was notorious for pushing COVID-19 disinformation and hawking unproven supplements as miracle cures, and who ran unsuccessfully for Senate in Pennsylvania in the 2022 elections, drew praise from Trump's supporters — but mockery and criticism from other commenters on social media.

A key member of Donald Trump's campaign is accusing a prominent anti-Trump group of defamation, according to a new report.

The Lincoln Project raised eyebrows over its incendiary advertisements, including some of which targeted Trump campaign officials Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, who is now the president-elect's pick for chief of staff.

Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones reported a staggering 70% decline in Infowars sales less than a week after the satirical publication The Onion acquired all assets and intellectual property of his online platform – which he said amounted to almost half a million dollars in losses.

The revelation came Tuesday during an interview the far-right webcaster gave on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast, which he blamed on a “malicious” effort “to destroy his brand.”

The Bulwark's editor-in-chief continued to express his disgust Tuesday with Donald Trump's Cabinet appointees who have allegations revolving around sex scandals in their past.

Fox News weekend host Pete Hegseth reportedly reached a financial settlement with a woman who accused him of sexual assault during a Republican women's conference in 2017. He has denied the allegations and maintained the encounter was consensual.

President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team have begun orchestrating what is being described as a “hostile takeover” of the federal government from his Mar-a-Lago golf resort, according to a new report.

While the incoming president and his transition team continue to build out his next administration with unorthodox Cabinet nominations that have stunned Capitol Hill, they are also skirting many traditional rules meant to facilitate a seamless transfer of power, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.

Donald Trump has chosen his campaign co-chair, Linda McMahon, to lead the Department of Education, CNN reported Tuesday afternoon.

The department has been flagged for dismantling or major overhaul by Project 2025 and even the president-elect himself.

A former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice hired by GOP lawmakers in Wisconsin to "audit" the results of the 2020 election committed major violations of attorney ethics, according to a blistering report released by state legal regulators, The Washington Post reported.

Michael Gableman, who backed Donald Trump's conspiracy theories of a stolen election despite freely admitting not to have "a comprehensive understanding or even any understanding of how elections work," caused extensive public drama throughout his special counsel investigation, at one point even threatening to arrest various local officials for not responding to his demands. He even recommended decertifying Wisconsin's 10 electoral votes, which was not possible under the law.

Rep. Nancy Mace (R-NY) picked a fight Monday with a newly elected congresswoman headed to the U.S. Capitol for the 119th United States Congress, but one former Donald Trump aide wasn't having it.

During "Hot Topics" on "The View" Tuesday, former Trump communications director Alyssa Farah Griffin slammed Mace over a planned resolution that would prevent incoming Rep. Sarah McBride (D-DE), who is a transgender woman, from using a women's bathroom in the Capitol. Mace has said it "jeopardizes the safety and dignity" of female lawmakers to use the bathroom in a stall next to a transgender woman.

Union organizer and Democratic political consultant Chuck Rocha is considering whether he should run for the top spot at the national party, CBS News reported Tuesday.

Thus far, two people have launched campaigns for the party chair: Former Gov. Martin O'Malley of Maryland who ran for president in 2016, and Ken Martin, the chair of Minnesota's Democratic Party.