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A mere 48 hours after saying it was “too soon to opine” on the prospect of using the Nevada National Guard to aid the incoming Trump administration in mass deporting immigrants, Gov. Joe Lombardo signed onto a letter stating he stands “ready to utilize every tool at (his) disposal—whether through state law enforcement or the National Guard.”

Lombardo was one of 26 governors to sign a joint statement released Wednesday by the Republican Governors Association. Only one Republican governor, Gov. Phil Scott of Vermont, did not sign onto the letter.

In an interview with Time magazine linked to his being selected 2024's "Person of the Year," President-elect Donald Trump attacked the people behind Project 2025 for releasing their document before the election.

During the interview, in which Time included 17 separate fact-checks, the incoming president was asked about his relationship with the conservative think-tank that produced the 800-page document and that led to a litany of complaints that complicated his re-election.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger testified Wednesday that more than 700 threats against members of Congress were made during the last month alone, with at least 50 cases of people making false 911 calls in an attempt to get police teams to respond to lawmakers’ homes, often called “swatting.”

Manger, who took over the police department following the Jan. 6 attack, said the agency has done a relatively good job bolstering security at the Capitol building during the last few years, but needs more officers and money to address lawmakers’ security when they are back home or at offsite events.

Reacting to reports that some Republican senators are losing their patience with close associates of Donald Trump bullying them to rubber-stamp his Cabinet nominees, the panel on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" pounced on Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) as one of the worst offenders.

That led co-host Joe Scarborough to mock the Arkansas Republican for thinking anyone in the Senate cares what he thinks.

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Singling out comments made by Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) that she is not pleased with the pressure coming from the MAGA wing of the party, Scarborough stated, "At least with, Murkowski that didn't work too well," before changing direction and exclaiming, "Also, Tom Cotton running around going, 'I am the enforcer, you all better vote for every one of these people,' you know how well that plays with fellow senators?"

"What do they say about fellow senators?" he asked rhetorically. "Everyone looks in the mirror and what do they see? The next president of the United States."

"They don't need Tom Cotton running around playing enforcer and people going, 'We've got Tom Cotton on our side, he's yelling at all the other senators.' Where are these people from? Because that's not how -- we in the House called them the 'House of Lords for a reason," he continued while referencing his time in Congress.

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Donald Trump's allies are furious at outgoing FBI director Christopher Wray's final actions overseeing the law enforcement agency.

The Trump-appointed Wray announced he would resign at the end of president Joe Biden's administration, but in the meantime he has reportedly begun promoting employees among the senior executive service – which has set off howls from the MAGA world.

During a discussion on the decision of FBI Director Christopher Wray to step down from his job before Donald Trump retakes the reins of the government, a former official in Trump's first administration recalled when Trump fired ex-Director James Comey and it blew up in his face.

Speaking to the panel, former White House Communications Director Mike Dubke explained that when Trump got rid of Comey he felt that Democrats, still angry at Comey for giving Trump's first campaign a boost with his investigation comments about Hillary Clinton, would be pleased.

That did not turn out to be the case and it came back to haunt the now-president-elect.

ALSO READ: Agenda 47: Alarm sounded about Trump’s dystopian plans for his second term

As the conversation turned to both Republicans and Democrats having concerns about the FBI, Dubke interjected, "I will add this from my time in the White House, it was during the Comey firing that the pure power politics of that firing really came home for Trump because he thought when he was moving forward with this, that [Sen. Chuck] Schumer and [Rep. Nancy] Pelosi, because of what Clinton said and and the views of Democrats about the election in 2016, he thought they'd applaud this."

"When he made those calls and they turned that around and made this all about Russia and made this all about pure power politics, that, I think, was an eye-opening episode for the president," he added.

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In a move likely fraught with major implications for worker rights during the impending second administration of Republican President-elect Donald Trump, Democratic-turned-Independent U.S. Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema on Wednesday blocked Democrat Lauren McFerran's bid for a second term on the National Labor Relations Board.

With every Republican senator except Sen. Roger Marshall of Kansas voting against President Joe Biden's nomination of McFerran for a new five-year term, the fate of the woman who has led the agency since 2021 was up to Manchin and Sinema—who, as More Perfect Union founder and executive director Faiz Shakir put it on social media, "consistently spoiled the story of 'what could have been'" by years of fighting to thwart their own former party's agenda.

A CNN conservative faced pushback for arguing that that FBI director Christopher Wray might as well have resigned since Donald Trump intended to fire him once he took office.

The Trump-appointed Wray announced Wednesday that he would step down at the end of President Joe Biden's administration, and panelists on "CNN This Morning" debated whether he made the right decision in the face of his likely termination, since Trump has already nominated MAGA loyalist Kash Patel to replace him.

President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday floated a legally dubious proposal to let corporations and individuals who invest $1 billion or more in the U.S. bypass regulations, a scheme that environmental groups and government watchdogs said underscores the corrupt intentions of the incoming administration.

"Corporate polluters cannot bribe their way to endangering our communities and our clean air and water," Mahyar Sorour of Sierra Club said in a statement. "Donald Trump's plan to sell out to the highest bidder confirms what we've long known about him: He's happy to sacrifice the wellbeing of American communities for the benefit of his Big Oil campaign donors."

Shell casings found at the scene of the brazen murder of a US insurance executive match the gun found on the man charged with the crime, the New York police commissioner said Wednesday according to US media.

Suspect Luigi Mangione's fingerprints also matched those found near the crime scene, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch added, quoted by ABC, confirming for the first time direct links between the suspect and the killing unearthed by detectives.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has assembled an administration of staggering wealth and unprecedented controversy as he bids to seal his populist legacy surrounded by aides prized above all for their unstinting loyalty.

The Republican tycoon's incoming cabinet officials are worth an estimated $11 billion, and with Trump himself and outside advisors like world's richest man Elon Musk included, that figure rises to a mind-boggling $340 billion.