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A House Republican's interpretation of the constitutional role of Congress has left some stunned, after he suggested it is not a co-equal branch of government, but rather, intended to be supportive of "President Trump," and "implement" his agenda.

The U.S. Constitution is clear: Congress's role is to make laws, the executive branch's role is to implement and enforce them.

A far-right lawmaker whose tenure in Congress ended following a public feud with President-elect Donald Trump gave one last parting shot at the incoming president as he headed out the door.

Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) was a devoted footsoldier of right-wing causes in Congress, even serving as chair of the outspoken House Freedom Caucus. But he sealed his fate after he backed Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for president. Trump returned that favor by endorsing his primary challenger, Virginia state Sen. John McGuire, a candidate who has essentially indistinguishable political views from Good, and who also happened to be present at the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

Speaker Mike Johnson and his Republican majority in the House reportedly have "no plan" to avert a shutdown of the federal government—a shutdown that will begin at 12:01 AM Saturday unless they can draft and pass replacement legislation, convince the Senate to pass it, and get President Joe Biden to sign it into law—all in about 36 hours.

"It's a colossal mess," NBC News' Sahil Kapur reported Thursday morning (video below). "This bill looked all set to pass the House and the Senate over the coming days. It had broad bipartisan support after it was inked by Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, and leadership in both parties."

President-elect Donald Trump's advisers have been hoping county sheriffs in border states will assist with the incoming administration's mass deportation campaign. But several sheriffs are already publicly promising to not lift a finger.

According to a Tuesday report in WIRED magazine, Trump's top immigration advisors like Tom Homan and Stephen Miller have been having conversations with several far-right sheriffs who have expressed an interest in helping Immigration and Customs Enforcement remove immigrants from the United States.

MAGA U.S. Rep. Eric Burlison (R-MO) is blasting Mike Johnson over the speaker's bipartisan legislation to keep the government running past the Friday midnight deadline and through the middle of March — calling it a "total dumpster fire" and "garbage."

Asked about the continuing resolution, which includes $100 billion in disaster relief for areas hit hard by hurricanes Helene and Milton, Congressman Burlison declared, "it's a total dumpster fire."

As President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration approaches, his plan to issue pardons to rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as one of his first official presidential acts is an alarming prospect that could pave the way for dangerous consequences, according to a former federal prosecutor.

The “unprecedented nature” of the prospective presidential pardons is compounded by the fact that they would be issued to “people who were essentially his co-conspirators in crime,” law professor Frank Bowman told HuffPost.

George Conway predicted Monday that Donald Trump would run into trouble by claiming power that he doesn't actually have.

The president-elect has nominated loyalists to high-ranking positions that many say are less than qualified, which could provoke a showdown with the Republican-led Senate. The conservative attorney said Trump could also lose a power struggle with the U.S. Supreme Court on some of his plans to gather power.

President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration is considering major reforms to the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) that include privatizing the agency, according to a new report.

The Washington Post's Jacob Bogage, Jacqueline Alemany and Jeff Stein wrote recently that Trump has expressed a "keen interest" in privatizing the USPS in conversations with transition co-chair and Commerce Secretary-designate Howard Lutnick. If he succeeds, it could result in uncertainty for both businesses that depend on the USPS and for the agency's 600,000+ member workforce.

Far-right Donald Trump ally Steve Bannon laid into tech billionaires who are donating money to Trump's inaugural fund on his "War Room" podcast Friday — accusing them of being fair-weather friends who are only trying to suck up to Trump because they weren't able to defeat him in the election.

Bannon's rant came at the tail end of fantasizing that following the most recent election, "the Democratic Party can go away. We can actually end it. We can drive a stake in the heart of the beast. You can do it." And the way Republicans can do it, he argued, is "Populist policies, nationalist policies, economic, to bring jobs back."

With MSNBC host Jonathan Lemire pointing out that Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been surprisingly sanguine about Donald Trump's insults and tariff threats, CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin claimed the president-elect's taunts are not going unnoticed north of the U.S. border.

With Trump wielding tariff threats against Canada, Mexico and China before he even takes office, the "Squawk Box" host reported that there is the danger that some Americans could end up scrambling to keep the lights on if Canada's leaders choose to cut off power supplies to the U.S. provided by their country.

"Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau, at least to this point, has not really fought back against Trump's taunting, whether about tariffs or the suggestion he would annex Canada and be our 51st state, calling him Governor Trudeau in a social media post," Lemire prompted his guest. "But all eyes turns to the province of Ontario and Doug Ford which is floating the idea they're going to hit back, they may bar American-made alcohol and other restrictions if Trump follows through on these tariffs threats."

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"Ontario is not having it," Ross Sorkin bluntly replied. "And they're throwing down the gauntlet on the alcohol front because it would make the export of alcohol from the U.S. complicated and much more expensive.":

"But more importantly there's this electricity piece," he continued. "Ontario delivers electricity to about 1.5 million homes in the United States and suggesting maybe they would consider cutting that off."

"You know, this is when people talk about the tariffs and the uncertainty the tariffs could create, it's –– it wasn't just the cost of the tariffs, it's the retaliation," he elaborated, "and this is an example of the kind of thing that could happen and, therefore, a kind of different leverage points you think either the U.S. has or, in this case, Canada, may have."

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Rumors are swirling about Donald Trump's choice of Kimberly Guilfoyle to serve as the ambassador to Greece. The former Fox host's appointment was announced Tuesday night, hours after the Daily Mail reported a story that her fiancé, Donald Trump Jr., was seen with another woman.

The ambassador typically lives in the host country, where they represent and update their home government. So, some see her appointment as confirmation that the engagement is off.

Florida state Rep. Susan Valdés announced Monday she is defecting to the Republican Party — immediately after being re-elected as a Democrat.

Valdés, a Cuban-American lawmaker who was raised by immigrants in New York, represents a Tampa area district.

Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) won praise Monday for a House floor showdown that left Republicans bruised, a columnist wrote.

The confrontation came on Thursday when she shut down House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer and Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC), wrote Ja’han Jones for MSNBC.