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Republican lawmakers, Trump administration officials and industry lobbyists are quietly pushing for Rep. Riley Moore (R-WV) to become the next Labor secretary — but the effort is running into resistance from the White House.

Nearly 20 people familiar with the behind-the-scenes campaign told Politico that Moore has become the subject of an organized lobbying effort, and that the freshman congressman has privately expressed interest in the role, but the White House is signaling support for the man already in the job.

President Donald Trump made his way to his home city of New York Monday to attend the NBA Finals game only to be met with thunderous boos by basketball fans, which, according to a former senior Trump administration official, genuinely upsets him.

“Getting booed in public really gets to him,” said the ex-senior Trump official, speaking with Zeteo for its report Tuesday on the condition of anonymity. “When I worked with him, he would sometimes call me to complain about it, sometimes when I was trying to go to bed.”

A Texas Republican went after the wrong congresswoman Tuesday — and got schooled on the spot.

The mix-up unfolded at a House Judiciary Committee hearing already careening off the rails. GOP witness Alveda King — niece of Martin Luther King Jr. and a Fox News contributor — had just derailed Democratic questioning by shouting "Stop killing the babies and cutting the penises off!"

Former Trump administration official Miles Taylor predicted Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s “self-serving agenda” may soon trigger a GOP Senate revolt, one that could potentially sink his future nominees for the remainder of his term.

“I hear a sound coming from the Republican side of the aisle,” Taylor wrote in an analysis published on his Substack. “It’s not exactly the sound of ‘the resistance,’ but it’s at least worth calling ‘the reluctance.’ There’s a growing unease among Republican senators about Trump’s self-serving agenda.”

A House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) went sideways Tuesday when a GOP witness interrupted a line of Democratic questioning with a non-sequitur about infant genitalia.

It started simply enough. Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) pressed the panel on whether the Justice Department's controversial $1.776 billion "anti-weaponization fund" — scrapped last week by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche after bipartisan backlash — should have been shut down. SPLC Interim CEO Bryan Fair said yes. Then Raskin turned to Dr. Alveda King.

The federal prosecutor leading California's election fraud investigations appeared on Glenn Beck's show Monday to announce imminent charges — then pleaded with the public to help him find the evidence to bring them.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli, the number-two federal prosecutor in the Central District of California, told Beck that election fraud charges are coming — "one to two months, I believe" — before pivoting to ask the conservative host's audience for help.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche didn't defend a single allegation in his latest court filing. His opponent — a journalist and lawyer — is now arguing that silence speaks for itself.

In a reply brief filed Monday, Katie Phang — a Yale graduate and trial attorney turned independent journalist who spent three years hosting her own MSNBC show — accused Blanche of what her original complaint called a "brazen, shocking, and ongoing violation" of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Her case: he conceded every charge.