Musk vs MAGA conflict: Trump camp in bitter struggle over immigration, overseas employee visas
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Republican Home speaker Mike Johnson is bracing for what may very well be a fraught battle on Friday as he seeks to hold on to the gavel when Congress returns from its vacation recess.
Regardless of having the endorsement of President-elect Donald Trump, the Louisiana Consultant can solely afford one Republican rise up in opposition to his re-election bid when the decrease chamber’s members forged their votes – so tight is the GOP’s 219 to 211 majority – and one congressman has already indicated his objections to Johnson whereas a number of extra say they’re unconvinced or would require concessions.
Trump himself has in the meantime continued to rage on Fact Social that the US is “a disaster, a laughing stock all over the World!” in response to Wednesday’s suspected terror assaults in New Orleans and Las Vegas, the second of which noticed one in all his good friend Elon Musk’s Tesla Cybertruck’s blown up outdoors a Trump-owned luxurious resort within the Nevada metropolis.
“This is what happens when you have OPEN BORDERS, with weak, ineffective, and virtually nonexistent leadership,” the president-elect declared.
“The DOJ, FBI, and Democrat state and local prosecutors have not done their job,” he added, blaming Joe Biden’s administratio for the chaos.
What to look out for forward of Friday’s Home speaker vote
The incumbent is in a greater place now than Kevin McCarthy was two years in the past, Eric Garcia writes.
However he nonetheless has to navigate the Rubik’s Dice that’s the Home Republican convention.
Joe Sommerlad3 January 2025 09:25
Fact Social: Trump bizarrely tells UK to ‘get rid of windmills’
Right here’s a usually oddball message to the world from Donald Trump to begin your day.
Man, solely Don Quixote hates windmills greater than this man.
The president-elect additionally introduced additional nominees to his incoming administration in a single day, together with new US ambassadors to Spain and the Netherlands and a workforce to assist Scott Bessant on the Treasury.
Joe Sommerlad3 January 2025 09:00
Trump border czar has ‘gut feeling’ New Orleans, Las Vegas assaults linked — regardless of ‘no definitive link’
Pressed by Fox Information anchor Sandra Smith on whether or not he was “privy” to any info proving such a hyperlink, Homan acknowledged he was not earlier than saying he felt there have been simply “too many coincidences” between the 2 incidents.
Oliver O’Connell3 January 2025 08:10
How Fox Information’ retracted New Orleans report sparked a MAGA meltdown concerning the border
Hours after a U.S. Military veteran plowed a truck right into a crowd of revelers celebrating New Yr’s on New Orleans’s Bourbon Road, leaving 14 deceased and dozens injured, Fox Information reported that the phobia suspect’s car was noticed crossing the U.S.-Mexico border simply two days prior.
The conservative cable big’s suggestion that the horrific tragedy might have been linked to migrants getting into the US sparked an instantaneous freakout from outstanding conservatives — and sure led to President-elect Donald Trump’s preliminary assertion on the mass casualty occasion that tied immigration to the phobia assault.
Whereas the incoming president insisted he’d been confirmed proper that “the criminals coming in are far worse than the criminals we have in our country,” Fox Information quickly walked again a lot of its reporting, noting that the car had been noticed close to the border in November relatively than late-December and that it didn’t seem the suspect was the motive force in that occasion.
Justin Barangoa has the story.
Oliver O’Connell3 January 2025 07:40
James Carville admits he didn’t hearken to his personal recommendation
Gustaf Kilander experiences from Washington, D.C.
Oliver O’Connell3 January 2025 06:40
Who may problem Johnson for Speaker of the Home?
Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, has confronted pushback from some Republicans after he supported a current spending invoice that the president-elect and Elon Musk opposed.
That would pose an issue for him this week as a result of Johnson can solely afford to lose two Republican votes – assuming all Democrats vote in opposition to him – if he needs to maintain the highest Congressional job. At the least one Republican has already signaled they aren’t voting for Johnson.
Oliver O’Connell3 January 2025 05:40
Bannon warns Musk: ‘We’re going to tear your face off’
Donald Trump’s one-time White Home strategist Steve Bannon warned Elon Musk Tuesday that he and different MAGA diehards are going to “rip your face off” except Musk smartens up and stops pushing visas for expert overseas employees to take good-paying tech business jobs away from Individuals.
He instructed Musk to “sit back and study” to grasp MAGA’s — and what supporters believed was Trump’s — America First stance to maintain U.S. jobs for Individuals.
Oliver O’Connell3 January 2025 04:40
Chief Justice Roberts warns elected officers to not ignore Supreme Courtroom selections
Supreme Courtroom Chief Justice John Roberts warned that elected officers ought to to not disregard the rulings made by the court docket in a report.
Roberts, who will mark 20 years on the high of the court docket later this 12 months, launched his year-end report the place he warned of accelerating assaults to the legitimacy of the court docket.
The court docket has come below elevated scrutiny ever because it moved to a decisive 6-3 conservative majority largely put in place by President-elect Donald Trump throughout his first tenure within the White Home from 2017 to 2021.
Eric Garcia experiences from Washington, D.C.
Oliver O’Connell3 January 2025 03:40
ICYMI: Fox Information melts down over Don Lemon profanely mocking MAGA supporters
Justin Barangoa has the story.
Oliver O’Connell3 January 2025 02:40
Alina Habba slams Biden for saying Trump’s circumstances went too gradual
Alina Habba has reacted to claims Lawyer Basic wasn’t “tough enough” in prosecuting her boss, President-elect Donald Trump, insisting the incoming president had it “so rough.”
Michelle Del Rey experiences.
Oliver O’Connell3 January 2025 01:40
