House Republicans say there is &#8220;a misunderstanding&#8221; about the failed vote on Tuesday that Democrats linked to demanding the Department of Justice compile and release files regarding Jeffrey Epstein.
Democrats <a href="https://x.com/nicholaswu12/status/1945161060954062859" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pledged</a> to revive an Epstein disclosure amendment from Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) that was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-republicans-block-democrat-push-to-release-epstein-files" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shot down</a> Monday in the House Rules Committee after he sought to merge his measure with an unrelated crypto bill — if a procedural floor vote went their way. But it <a href="https://x.com/jamiedupree/status/1945185474164793543" target="_blank" rel="noopener">did not succeed</a>.
While the result has been widely cast as the House Republicans uniting to prevent the release of the Epstein files, some GOP members pushed back on that narrative.
&#8220;I gotta correct something real quick,&#8221; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1945205224232112334" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a &#8220;Benny Show&#8221; interview. &#8220;It&#8217;s being reported that House Republicans unanimously voted to block the release of the Epstein files, and I want to straighten out the record right now. That is not true. If I could vote &#8230; to release the Epstein files, guys, you would have my vote. I would vote &#8216;yes.'&#8221;
Greene spoke about the mechanics of what happened.
&#8220;It was a procedural vote. And we have these all the time. It&#8217;s called a &#8216;PQ.&#8217; It&#8217;s voting on the previous question,&#8221; Greene said. &#8220;If the Democrats had won the previous question, which I know sounds insane — it&#8217;s one of these crazy rules in the House that are hard to understand — that means they would control the House floor.&#8221;
The congresswoman then contended that if Democrats had gotten their way, it could have paved the way to all sorts of votes beyond the Epstein issue.
&#8220;And that means they could bring up anything,&#8221; Greene said. &#8220;They could bring up impeachment articles against President Trump. They could bring up a whole package of insane Democrat agenda items and force votes on the House floor on these things. That&#8217;s what we voted against. We never allow Democrats to have control of the House floor because we control the House floor. So, it&#8217;s a misunderstanding that I just wanted to straighten that out.&#8221;
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) <a href="https://x.com/RepLuna/status/1945223846585622659" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued</a> a similar explanation in a post on X.
&#8220;The House GOP conference as a whole did not vote to block the release of the Epstein files,&#8221; Luna said. &#8220;There was a procedural vote that, if failed, would have given Democrats control of the House. If you pull up the &#8216;previous question&#8217; language you will not find anything re: Epstein. Liars never cease to disgust me.&#8221;
In response, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) <a href="https://x.com/RepMcGovern/status/1945261045808832954" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> Luna was not entirely correct.
&#8220;Respectfully, [Luna], this is not accurate. If you pull up the &#8216;previous question&#8217; language in tomorrow’s congressional record you will find the following, which you voted against,&#8221; McGovern said, sharing a screenshot of text on the Epstein files amendment.
Khanna&#8217;s amendment did get the support of a single Republican — Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) — in the House Rules Committee, but the rest of the Republicans voted &#8220;nay&#8221; and it was defeated.
The California Democrat later <a href="https://x.com/RoKhanna/status/1945142704091906495" target="_blank" rel="noopener">clarified</a> that his measure pertaining to Epstein, a wealthy financier and convicted sex offender who was found dead at the age of 66 in his New York City jail cell in 2019 after being arrested on sex trafficking charges involving young girls, would &#8220;of course protect&#8221; the identity of any victims.
President Donald Trump has expressed support for Attorney General Pam Bondi and seemed to dismiss the uproar within the “Make America Great Again” movement after the Department of Justice claimed it had no evidence that Epstein had a client list, blackmailed powerful people, or was murdered.
&#8220;One year ago our Country was DEAD, now it’s the ‘HOTTEST’ Country anywhere in the World. Let’s keep it that way, and not waste Time and Energy on Jeffrey Epstein, somebody that nobody cares about,&#8221; Trump said on Truth Social.
Still, there are many people who remain skeptical that the Department of Justice is being completely forthcoming.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) <a href="https://x.com/bennyjohnson/status/1945181783567319432" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a separate &#8220;Benny Show&#8221; interview on Tuesday that he supports &#8220;transparency&#8221; with regard to the Epstein issue and called on Bondi to be more forthcoming to inform the American public what happened after she <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/shes-great-trump-backs-bondi-wants-top-officials-to-end-conflict-over-epstein" target="_blank" rel="noopener">hinted</a> earlier this year that major bombshells were about to be revealed that never materialized.

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Republicans are roasting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) for suggesting on Saturday evening that President Donald Trump should be impeached for ordering strikes on three facilities in Iran to prevent that country from achieving nuclear weapons.
&#8220;The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers,&#8221; the high-profile member of the leftist &#8220;Squad&#8221; declared in a <a href="https://x.com/AOC/status/1936600627221565468" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a> on X. &#8220;He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations. It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.&#8221;
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene quickly shot back at Ocasio-Cortez.
&#8220;Shut up you pathetic little hypocrite,&#8221; Greene <a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1936615639621288028" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X. &#8220;YOU fully supported our military and IC running the proxy war against Russia in Ukraine. And you VOTED to fund the Ukraine war under your President with dementia. You don’t get to play anti-war and moral outrage anymore.&#8221;
Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) <a href="https://x.com/NRCC/status/1936758140760129890" target="_blank" rel="noopener">contended</a> on Fox News that Democrats did call for impeachment after former President Barack Obama attacked Libya, Syria, Pakistan, and Yemen during his tenure.
&#8220;For my colleagues that are now demanding impeachment, it’s absolutely absurd &#8230; these folks are truly reaching new levels of Trump derangement in the aftermath of yesterday&#8217;s decision,&#8221; he added, alluding to what has become widely known as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/trump-derangement-syndrome" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;Trump Derangement Syndrome.&#8221;</a>
Dan Turrentine, who worked for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton when she was serving as a Senator from New York, agreed that the action was not impeachable — and decried his Democratic colleagues who were asserting that it was.
&#8220;It was too depressing to write this last night, after we got off air, so I went to bed. But, it needs to be said by more Democrats: this was not an impeachable offense, and Trump did not need congressional approval for one precision attack under the circumstances, just as Obama did not when striking Bin Laden,&#8221; he posted early on Sunday. &#8220;Why can’t our Party just say it’s great we achieved the objective and destroyed Iran’s nuclear sites, God bless the soldiers who carried this out and made it home safely, God bless our country, military, allies, and we look forward to a full intel briefing.&#8221; 
&#8220;If one must then assert Congressional authority at the moment, add that any escalation will require congressional approval. And if you must, express concern for where this may go and what might come next. But, for so many in my Party to knee jerk with unhinged calls for impeachment — and sadly omit in their statement support for Iran not having nuclear weapons, which has been a principle of our Party for 40 years — is truly TDS,&#8221; he added.
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During his first term, Trump was impeached twice when the Democrats commanded the House. One inquiry dealt with Ukraine, and the other with January 6. Both efforts ended in acquittal by a GOP-led Senate.
Some Democrats have already been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/congressional-black-caucus-leader-impeachable-trump-los-angeles-deployment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pushing</a> for Trump to be impeached in his second administration, including for &#8220;dastardly deeds,&#8221; but they are powerless to press ahead because Republicans control both chambers of Congress. However, that could change after next year&#8217;s midterm elections, as noted by Sen. James Lankford (R-LA) during an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHXweWk6SNQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> on &#8220;Fox News Sunday&#8221; with anchor Shannon Bream.
&#8220;If Democrats get control of Congress, we are most certainly headed towards impeachment again. That has been the playbook that they&#8217;ve played twice on President Trump. So, certainly, if they get control of Congress in this next election, they will work towards impeachment. That&#8217;s their favorite play to be able to do,&#8221; Lankford said.

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President Trump’s strategy regarding Iran has been remarkable.
The President of the United States has — with no use of American military personnel — devastated the Iranian nuclear resources to the point that Iran is begging the Americans to come to the table now.
Trump has said that all options are still on the table. It may be that if the Iranian nuclear site Fordow is still in operation a couple of weeks from now or a week from now, and the Iranians will not come to the table, there may be one B-2 sortie in Fordow — with no capacity for Iran to fire back because Israel has already destroyed all of the ballistic missiles that would be aimed at any place that threatens Americans.
The danger is that if Iran retains the nuclear fuel it has already enriched, as well as the centrifuges to enrich more, the country could sprint to make a bomb. This is where the United States comes in. Israel lacks the deep penetrating bombs and the heavy bombers to deliver them that could do more damage to buried sites such as Fordow. President Trump endorsed the initial Israeli attacks, but he continues to suggest the bombing could increase the chances of negotiating a deal to dismantle Iran&#8217;s nuclear program.
Meanwhile, President Trump is using the Israelis as the bad cop while he is the good cop.
He is saying to the Iranians that the Israelis are doing what they&#8217;re going to do, and we don&#8217;t control them. They&#8217;re their own country. They can do what they&#8217;re doing, and you can continue to weather that as best you can. But, he’s saying, at a certain point, if this continues and you won&#8217;t give up Fordow, there might be a B-2 headed your way. Or maybe we&#8217;ll find some other way with Israel. Maybe Israel will do it on its own. We just don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going to happen next.
President Trump has played this absolutely brilliantly. If you had told people, just a few years ago, that Iran&#8217;s nuclear regime would be on the precipice of collapse with zero regional fallout — zero — and the United States would not have expended a single offensive missile in that effort, people would have thought that that was genius level stuff.
You know why?
Because it is genius level stuff.
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Meanwhile, there are people on the Right who have now declared that they are the leaders of MAGA, not Donald Trump, that they are the great leaders of America First and MAGA.
Tucker Carlson put out a statement on Friday in his newsletter, in which he stated that President Trump was “complicit in the act of war.” The newsletter was dramatically titled, “This Could Be the Final Newsletter Before All-Out War,” suggesting World War III could break out as a result of the Israel-Iran war. 
He wrote:
<blockquote>While the American military may not have physically perpetrated the assault, years of funding and sending weapons to Israel, which Donald Trump just bragged about on Truth Social, undeniably place the U.S. at the center of last night’s events. Washington knew these attacks would happen. They aided Israel in carrying them out. Politicians purporting to be America First can’t now credibly turn around and say they had nothing to do with it. Our country is in deep.</blockquote>
While Donald Trump has been speaking about America First, only Tucker Carlson, who tours Moscow supermarkets to talk about how good the bread is and how he wishes that our subway system ran just like Moscow&#8217;s; only Tucker Carlson, who does interviews with the leadership of Qatar and talks about how they are an amazing ally to the United States while they simultaneously support Hamas; only Tucker Carlson, who hosts people like Darryl Cooper, whom he calls the “greatest and most honest historian in America” — the same guy who over the weekend suggested that America should launch missiles against Tel Aviv — only Tucker Carlson is truly America first, not Donald Trump.
Not Donald Trump, who built the America First movement, who built MAGA; only Tucker Carlson and his friends are truly MAGA in America First.
Over the weekend, Carlson doubled down, <a href="https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1933620743406801038">claiming:</a>
<blockquote>The real divide isn&#8217;t between people who support Israel and people who support around the Palestinians. The real divide is between those who casually encourage violence and those who seek to prevent it. Between warmongers and peacemakers.</blockquote>
This is Tucker’s shtick: that anyone who opposes him is a warmonger who wants more war, who just loves war.
Okay. Who are the people who love and desperately want war? <a href="https://x.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1933620743406801038">He says</a>:
<blockquote>Who are the warmongers? They would include anyone who’s calling Donald Trump today to demand air strikes and other direct U.S. military involvement in a war with Iran. On that list: Sean Hannity, Mark Levin, Rupert Murdoch, Ike Perlmutter and Miriam Adelson. At some point they will all have to answer for this, but you should know their names now.</blockquote>
First of all, I&#8217;m not aware that any of those people are directly calling Donald Trump and saying that he must directly intervene in this current conflict. Second of all, he is suggesting that you&#8217;re a warmonger if you want the Iranian nuclear program to end.
So I guess Donald Trump is a warmonger because Donald Trump wants the nuclear program to end. And you know who said Trump wants the nuclear program to end? Donald Trump. You know who the actual leader of MAGA is? Donald Trump. He created MAGA.
It is Donald Trump who created the America First movement. 
It is not Tucker Carlson, and it is not Marjorie Taylor Greene, who similarly <a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1934375883332046933">put out a tweet</a> saying:
<blockquote>Everyone is finding out who are the real America First MAGA and who are fake and just said it bc it was popular. &#8230; Anyone slobbering for the U.S. to become fully involved in the Israel/Iran war is not America First/MAGA.</blockquote>
So Donald Trump is not the real America First MAGA. Only Marjorie Taylor Greene, an obscure congresswoman from Georgia until Donald Trump tapped her on the head, is the real America First MAGA.
By the way, who are the people who are slobbering for the U.S. to become “fully involved?”
No one has called for a ground invasion of Iran. No one has suggested that the United States ought to be fully involved in a gigantic takeover of Iran in regime rebuilding. No one is calling for that.
Even if you are calling for a single airstrike on Fordow, you know what that looks like? It looks like a single airstrike on Qasem Soleimani, which President Trump did in 2020 and was ripped by people like Tucker Carlson, who said that it was going to turn into a regional war.
Here&#8217;s my big question for folks like Tucker, when he suggests that there are these people who are calling Donald Trump and demanding he do things they want: Whom does he think is the decision-maker?
The decision maker in the White House is Donald J. Trump.
Donald Trump has taken the same position on the Iranian nuclear program since the first minute he came down the golden escalator. He has not changed one iota. 
What a low opinion Tucker Carlson must have of Donald Trump&#8217;s capacities. He thinks that he can manipulate him from the outside, or that others are manipulating him in that particular way.
President Trump fired back at all of this over the weekend. In an interview with The Atlantic, he responded to Carlson and others of his ilk, saying bluntly, “Well, considering that I’m the one that developed ‘America First,’ and considering that the term wasn’t used until I came along, I think I’m the one that decides that. For those people who say they want peace—you can’t have peace if Iran has a nuclear weapon. So for all of those wonderful people who don’t want to do anything about Iran having a nuclear weapon—that’s not peace.” 
The same people who are attacking Trump have predicted that BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) are going to get involved in this in some form or fashion.
President Trump is not one of those people because he&#8217;s not a stupid person.
Nothing has changed with Trump; he has been absolutely consistent on this issue.
As all the isolationists are horseshoeing around and having fun, happy times with all of their friends on the Left retweeting each other, you should take note of who these people are and what they actually believe about the President of the United States, about America First, and about MAGA.
Not to mention their complete acquiescence to the idea that a nuclear Iran would be fine for the world: an asinine notion rejected by anyone with half a brain.

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On Thursday, the GOP-led House moved to rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, a move that helps to solidify the change favored by President Donald Trump.
The House <a href="https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025122" target="_blank" rel="noopener">voted</a> 211-206 to pass the &#8220;Gulf of America Act&#8221; from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), with most Republicans backing the measure. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), who <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/scoop-trump-allys-gulf-america-bill-sparks-frustration-house-gop" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Fox News the bill &#8220;seems sophomoric,&#8221; joined with all voting Democrats in opposing the legislation.
&#8220;This is the first step to codify into law one of President Trump’s favorite executive orders,&#8221; Greene <a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1920449766460113055" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X, adding it &#8220;recognizes the entrepreneurs supporting the Gulf’s economy and the service men and women who protect its waters.&#8221;
The <a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/276/text" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bill</a>, which now heads to the Senate, mandates that all references to the Gulf of Mexico in U.S. laws, maps, regulations, and other federal documents be updated to reflect the new name.
In its implementation section, the legislation requires the Secretary of the Interior to oversee the renaming process through the Chairman of the Board on Geographic Names.
The bill also says federal agencies must update their documents and maps within 180 days of its enactment, however, the process has already begun thanks to the efforts of the Trump administration.
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) had <a href="https://x.com/RepJeffries/status/1920495184585879989" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urged</a> his colleagues to vote against what he called &#8220;this small-minded, silly, and sycophantic bill.&#8221; He also said, &#8220;America is not down with MTG.&#8221;
On X, Greene <a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1920479919991071105" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>, &#8220;Democrats are throwing a fit over renaming the Gulf of America, but why? Because they’d rather honor a foreign country run by drug cartels than stand up for the American people.&#8221;
Before starting his second term in January, Trump announced he would rename the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America. He took aim at Mexico, raising issues with trade deficits and cartels.
And, on the day of his inauguration, Trump signed an order directing the Interior Secretary to “take all appropriate actions” to rename the U.S. Continental Shelf area as the Gulf of America.
Trump then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/were-flying-over-it-right-now-trump-creates-new-holiday-en-route-to-super-bowl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">signed</a> a proclamation on February 9, as he flew on Air Force One to attend the Super Bowl in New Orleans, making it &#8220;Gulf of America Day.&#8221;
“We’re flying right over it right now, so we thought this would be appropriate,” Trump said in a video posted to X, marking the new day of recognition. “Even bigger than the Super Bowl, this is a big thing.”
On that flight, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said his department had implemented the president’s instructions from the executive order.
“Another big win for President Trump’s agenda to Make America Great Again,” Burgum <a href="https://x.com/secretaryburgum/status/1888701693707035001" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to X, which also featured a U.S. Geological Survey map showing the Gulf of America.
Back in January, Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum shrugged off Trump&#8217;s push to rename the body of water, which is between their two countries.
&#8220;He says that he will call it the &#8216;Gulf of America&#8217; on its continental shelf. For us it is still the Gulf of Mexico and for the entire world it is still the Gulf of Mexico,&#8221; Sheinbaum said, <a href="https://apnews.com/live/trump-presidency-day-2-updates#00000194-89a6-dc8c-a1fe-fba6ca870000" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Associated Press.

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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and two of her fellow GOP congresswomen discussed her bill banning transgender medical services for children and the &#8220;spiritual warfare&#8221; surrounding gender ideology.
Greene claimed that one of Georgia&#8217;s biggest megachurches trains youth pastors to affirm teens&#8217; new gender identities and pronouns.
&#8220;That should never happen in church because that is confirming Satan&#8217;s lie to these vulnerable children,&#8221; Greene said on the Republican Study Committee&#8217;s <a href="https://linktr.ee/republicanstudycommittee" target="_blank" rel="noopener">podcast</a> &#8220;Right to the Point.&#8221;
Two other Republican women in Congress joined the podcast for Wednesday&#8217;s episode alongside Greene: Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) and Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN). The podcast interviews members of Congress every week from Capitol Hill.
Both women are co-sponsors of Greene&#8217;s bill, the Protect Children&#8217;s Innocence Act, which would ban puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and transgender surgeries like genital sex changes and double mastectomies for minors.
Greene said she is hopeful her bill will get a vote on the House floor soon.
&#8220;President Trump is ready to sign it into action,&#8221; she said.
Rep. Mark Alford (R-MO), who hosted the podcast, said, &#8220;The Left tries to create language that softens things, gender-affirming care. What in the heck does that mean? You are mutilating the body of a young person.&#8221;
Harshbarger said she spent her whole life in the healthcare industry before coming to Congress, where she now fights to protect children from gender ideology.
&#8220;God is so good when he puts us where we need to be to take care of those issues,&#8221; Harshbarger said. &#8220;And it&#8217;s a lie from the pits of hell that you can change your sex, you can&#8217;t change your DNA.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a direct attack on God&#8217;s creation. God created us male and female just like the bill is stating, male and female in His image, and that&#8217;s why the Left is attacking it,&#8221; Greene said.
&#8220;It&#8217;s a great lie that Satan had from the very beginning in the Garden of Eden, and he is a liar and deceiver, and I think he&#8217;s trying to get to us,&#8221; Alford said. &#8220;And they guilt you into if you don&#8217;t go along with this, then you&#8217;re not human, you&#8217;re not compassionate. No, we are compassionate. And calling gender dysphoria, why would you affirm any type of dysphoria?&#8221;
&#8220;Marjorie, that goes back to the spiritual warfare,&#8221; Harshbarger said after Greene mentioned the Georgia megachurch.
&#8220;When the pastors from the pulpit do not condemn evil, and they uphold what is wrong, what the Bible says, what is conceived as and what is construed as right in the end days will be looked at as wrong, and what is wrong will be looked at as right.&#8221;
&#8220;The truth sets people free,&#8221; Miller said. &#8220;We cannot lie about this. And I want to say that evil never retreats on its own, only when it&#8217;s confronted by a more powerful force. And number one, we have President Trump. He&#8217;s a strong leader. But all of us that have been elected to Congress, we want to be a force against evil.&#8221;
Miller said their opponents have told them they can have their beliefs, but only in their private spaces. &#8220;Go to your home or be quiet,&#8221; opponents insist, according to Miller. 
&#8220;We are not going to do that anymore,&#8221; she said. &#8220;And whether it&#8217;s teachers or it&#8217;s in government, the whistleblowers, parents that are speaking up. &#8230; But we need legislators. We need brave parents, whistleblowers. We need to shed light on all the evil and dark things that have been happening in our country, and praise God that it is happening.&#8221;

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Republican lawmakers grilled PBS and NPR executives on Wednesday in a fiery congressional hearing, where NPR&#8217;s chief executive admitted the organization made mistakes in its coverage of the Hunter Biden laptop story and faced accusations of institutional liberal bias.
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), who organized the hearing titled &#8220;Anti-American Airwaves,&#8221; slammed PBS and NPR as &#8220;radical left-wing echo chambers&#8221; that publish biased news reports with government subsidies and LGBTQ programming intent on “grooming children,” The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/business/media/pbs-npr-congress-hearing-republicans.html">reported</a>.
NPR chief executive Katherine Maher and PBS chief executive Paula Kerger were brought in for questioning by Greene as the chairwoman of the new Subcommittee on Delivering on Government Efficiency.
Katherine Maher, who became CEO of NPR last year, backtracked on her organization&#8217;s coverup of the Hunter Biden laptop story during the 2020 campaign prior to her tenure.
&#8220;Our current editorial leadership thinks that was a mistake, as do I,&#8221; Maher testified, facing tough questioning from Republican lawmakers.
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The old tweets are coming out to haunt the NPR CEO: &quot;Why did you call President Trump a &#39;fascist&#39; and a &#39;deranged racist sociopath&#39; in 2020?&quot; <a href="https://t.co/ggcpPCSvzi">pic.twitter.com/ggcpPCSvzi</a>
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Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN) revealed 2020 tweets from Maher describing President Trump as a &#8220;racist&#8221; and &#8220;sociopath,” which Maher says she now regrets.
When pressed on the tweets by Rep. Greene, Maher expressed regret, saying, &#8220;They represented a time where I was reflecting on something that the president had said rather than who he is.&#8221;
These admissions came as Rep. James Comer (R-KY) stated, &#8220;I don&#8217;t even recognize NPR anymore,&#8221; adding that while he relied on public radio for news growing up in rural Kentucky, he now likens it to &#8220;propaganda.&#8221;
Former NPR senior business editor Uri Berliner, who resigned after publishing an essay critical of the network&#8217;s leftward shift, was referenced by Republican lawmakers as further evidence of the outlet’s bias.
In a text message to The New York Times, he wrote that he believes the organization should &#8220;openly acknowledge and embrace its progressive orientation&#8221; and decline federal support, contradicting Maher’s claims of NPR’s supposed objectivity.
PBS CEO Paula Kerger defended her network, arguing that “there’s nothing more American than PBS&#8221; and describing it as a crucial source of accurate information and educational programming for millions of Americans.
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a government-funded company, <a href="https://cpb.org/pressroom/CPB-Statement-Congress-Approval-Continued-Funding-Public-Media">received</a> $535 million from the government this year, with millions of dollars going directly to NPR and PBS.
Representative William Timmons (R-SC) pressed PBS&#8217;s Kerger about a digital segment titled &#8220;Drag Queen Story Hour,&#8221; which featured drag performers reading to children. Kerger responded that the segment never aired on PBS television and was removed after being &#8220;mistakenly added&#8221; to the network&#8217;s website.
Representative Greene pointed to a photograph of drag performer Lil Miss Hot Mess featured in PBS programming, calling the entertainer a &#8220;monster&#8221; and accusing the network of using &#8220;taxpayer funds to push some of the most radical left positions.&#8221;
Kerger rejected these characterizations and defended PBS programming as educational and appropriate for its audiences.

Public Media CEOs Testify To House Committee On Government Reform

‘Anti-American Airwaves’: GOP Lawmakers Grill NPR Execs Over ‘Institutional Bias’

Media Bias

National Public Radio (NPR)

The House&#8217;s oversight commitee on Friday asked the largest union of federal employees to produce documents showing its communications with the Biden administration resulting in union contracts designed to bind President Donald Trump throughout his term.
The letter comes as Trump sent a memo to agency heads aimed at unwinding union contracts that were finalized in the final 30 days of the Biden presidency and setting a policy that such contracts should not be entered into in the final month of any president&#8217;s term.
Reps. James Comer (R-KY), chair of the Committee on Government Oversight and Reform, and Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA), its DOGE subcommittee chair, <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/AFGE-Contract-Letter-013125.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> the American Federation of Government Employees President Everett Kelley that the panel was investigating the &#8220;use—and abuse—of the federal collective bargaining process.&#8221;
The Department of Education signed a contract locking in telework on January 27, 2025, just three days before Trump took office. Biden Education Department officials signed the contract even though they admitted that the union had hamstrung the Biden administration&#8217;s own desire to bring the workforce back into the office, with COVID years in the past.
&#8220;Nearly all of ED’s 4,245 employees are telework eligible and they only spend 43.4 percent of their working hours in the office. Further, 2,341 ED employees are completely remote, never showing up to the office. When the Biden-Harris Administration attempted to increase the federal workforce’s in-person work, ED struggled to bring its employees back to the office, citing CBA [collective bargaining agreement] negotiations as the &#8216;largest barrier the agency faces to completing execution,'&#8221; the letter, first obtained by The Daily Wire, said.
&#8220;On his first day in office, President Trump signed an executive order requiring the &#8216;heads of all departments and agencies in the executive branch … to terminate remote work arrangements and require employees to return to work in-person at their respective duty stations on a full-time basis.&#8217; CBAs entered into by the outgoing Administration with AFGE should not undermine President Trump’s ability to bring the federal workforce back to the office to better serve the American people,&#8221; it continued.
The letter demanded that AFGE produce all contracts signed in 2024 or January 2025, and all correspondence with the Biden administration about them.
&#8220;This process was used extensively toward the end of the Biden-Harris Administration to negotiate collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) intended primarily, not to manage the workforce under its own watch, but to constrain the ability of President Donald Trump to do so. The Biden-Harris Administration’s CBAs unduly infringe on President Trump’s ability to exercise his broad authority to oversee the federal workforce and ensure the laws of the land are faithfully executed,” Greene said in a statement.
Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/uncategorized/2025/01/limiting-lame-duck-collective-bargaining-agreements-that-improperly-attempt-to-constrain-the-new-president/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">memo</a> said &#8220;In the final days of the prior administration’s tenure, it purposefully finalized collective bargaining agreements (CBAs) with Federal employees in an effort to harm my Administration by extending its wasteful and failing policies beyond its time in office&#8230; Such last-minute, lame-duck CBAs, which purport to bind a new President to his predecessor’s policies, run counter to America’s system of democratic self-government.&#8221;
&#8220;The Supreme Court has explained that a President &#8216;cannot choose to bind his successors by diminishing their powers,&#8217;” it added. &#8220;To the extent that subordinate agency personnel have executed a CBA that violates the requirements of subsection (a) of this section, but the applicable agency head has not yet approved such agreement pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 7114(c), such agency head shall promptly disapprove such agreement as inconsistent with the requirements of this memorandum.&#8221;
Union contracts were designed as adversarial documents negotiated between management and labor, but there is evidence that in the Biden administration, both sides were representing government employees, with no one defending the interests of taxpayers and recipients of services. They were not willing to run the agencies under the constraints of the contracts, but instead signed them on the way out the door, binding the Trump administration.
Biden&#8217;s Social Security Commissioner, Martin O&#8217;Malley, notoriously signed a five-year contract locking in telework on November 27. The memo from Trump, which he is expected to sign as soon as Friday afternoon, is rumored to cover contracts signed in the last 30 days of a presidency, so it is unclear whether that agreement would be lifted.
The Daily Wire revealed that O&#8217;Malley flew to Florida to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-security-head-drank-with-union-members-before-giving-them-telework-through-2029" target="_blank" rel="noopener">drink and party with the Social Security union</a>, then signed the five-year telework contract hours before resigning his job to run for the Democratic National Committee, where the favor to unions could help his chances.
A slew of other agencies signed contracts with AFGE in the waning months of Biden&#8217;s presidency, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/government-union-that-wants-feds-to-work-from-home-brings-staff-back-to-office-to-fight-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">found</a>. For example, on December 18, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission signed a five-year contract that says employees can come into the office as little as two days a week. “The employer, in consultation with the union, shall maintain a Telework Program in every EEOC Office… All EEOC positions are eligible for some amount of telework,” it says.
On December 3, 2024, the National Park Services signed a contract with two unions representing Washington, D.C.-based employees that would also, coincidentally, run through the entirety of the Trump administration. One of the unions said to expect “virtually all NPS positions” to be “eligible for telework,” with no requirement to come in more than once a week.
This story has been updated to include details from Trump&#8217;s memo and a link to the House letter.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/government-union-that-wants-feds-to-work-from-home-brings-staff-back-to-office-to-fight-trump">Union That Wants Feds To Work From Home Brings Staff Back To Office To Fight Trump</a>

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA)

Biden Signed Union Contract Hours Before Inauguration, And DOGE Wants Answers

Labor Unions

On Wednesday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) rebuffed a reporter hounding her over President Donald Trump&#8217;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-full-pardon-to-nearly-all-j6-defendants-could-be-released-from-prison-tonight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sweeping January 6 pardons</a>.
Hours after being sworn into office, Trump signed an executive order pardoning nearly all individuals charged with J6-related crimes.
&#8220;Is this all you&#8217;re really talking about, is the J6ers have been pardoned?&#8221; MTG asked the reporter, to which the reporter responded, &#8220;Yeah.&#8221;
&#8220;Okay, are you gonna talk about the Biden family that got pardoned? No?&#8221; Greene continued to push. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t &#8211;,&#8221; the reporter replied.
To much controversy, former President Joe Biden pardoned five members of his family with only minutes left of his time in office.
&#8220;Okay, what about the rapers [sic], killers, and murders that Joe Biden pardoned &#8212; there are tons of them &#8212; is that a focus at all?&#8221; Greene once again asked, only to receive a response that the reporter was focused on the J6 issue.
In late December, Biden <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-commutes-sentences-of-dozens-of-murderers-two-days-before-christmas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">commuted the death sentences</a> of dozens of convicted killers, including a man who murdered a police officer and a man who kidnapped and murdered a 12-year-old girl.
&#8220;I know what you&#8217;re asking about &#8212; I&#8217;m not doing this,&#8221; Greene told the reporter. &#8220;This insane place up here, and all of y&#8217;all&#8217;s obsession with January 6 is absurd. Everybody outside of here is sick and f***ing tired of it. I&#8217;m serious.&#8221;
&#8220;Joe Biden pardoned all these murderers and rapists and disgusting people, and then everybody up here has got their panties in a wad because J6ers got pardoned,&#8221; the lawmaker continued. &#8220;A lot of them walked through open doors. That&#8217;s it.&#8221;
Greene then suggested the reporter &#8220;go do a story on all the antifa and BLM (Black Lives Matter) people who never served time, over 95% of them. Seriously, think about that. Go do a story on all these cities BLM burned to the ground, and they never built back.&#8221;
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Before the interaction ended, MTG talked about the distrust the legacy media had fomented in the American people. &#8220;You are not trusted and people are sick of you,&#8221; she told the reporter.
Greene posted the interaction to her X account with the caption: &#8220;After 4 yrs, I’m fed up with Washington DC press. Your assumptions are ignorant and you are absolutely disconnected and clueless about what is important in life and to Americans. You have destroyed your credibility. With social media like X, you can’t lie about me anymore.&#8221;
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After 4 yrs, I’m fed up with Washington DC press.
Your assumptions are ignorant and you are absolutely disconnected and clueless about what is important in life and to Americans.
You have destroyed your credibility.
With social media like X, you can’t lie about me anymore. <a href="https://t.co/mC1RXDfBcl">pic.twitter.com/mC1RXDfBcl</a>
— Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1882249270847500414?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 23, 2025</a></blockquote>
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-issues-full-pardon-to-nearly-all-j6-defendants-could-be-released-from-prison-tonight" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Trump Issues Full Pardon To Nearly All J6 Defendants, Could Be Released From Prison ‘Tonight’</a>

House Oversight Committee Holds Biden Impeachment Hearing

‘Sick And F***ing Tired Of It’: MTG Wrecks Reporter Hounding Her Over J6 Pardons

‘F***ing Sick Of It’: Marjorie Taylor Greene Wrecks Reporter Hounding Her Over J6 Pardons

January 6

Pardon

House Republicans on Wednesday said the Biden administration misled the American people about a federal workforce that has largely not shown up to the office in years, and that Donald Trump inheriting COVID-style telework was emblematic of Biden prioritizing the interests of federal unions and employees over the American people.
At the <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-opens-first-hearing-of-the-119th-congress-on-the-biden-administrations-efforts-to-cement-a-stay-at-home-federal-workforce/">first hearing</a> of the 119th Congress&#8217; House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, members called for a clampdown on federal union privileges and grilled former Social Security Commissioner Martin O’Malley for signing a contract locking in extensive telework in his last week on the job, citing a Daily Wire report that found O’Malley flew to Florida to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-security-head-drank-with-union-members-before-giving-them-telework-through-2029" target="_blank" rel="noopener">party with union members</a> just before signing.
“How is this good for democracy?” Chairman James Comer (R-KY) asked O’Malley. “The voters just granted Donald Trump an electoral mandate to run the executive branch. Should union contracts designed to tie his hands take precedence over the mandate by the people?”
He noted that the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE), which signed the contract, has called its own <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/government-union-that-wants-feds-to-work-from-home-brings-staff-back-to-office-to-fight-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">staff back</a> to the office in order to more effectively fight against Trump.
“The union’s message couldn’t be clearer: For those doing the people’s business in a federal job, showing up should be optional. Those charged with blunting the Trump agenda, they need to be on their A-game, and that requires showing up in person. I, for one, want federal employees to also be on their A-game,” Comer continued.
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) added, &#8220;This was the union he was supposed to be negotiating against, not for. As Commissioner he was supposed to be serving the American taxpayers who pay his salary.”
A <a href="https://oversight.house.gov/report/the-lights-are-on-but-everyone-is-at-home-why-the-new-administration-will-enter-largely-vacant-federal-agency-offices/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">committee report</a>, prepared for the hearing, noted that O’Malley stood to personally gain from the giveaway, as it could help him win his race for chair of the Democratic National Committee.
O’Malley claimed the telework agreement, which required the rate of telework to stay the same, would not stop Trump from making changes, pointing to a potential loophole. “It reads ‘management has sole discretion to temporarily change, reduce or suspend approved telework days … due to operational needs,” O’Malley said.
A witness at the hearing said that 98.5% of Social Security Administration employees are eligible for telework, leaving only 900 employees spread across 1,400 offices and servicing 73 million people. Processing time for Social Security checks is now lower than pre-pandemic levels, tracking with the increase in remote work, the report said.
Across the federal government, 10% of employees are “remote,” meaning they never have to go to an office and can live anywhere in the country, the report said. Between 2019 and 2024, the Department of Health and Human Services went from 2% remote to 29%, while the Office of Personnel Management — which itself is in charge of federal telework policies — went from 7% to 40%.
Half of all Department of Education employees <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/only-6-of-feds-work-from-an-office-full-time-and-some-arent-working-at-all-audit-finds" target="_blank" rel="noopener">never show up to work</a>, and the remainder work from home most of the time under “telework.” Biden’s head of the General Services Administration, which manages federal buildings, herself worked from home most of the time.
When Biden took office, he issued an order requiring masks in federal offices and said federal buildings could not exceed 25% occupancy. With the virus long receded, little changed, with 17 of 24 agencies using less than a quarter of their buildings in 2023.
By the time of Biden’s 2022 State of the Union address, he was acknowledging the ill effects of telework, and said, “The vast majority of federal workers will once again work in person.” His chief of staff repeatedly followed up, highlighting the benefits of in-person work — but his cabinet secretaries wouldn’t listen, in part, because they were cowed by unions, the report said.
Then, despite Biden himself believing telework had gone too far, his administration worked with unions to hamstring the Trump administration on the issue, it said.
The committee said that Biden never set a government-wide policy on telework. In March 2023, then-OPM Director Kiran Ahuja said she didn’t even know what portion of the workforce was teleworking.
Agencies claim telework is necessary to retain employees, but the committee said that the government has a higher retention rate than the private sector, and that when people leave, it is usually for another government agency — meaning a government-wide policy would stop agencies from trying to poach each other’s employees by giving ever more lenient telework.
Congress also asked agencies how they were measuring whether employees were more or less efficient when working at home, and they did not have substantive answers. The Department of Justice, for example, simply said that “[s]upervisors are responsible for monitoring employee performance to ensure telework and remote work policies are being used effectively and efficiently.”
Admissions that the Biden administration was not actually tracking how telework impacted productivity undermined the White House’s contention that it was delivering “effective and efficient telework,” the report said.
Agency heads have themselves had previously blamed telework when asked to explain poor performance. NASA’s Associate Administrator for Mission Support, Robert Gibbs, said of an asteroid mission, “One of the contributing factors to poor performance on Psyche was telework.”
Social Security Administration Executive Counselor Oren “Hank” McKnelly said that due to telework, “Our front office workers, specifically the trainees that you are talking about, they did not feel connected to the mission, and they did not feel connected to the teams that they were working with.”
At the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, stakeholders complained that they showed up for meetings to find no one was there.
Other agencies attributed negative changes to factors other than telework — only to admit that they had never examined whether telework was to blame, citing the “complexity” of studying it.
When the committee asked agencies for information about how union contracts affected their ability to bring employees back, most agencies did not respond, even as some privately found unions to be damaging to their efforts. The Department of Housing and Urban Development failed to respond to Congress, even though its union filed a grievance against it for merely asking its workers to come in once a week. The Department of Education also didn’t respond to Congress, but acknowledged to the White House that union contracts were its biggest obstacle.
Hearing witness Rachel Greszler, a visiting fellow at the Economic Policy Innovation Center, said that private companies may be able to use telework effectively, but the same unions that are demanding telework also make disciplining poor performers difficult — a necessity to deal with people who aren’t independent enough to work from home.
“Telework can be very useful if it is flexible, responsive, and employees are held responsible, but that can be hard to accomplish with civil service protections and practices that make it extremely difficult, costly and time-consuming to effectively discipline or dismiss federal employees,” she said.
She said it’s so difficult to deal with low performers in government that most managers don’t even bother. In a survey, less than a third of federal employees said steps were taken to deal with poor performers who can’t or won’t improve. “Even just not giving them a performance-based bonus requires setting up a performance improvement plan,” she said.
She also targeted the policy known as “official time,” where federal employees get paid for hours spent working on union business, and the government also provides space and other resources for union use.
“That includes things like nurses at the VA spending 100% of their time working for the union instead of treating veterans, and a VA hospital allocating half of its hospital wing primarily for the union’s use,” she said. “The irony of all this official time is federal unions can’t bargain for pay or benefits, so they’re often left negotiating for things like the height of cubicle space, the right to smoke on a smoke-free campus, or the right to wear spandex to work.”
Greene, who chairs the subcommittee working with the Department of Government Efficiency, said DOGE will target official time, and noted that Biden broke with prior presidents by hiding data on its cost.
Republicans and one witness said a return to the office would help the D.C. economy — D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is aligned with Republicans on the issue — while a witness called by the Democrats said that remote work could “reverse brain drain, bring more jobs to states, and prevent economic decline in both cities and rural communities.” But those benefits would also come from relocating federal offices to other areas of the country. That wouldn’t help the D.C. area, but the D.C. suburbs are already the wealthiest areas of the country.
The committee suggested legislation that would prevent unions from being able to bargain over telework, and reopen contract negotiations at the start of each presidential term. It also said remote employees should be paid a standard rate, not paid more to live in high cost-of-living areas when they don’t go to any office.

SSA’s parking lot is empty on a Wednesday afternoon due to telework / House Oversight Committee

House Republicans Target Federal Unions After 11th-Hour Deals Tie Trump’s Hands On Remote Work

Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)

House Oversight Committee

Social Security

This week, a pair of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/house-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">House Republicans</a> proposed bills that could bring to life President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s suggestions for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-announces-u-s-to-change-name-of-the-gulf-of-mexico" target="_blank" rel="noopener">renaming</a> the Gulf of Mexico the &#8220;Gulf of America&#8221; — at least on maps and documents within the United States — and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/top-former-trump-official-explains-why-trump-may-take-panama-canal-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taking back</a> the Panama Canal.
Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marjorie-taylor-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA) announced on Tuesday that she directed her staff to draft a bill to make the &#8220;Gulf of America&#8221; rebranding happen as soon as Trump brought up the idea.
If the legislation is enacted, any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the Gulf of Mexico shall be deemed to be a reference to the &#8220;Gulf of America.&#8221;
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🚨 READ MY STATEMENT &amp; BILL TEXT 🚨
Mexican cartels currently use the Gulf of Mexico to traffic humans, drugs, weapons, and God knows what else while the Mexican government allows them to do it.
The American people are footing the bill to protect and secure the maritime… <a href="https://t.co/m0Nh3a6vuq">pic.twitter.com/m0Nh3a6vuq</a>
&mdash; Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 (@RepMTG) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG/status/1876756973644837111?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 7, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And the commerce secretary, acting through the administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, would oversee the implementation of changing the names in each federal document and map — an overhaul that would be completed in 180 days.
&#8220;It’s our gulf. The rightful name is the Gulf of America and it’s what the entire world should refer to it as,&#8221; Greene <a href="https://x.com/RepMTG/status/1876756973644837111" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on X, adding later, &#8220;We already have the bill written with legislative council and ready to file first thing Thursday morning. Congress has to take the Trump Agenda mandate seriously and that means acting fast to enact it.&#8221;
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Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) is going to introduce a bill to authorize the president, in coordination with the Secretary of State, to enter into negotiations for the acquisition of the Panama Canal from the Republic of Panama for the &#8220;symbolic&#8221; amount of $1. The bill, according to a screenshot <a href="https://x.com/cami_mondeaux/status/1877058216032379180" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> to X by The Washington Examiner&#8217;s Cami Mondeax, also calls for a report to Congress detailing progress on the talks, potential challenges, and anticipated outcomes in 180 days.
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Here’s bill text from <a href="https://twitter.com/DustyJohnson?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DustyJohnson</a> to “authorize the President to enter into negotiations for the reacquisition of the Panama Canal from the Republic of Panama for the symbolic amount of $1.” <a href="https://t.co/k9nRSmrE7l">pic.twitter.com/k9nRSmrE7l</a>
&mdash; Cami Mondeaux (@cami_mondeaux) <a href="https://twitter.com/cami_mondeaux/status/1877058216032379180?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 8, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;President Trump is right to consider repurchasing the Panama Canal. China’s interest in and presence around the canal is a cause for concern,&#8221; Johnson said in a statement <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5074775-republican-bill-panama-canal-trump-purchase/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> by The Hill. &#8220;America must project strength abroad — owning and operating the Panama Canal might be an important step towards a stronger America and a more secure globe.&#8221;

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President-elect <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>&#8216;s <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-government-efficiency-doge" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)</a> could set its sights on government-funded media programs like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/national-public-radio-npr" target="_blank" rel="noopener">National Public Radio (NPR)</a>, Rep. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/marjorie-taylor-greene" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a> (R-GA) said on Sunday.
Greene, who has been tasked with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-doge-panel-chaired-by-marjorie-taylor-greene-will-help-slash-government-waste" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heading</a> a new House Oversight subcommittee to work with DOGE leaders <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vivek Ramaswamy</a>, mentioned the network while discussing how she believes wasteful spending is happening all over the U.S. government during a &#8220;Sunday Morning Futures&#8221; interview with Fox News host Maria Bartiromo.
&#8220;We will be looking at everything from government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda,&#8221; Greene said, adding: &#8220;We will be going into grant programs that fund things like sex apps in Malaysia, toilets in Africa, all kinds of programs that don&#8217;t help the American people.&#8221;
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/RepMTG?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@RepMTG</a> says one of the things DOGE will look at is “government-funded media programs like NPR that spread nothing but Democrat propaganda.”
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She continued: &#8220;I want to talk to the people at the Pentagon and ask them why they can&#8217;t find billions of dollars every single year and why they fail their audit, but not just that, Maria. I&#8217;d like to talk to the governors of sanctuary states and the mayors of sanctuary cities and have them come before our committee and explain why they deserve federal dollars if they&#8217;re going to harbor illegal criminal aliens in their states and their cities.&#8221;
In his first term, Trump <a href="https://deadline.com/2020/02/donald-trump-public-media-pbs-npr-1202856498/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proposed</a> reining in funding for public media, but Congress did not take him up on the cuts. Earlier this year, while back on the campaign trail, Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-for-cutting-npr-funds-after-editor-accuses-network-of-bias" target="_blank" rel="noopener">demanded</a> that funding be cut from NPR after one of its editors <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-lost-americas-trust-npr-veteran-says-network-has-lost-its-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">accused</a> the network of espousing left-wing bias. That editor, Uri Berliner, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-editor-who-accused-network-of-liberal-bias-resigns" target="_blank" rel="noopener">resigned</a> a short time later.
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“NO MORE FUNDING FOR NPR, A TOTAL SCAM! EDITOR SAID THEY HAVE NO REPUBLICANS, AND IS ONLY USED TO ‘DAMAGE TRUMP.’ THEY ARE A LIBERAL DISINFORMATION MACHINE. NOT ONE DOLLAR!!!” Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/112248653824267212" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a post to Truth Social.
When NPR <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/npr-ditches-twitter-over-actions-that-undermine-our-credibility" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ditched</a> Twitter (now X) last year after being slapped with labels linking it to the U.S. government, the network <a href="https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label" target="_blank" rel="noopener">insisted</a> it &#8220;receives less than 1 percent of its $300 million annual budget from the federally funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.&#8221; Still, on its website, NPR says federal funding is <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;essential&#8221;</a> and that ending it &#8220;would result in fewer programs, less journalism — especially local journalism — and eventually the loss of public radio stations, particularly in rural and economically distressed communities.&#8221;
In her Fox interview, Greene went on to say: &#8220;We&#8217;re going to look in every single aspect. And we don&#8217;t care about people&#8217;s feelings. We&#8217;re going to be searching for the facts, and we&#8217;re going to be verifying if this is worth spending the American people&#8217;s hard-earned tax dollars on.&#8221;

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A new House subcommittee will reportedly work with the newly formed Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to help slash government waste.
The new Delivering on Government Efficiency Subcommittee will be established by the House Oversight Committee&#8217;s chairman, Representative James Comer (R-KY), and chaired by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-create-doge-subcommittee-chaired-marjorie-taylor-greene-work-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
President-elect Donald Trump has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/heres-how-elon-musks-department-of-government-efficiency-will-work">tapped</a> Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead DOGE, which he said will “dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies,” giving government an “entrepreneurial approach.”
Comer said the new subcommittee &#8220;will align with the Trump administration’s priorities to eliminate government waste, streamline the federal government’s operations and cut red tape that’s stifling jobs and increasing costs for the American people.&#8221;
He added that Trump’s &#8220;landslide victory reflects a clear mandate to address inflationary spending that’s driving up the cost of living for hardworking Americans.&#8221;
&#8220;Wasteful government spending must end, and taxpayers deserve to see their money used effectively and efficiently,&#8221; Comer said.
Comer reportedly met with Ramaswamy and Greene recently to discuss the project.
&#8220;A key step to driving greater efficiency in government is exposing the problem to the public — we are grateful that the House Oversight Committee has created a subcommittee to focus on this work,&#8221; a spokesperson for Ramaswamy <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/comer-create-doge-subcommittee-chaired-marjorie-taylor-greene-work-elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;We look forward to working together.&#8221;
Greene said the new subcommittee would bring &#8220;transparency and truth to the American people through hearings.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m excited to chair this new subcommittee designed to work hand in hand with President Trump, Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy and the entire DOGE team,&#8221; Greene said. &#8220;We will identify and investigate the waste, corruption and absolutely useless parts of our federal government.&#8221;
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&#8220;No topic will be off the table,&#8221; Greene said, adding that she expects the subcommittee &#8220;will expose people who need to be fired.&#8221;
DOGE will be a commission outside the government that will work with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to advise the president on what government bloat can be cut.
Musk said he plans to target overregulation and out-of-control spending.
“The world is suffering slow strangulation by overregulation. Every year, the noose tightens a little more,” the SpaceX founder and Tesla CEO <a href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1856729913148989710">posted</a> last week.
“We’re going to make the spending lower &#8230; if we don’t we’re going to bankrupt the country,&#8221; Musk said during a town hall in Pennsylvania last month.
DOGE will operate on a deadline. Trump said it would finish its work by July 4, 2026, the nation’s 250th birthday,

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