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Trump boasts foreign investments, blasts Biden administration
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday boasted a new $20 billion foreign investment to build new data centers, blasted the Biden administration for its final policies and promised to reverse a new offshore drilling ban. In his first press conference of the new year, Trump called the new foreign investment from property development company DAMAC Properties an example of business growth spurred by his election…
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South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham is pitching fellow Republicans on expanding who can sue over the now-defunct Jack Smith investigation — and Graham claims he has a key supporter in Speaker Mike Johnson. Graham said in a statement to Blue Light News that he had spoken with Johnson about his push to allow lawsuits from people he claims were improperly targeted by the former special counsel during his probe of the 2020 election…
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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Thursday left open the possibility the administration could sue President Donald Trump’s pick for Federal Reserve chair, Kevin Warsh, if he doesn’t deliver on the president’s desired interest rate cuts. Trump said Saturday he would consider suing Warsh if he did not cut interest rates…
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With eight days to avert a Department of Homeland Security shutdown, serious negotiations have yet to begin, Senate Majority Leader John Thune said Thursday. The South Dakota Republican said Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.), who is leading the talks for Republicans, has reached out to Democrats for a sitdown but has gotten “crickets” so far in response…
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- Lindsey Graham says Johnson is open to expanding Smith probe payouts
- Bessent refuses to say the administration will not sue the next Fed chair
- DHS negotiations have yet to get underway, Thune says, as shutdown clock ticks
- Tim Scott on DOJ probe into Powell: ‘I do not believe that he committed a crime’ in Fed HQ testimony
- Capitol agenda: Lawmakers brace for a DHS shutdown
- Energy chief says coal plant orders helped during winter storm
- Facing high Trump tariffs, South Africa signs framework agreement for trade deal with China
- Judge extends block on Trump admin’s bid to slash social services funds to 5 states
- Woodward says he was ‘crushed’ by Washington Post layoffs: Colleagues ‘deserve more’
- To the moon and back: Can the US recreate the magic of the lunar landing?
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