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    Does DOGE Need Congress for Massive Budget Cutting?

    Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, met over the weekend with President-elect Donald Trump and his choices to slash billions if not trillions of dollars in federal spending—entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. The Musk- and Ramaswamy-led Department of Government Efficiency is expected to work closely with the new Trump administration’s Office of Management and Budget to…
    Fred Lucas
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    The Most Trumpian Lawmaker Should Replace Vance in Ohio’s Senate Seat

    Sen. JD Vance just won a promotion to vice president. The Ohio Republican lawmaker and his incoming boss—once-and-future President Donald Trump—did so in mandate-producing fashion. Beyond just their trouncing of Democrats Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, Trump and Vance also outperformed just about all down-ballot Republicans. That makes the Senate Republicans’ choice as their leader—K…
    Seton Motley
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    Heritage Launches $1 Million Campaign to Expedite Senate Confirmation of Trump’s Cabinet Picks   

    The Heritage Foundation and its independent partner, Heritage Action for America, on Thursday launched what they describe as a $1 million campaign aimed at expediting Senate confirmation of President-elect Donald Trump’s second-term Cabinet appointments.   The campaign will officially start in the middle of January 2025 and will continue for the entirety of the Senate…
    Christina Lewis
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    Democrats’ Brazen Hypocrisy on Senate Filibuster

    Addressing the Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting Sept. 10, 2022, in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, Vice President Kamala Harris boasted about how, as president of the Senate, she had broken “John Adams’s record of casting the most tiebreaking votes in a single term.” Harris was reliving how, a month earlier on Aug. 7, she had…
    Peter Parisi
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    Pennsylvania Officials Openly Admit to Trying to Steal Senate Seat

    So much for the Left’s trope that election fraud is a myth. Enter the chairwoman of the Bucks County Board of Commissioners, Diane Ellis-Marseglia, a Democrat, who openly advocated for Pennsylvania election officials to violate the law by counting illegal ballots in the U.S. Senate contest between challenger Dave McCormick and the incumbent Bob Casey,…
    Hans von Spakovsky
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    How Many of 20 Senate Republicans Who Voted for Merrick Garland as AG Now Have Doubts About Matt Gaetz? 

    Some of the 20 Senate Republicans who voted to confirm President Joe Biden’s pick of Merrick Garland for attorney general already are shaking their heads at President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee as the nation’s top law enforcer.   Several of those GOP senators have spoken out against Trump’s choice last week of Matt Gaetz for attorney…
    Christina Lewis
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    EXCLUSIVE: Sen. Ted Cruz on the Judicial Appointments Senate Fistfight

    Sen. Ted Cruz joins “The Tony Kinnett Cast” to discuss President Donald Trump’s first 100 days, whether President Joe Biden’s remaining judicial nominees will get confirmed, and what the American people want lawmaekrs to do. Watch above or read a lightly-edited transcript below. Tony Kinnett: Welcome back to “The Tony Kinnett Cast” here on The Daily…
    Tony Kinnett
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    6 Things You Need to Know About Recount in Pennsylvania Senate Race

    Republicans accuse Democrats of not accepting the results of the Senate election in Pennsylvania but of trying to steal it instead from GOP challenger Dave McCormick and hand it to incumbent Democrat Bob Casey Jr. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, and officials in his administration insisted before and on Election Day that the state would…
    Fred Lucas
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    Senate Republicans Choose New Leader for First Time in 18 Years

    For the first time in 18 years, Republicans in the Senate have a new leader. Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., will replace outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., as the conference’s frontman. The new leader will have the hard task of passing President-elect Donald Trump’s agenda through the upper chamber of Congress. Though Republicans have…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Key Endorsements for Rick Scott Shake Up Senate Leadership Race

    As the race to become the new Republican Senate leader goes down to the wire, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., is gaining momentum. A slew of endorsements came in for Scott over Veterans Day weekend as the Senate GOP conference prepared to choose a new leader for the first time in 18 years. Scott is pitted…
    Bradley Devlin
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    First Transgender-Identifying Man Elected to Congress

    Sarah McBride will become the first openly transgender-identifying person to serve in Congress after winning Delaware’s at-large U.S. House seat Tuesday night. McBride, a Delaware state senator, is a biological man who identifies as a woman. Delaware’s only House seat was vacated by outgoing Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, who made a successful bid for her…
    Victoria Marshall
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    Casey Won’t Concede After Senate Seat in Pennsylvania Is Called for McCormick

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican challenger Dave McCormick has defeated incumbent Democratic Sen. Bob Casey in Pennsylvania’s pivotal Senate race, according to The Associated Press. The AP called the race Thursday afternoon, projecting that McCormick will narrowly win with 49% of the vote, compared with Casey’s 48.5% share. As of Thursday, 99% of the votes had been counted,…
    Nick Pope
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    With Razor-Close Margins, Will Senate Leadership Elections Be Delayed?

    While the dust is still settling from the 2024 election, Senate Republicans are tasked with choosing who will lead them in their new majority. Thanks to wins in Senate races in Montana, Ohio, and West Virginia, a Republican majority in the Senate is guaranteed. But there are still outstanding races that raise questions about representation…
    Bradley Devlin
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    Texan to Become One of Youngest Lawmakers in Congress

    Republican Brandon Gill defeated Democrat Ernest Lineberger, 62.9% to 35.6%, in unofficial results Tuesday night to secure an open seat representing Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives. At 30, Gill will be among the youngest Republicans ever to hold a seat in Congress.  The Associated Press called the race for Gill after 9 p.m….
    Christina Lewis
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    From Trailer Park to US Senate: Republican Jim Banks Wins Indiana Seat

    Republican Rep. Jim Banks won the open Indiana Senate seat, beating Democrat Valerie McCray, a clinical psychologist, according to Fox News and The Associated Press. “Only in America can a kid like me, who grew up in a trailer park in Columbia City and was the first in my family to go to college, go…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    House, Senate, Electoral College: What to Watch on Election Day 

    Seven swing states are too close to call headed into Election Day, Nov. 5. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, and former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, spent much of the last month vying for votes among the states that are expected to determine who the next president will be.  Polls indicate Trump and…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    The Hilarious Kerfuffle Over Washington Post’s Not Endorsing Harris

    It’s deliriously funny that The Washington Post jumped into a cauldron of boiling angst by refusing to endorse Kamala Harris for president. The decision is deeply weird. It’s like McDonald’s declining to advocate for hamburgers. We all know The Washington Post has a staff full of Democrats writing for an audience that’s mostly Democrats (and…
    Tim Graham
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    Is Bezos Ushering in New Era at Washington Post?

    Is Jeff Bezos going to bring back real journalism? In a shocking move, The Washington Post announced Friday it would not be endorsing a presidential candidate, after decades of doing so and after the outlet’s editorial board had written an endorsement of Kamala Harris. Two Post journalists reported that the decision had been made by…
    Katrina Trinko
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    We Need a Congress That Will Stop Borrowing Money

    With the Nov. 5 election approaching, much attention is focused on the presidential contest—but at least as significant are the contests that will determine who controls Congress.  That is because Congress controls federal taxing and spending.  “The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and…
    Terence Jeffrey
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    ‘This Race Should Not Be Close’: Deluge of Far-Left Dark Money Tightens Nebraska Senate Race

    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Republican Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska, a two-term incumbent who won previous Senate races by at least 14-point margins, is in a race too close for comfort with just 18 days to election night. Fischer holds just a one-point lead over Dan Osborn, an independent candidate who has never held public office,…
    Adam Pack
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