NEW: Allies of MARK WALKER, Trump's pick to lead religious freedom efforts at the State Department, say there’s one senator working behind the scenes to derail his nomination: GOP Sen. TED BUDD, Walker’s own home-state senator in North Carolina and his 2022 Senate primary

Susie Wiles told NYT she didn't call Elon Musk "an avowed ketamine" in one of her ELEVEN interviews with Vanity Fair. "That’s ridiculous. I wouldn’t have said it and I wouldn’t know." Vanity Fair: Cool here's a recording of you saying that.

One good thing did happen today

Very bad news for Mark Walker. Both of his home-state senators appear to be opposed to Trump nominating him for Ambassador for international religious freedom at State “I’ve made it clear that I’m supporting @SenTedBuddNC. I actually think we’re reaching a point, too, where

NEW: We are releasing a new image of the person of interest in the Brown University incident and plan to release additional media shortly. Please share widely and contact the official tip line if you have information or an ID: 401-272-3121 https://t.co/8a1yEMZhnI

Speaker Johnson says "there's a real possibility" of an amendment vote, either from LaLota or Fitzpatrick

Sen Lindsey Graham told me Hegseth & Rubio couldn’t answer what WH plan is for Nicolas Maduro “It was confusing… I want to know what’s going to happen next. Is it the policy to take Maduro down? It should be if it’s not.” Says the video of Sept 2 strikes should be released

Meeting between Speaker Johnson & members of Republican Governance Group today was “tense,” per @RepNicole Members are frustrated & think they deserve an up or down vote on ACA (and some ppl mad at leadership’s insistence on an offset) Johnson said meeting was “collegial” and

40 House lawmakers have signed onto the @RepJenKiggans/@RepJoshG Gottheimer discharge petition extending ACA subsidies with reforms 29 Dems 11 Rs

JUST IN: Nick Reiner is not medically cleared to appear in court, according to his attorney, after arrest in connection to death of his parents.

NEW: Mike Johnson says he WON'T call a House vote on extending ACA funding this week Weekend talks with centrist Republicans on a health care amendment collapsed. Enhanced tax credits will expire, raising costs in 2026. Story w/ @news_jul @brennanleach:

WaPo: Statue of Black teen who fought segregation replaces Robert E. Lee at U.S. Capitol

💡 NEW: 21 leading Democrats who are widely mentioned as possible 2028 presidential contenders sat down for more than 430 podcast interviews in 2025, according to @JesseLehrich, who has listened to almost all of them...

At 4:30am on a night in December 2020, I recorded the removal of the Robert E. Lee statue from the U.S. Capitol. Today, he'll be replaced by Barbara Rose Johns, who led a protest of conditions in her all-Black school in Farmville that eventually helped end segregation in America.

NEW: @SenTedBuddNC responds to @NBCNews story about @RepMarkWalker allies accusing Budd of working behind the scenes to derail his nomination to be Ambassador for International Religious Freedom. — Budd denied the allegations but added that he wants to "make sure the president

The U.S. shed 105,000 jobs in October and added 64,000 jobs in November, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said Tuesday, lifting a months-long fog that had shrouded the labor market. The unemployment rate rose to 4.6% in November. ⁦@NBCNews⁩

JUST IN: The House Oversight Committee has postponed the planned depositions of Bill and Hillary Clinton from this week to January 13th and 14th due to scheduling conflicts. Chair Comer makes it clear he still expects them to appear.

Retiring moderate @RepDonBacon, R-Neb., says he won’t sign onto Dems’ clean 3-year ACA extension “@RepJeffries should have to work with us” on our two bipartisan discharge petitions. “A three year clean extension does not work”

NEW Reward and photos of the person the FBI is seeking information on in connection with the Brown University investigation:

.@Petereporter went back to the McDonald's where Trump served fries on the campaign trail to find out how voters there think he's handling the economy https://t.co/FpEo7vInMD

My position on the filibuster has changed. Let’s go all in.