NEW - An admin official confirms to the @DailyCaller the entire staff at the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund was RIFed today.
The fund had roughly 100 staff as of 2024.
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- New — OMB Director Russ Vought will meet with Speaker Johnson this afternoon to reiterate the importance of permanently codifying the DOGE cuts ahead of White House sending first rescissions package to Hill tomorrow and House Approps markups of FY26 bills, I’m told.
- NEW — @SenMikeLee and @RepBenCline are introducing legislation Monday to end taxpayer-funded union organizing. “American taxpayers shouldn’t have to fund union organizing and federal employees should be working full time … while they’re on the clock,” Lee told @DailyCaller
- New — Jasmine Crockett LEADS Colin Allred by 15 percentage points in a hypothetical matchup for Texas’ Dem Senate primary, according to a new NRSC poll. Jasmine Crockett - 35% Colin Allred - 20% Beto O’Rourke - 13% Joaquin Castro - 13% Undecided - 18%
- Thune told me earlier today that the legislative filibuster will remain intact with no carveouts through the end of the current Congress. @DailyCaller He also floated the possibility that Dems might once again be divided on eliminating the filibuster the next time they’re in
- 🚨Trump transition told the @DailyCaller News Foundation that all unspent Inflation Reduction Act funds — potentially in the tens of billions of dollars — will be redirected to “spending on real infrastructure” under the incoming Trump administration.
- NEW: @RepBrecheen and @SenMikeLee plan to reintroduce legislation to expand SNAP work requirements among other reforms to the food stamp program. The bill aims to promote “hard work and individual responsibility,” Brecheen told @DailyCaller.
- John Fetterman tells @_cadenolson that more than 8 Dems supported the Senate deal to end the shutdown but were “afraid” to vote for it. “There were plenty more than beyond just the eight that wanted to vote [yes] but they were afraid. It wasn’t just eight.” He also accused his
- THUNE tells me that he and President Trump are willing to sit down with Dem leaders, but only after Dems vote to reopen the government. The Republican position on ending the shutdown has not changed, according to Thune. “I talked to the President just moments ago and he said,A very brief letter from Schumer and Jeffries demanding a meeting with President Trump. “We write to demand a bipartisan meeting of legislative leaders to end the GOP shutdown of the federal government and decisively address the Republican healthcare crisis."
- NEW: @SenBillCassidy will reintroduce legislation today to impose criminal penalties on SCOTUS leakers. “Leakers threaten the safety of justices, damage the court’s reputation and put lives at risk,” Cassidy told @DailyCaller. Read more here:
- New — WARREN DAVIDSON (R-OH) tells reporters he will be voting YES on the president’s reconciliation bill. He and Massie were the two GOP lawmakers who voted no on the initial House-passed reconciliation bill.
- Replying to @DailyCaller and @MylesMorellNEW: @RepTimBurchett appears open to expelling Rep. Al Green: “That would be a reasonable consideration. We’re going to have to do something to combat this craziness that’s going on. At some point we’ve got to restore decorum and Al just might be that sacrificial lamb.”
- NEW — Leader Thune tells me the Senate is likely to keep House-passed Medicaid reforms in the Senate reconciliation bill. These include work requirements on able-bodied adults, limits on provider taxes and lowering the federal match rate in states who enroll illegal immigrants in
- NEW: @DailyCaller has an excerpt of Senate Majority Leader Thune’s speech he is expected to deliver later today defending President Trump’s national emergency declaration on the fentanyl crisis that underpins the Canada tariffs. Read more:
