President Donald Trump has begun the demolition of facade the East Wing of the White House to make way for his Mar-a-Lago-inspired ballroom, walking back his earlier assurance that the expansion would not touch the existing structure, the Washington Post reports. Crews with backhoes were seen tearing into the East Wing on Monday, in full view of staff from the United States Secret Service, according to the Post. Trump, who has repeatedly promoted a 90,000squarefoot addition to the Executive Mansion, once assured on camera: "It won't interfere with the current building. It won't be. It'll be near it but not touching it " and pays total respect to the existing building, which I'm the biggest fan of." Yet the visible demolition makes clear the project will directly impact the historic fabric of the presidency's residence.
Paul Ingrassia, President Donald Trump's embattled nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, told a group of fellow Republicans in a text chain the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday should be "tossed into the seventh circle of hell" and said he has "a Nazi streak," according to a text chat viewed by POLITICO. Ingrassia, who has a Senate confirmation hearing scheduled Thursday, made the remarks in a chain with a half-dozen Republican operatives and influencers, according to the chat. "MLK Jr. was the 1960s George Floyd and his holiday' should be ended and tossed into the seventh circle of hell where it belongs," Ingrassia wrote in January 2024, according to the chat.
This year, Food Bank of the Rockies and others across the U.S. are bringing in less but need to feed more.
SINCE DONALD TRUMP DESCENDED that golden escalator in 2015, the Republican party has devolved into a cult of personality that mirrors the worst authoritarian regimes of the last one hundred years.
For ten years, the GOP has waged an unrelenting war on our civic institutions, the separation of powers, the foundation of the rule of law, and the very nature of truth itself. While Trump and his supporters in Congress have been the driving force behind the right's descent into despotism, it would not have been possible without the thousands of consultants, aides, and politicos working behind the scenes to fully execute their systematic dismantling of American democratic norms.
I quit. I quit the Republican party and my job as an accomplice to the party in the throes of an authoritarian cult. Today, I resigned from my career as a senior fundraising strategist for one of the leading Republican digital fundraising firms in Washington, D.C.
A motorcycle that is part of Vice President JD Vance's security detail and a California Highway Patrol car were hit with shrapnel on Saturday ... read more
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It's finally infrastructure week.