WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Two special elections in Florida on Tuesday are expected to boost Republicans’ slim 218-213 majority in the U.S. House of Representatives by filling vacancies created by President Donald Trump’s picks for cabinet posts. Voters in strongly Republican districts are set to pick successors to former U.S. Representatives Mike Waltz, Trump’s national security adviser,…
This is a published version of the Forbes Daily newsletter, you can sign-up to get Forbes Daily in your inbox here. Good morning, When Forbes first ranked the Wealthiest Black Americans in 2009, only one was a billionaire: Oprah Winfrey, then worth an estimated $2.7 billion. But net worth isn’t the only way to measure…
Good morning, Quartz readers! HERE’S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW Elon Musk is mad he didn’t get an invite to California’s upcoming EV party. The Tesla CEO is upset that market share limitations on a tax credit in the works would block his company from the benefit. Donald Trump’s best and worst cabinet picks, according…
Right now we are in the wilderness, an uneasy time between the end of Joe Biden’s term and the start of the second Donald Trump presidency. None of us knows exactly how an emboldened Trump will govern, or if Republican senators will take their role to advise and consent seriously. But we can glean quite…
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) became the first sitting member of Congress on Cameo over the weekend, following former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) onto the video-for-hire platform. By Monday evening, the Beetlejuice fan deactivated her account, which had been offering short video greetings for $250 a pop. Members of Congress are allowed to earn up to…
Senate Republicans sent Donald Trump a “loud and clear” message by rejecting his nomination of former Representative Matt Gaetz as attorney general, according to legal analyst Glenn Kirschner. Gaetz announced on Thursday that he was withdrawing from consideration as Trump’s nominee because he believed that “a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle” over his confirmation by the…
Gaetz not returning to Congress Gaetz on not returning to Congress after dropping out of Trump attorney general consideration 02:05 Former Rep. Matt Gaetz of Florida says he doesn’t intend to return to Congress in January, after resigning from his seat and withdrawing from consideration as U.S. attorney general. Gaetz announced his withdrawal Thursday, citing the distraction…
Topline President-elect Donald Trump nominated former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi as U.S. attorney general Thursday, making the pick just hours after former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., withdrew from consideration amid a flurry of sexual misconduct allegations. Bondi was nominated as AG on Thursday evening. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL ……
Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is seen outside a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, January 3, 2023. Tom Williams | CQ-Roll Call, Inc. | Getty Images The Senate Judiciary Committee asked the FBI on Wednesday for its “complete evidentiary file” of a prior investigation into the alleged sex trafficking…
Even though we’ve lately had a surfeit of voting results and dissections thereof, here come some more. In last week’s Attention-Whore Index competition, top honors went to the incoming First Felon, Donald Trump (44.3 percent). Two increasingly bizarre objects of Trump’s bromantic affections were next, Elon Musk (17.1 percent) and Tucker Carlson (14 percent). It’s…