“I’m going to get Elon, and he’s great at this; he’s going to be our cost-cutter. I think he can save trillions,” Trump told a crowd gathered in Kent County, Michigan.

“I don’t think I can get him full-time because he’s a little bit busy sending rockets up, and all the things he does,” Trump said. “But he’s so much into that. He said the waste in this country is crazy.”

Two years ago, Musk posted on X: “In the past I voted Democrat, because they were (mostly) the kindness party. But they have become the party of division & hate, so I can no longer support them and will vote Republican. Now, watch their dirty tricks campaign against me unfold.”

Even so, it wasn’t known how much he would align with Trump until he formally endorsed the former president following the first assassination attempt. […]

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The New York Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance said the state has granted the city permission to begin issuing 60-day eviction notices to migrants and other homeless families not receiving public assistance.

The policy was implemented in January, but until now, state regulations had spared migrants from the 60-day limits on shelter stays. Homeless families living in other shelters run by the city have been subject to the policy for months.

More than 30,000 migrants are staying in shelters run by the city’s Department of Homeless Services, spread across 150 hotels, large-scale emergency housing sites and other locations.

“People should not be in shelters their entire lives,” New York City Mayor Eric Adams said at a press briefing. “This is traumatizing, and I don’t know if any of you have seen what it is, but it is traumatizing to live in these conditions.” […]

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The mutual endorsement reunited two of the GOP’s most powerful figures heading into the November election, and made the road for Democrats to score a win in Georgia more difficult.

“We need to send Donald Trump back to the White House,” Kemp said on Fox News’ “Hannity” show.

Trump is leading in the polls in Georgia, and Kemp owns one of the country’s most formidable state political machines, which propelled him to a landslide win in 2022 over Democrat favorite Stacey Abrams in the Georgia governor race.

“Thank you to #BrianKempGA for all of your help and support in Georgia, where a win is so important to the success of our Party and, most importantly, our Country,” Trump said minutes later on Truth Social. “I look forward to working with you, your team, and all of my friends in Georgia to help MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” […]

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“I want everyone to know I am not terminating my campaign,” he said during the press conference. “I am simply suspending it, but not ending it.”

Kennedy will attempt to keep his campaign alive despite removing himself from at least one battleground state, Pennsylvania, and backing the reelection campaign of former GOP President Donald Trump.

“Three great causes drove me to enter the race in the first place,” he said. “Primarily..these are the principal causes that persuaded me to leave the Democratic Party and run as an independent and now throw my support behind President Trump….these causes were free speech, the war in Ukraine and the war on our children.”

Kennedy has for weeks attracted speculation that he may drop out and endorse one of the major candidates in exchange for a role in their administration. […]

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As the two main party presidential candidates sought to persuade voters to cast ballots for them in November during the first presidential debate on Thursday, they both touted their records on the environment. However, Trump claimed that President Joe Biden’s record has economically harmed the U.S., while the former president’s focus has been to build up the economy and protect the environment.

During the CNN presidential debate on Thursday, Trump said regarding climate change that he wants “absolutely immaculate clean water, and I want absolutely clean air,” and that the U.S. had it under his administration. Biden responded by claiming that Trump had done nothing for the environment while in office. […]

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In a 6-3 decision, the justices vacated a 1984 doctrine known as “Chevron deference,” which allows federal agencies broad latitude in interpreting laws when Congress hasn’t provided specific guidelines. Under the doctrine, if Congress has granted an agency the general authority to make rules with the force of law, courts generally defer to the agency’s implementation of that general authority.

David Blackmon, energy analyst and author of “Energy Absurdities,” called the high court’s decision a “Earth-shaking ruling.”

“It’s going to be much, much harder for federal agencies to invoke major, incredibly complex regulations that are clearly outside the original intent and scope of the governing statute,” Blackmon told Just the News. […]

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But former Office of Vaccines Research and Review Deputy Director Philip Krause perhaps saved his biggest embarrassment to the FDA for the end of Wednesday’s hearing on alleged Biden administration political interference in COVID vaccine review: He declined the booster.

Krause didn’t explain his personal choice to the House Judiciary Administrative State Subcommittee – a disclosure prompted by Chairman Thomas Massie, R-Ky. – but gave both parties ammunition against each other’s COVID narratives. […]

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A U.S. Government Accountability Office report found 74% of improper payments – payments that shouldn’t have been made or were made in the wrong amount – were overpayments. Overpayments accounted for $175.1 billion of the total amount of improper payments in 2023. Overpayments are payments “in excess of what is due, and for which the excess amount, in theory, should or could be recovered,” according to the report.

Underpayments accounted for $11.5 billion of the total, or about 5% of the total. Another category is unknown payments, which are those that an agency “cannot determine to be either proper or improper because of insufficient or lack of documentation.”

“Improper payments are a long-standing and significant problem in the federal government,” according to the GAO report. […]

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Reid said the universal reaction from her sources was that Biden seemed “extremely feeble” on the debate stage next to former President Trump.

Reid said the sources she was referring to are campaign operatives and “Obama world” contacts.

She added that Biden did not reassure or calm his party that he has at the “stamina” and strength for another term. […]

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“Guys, the Dems should nominate someone else – before it’s too late,” Yang, who has registered as an independent since dropping out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary race, wrote on X on Thursday night.

Other Democrats, speaking to Politico, expressed similar sentiments partway through the debate.

MSNBC host Joy Reid said her Democratic sources are panicking after Biden’s debate performance.“The universal reaction was somewhere approaching panic,” she said.

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