Today’s notice: DOGE is eating congressional power, but Republicans don’t mind. Changing tunes on USAID. A chilling number of threats against lawmakers.
What’s a Little Constitutional Spat Between Friends?
Elon Musk’s march through the federal government is a helluva parade for fiscal conservatives. It’s not fun to be a conceptual ally who rains on it. “I’m hearing a lot of it on Twitter: ‘I thought you were a fiscal conservative,’” Brian Riedl, a fiscal hawk and seasoned political operative, told us Monday as his mentions got uglier and uglier.