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The incident came just hours ahead of Trump’s planned meeting in the Senate, as Jimmy Carter lies in state at the Capitol.

Several senators were also frustrated that they had not been given access to the FBI’s background check on Hegseth, an unusual break in protocol.

The Florida governor is toying with poaching a House Republican to fill Sen. Marco Rubio’s Senate seat.

Turner, whose committee oversees national intelligence agencies, including the FBI, told his colleagues that the speaker said the order came from President-elect Trump, a senior GOP lawmaker told the Daily Beast.

The first order of business: find the funding number that will allow the Trump Administration to carry out its hefty deportation goals.

Donald Trump ordered Speaker Mike Johnson to remove the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee from his powerful role in an act of personal revenge, sources told the Daily Beast Wednesday. Mike Turner, whose committee oversees the CIA and the FBI, told his colleagues that the speaker said the order came from President-elect Trump, a senior GOP lawmaker told the Daily Beast. His departure–but not the cause–was first reported by Punchbowl News. Another source familiar with Turner’s firing to

One of them is even working with a lobbying firm reportedly under FBI investigation.

The president-elect’s team demanded a larger platform—but that request means a number of key lawmakers will have to forego their prime seats.

The Senate was quick to show its fealty to President Donald Trump just hours after he was inaugurated on Monday. The first order of business was to move quickly in the initial hours of Trump’s presidency to confirm Sen. Marco Rubio as secretary of State. The Florida Republican is expected to easily sail through, with a number of Democrats, including Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin, having voiced support for their GOP colleague.

‘I do not support pardons given to people who engaged in violence on January 6,' Sen. Collins tells the Daily Beast.