Senate Republicans Move Ahead With Their Budget, Doubting the House Can Get Its Act Together “Nobody wants to see the House fail,” one White House official told NOTUS. “But if they do, there has to be a backup plan.”

New: The House is confused about why the WH is letting the Senate move forward with its two bill strategy even after Trump's very clear endorsement of "one big beautiful bill."

"Nobody wants to see the House fail. But if they do, there has to be a backup plan,” a WH official said.

House Republicans Solve One Budget Reconciliation Problem — And Create Another An amendment giving Republicans latitude on tax cuts and mandatory spending reductions got the budget out of committee. But the amendment will directly tie lowering taxes to politically unpopular Medi...

News: House GOP cleared the first hurdle of the reconciliation race by advancing a budget resolution out of committee. Now comes the hard part.

"If we can get Ralph Norman and Chip Roy to vote for it, for anybody else to not vote for it is all for show."

Trump Is Souring on Mike Johnson and May Not Back Him in January The president-elect is frustrated over the CR debacle, sources close to him say.

New: Trump originally blessed Johnson’s 3 month CR but was blindsided by all the “democrat priorities” and provisions in there.

Trump has started souring on Johnson and has privately expressed he might not save him in Jan if there’s a speaker fight.

Daniel Penny Will Be JD Vance’s Personal Guest at the Army-Navy Game Penny was acquitted this week in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely on a New York City subway, a case that drew national attention.

First from NOTUS: VP-Elect JD Vance has invited Daniel Penny to be his personal guest at the Army-Navy game this weekend, per source familiar.

They will be joining President Trump in his suite at the game.

Tim Scott Is Set to Change Plans at the NRSC. Some Trump Allies Are Still Skeptical. The Republican is expected to name a new executive director of the GOP’s Senate campaign arm after coming under heavy MAGA criticism for the last reported pick.

Tim Scott keeps hiring staffers at the NRSC. The MAGA wing, including Chris LaCivita, keeps getting upset about it.

On the tension over staffing at a key GOP political committee, w/new details on Scott's old campaign manager being tapped for a senior leadership role www.notus.org/trump-transi...

Nancy Mace Is Already Eyeing a Run for Governor — Or a Senate Primary Four sources told NOTUS that Mace has been discussing a statewide bid in 2026.

New: Nancy Mace Is Already Eyeing a Run for Governor — Or a Senate Primary

House Ethics Committee Deadlocked on Releasing the Matt Gaetz Report The committee split along partisan lines on releasing the report to the public.

New: The Ethics Committee voted along party lines NOT to release the Matt Gaetz Ethics reports. However the committee voted to complete the report which Chairman Guest had said was not finished and then will meet again in December, sources say.

The committee will reconvene on Dec 5

Trump Is Calling Senators on Behalf of Matt Gaetz. It’s Not Going Well. “Matt Gaetz is toxic among House Republicans. Among Senate Republicans, he is radioactive,” one source familiar with the conversations told NOTUS.

New: Donald Trump’s calls to Senators on Matt Gaetz’s confirmation are not going well.

Trump and his team are receiving an overwhelmingly negative reaction with regard to Gaetz when talking to Senators.

Mike Johnson Doesn’t Want the Gaetz Ethics Report Released The speaker said he doesn’t want to open a “Pandora’s box” by breaking protocol.

Mike Johnson Doesn’t Want the Gaetz Ethics Report Released

However, at tomorrow’s Ethics Committee meeting they could vote to release the Gaetz report.

Inside the Freedom Caucus and Trump’s Newly Frosty Relationship The House Freedom Caucus was a major force during Trump’s presidency. Now, as Trump prepares to take back the White House, the HFC is on the outside looking in.

NEW: Once his staunchest defenders, the Freedom Caucus now has a strained relationship with Trump and those around him. The oversimplified reason for why that is: Bob Good.

Inside the Freedom Caucus and Trump’s Newly Frosty Relationship.

The RNC’s Fundraising Hole Is Even Deeper Than It Looks The Republican National Committee is already way behind in the money wars for the 2024 election. But it’s even worse than almost anyone knows.

New: Of the roughly $22.3 mil that the RNC has raised this year, more than $8mil—36%—cant be used for political expenses

1 of every 3 dollars has gone into auxiliary accounts, with the “legal” account alone receiving more than $4 mil.

How GOP Lawmakers Are Already Preparing for Trump’s Return With the GOP fundamentally reshaped, the legislative branch is poised to fuel, not fight, Trump’s desires should he win another term in the White House.

New: How GOP Lawmakers Are Already Preparing for Trump’s Return

In his first term,Trump’s lofty plans often hit a wall in Congress—that’s no more

“Those people who are constantly working against him in the Senate are no longer going to be in the Senate.”

MAGA Reps Suddenly Face an Existential Threat: Themselves The 2024 primaries are just getting started, but there’s good reason to believe this year could be a lot more brutal for Republicans than recent ones.

Conservative House members are still facing primaries to their right, despite a near perfect conservative record:

- Carol Miller
- Mike Bost
- William Timmons
- Bob Good
- Thomas Massie

Trump’s RNC Takeover Is on the Brink of Becoming a ‘Purge’ From top to bottom, the national GOP organization could soon be rid of anyone seen as insufficiently MAGA.

New: What would the new RNC look like?

A purge of staffers, consultants and Cmmtee members for a fresh start.

Then an overhaul of the state parties and a return to training canvassers campaign managers, field organizers etc. in house.

Tom Emmer endorses Trump in unified show of support from top four House Republicans EXCLUSIVE — House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN) endorsed former President Donald Trump in the 2024 Republican primary, giving him the endorsement of the top four House Republicans going into the Io...

Scoop: House Majority Whip TOM EMMER endorses Donald Trump.

Top 4 members of House Leadership have now united behind the former President

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Me going into 2024 after having more than a week off: