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Hello and thanks for gearing up for 2025 with White House Watch! This is our sole edition of the newsletter this week, but Steff will resume regularly scheduled programming next Tuesday. Happy new year to you and yours. Today we’ll cover:
Musk’s new friends on Capitol Hill
Donald Trump’s latest endorsement
Marco Rubio’s foreign policy agenda
Elon Musk has landed some unexpected new allies in Washington as a growing number of prominent Democratic lawmakers voice support for parts of his government efficiency crusade.
Musk, who has been tasked with co-leading Trump’s new Department of Government Efficiency, has floated controversial plans to close entire agencies and fire hundreds of thousands of civil servants. But some Democrats see an opportunity to reduce defence spending,…
