Patronis made the move after Donald Trump publicly endorsed him.The post Jimmy Patronis to resign Cabinet seat, mount run to succeed Matt Gaetz in Congress appeared first on Florida Politics - Campaigns & E...

President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to partner with Republicans in Congress to address the federal treatment of marijuana, which would align federal law with state laws and establish a federal regulatory apparatus for a safe, legal and regulated market.

He said that Jimmy Patronis has been a wonderful friend to me.

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President-elect Trump urged Floridas chief financial officer Jimmy Patronis to run in the special election for former Rep. Matt Gaetzs (R-Fla.) seat in Floridas first congressional district on Monday. In a post on Truth Social, Trump called Patronis a wonderful friend to me and to MAGA. As your next Congressman, Jimmy would work tirelessly alongside...

With fewer than three weeks since the election, President-elect Donald Trump has now chosen all of his Cabinet secretaries. He recently announced his pick for Treasury secretary as hedge fund manager Scott Bessent and Congresswoman Lori Chavez-DeRemer as labor secretary. His picks will now need to be confirmed by the Senate.

A longtime leader of the anti-vaccine movement. A highly credentialed surgeon. A seven-term member of Congress. A Fox News contributor with her own line of vitamins.

The Congressional Black Caucus PAC has vowed to expose what it calls a dangerous agenda from extreme Republicans following the GOPs success at the ballot boxes this year. The PAC announced on Monday that it plans to fight back against any proposed legislation aligning with Project 2025. The CBC will hold the line to protect...

In Congress, critics of former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) breathed a sigh of relief when he withdrew from consideration for U.S. attorney general. President-elect Donald Trump, following Gaetz's withdrawal, promptly nominated someone else:

The $5.1 billion that VTA is expected to get comes from the Federal Transit Administration's Capital Investment Grants program, which is allocated by Congress.

A GOP congressman is pressing one of the nation’s top health officials about the role a drug research agency under her jurisdiction played in the Biden administration’s marijuana rescheduling effort. During a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Wednesday, Rep. Andy Harris (R-MD) raised the rescheduling issue with National institutes of Health (NIH) Director Monica Bertagnol...

Republican lawmakers have announced that Congress will continue to follow the centuries-old norm that men should use the men's room and women should use the ladies' room, in response to the election of the first-ever transgender member of Congress, Sarah McBride.

Will anything stop Trump? He will have control over both chambers of Congress, a tractable Supreme Court, a political base of fier...

In todays issue: What are Trumps plans for the Department of Justice? During an election year in which Donald Trump promised Americans he would dramatically overhaul the federal government, the Justice Department stood out. Yes, Trump, now the president-elect, vowed to eliminate the Interior and Education departments, which would indeed be dramatic if Congress went along with...

While incoming members pick paint and drapes for their new offices, departing members are shoved into a collective basement space.

Republicans are grappling with the idea that President-elect Trump could test the limits of his constitutional authority by appointing controversial picks to his Cabinet with recess appointments. One source who has spoken to Trump believes that idea trying to forcibly adjourn Congress, even if the Senate does not affirmatively agree to do so ...

Like it or not, the Constitution’s First Amendment gives the media special protection in the American republic. That amendment says, “Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom … of the press.” With one of the recent presidential candidates unconstitutionally threatening to shut down media outlets or take away their (nonexistent) licenses when they say or do s...

When I studied journalism at the University of Maryland, we were trained to recognize yellow journalism sensational reporting that sacrifices truth for attention. Today, American media has been overtaken by a new, more dangerous trend: red journalism, where government propaganda has replaced honest reporting. The reason? The 2012 Smith-Mundt Modernization Act, a law quietly ...