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Three weeks ago, White House officials were battling a frenzy from President Donald Trump's supporters over the Jeffrey Epstein case. But the flurry of criticisms from within the 'Make America Great Again' movement have quieted, and Trump officials say they are plotting steps to try to shape the public narrative to their advantage.
The Senate voted Tuesday night to confirm Emil Bove as a federal appeals court judge, ending a contentious confirmation in which the top Justice Department official and former attorney for Donald Trump was the target of three whistleblower complaints alleging he put the president's agenda above legal principles.
The 50-49 vote giving Bove a seat on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit was mostly along party lines.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's team on Tuesday denounced the Pentagon's internal review of his actions in the 'Signalgate' affair, calling the independent inquiry 'clearly a political witch hunt' and asserting without evidence that details of the nonpartisan review were leaked to the news media by 'Biden administration holdovers.'
The Trump administration on Tuesday temporarily halted all funding for science research issued by the National Institutes of Health before releasing the funds later in the day, according to emails obtained by The Washington Post and more than a half-dozen federal officials familiar with the matter.
The halt stemmed from a footnote in an Office of Management and Budget document, according to an email sent to NIH staff Tuesday afternoon by the NIH's associate director for budget, Neil Shapiro.
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