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POLITICO Nightly: The GOP pays an Elon Musk tax

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  By  Charlie Mahtesian SPINELESS MAGA REPUBLICANS HAVE FAILED TO SPEAK OUT - ARE SO AFRAID OF THEIR CONSTITUENTS, THEY REFUSE TO HOLD TOWN HALLS - THAT'S COWARDICE!  IF YOU CAN'T DEFEND YOUR VOTES, YOU NEED TO BE REPLACED!  YES! VOTERS ARE ANGRY!  OFFICES ARE CLOSED! STAFF FIRED! SERVICES SLASHED....SPINELESS MAGA SILENT!  NAZI  MUSK & DOGEsh*tDON'T EVEN COMPREHEND THEIR CUTS OR ACCESS TO PERSONAL INFORMATION!  CHINA IS PROMOTING CHEAP CLEAN ENERGY & BUILDING ROADS, MAKING FRIENDS WHILE TRUMP PAYS HIS DEBT TO PUTIN & REMOVES SANCTIONS!    Elon Musk speaks at a town hall Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wis. | Jeffrey Phelps/AP DOGE DRAWBACK  — From the time the Donald Trump-Elon Musk governing partnership took shape, it’s had an expiration date attached to it. The relationship wasn’t built to last — the egos were too big, the principals too mercurial, the politics surrounding the world’s richest man’s efforts to re...

POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: A call and a delayed response

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  By  Kelly Garrity TAKING ON TRUMP —  More than two months into President Donald Trump’s second term and staring down a bevy of potential federal funding cuts, state Senate Democrats are slowly starting to map out their resistance. But their new initiative, “Response 2025,” isn’t doing much to placate the progressives  who have been calling for aggressive action from the state to counter the seismic changes being rammed through in Washington.   Flanked by members of her leadership team,  with a mural of Revolutionary War-era lawyer James Otis behind her, Senate President Karen Spilka announced the plan she said would help protect residents and defend “our values.” The Framingham Democrat  taske d Sen. Cindy Friedman, who chairs the Committee on Steering and Policy, with meeting with fellow Senate chairs and coordinating a policy response to some of the federal cuts. “There's not one bill or action that we can pass that will fully cover us,”  F...