Wednesday Morning Minute: May the MAHA Be With You

Wednesday, January 29, 2025

Good morning, and welcome to RedState’s “Morning Minute” — a brief glimpse at which stories are trending at the moment and a look ahead at what the day may bring. We already know one thing today will bring: a flurry of consternation over RFK Jr. Consider this your one-stop shop for news to kickstart your day. 

TOP O’ THE MORNIN’

Red-Hot at RedState 

WATCH: America’s ‘Worst Mayor’ Tiffany Henyard Throws Hands in Wild Town Meeting, Loses Her Wig

Henyard is running for office again, seeking to regain the Democratic Party nomination for Dolton mayor in February.

Tim Walz Reemerges, Promptly Has a Breakdown in Rachel Maddow Interview: Losing to Trump Was ‘Pure Hell’

It’s clear he still doesn’t get that framing your opponents as Hitler doesn’t work. So yeah, the next four years are going to be more “pure hell” for tiny Tim.

Trump Suspends As Many As 60 Senior Bureaucrats for Trying to Evade His Executive Orders

This review will be painful in some places, but that is a small price to pay for stamping out the “I know better” ethos so present in the senior executive and foreign service.

Trending Across Townhall Media

FOIA Submitted With Questions About Merrick Garland’s New Tommy Gun

Garland and Wray happily served a man who spent four years pushing to ban the very gun they transferred live on CSPAN. This is a gun they’d have happily arrested you for owning if they got half a chance, and they didn’t blink.

First It Was the Knives, Now It is Loners

The problem is clear; the answer to that problem is equally clear. It may not be easy to accomplish, but making up boogiemen to avoid taking the Islamists head-on will only make things worse.

This Steams My Clams! All the News That’s Fit to Ignore but Still Makes Me Cranky

A Detroit rapper you’ve never heard of yet cannot miss is suing Lyft because the driver refused to let the Falstaffian freestyler in his car, lest her weight cause his tires to expire.

Here’s Stephen Miller’s Hilarious Exchange With CNN’s Jake Tapper Over Federal Workers

They’re wrong about everything. They’re dumb about everything. Still, Trump is president, and they’re not. Carry on, sir.

That’s an Insult to Boxes of Rocks: Tom Homan Needs Only Seven Words to DESTROY Joy Reid

Most boxes of rocks are also far less racist than Reid, so they’ve got that going for them too.

WHAT’S ON TAP?

Today on Capitol Hill…

BIG day on the Hill Wednesday as one of the most highly anticipated confirmation hearings for President Donald Trump’s nominees is set to begin at 10:00 a.m. Eastern: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services, will sit for questioning by the Senate Finance Committee. There are 27 members of the committee, and the Democrats on it include Mark Warner (VA), Sheldon Whitehouse (RI), Elizabeth Warren (MA), and Bernie Sanders (VT), which should prove interesting — although Sanders has signaled he agrees with some of RFK Jr.’s stances. 

Former Georgia Senator Kelly Loeffler, up for SBA Administrator, also has her hearing today before the Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, though one suspects that hearing will be less fiery. 

There are also meetings to consider Pam Bondi’s nomination for Attorney General and Howard Lutnick’s for Secretary of Commerce.

Additionally, the Senate Committee on Aging has an afternoon hearing “to examine making Washington work for seniors, focusing on fighting to end inflation and achieve fiscal sanity.”

White House What’s Up

Trump is expected to sign the Laken Riley Act into law Wednesday, marking the first piece of legislation enacted in his administration. Aside from that, there isn’t much information available as to what his Wednesday will entail. There is no press briefing scheduled, but the general consensus is that Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt knocked it out of the park on Tuesday. What a difference an administration makes. 

Full Court Press…

The big news on Tuesday, of course, was the stay placed on Trump’s temporary funding freeze by a federal judge in D.C. One thing to note about that is that the judge’s order was actually quite narrow — she placed a five-day administrative stay on the freeze only with respect to the disbursement of federal funds under open (current) awards to afford the parties to brief and argue the matter, with a hearing set on February 3. The stay does not affect the OMB memo as it pertains to “issuance of new awards” or “other relevant agency actions that may be implicated by the executive orders.”

With every executive action issued, the lawsuits come flying in — we’ll do our best to keep up with them all, but it’s a tall order. 

Harvey Weinstein is due back in court Wednesday as a judge determines the scope and start date of his retrial on rape and sexual assault charges. 

COMING ATTRACTIONS

While Wednesday is sure to be action-packed on the Hill, Thursday will be right there with it. There are confirmation hearings set:

• Kash Patel – FBI Director – Judiciary Committee – 9:30 a.m. Eastern
• Dan Driscoll – Secretary of the Army – Armed Services Committee – 9:30 a.m. Eastern
• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee – 10:00 a.m. Eastern
• Tulsi Gabbard – Director of National Intelligence – Intelligence Committee – 10:00 a.m. Eastern

There will also be meetings to consider the nominations of Russ Vought as OMB Director and Elise Stefanik as UN Ambassador.

MORNING MUSING

I’m not going to lie: I’m looking forward to today’s (and tomorrow’s) hearings with RFK Jr. I’d place myself solidly in the MAHA camp. I don’t agree with him on a lot — abortion being a big one — but I do agree with him on the critical need to overhaul our health system and the way we deal with food and pharmaceuticals in this country. Yes, he’s a disruptor — we need that. And the fact that those deep pockets are throwing everything and the kitchen sink at him (including his own weaponized family members) makes me all the more determined that he needs to be confirmed. His joining forces with the Trump campaign was significant, and I don’t want to see this nomination derailed. I also think his family members who are speaking out against him now are rotten. Where were they all the years he’s been in public life, waging his environmental and children’s health crusades? 

Whew. Good thing you let us know how noteworthy and significant it is. Given that, it’s rather surprising to me that Caroline chose now, after all of his years in public life, to share this searing indictment. We are indebted. Truly. https://t.co/TKCy7rahsJ

— Susie Moore ⚾️🌻🐶 (@SmoosieQ) January 28, 2025

LIGHTER FARE 

I’d probably opt for eggs or pancakes, but otherwise, I’m right there with ya, bun. 

Breakfast in bed..🐰🥗😍 pic.twitter.com/YHuL7gBy2G

— 𝕐o̴g̴ (@Yoda4ever) January 29, 2025

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