Heard on the Hill
What we're hearing from people we trust on and around the Hill
WINKLEVOSS RULES: Wednesday saw the famous twin investors Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss announce they are donating 188.4547 Bitcoin — $21 million — to the Digital Freedom Fund PAC, which aims to accomplish President Donald Trump’s mission to turn America into the cryptocurrency capital of the world. Tyler Winklevoss praised President Trump and his administration on X, noting they “have been delivering on the promises they made on the campaign trail and then some” and that the investor pair wants “this unprecedented progress and momentum to continue.”
NOT SO FAST: Attorney General Pam Bondi just issued more than 20 subpoenas seeking to hold “medical professionals and organizations that mutilated children in the service of a warped ideology” accountable.
MAKING DC SAFE AGAIN: A White House official told the Washington Reporter that the latest arrests from President Trump’s efforts to Make DC Safe Again included 77 arrests; among them “were 24 illegal aliens arrested on charges including: sexual assault, carnal abuse (sexual abuse that typically involves illegal sexual acts often against children or adults who are unable to give consent), rape, assault, threats to injure a person, simple assault, resisting arrest, and failure to obey lawful order.”
INCOMING WIN: The RNC is poised to elect Joe Gruthers as its next chairman tomorrow.
JOHNSON VS. NEWSOM: Speaker Mike Johnson (R., La.) is not a fan of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D., Calif.) nascent presidential campaign. “Gavin Newsom should spend less time trampling his state’s laws for a blatant power grab, and more time working to change the disastrous, far-left policies that are destroying California. Newsom obviously wants to launch a presidential campaign on the backs of disenfranchised California voters, but it will not work,” Johnson said.
ANYBODY THERE? Former DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison claims to have one million subscribers on Substack; it turns out that was misleading, at best.
FROM HALO TO CONGRESS: Marty O’Donnell is back for another campaign against Rep. Susie Lee (D., Nev.). O’Donnell, who famously composed Halo’s iconic theme song, is introducing himself to voters with, fittingly, a video game-themed video about a goose laying — you guessed it — a golden egg. Watch for yourself here.
RAVING READERS: The Washington Reporter’s recent piece on congressional praise for President Donald Trump’s historic Europe summit got shared by lawmakers on X, including from Reps. Mike Simpson (R., Idaho), Marlin Stutzman (R., Ind.), and Pat Harrigan (R., N.C.). Thanks for reading!