A throwaway line from the BBC’s live reporting of the Musk-Trump cabinet meeting:

After a prayer led by former NFL player and US housing secretary Scott Turner, Donald Trump starts addressing the cabinet once more.

Hahaha that’s funny – former football player turned housing secretary – and he “leads a prayer” at a secular meeting of a secular government.

Here, let me lead a prayer. Dear Easter Bunny: please make Musk and Trump disappear, amen.

In another part of the forest:

The Doge congressional subcommittee in the Republican-led House of Representatives is meeting today to discuss the sweeping cuts to the federal government, and to defend them as necessary in order to stop wasting taxpayer money. The hearing is titled “America Last: How Foreign Aid Undermined US Interests Around the World”.

Chairwoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican closely aligned with Trump, said in a statement released ahead of the hearing that it will address the “shocking” amount of money that has been spent overseas to “to push left-wing ideology, fund radical extremist groups, and usurp the will of the people abroad and here at home”.

Witnesses at the hearing include a former employee of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) who now works for the conservative think tank The Heritage Foundation, another conservative think tank expert from the Middle East Forum, and a right-wing journalist from The Daily Signal.

The Daily Signal. Awesome.