HEADLINES: 2025

Elise Stefanik, loyal Trump ally, ends New York governor bid and will leave politics​

By Steve Gorman / December 19, 20257:38 PM GMT-5
Dec 19 (Reuters) - U.S. Representative Elise Stefanik, a House Republican leader and loyal ally of President Donald Trump, said on Friday she was bowing out of politics, including her recently announced bid for governor of New York, to spend more time with family.
Stefanik, 41, the fourth-ranking member of her party in the House of Representatives as House Republican Conference chair, said she was halting the gubernatorial campaign she announced in November and would not seek re-election to Congress.
 
sol·stice (sōlstĭs, sŏl-, sôl-)
n.
Either of two times of the year when the sun is at its greatest angular distance from the celestial equator. The summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere occurs about June 21, when the sun is at the zenith on the Tropic of Cancer; the winter solstice occurs about December 21, when the sun is at zenith on the Tropic of Capricorn. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year; the winter solstice is the shortest.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sōlstitium : sōl, sun; see sāwel- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots + -stitium, a stoppage; see stā- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots.]
sol·stitial (-stĭshəl) adj.
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The Hill

Patel finalizes plan to close FBI’s Hoover building in DC​

Ashleigh Fields / Fri, December 26, 2025 at 7:09 PM
FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday said the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, D.C., will be “shut down permanently” after previously discarding plans to move the bureau’s headquarters to Maryland.

Instead, employees will report to the Ronald Reagan Building to occupy the former location of the U.S. Agency for International Development, which was dismantled by the Trump administration earlier this year.

“After more than 20 years of failed attempts, we finalized a plan to permanently close the FBI’s Hoover headquarters and move the workforce into a safe, modern facility. Working directly with President Trump and Congress, we accomplished what no one else could,” Patel wrote in a post on the social platform X.

“This decision puts resources where they belong: defending the homeland, crushing violent crime, and protecting national security. It delivers better tools for today’s FBI workforce at a fraction of the cost,” he added. “The Hoover Building will be shut down permanently.”

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Patel finalizes plan to close FBI’s Hoover building in DC

FBI Director Kash Patel on Friday said the FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover building in Washington, D.C., will be “shut down permanently” after previously discarding plans to move the bureau’s headquarters to Maryland. Instead, employees will report to the Ronald Reagan Building to occupy the former...
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Many U.S. presidents before President Trump were involved in streamlining government, improving efficiency.
Is that what Director Patel has in mind here?

One alternate possibility:
Trump has learned from experience of Trump's January 6 insurrection that our FBI is faithful, duty bound not to Trump as a personality but to our Constitution.

Not to assert it as a certitude, but if,
IF
IF
IF
Trump / Vance / MAGA / GOP have not ruled out testing our system, our rule of law in presidential succession (as Trump has already attempted to do) would it advance that objective by weakening, disrupting the FBI ?

“This decision puts resources where they belong: defending the homeland, crushing violent crime, and protecting national security." Patel

Director Patel,
We have successfully defended our homeland for decades, while occupying the Hoover building FBI HQ.

And now, to preserve our national security we have to vacate that building?
 
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