Here are my 10 Kitchen hacks to simplify the mom journey in the kitchen. These are hacks that not only have Itried but I have continued to use as I traveled the mom journey to simplify my time in the kitchen.#1. Ice Cream : No more freezer burned ice cream . Use a piece of wax paper or plastic wrap and put it over the tub of ice cream then press the wax paper or plastic wrap inside a little to seal it. Let some of it hang over the edges and then put the lid back on.#2. Onions: Buy chopped onions in frozen food department to always have on hand when needed#3. Celery: Cut up your celery in sticks and place in a container, cover with water and store in fridge#4. Bacon: Cook bacon in the oven with the use of a jelly roll pan/ cookie sheet. You can cook the entire package and then place it in the fridge or freezer for later use.Place your bacon strips on the cookie sheet. For mess free, lay parchment paper first and then lay the bacon strips on the sheets, Cook at 375 degrees until cooked to your liking.#5. Crock Pot Liners: Purchase disposable crock pot liners to simplify the clean up process when cooking in your crock pot.#6. Kitchen Shears: These can be used for so many different things! From cutting up meat, bacon, sandwiches, pancakes, green beans, and your pizza into bite-sizes. Start using kitchen shears rather than a knife#7. Master Meal List: Create a master meal list of the meals yourfamily will eat. Be sure to include all meal ideas even if its waffles, pizza, frozen chicken nuggets you can also include side dishes to serve with those main courses. Use this to plan out your weekly or monthly menus.Grab our FREE meal planner printables here: https://247moms.com/2022/05/lazy-summer-meal-ideas-2/#8. Brown Hamburger: Ground up a large amount of ground beef and then freeze in 2 cup freezer bags for use in tacos, spaghetti and other recipes. On cooking day. Pull out and thaw in fridge or microwave. Then use in your recipe.#9. Salad Bar: Save time by cutting up your salad fixings and store in individual containers to then pull out with your nightly meal as a salad bar. This allows for various choices as well as keeps your veggies fresher to use nightly.#10 Cook once, Eat Twice ideas: This is when you cook once but eat it twice. You cook a larger batch of the main meal on the first night to use in another recipe on another night that week. Such as Make tacos one night and use leftover taco meat to have taco ring another night or eat Rotisserie chicken one night and use the leftovers to make Chicken alfredo or chicken quesadillas, make a pot roast one night and french dips the next night with leftovers.For more ideas go to this link https://247moms.com/2020/05/cooking-once-and-eating- twice/The post 10 Must Know Kitchen Hacks appeared first on 24/7 Moms.

Here are my 10 Kitchen hacks to simplify the mom journey in the kitchen. These are hacks that not only have Itried but I have continued to use as I traveled the mom journey to simplify my time in the kitchen.#1. Ice Cream : No more freezer burned ice cream . Use a piece of wax paper or plastic wrap and put it over the tub of ice cream then press the wax paper or plastic wrap inside a little to seal it. Let some of it hang over the edges and then put the lid back on.#2. Onions: Buy chopped onions in frozen food department to always have on hand when needed#3. Celery: Cut up your celery in sticks and place in a container, cover with water and store in fridge#4. Bacon: Cook bacon in the oven with the use of a jelly roll pan/ cookie sheet. You can cook the entire package and then place it in the fridge or freezer for later use.Place your bacon strips on the cookie sheet. For mess free, lay parchment paper first and then lay the bacon strips on the sheets, Cook at 375 degrees until cooked to your liking.#5. Crock Pot Liners: Purchase disposable crock pot liners to simplify the clean up process when cooking in your crock pot.#6. Kitchen Shears: These can be used for so many different things! From cutting up meat, bacon, sandwiches, pancakes, green beans, and your pizza into bite-sizes. Start using kitchen shears rather than a knife#7. Master Meal List: Create a master meal list of the meals yourfamily will eat. Be sure to include all meal ideas even if its waffles, pizza, frozen chicken nuggets you can also include side dishes to serve with those main courses. Use this to plan out your weekly or monthly menus.Grab our FREE meal planner printables here: https://247moms.com/2022/05/lazy-summer-meal-ideas-2/#8. Brown Hamburger: Ground up a large amount of ground beef and then freeze in 2 cup freezer bags for use in tacos, spaghetti and other recipes. On cooking day. Pull out and thaw in fridge or microwave. Then use in your recipe.#9. Salad Bar: Save time by cutting up your salad fixings and store in individual containers to then pull out with your nightly meal as a salad bar. This allows for various choices as well as keeps your veggies fresher to use nightly.#10 Cook once, Eat Twice ideas: This is when you cook once but eat it twice. You cook a larger batch of the main meal on the first night to use in another recipe on another night that week. Such as Make tacos one night and use leftover taco meat to have taco ring another night or eat Rotisserie chicken one night and use the leftovers to make Chicken alfredo or chicken quesadillas, make a pot roast one night and french dips the next night with leftovers.For more ideas go to this link https://247moms.com/2020/05/cooking-once-and-eating- twice/The post 10 Must Know Kitchen Hacks appeared first on 24/7 Moms.

As Elon Musk, the world's richest person, put it, his role in steering President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has come "to an end."However, the president, in a social media post on Thursday night announcing that he and Musk would team up for a 1:30 p.m. ET White House news conference on Friday, teased that Musk would continue to help the Trump administration."This will be his last day, but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way. Elon is terrific!"Musk's political impact on national politics and on next year's midterm elections - for better or for worse - is far from over and is likely to live on well past his official departure from the Trump administration.WHAT'S NEXT FOR DOGE AFTER ELON MUSK'S DEPARTURETrump, after winning back the White House in last November's election, created DOGE with marching orders to overhaul and downsize the federal government. Trump named Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX and Trump's biggest political donor in the 2024 election, to steer the organization."Elon Musk made the most serious attempt at reducing the size and scope of government in modern political history. It was at times chaotic but impactful," veteran GOP strategist Ryan Williams told Fox News.Williams predicted that Musk's "efforts will continue to linger as a political football, but also a guide for Republicans if they're serious about limiting the growth of the federal government."After returning to the White House in January, Musk and DOGE quickly swept through federal agencies, rooting out what the new administration argued was billions in wasteful federal spending. Additionally, they took a meat cleaver to the federal workforce, resulting in a massive downsizing of employees.Nothing symbolized Musk's controversial moves more than his brandishing of a chainsaw during a February appearance at the MAGA-dominated Conservative Political Action Conference, where he touted "how easy" it was to "save billions of dollars sometimes in an hour."The moves by DOGE grabbed tons of national attention and triggered a slew of lawsuits in response. Many of DOGE's cuts in government staffing were stymied or reversed by federal court orders.While DOGE was originally tasked with slashing $2 trillion from the federal government's budget, the DOGE website earlier this week said that its efforts to date had led to roughly $175 billion in savings due to asset sales, contract cancellations, fraud payment cuts, in addition to other steps to eliminate costs.MUSK CRITICISM OF TRUMP'S BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL FRUSTRATES SOME REPUBLICANSMusk's arrival in the nation's capital came with a bang.Thanks to a direct pipeline to the president and his powerful mouthpiece on the social media site X, Musk instantly and repeatedly made headlines with his provocative moves and the targeting of people he did not like, often to the chagrin of Trump administration officials and Republicans on Capitol Hill.Trump repeatedly praised Musk and DOGE's efforts."The vast majority of people in this country really respect and appreciate you, and this whole room can say that very strongly; you have really been a tremendous help," the president said during a Cabinet meeting four weeks ago, when Musk announced that he would be cutting back on his time spent with DOGE and the Trump administration.However, behind the scenes, there was a lot less harmony."People got really sick of him really quickly," a veteran Republican strategist with ties to the administration and Capitol Hill who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely told Fox News."He was fun to begin with," the strategist noted, before adding that "people inside and around the administration and people outside" were tired of Musk "by the end, when he's sitting in a meeting wearing multiple hats on his head."Additionally, Musk's recent criticism of Trump's sweeping "big beautiful bill," which passed a major congressional hurdle, did not help matters.While a slew of public opinion polls, including national surveys from Fox News, indicated that Americans like the idea of downsizing the federal government, those same surveys highlighted that the public was far from thrilled with how Musk and DOGE carried out cuts to the federal bureaucracy.WHITE HOUSE REVEALS NEXT STEPS FOR DOGE AFTER MUSK DEPARTUREMusk, who spent nearly $300 million in support of Trump's 2024 White House victory, quickly became a lightening rod in the handful of off-year and special elections held early this year.Through aligned political groups, Musk dished out roughly $20 million in battleground Wisconsin's high-profile state Supreme Court race, in support of Trump-backed judge Brad Schimel, the conservative-leaning candidate in the election.Musk, in a controversial move, handed out $1 million checks at a rally in Green Bay two nights ahead of the election to two Wisconsin voters who had already cast ballots in the contest and had signed a petition to stop "activist judges."Musk, at the rally, donned a cheesehead hat - a foam wedge which resembles a chunk of cheese - that is traditionally worn by devout Green Bay Packers football fans in Wisconsin and across the country.However, Schimel ended up losing by 10 points to the Democratic-aligned candidate in what was supposed to be a close contest. Musk ended up getting tagged with plenty of blame in a race that partially turned into a referendum on his efforts at DOGE.TOP FIVE WILDEST MOMENTS OF MUSK'S DOGE TENUREDemocrats repeatedly made Musk the bogeyman in their messaging in Wisconsin's election and in other contests, and they pledged to continue to target him heading into next year's midterm elections, when Republicans will be defending their razor-thin House majority and their modest Senate majority."Top of mind for voters are the pocketbook issues. Democrats are going to win by highlighting the fact that Republicans are failing at lowering costs because they are too busy pushing tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations, while making the rest of us pay for them," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee national press secretary Viet Shelton told Fox News.Shelton emphasized that "Elon is, and forever will be, an instantly-recognizable manifestation of the fact that House Republicans dont work for the American people, they work for the billionaires."So, were Musk's potential political risks to Republicans behind his departure from the nation's capitol?A GOP strategist close to GOP lawmakers, when asked if Musk's welcome was wearing out among congressional Republicans, said "yes to a point.""But I think the larger question about whether Musk and DOGE are liabilities in the midterms, I would say emphatically no," added the strategist, who asked for anonymity to speak more freely.The strategist noted that GOP lawmakers "who have talked about waste, fraud, and abuse, and have talked about the savings generated by DOGE, they've done quite well. It's the folks who don't want to message on it and have not put Democrats on defense, who are tired of Musk."CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPAdditionally, veteran Republican strategist Matt Gorman disagrees with the Democrats' argument about Musk's lasting impact on the campaign trail."I don't think that in any way Elon Musk will be a factor one way or another in the year-plus that we have until Election Day 2026," Gorman, a veteran of numerous presidential and statewide campaigns, told Fox News.

Todd Chrisley is ready to break his silence.On Friday, the "Chrisley Knows Best" star is speaking to reporters during a press conference in his home city of Nashville, Tennessee.This marks the first time Todd has spoken to the media since their conviction for tax evasion and bank fraud in 2022.CHRISLEY CHILDREN CELEBRATE TRUMP'S PLAN TO PARDON REALITY TV PARENTS IN FRAUD, TAX EVASION CASE Todd and Julie were convicted of conspiring to defraud community banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans as well as tax evasion and sentenced to 12 and seven years, respectively. Their sentences were later reduced.On Wednesday, Todd first walked out of a federal prison in Pensacola, Florida, after serving two and a half years in prison, according to lawyer Alex Littles office. The release came shortly after President Donald Trump signed pardons for both Todd and Julie."Todd has been released from prison and is on his way home to Nashville," Little's office told Fox News Digital.Little's office confirmed to Fox News Digital that Julie was released from the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky, on Wednesday night, shortly after Todd was released. "Julie has also been released from prison and is now on her way home to Nashville as well," Little's office told Fox News Digital.CHRISLEY CHILDREN CELEBRATE TRUMP'S PLAN TO PARDON REALITY TV PARENTS IN FRAUD, TAX EVASION CASE Savannah got emotional outside the federal prison in Pensacola awaiting her father's release earlier in the day.When speaking to reporters, Savannah said, "Honestly, this process has been absolutely insane, and I am so grateful that I'm going to leave here with my dad."Savannah claimed that prosecutors had her father's head "on a dart board" before his prison sentence. She read Trump's pardon to the reporters, which stated an immediate release, and she said she hopes "the prison is going to do that shortly."Savannah said Trump's pardon for her parents "literally came out of nowhere."LIKE WHAT YOURE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS"I was in such shock and awe that the president himself took the time to tell me my family is coming back together," she said. During her interview, Savannah got emotional while explaining her constant fight to get her parents released from prison wasn't just for them.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER"I'm literally fighting for every man that has been left behind here," she said, referring to the prisoners in the federal prison in Pensacola.On Thursday, Savannah posted a photo of her parents reunited.While the photo didn't show their faces, both were sitting close to one another, with Todd wearing his wedding band."Reunited and it feels so good," Savannah wrote over the photo.

Kentucky state Democratic Sen. Robin Webb, who represents Kentuckys rural 18th Senate district, is switching her party affiliation to Republican after she says the Democrat Party "left me.""First and foremost, Im a mother, a rancher and a lawyer with deep personal and professional roots in Kentuckys coal country," Webb explained. "As the Democratic Party continues its lurch to the left and its hyperfocus on policies that hurt workforce and economic development in my region, I no longer feel it represents my values."TARIFF POLICY IS MAKING IT 'HARDER' ON AMERICANS, DEMOCRATIC GOVERNOR SAYS"It has become untenable and counterproductive to the best interests of my constituents for me to remain a Democrat."Webb was originally elected to the Kentucky State House after defeating Republican Ramona Gee in 1998.HOUSE REPUBLICAN ENTERS RACE FOR MITCH MCCONNELL'S SENATE SEAT, SETTING UP HIGH-STAKES GOP PRIMARYThis comes as a major blow to Kentucky Democrats, who have historically held a stronghold in rural regions of the state largely due to union workers and the coal industry.Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear told a local Louisville news outlet that he "would consider" a run as the Democratic nominee for president in 2028, and the newly elected Democratic governor and potential presidential candidate now faces an additional challenge to mobilize his state's party ahead of the 2026 midterms."Like countless other Kentuckians, [Webb] has recognized that the policies and objectives of todays Democratic Party are simply not what they once were, and do not align with the vast majority of Kentuckians," Republican Party of Kentucky Chairman Robert Benvenuti added.REPUBLICAN AGS VISIT US-MEXICO BORDER WALL AS TRUMP'S 'BIG, BEAUTIFUL BILL' CLEARS EXPANSION FUNDING"I always respected that [Webb] approached issues in a very thoughtful and commonsense manner, and that she never failed to keenly focus on what was best for her constituents," Benvenuti added. "It is my pleasure to welcome Sen. Robin Webb to the Republican Party."Despite Beshear serving in the governor's office, the attorney general's office, secretary of state and both chambers of the state legislature have a Republican majority."While its clich, its true: I didnt leave the party the party left me," Webb said.Fox News Digital reached out to Governor Andy Beshear's office but did not receive a response.

The district attorney in New Orleans fired back at the local sheriff who sought his recusal from the investigation into a massive 10-man escape from the county's jail, escalating a two-week war of words between the two.After Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, whose department runs the jail, filed a lawsuit seeking to bar Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams from investigating the jailbreak, Williams made clear his thoughts on the sheriff."After this jailbreak, jail leadership should have immediately requested an independent forensic processing of that scene," he said Thursday evening in a media release. "Its hard not to see this agency as anything but compromised until any bad actors have been identified and rooted out.""The Sheriffs Offices time and resources were clearly misspent this week, and once again, this office finds itself two steps behind the moment," the release continued.NEW ORLEANS DISTRICT ATTORNEY BLASTS SHERIFF OVER BOTCHED PRISON ESCAPE INVESTIGATION"We, along with our other law enforcement partners, will remain focused on the crisis at hand: recapturing every individual involved in this escape, understanding the systemic failures or individual actions that made it possible, and implementing meaningful corrective measures."Hutson filed a motion in a New Orleans court after what she called "ongoing attacks" on the sheriff's office in "an unprecedented display of political self-serving bias," according to ABC News.The sheriff noted that Williams is also backing her opponent in an upcoming reelection bid to remain the parish's top cop. Last week, Hutson suspended campaign operations to focus on the breakout.The matter was settled out of court on Thursday in a meeting with Orleans Parish Criminal Judge Nandi Campbell.Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill's office will continue to lead the investigation into how the men, including a four-time killer and a serial escapee, broke out of their cell and hopped the jail's barbed-wire fence to freedom on May 16."I will continue to conduct an independent investigation into how the ten violent inmates escaped from the Orleans Justice Center on Friday, May 16," Murrill said in an X post on Thursday night, adding that she will provide recommendations to relevant government entities to ensure such an escape never occurs again.Friday marks two weeks since 10 inmates escaped from the Orleans Parish Justice Center in New Orleans. Two inmates, including a four-time convicted killer, are still on the loose after the jailbreak.LOUISIANA AG CONFIDENT REMAINING JAILBREAK FUGITIVES WILL BE RECAPTURED AFTER OFFICIALS MAKE 14TH ARRESTDerrick Groves was convicted in October of a double-homicide stemming from a shooting during Mardi Gras in 2018. After his conviction, he pleaded guilty to two counts of manslaughter in unrelated cases and was scheduled to be sentenced in July. He was being held in the jail until his sentencing.Antoine Massey, a four-time escapee known locally for consistently evading law enforcement, also remains free.On Thursday, Crime Stoppers and the FBI both increased their rewards for information leading to the arrests of the pair. Each man now has a $50,000 bounty on his head.The eight other escapees have been caught as local, state and federal law enforcement continue to pour resources into ending the manhunt for good.Fourteen people have been arrested for assisting the escapees either before or after they broke out.Fox News Digital reached out to the offices of Hutson, Williams, Murrill and the New Orleans Criminal District Court for comment.

Fox News embedded exclusively with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the greater Boston area this week, when agents were carrying out the arrests of hundreds of egregious criminal migrants in what the agency said is the largest operation it has undertaken since President Donald Trump returned to office.The sweeping operation, called "Patriot," is expected to hit 1,500 arrests and is targeting immigrants like a Salvadoran illegal immigrant convicted ofchild rapewho went to prison and was deported in 2017. He was nabbed by ICE living rightnext to a childrens playground.ICE also swooped on another illegal migrant who is on El Salvadors most wanted list and has an Interpol Red Notice foraggravated murder, aggravated kidnapping and robbery.TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SETS NEW GOAL OF 3,000 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT ARRESTS DAILYBoth arrests were captured exclusively on camera by Fox News.ICE deployed 19 teams across Massachusetts this week, and the agency brought in ICE teams from other parts of the country to assist.It is in direct response to Massachusetts and Bostons sanctuary policies, where officials do not fully enforce or assist with federal immigration laws, as border czar Tom Homan has promised to surge ICE to these areas.Fox News is told that about 70% of the arrests are criminals with convictions or pending charges.ICE TOUTS RECORD-BREAKING IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT DURING TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYSPatricia Hyde, the head of ICE Boston, said it is not uncommon to see immigrants convicted of child rape roaming public streets close to where children play."It's not unusual. Due to the open border policies, we are finding that plenty of people who have been previously deported and committed heinous crimes and were removed from the country are now back here, just living among us," Hyde said. "And now that's our job to go round them up."Fox News alsojoined ICE as they arrested a Colombian illegal immigrant facing pending charges for sexual assault of a child, as well as a Dominican illegal immigrant with a drug trafficking conviction who is now facing local charges for fentanyl distribution.Meanwhile, other arrests included a Guatemalan illegal immigrant who's facing charges in Massachusetts for aggravated child rape but was released from state custody. They also arrested a Honduran immigrant who is facing local charges for rape and was also released from local custody.ICE Boston told Fox News that local ICE activists have been interfering in their operations.For instance, on Thursday, activists tried to grab onto an immigrant who had been handcuffed by ICE. In another incident, agents were stalking out an immigrant murderer's home, and a crowd gathered and blew their cover.Hyde said sanctuary jurisdictions are starting to escalate against ICE."I think the lack of cooperation is getting worse and worse, and its putting law enforcement lives in danger," Hyde said.Hyde said that ICE agents will continue to round up dangerous criminal illegal migrants, despite pushback from local lawmakers and activists. "We're not going away. It might take us longer. It might be harder, but we're not going away, we're here," Hyde said. "We know what the American people voted for. We understand that we work for the American people and we're going to be here until we send everyone home."

The FBI is offering a $20,000 reward for information leading to the re-capture of a former Arkansas police chief serving time for murder and rape dubbed "the Devil in the Ozarks" who escaped on the afternoon of May 25.Former Gateway Police Department Chief Grant Hardin, 56, escaped from the North Central Unit, a medium-security prison, that Sunday afternoon in Calico Rock, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections (ADC).The FBI said Hardin has ties to Garfield, Eureka Springs, Holiday Island and Huntsville."The FBI's Little Rock Field Office is assisting the U.S. Marshal Service, the Arkansas Department of Corrections, and the Arkansas State Police with the search for and apprehension of Grant Matthew Hardin," reads an FBI wanted poster.TEXAS ESCAPED INMATE CONSIDERED ARMED AND DANGEROUS AFTER PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL BREAKFormer FBI agent Rob D'Amico told "Fox & Friends" Friday morning that Hardin's past as a police chief may give him a unique advantage on the run."I think it makes it a lot more challenging. He knows how they do it. He knows what they look for, he knows how they follow leads. He knows how they do surveillance," D'Amico said.DEVIL IN THE OZARKS WHO ESCAPED PRISON LIKELY STILL IN ARKANSAS AREA: OFFICIALSThe former FBI agent noted that there are likely many unmanned, unlocked cabins and sheds in wooded areas around Stone County, which is located East of the Ozark Mountains.ADC Communications Director Rand Champion said during a Wednesday news conference that authorities are fairly confident in the route they believe Hardin took when he escaped prison and his current location in the region.MANHUNT UNDERWAY AFTER DISGRACED FORMER POLICE CHIEF CONVICTED OF MURDER, RAPE ESCAPES ARKANSAS PRISON"Based on the information that we have and the experience of our teams, they feel fairly confident that he is still fairly close to this region," Champion said, noting that "all it takes is one vehicle" for Hardin to use to travel elsewhere, though officials have established a perimeter around the area of Stone County."As of this time, they are still very confident that he is in the area," Champion said.MASSIVE JAIL BREAK IN NEW ORLEANS 'IMPOSSIBLE' WITHOUT STAFF INVOLVEMENT, SAYS EX-FBI FUGITIVE HUNTERChampion said the public should assume Hardin is "a very dangerous individual," and there is a risk he may commit more crimes while he is on the run.It took less than 30 minutes for prison officials to notice that Hardin had disappeared from prison. Photos that the Stone County Sheriff's Office posted to social media show Hardin wearing an ADC-style uniform during his escape through a sally port, though Champion said the uniform he was wearing was not an official uniform.LOUISIANA AG CONFIDENT REMAINING JAILBREAK FUGITIVES WILL BE CAPTURED AFTER OFFICIALS MAKE 14TH ARRESTHardin was sentenced to 30 years for murder plus additional time for rape.He pleaded guilty to the 2017 murder of James Appleton, 59, a city water employee who was found shot in the face inside his work truck, KNWA reported. While Hardin was being booked into the state prison around that time, officials submitted his DNA sample into a database. His DNA ended up linking him to the rape cold case of a teacher in 1997, the outlet reported.Hardin ended up pleading guilty in that case in 2019, according to KNWA.The former police chief's escape came two days after 10 prisoners escaped a correctional facility in New Orleans, eight of whom have since been re-captured while two remain at large.Hardin is described as a 6 ft. white male, weighing approximately 259 pounds. The FBI is asking tipsters to call 1-800-CALL-FBI with any information concerning the escapee.Fox News' Stepheny Price and Louis Casiano contributed to this report.

As Elon Musk, the world's richest person, put it, his role in steering President Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has come "to an end."However, the president, in a social media post on Thursday night announcing that he and Musk would team up for a 1:30 p.m. ET White House news conference on Friday, teased that Musk would continue to help the Trump administration."This will be his last day, but not really, because he will, always, be with us, helping all the way. Elon is terrific!"Musk's political impact on national politics and on next year's midterm elections - for better or for worse - is far from over and is likely to live on well past his official departure from the Trump administration.WHAT'S NEXT FOR DOGE AFTER ELON MUSK'S DEPARTURETrump, after winning back the White House in last November's election, created DOGE with marching orders to overhaul and downsize the federal government. Trump named Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and SpaceX and Trump's biggest political donor in the 2024 election, to steer the organization."Elon Musk made the most serious attempt at reducing the size and scope of government in modern political history. It was at times chaotic but impactful," veteran GOP strategist Ryan Williams told Fox News.Williams predicted that Musk's "efforts will continue to linger as a political football, but also a guide for Republicans if they're serious about limiting the growth of the federal government."After returning to the White House in January, Musk and DOGE quickly swept through federal agencies, rooting out what the new administration argued was billions in wasteful federal spending. Additionally, they took a meat cleaver to the federal workforce, resulting in a massive downsizing of employees.Nothing symbolized Musk's controversial moves more than his brandishing of a chainsaw during a February appearance at the MAGA-dominated Conservative Political Action Conference, where he touted "how easy" it was to "save billions of dollars sometimes in an hour."The moves by DOGE grabbed tons of national attention and triggered a slew of lawsuits in response. Many of DOGE's cuts in government staffing were stymied or reversed by federal court orders.While DOGE was originally tasked with slashing $2 trillion from the federal government's budget, the DOGE website earlier this week said that its efforts to date had led to roughly $175 billion in savings due to asset sales, contract cancellations, fraud payment cuts, in addition to other steps to eliminate costs.MUSK CRITICISM OF TRUMP'S BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL FRUSTRATES SOME REPUBLICANSMusk's arrival in the nation's capital came with a bang.Thanks to a direct pipeline to the president and his powerful mouthpiece on the social media site X, Musk instantly and repeatedly made headlines with his provocative moves and the targeting of people he did not like, often to the chagrin of Trump administration officials and Republicans on Capitol Hill.Trump repeatedly praised Musk and DOGE's efforts."The vast majority of people in this country really respect and appreciate you, and this whole room can say that very strongly; you have really been a tremendous help," the president said during a Cabinet meeting four weeks ago, when Musk announced that he would be cutting back on his time spent with DOGE and the Trump administration.However, behind the scenes, there was a lot less harmony."People got really sick of him really quickly," a veteran Republican strategist with ties to the administration and Capitol Hill who asked to remain anonymous to speak more freely told Fox News."He was fun to begin with," the strategist noted, before adding that "people inside and around the administration and people outside" were tired of Musk "by the end, when he's sitting in a meeting wearing multiple hats on his head."Additionally, Musk's recent criticism of Trump's sweeping "big beautiful bill," which passed a major congressional hurdle, did not help matters.While a slew of public opinion polls, including national surveys from Fox News, indicated that Americans like the idea of downsizing the federal government, those same surveys highlighted that the public was far from thrilled with how Musk and DOGE carried out cuts to the federal bureaucracy.WHITE HOUSE REVEALS NEXT STEPS FOR DOGE AFTER MUSK DEPARTUREMusk, who spent nearly $300 million in support of Trump's 2024 White House victory, quickly became a lightening rod in the handful of off-year and special elections held early this year.Through aligned political groups, Musk dished out roughly $20 million in battleground Wisconsin's high-profile state Supreme Court race, in support of Trump-backed judge Brad Schimel, the conservative-leaning candidate in the election.Musk, in a controversial move, handed out $1 million checks at a rally in Green Bay two nights ahead of the election to two Wisconsin voters who had already cast ballots in the contest and had signed a petition to stop "activist judges."Musk, at the rally, donned a cheesehead hat - a foam wedge which resembles a chunk of cheese - that is traditionally worn by devout Green Bay Packers football fans in Wisconsin and across the country.However, Schimel ended up losing by 10 points to the Democratic-aligned candidate in what was supposed to be a close contest. Musk ended up getting tagged with plenty of blame in a race that partially turned into a referendum on his efforts at DOGE.TOP FIVE WILDEST MOMENTS OF MUSK'S DOGE TENUREDemocrats repeatedly made Musk the bogeyman in their messaging in Wisconsin's election and in other contests, and they pledged to continue to target him heading into next year's midterm elections, when Republicans will be defending their razor-thin House majority and their modest Senate majority."Top of mind for voters are the pocketbook issues. Democrats are going to win by highlighting the fact that Republicans are failing at lowering costs because they are too busy pushing tax breaks for the ultra-wealthy and big corporations, while making the rest of us pay for them," Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee national press secretary Viet Shelton told Fox News.Shelton emphasized that "Elon is, and forever will be, an instantly-recognizable manifestation of the fact that House Republicans dont work for the American people, they work for the billionaires."So, were Musk's potential political risks to Republicans behind his departure from the nation's capitol?A GOP strategist close to GOP lawmakers, when asked if Musk's welcome was wearing out among congressional Republicans, said "yes to a point.""But I think the larger question about whether Musk and DOGE are liabilities in the midterms, I would say emphatically no," added the strategist, who asked for anonymity to speak more freely.The strategist noted that GOP lawmakers "who have talked about waste, fraud, and abuse, and have talked about the savings generated by DOGE, they've done quite well. It's the folks who don't want to message on it and have not put Democrats on defense, who are tired of Musk."CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPAdditionally, veteran Republican strategist Matt Gorman disagrees with the Democrats' argument about Musk's lasting impact on the campaign trail."I don't think that in any way Elon Musk will be a factor one way or another in the year-plus that we have until Election Day 2026," Gorman, a veteran of numerous presidential and statewide campaigns, told Fox News.

Todd Chrisley is ready to break his silence.On Friday, the "Chrisley Knows Best" star is speaking to reporters during a press conference in his home city of Nashville, Tennessee.This marks the first time Todd has spoken to the media since their conviction for tax evasion and bank fraud in 2022.CHRISLEY CHILDREN CELEBRATE TRUMP'S PLAN TO PARDON REALITY TV PARENTS IN FRAUD, TAX EVASION CASE Todd and Julie were convicted of conspiring to defraud community banks out of more than $30 million in fraudulent loans as well as tax evasion and sentenced to 12 and seven years, respectively. Their sentences were later reduced.On Wednesday, Todd first walked out of a federal prison in Pensacola, Florida, after serving two and a half years in prison, according to lawyer Alex Littles office. The release came shortly after President Donald Trump signed pardons for both Todd and Julie."Todd has been released from prison and is on his way home to Nashville," Little's office told Fox News Digital.Little's office confirmed to Fox News Digital that Julie was released from the Federal Medical Center in Lexington, Kentucky, on Wednesday night, shortly after Todd was released. "Julie has also been released from prison and is now on her way home to Nashville as well," Little's office told Fox News Digital.CHRISLEY CHILDREN CELEBRATE TRUMP'S PLAN TO PARDON REALITY TV PARENTS IN FRAUD, TAX EVASION CASE Savannah got emotional outside the federal prison in Pensacola awaiting her father's release earlier in the day.When speaking to reporters, Savannah said, "Honestly, this process has been absolutely insane, and I am so grateful that I'm going to leave here with my dad."Savannah claimed that prosecutors had her father's head "on a dart board" before his prison sentence. She read Trump's pardon to the reporters, which stated an immediate release, and she said she hopes "the prison is going to do that shortly."Savannah said Trump's pardon for her parents "literally came out of nowhere."LIKE WHAT YOURE READING? CLICK HERE FOR MORE ENTERTAINMENT NEWS"I was in such shock and awe that the president himself took the time to tell me my family is coming back together," she said. During her interview, Savannah got emotional while explaining her constant fight to get her parents released from prison wasn't just for them.CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT NEWSLETTER"I'm literally fighting for every man that has been left behind here," she said, referring to the prisoners in the federal prison in Pensacola.On Thursday, Savannah posted a photo of her parents reunited.While the photo didn't show their faces, both were sitting close to one another, with Todd wearing his wedding band."Reunited and it feels so good," Savannah wrote over the photo.