A number of former Trump administration officials top the list of potential appointees and nominees for new positions within President-elect Donald Trump’s forthcoming second term, the Washington Examiner has learned. Sources close to the transition process and who have advised the Trump campaign this cycle on immigration issues told the Washington Examiner on Friday that […]
Sen. George Helmy (D-NJ) has a drastically different assessment of the 2024 race than his former boss, Gov. Phil Murphy (D-NJ), who called President-elect Donald Trump’s strong performance in New Jersey a “sobering moment.” Helmy, who served as Murphy’s chief of staff until 2023, said that New Jersey is still reliably blue, downplaying the idea […]
Rep. Elise Stefanik accepted President-elect Donald Trump’s offer to be the United States’s Ambassador to the United Nations. Trump announced on Sunday night that he had asked Stefanik to be the country’s ambassador to the U.N. In a statement to the New York Post, Trump later said he nominated her for the position. “I am […]
House lawmakers will return to Washington, D.C., after a lengthy recess and the 2024 election on Tuesday, with a lengthy list of tasks to accomplish before the new Congress arrives in January. High on the list of priorities include the never-ending battle over government spending, which has been kicked down the road multiple times this […]
President-elect Donald Trump is facing expectations from defendants involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot that he will turn his promises to pardon them into reality when he returns to the White House in January. Some defendants have signaled in court that they anticipate receiving pardons, while others have expressed eagerness to their lawyers, though […]
Vice President Kamala Harris may have officially lost the 2024 presidential election. However, one of her former aides still sees a way in which Harris can still become the 47th president of the country. It is just a highly elaborate scheme that would require a little help from the current commander in chief, President Joe […]
House Republicans appear likely to win a very slim majority in the House, which could prove helpful to the handful of GOP lawmakers pushing to expand federal deductions for state and local taxes paid. Trump’s 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act included a $10,000 cap on SALT deductions, and lawmakers in high-tax jurisdictions such as New York and California have […]
Many voters and supporters of Vice President Kamala Harris have shown they have not taken her defeat to President-elect Donald Trump well. Numerous social media posts have shown Harris supporters expressing great despair and dismay over the results of the 2024 presidential election. Now, a Democratic senator is telling those upset over the election results […]
Year after year, presidential administration after administration, people across the political spectrum agree that U.S. military veterans deserve better treatment. Alas, despite genuinely good intentions,...
President-elect Donald Trump offered Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) the role of U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, according to a CNN report. One of Trump’s most vocal supporters, Stefanik was one of the runners-up to be Trump’s vice president. She gained increased attention earlier this year for criticizing university presidents’ responses to antisemitism on college […]
