President-elect Donald Trump managed to thread the needle on abortion as he won a second term, though the challenge of governing lies ahead. Trump took credit for appointing most of the Supreme Court justices who voted to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 but sought to insulate his campaign and the Republican Party from the […]
President-elect Donald Trump nominated Michigan Republican Chairman Pete Hoekstra to be the next U.S. ambassador to Canada. Hoekstra was a representative from Michigan for 18 years and was Trump’s ambassador to the Netherlands during his first administration. “Pete is well-respected in the Great State of Michigan — A state we won sizably. He represented Michigan’s […]
House Republicans pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra on Wednesday to provide an answer for losing track of thousands of unaccounted migrant children and fumbling the vetting process that allegedly has allowed some minors to be sent to gang members and even a strip club. Becerra testified that his agency follows “child welfare […]
Republican Nick Begich ousted incumbent Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) on Wednesday, a victory two weeks after Election Day that will help the GOP pad its narrow House majority. The Associated Press called the race for Begich shortly after 9 p.m. ET with 95% of the vote counted. Begich received 48.4% to Peltola’s 46.4% at the […]
The View co-hosts Alyssa Farah Griffin and Sunny Hostin have been increasingly sparring with more intensity since the 2024 election, but tensions boiled over on Wednesday about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Linda McMahon to lead the Department of Education and his plans to close the department. “I don’t think Donald Trump is going […]
Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley tore into President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard to his Cabinet. Haley served as Trump’s United Nations Ambassador in his first term as president but was a consistent critic of Trump on the campaign trail until she reluctantly endorsed him down the […]
The Senate failed to advance a resolution of disapproval brought by progressive members to block the sale of certain offensive U.S. weaponry to Israel. The result was expected, but the vote was the first-of-its-kind in Congress and the only legislative remedy available to senators opposed to the Biden administration’s efforts to sell $20 billion in […]
The Washington Examiner’s Tiana Lowe Doescher suggested there is more than one nominee for Trump’s Cabinet who faces “danger” in his confirmation, despite the brunt of attention being given to former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL). Doescher noted that presidents rarely get to have all of their nominees confirmed by Congress, with the most recent president […]
The powerful center-left New Democrat Coalition voted Wednesday to elect Rep. Brad Schneider (D-IL) as its new chairperson, with both members campaigning on the promise to continue current chair Rep. Annie Kuster’s (D-NH) work. The coalition, made up of 100 members prior to the 2024 election, voted for Schneider, 59-48, a source in the room […]
Billionaires Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy laid out their road map for running the Department of Government Efficiency on Wednesday, explaining the authority they believe they have and the goals they hope to achieve. President-elect Donald Trump selected the pair to lead the new department, which aims to cut costs within the federal government. Here […]
