Speaker Mike Johnson’s efforts to pass a short-term spending bill before Friday’s shutdown deadline should’ve been fairly straightforward. Instead, it has turned into yet another test of his ability to steer a chaotic conference as he embraces an ambitious agenda next year. Johnson and his team are working to minimize GOP defections while keeping enough […]
President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., his pick to lead HHS, wouldn’t be “radical” in his health policies — a concern for many Senate Republicans who will decide his confirmation. “I think he’s going to be much less radical than you would think,” Trump said during a news conference at Mar-a-Lago. […]
MAGA podcast host Steve Bannon on Sunday suggested that President-elect Donald Trump might be eligible to seek a third term in 2028, a step that would violate the Constitution’s 22nd Amendment. “Donald John Trump is going to raise his hand on the King James Bible and take the oath of office, his third victory and […]
With little more than a month to go before Donald Trump’s second term in the White House, a set of federal judges who previously announced retirements are pulling back those decisions. And Republicans are none too pleased. Most prominent among the federal jurists to reverse a retirement announcement is Judge James Wynn of the 4th […]
President-elect Donald Trump said Monday that he doesn’t expect Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to appoint his daughter-in-law Lara Trump to the Senate. The seat in Florida will soon be vacant because Trump has chosen Republican Sen. Marco Rubio to be secretary of State. Trump had discussed the possibility with DeSantis that he pick Lara Trump […]
The Trump administration’s landing team will arrive at the Pentagon on Monday and be led by Michael Duffey, a former deputy chief of staff at the agency during the president-elect’s first term, according to four people with knowledge of the decision and internal documents obtained by POLITICO. Duffey, who served in several roles in the […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s Homeland Security landing team is starting work today with meetings at the Transportation Security Administration’s headquarters in Springfield, Va. The sprawling Department of Homeland Security, which oversees TSA as well as Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and a bevy of other agencies, will play a core role in […]
Opponents of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to lead HHS are buying tens of thousands of dollars in ads across the states of key Republican senators as he plans to meet with them this week. Protect Our Care, which has launched a Stop RFK War Room, has bought advertising slots — from digital ads to […]
Here’s what we’re watching in transition world today: 🗓️ What we’re watching President-elect Donald Trump met with Speaker Mike Johnson and incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune in his suite at the Army-Navy game on Saturday to discuss how to implement his agenda, Playbook reports this morning. Johnson and Thune are anxious to get the […]
Congressional leaders were still trading offers Sunday afternoon on a government funding patch attached to a disaster aid package and a slew of other priorities leaders hope to clear before year’s end. Those negotiations between Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and their leadership counterparts are down to the wire, ahead of a […]