House GOP leadership is urging President-elect Donald Trump to refrain from tapping any more Republican members for his administration — at least for now. Republicans have not officially clinched the House majority yet, though they’re expected to do so with a narrow margin, likely just a handful of seats more than Democrats. Meanwhile, Trump has […]
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John Paulson, the billionaire financier, said Tuesday he was withdrawing his name from contention to be President-elect Donald Trump’s next Treasury secretary. “Although various media outlets have mentioned me as a candidate for Secretary of the Treasury, my complex financial obligations would prevent me from holding an official position in President Trump’s administration at this […]
Republicans celebrated as they took a decisive Senate majority last week: They’d finally figured out how to get past the candidate quality issues that had tanked them for two cycles. But they still have a purple-state problem. Even as President-elect Donald Trump swept every swing state, four of those battlegrounds are sending Democrats to the […]
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has extended Senate orientation invitations to Pennsylvania Republican Dave McCormick and Arizona Democrat Ruben Gallego after previously withholding them while their respective races remained unsettled. Schumer previously insisted the Pennsylvania race had not yet been decided, despite the Associated Press calling it for McCormick over incumbent Democrat Bob Casey, who […]
The breakdown of the Senate is all but set. And a handful of races in California — and President-elect Donald Trump’s personnel decisions — seem likely to determine how much wiggle room Republicans will have in their probable House majority. Arizona Senate: Almost a week after the election, the Associated Press called the open Senate […]
George Whitesides has defeated three-term GOP Rep. Mike Garcia, flipping a long-coveted Los Angeles area House seat to the Democrats’ column. Garcia — who conceded the race Monday — was a top target for multiple cycles, given the Democrats’ 10-point registration advantage in the district and his conservative votes in the House. But he had […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is working to crowdsource names for the more than 4,000 appointees under the second upcoming Trump administration. Kennedy, a former environmental lawyer and anti-vaccine crusader, launched a website that asks the public to submit names of candidates who might be qualified for positions in environmental, energy, agriculture, labor policies and beyond. […]
President Joe Biden bid farewell to the U.S. armed forces in his final Veterans Day remarks at Arlington National Cemetery on Monday. “This is the last time I will stand here at Arlington as commander-in-chief,” Biden said from the Memorial Amphitheater. “It’s been the greatest honor of my life to lead you, to serve you, […]
Special counsel Jack Smith’s decision to pause his prosecution of President-elect Donald Trump is no reason to do the same for members of the mob that attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the Justice Department argued Monday. Several Jan. 6 defendants have used Smith’s call for a three-week breather — quickly endorsed by U.S. […]
A conservative lawyer working on Donald Trump’s transition, Mark Paoletta, offered a stark warning to career Justice Department lawyers Monday that those who refuse to advance Trump’s agenda should resign or face the possibility of being fired. “Once the decision is made to move forward, career employees are required to implement the President’s plan,” Paoletta […]