The Senate voted 78-20 Wednesday to invoke cloture on the nomination of former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead the Interior Department. The Senate is expected to vote tomorrow whether to confirm Burgum’s nomination. It would put the former governor in the department’s top chair as the Trump administration is pushing for spending freezes […]
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DORAL, Florida — House Republicans came here to President Donald Trump’s resort to map out what’s ahead for their legislative agenda. The big takeaway: It’s looking treacherous. Despite progress on the stated goal of the three-day retreat — coalescing around a fiscal blueprint for their vast party-line agenda — what they saw wasn’t pretty: Key […]
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Lee Zeldin, the former Republican congressmember who leveraged his full-throated defense of President Donald Trump into a position in his inner circle and ultimately his Cabinet, was confirmed by the Senate on Wednesday to be the 17th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency by a 56-42 vote. Zeldin has a mandate from Trump to carry […]
Democrats have made it clear they want Donald Trump’s nominees to pay the price of the president’s federal aid freeze. Billionaire Howard Lutnick, the pick to lead the Commerce Department, had his turn on Wednesday. Democratic senators on the typically bipartisan Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology had a nearly singular focus on the issue, […]
Commerce Secretary nominee Howard Lutnick vowed Wednesday that he would ensure the department counts all people under the U.S. Census, despite previous efforts by Donald Trump to exclude undocumented immigrants. “I promise you, we will count each whole person,” Lutnick said at his confirmation hearing Wednesday in response to a question from Sen. Brian Schatz […]
The Senate on Wednesday voted 56-42 to move to a final vote on Lee Zeldin’s nomination to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Three Democrats — Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), who backed Zeldin in committee, and his fellow Arizonan Ruben Gallego, as well as John Fetterman of Pennsylvania — joined the chamber’s Republicans in […]
Republicans on the Senate Finance Committee offered Kennedy a chance to defend himself against Democrats’ attacks in his confirmation hearing Wednesday and suggested they would support him to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. “I think I’ve come to know what’s in your heart,” Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) told Kennedy. “I think I […]
We’re hours into Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s hearing now, and there’s one person who is ALL over it online: Jack Schlossberg. Schlossberg, the chronically online sensation and the only grandson of former president John F. Kennedy, has some choice words on his cousin’s Senate hearing, sharing MSNBC videos and adding his own commentary. Schlossberg and […]
Nicole Shanahan, the philanthropist who was Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate last year, warned senators that a vote against his nomination as Health and Human Services secretary will result in a campaign to get them booted from office. “While Bobby may be willing to play nice, I won’t if you vote against him,” Shanahan […]