Vice president-elect JD Vance hosted a who’s who of Trump-world types Wednesday at a ritzy, $250,000-a-plate fundraiser in Palm Beach, Florida, according to a person who attended the event and was granted anonymity to disclose details about it. The event, hosted at French restaurant Le Bilboquet, is an early example of Vance’s desire to position […]
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Senate Democrats are circulating a memo claiming that President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, improperly claimed nearly $2 million in tax losses and owes nearly $1 million in taxes related to his hedge fund — providing ready ammunition for them as Bessent goes before the Finance Committee on Thursday. The memo obtained […]
Russell Vought wouldn’t commit to having the federal government spend all the money Congress approves. The issue came up during his Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday, where he testified before lawmakers in pursuit of a second tour as White House budget director for President-elect Donald Trump. Vought famously froze aid to Ukraine and Puerto Rico the […]
Speaker Mike Johnson has removed Rep. Mike Turner as chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, according to three people familiar with the decision. Conservative hard-liners in the House and other Republicans loyal to President-elect Donald Trump have been pressing Johnson for months to remove the Ohio Republican. First named to lead committee […]
Google CEO Sundar Pichai will join the growing list of tech executives sitting on the dais as President-elect Donald Trump is sworn into office on Monday, according to a person familiar with the company’s plans who was not authorized to speak publicly. Tesla CEO Elon Musk, a close confidant of the incoming president, is expected […]
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House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan says he is mulling whether to call Jack Smith, the special counsel who led the federal investigations into President-elect Donald Trump, to testify before his committee. “Everything’s on the table,” Jordan told reporters Wednesday. “I’m just now looking at his report.” Smith led cases around Trump’s retention of classified […]
With wildfires still burning in Southern California, congressional Republicans are getting more detailed about how they plan to handle the politically sensitive topic of delivering potentially tens of billions of dollars of federal disaster aid to the largely Democratic area. Strings, they are making clear, will be attached. Some House Republicans who met with President-elect […]
If you closed your eyes, you might’ve thought Kash Patel was in the witness chair. Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats spent Wednesday pummeling President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to become FBI director at a confirmation hearing for his prospective boss: attorney general nominee Pam Bondi. Ranking member Dick Durbin of Illinois raised Patel’s commentary about QAnon conspiracy […]
Former Vice President Mike Pence’s organization, Advancing American Freedom, is calling for senators to vote against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s nomination for Health and Human Services secretary over his past support for abortion access. The letter from the conservative advocacy group Advancing American Freedom, first reported Wednesday by Daily Wire, criticized Kennedy as being “pro-abortion,” […]