House Democrats are proposing legislation to codify the FBI’s role in vetting White House appointees for security clearances, a bill aimed squarely at recent reports that Donald Trump is bypassing the bureau. The Security Clearance Review Act would require employees of the Executive Office of the President to be approved for a security clearance by […]
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JD Vance called a close ally of influential MAGA podcaster Steve Bannon “a mouth breathing imbecile” after she criticized him for missing a Senate vote to confirm judicial nominees this week. Grace Chong, chief financial officer and chief operating officer for Bannon’s War Room, encouraged Republicans on X to do everything they could do to […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to end business-as-usual at the Justice Department apparently include replacing FBI Director Christopher Wray, Vice President-elect JD Vance indicated in a social media post on Tuesday. Vance revealed he and the president-elect were conducting interviews for the crucial FBI position in a since-deleted post on X. The post was responding to […]
President-elect Donald Trump is considering giving Russell Vought, his previous Office of Management and Budget director, his old job back. If tapped for the role, Vought would lead the powerful office tasked with reviewing federal regulations and developing the president’s budget. Vought, a prominent contributor to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 initiative to draft proposals […]
As president-elect, Donald Trump has shied away from the media as he releases a stream of Cabinet picks and White House staffers in statements, most posted to his social media platform Truth Social. He has yet to hold a press conference. Since the election, Trump has done a handful of one-on-one interviews and delivered public […]
The new members: Reps.-elect Wesley Bell (D-Mo.) and George Latimer (D-N.Y.) How they got here: Bell defeated his GOP opponent, Andrew Jones Jr., 76 percent to 18 percent after defeating progressive incumbent Rep. Cori Bush (D) in the primary. Latimer, meanwhile, bested his GOP rival, Miriam Flisser, 72 percent to 28 percent after besting progressive […]
Speaker Mike Johnson told reporters Tuesday he believed “a man is a man and a woman is a woman” amid controversy about a measure that would ban transgender women from women’s bathrooms on the House side of the Capitol. But he added: “I also believe that we treat everybody with dignity, and so we can […]
Vice President-elect JD Vance will be on Capitol Hill this week arranging meetings between some of President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks and key Republican senators who could determine their confirmations, according to two people familiar who were granted anonymity to discuss the plans. Vance will be on Capitol Hill on Wednesday and Thursday, sitting in […]
House Republican leaders laid out their biggest legislative priorities for next year in a closed-door Tuesday meeting, including funding the U.S.-Mexico border wall, cutting various Democratic policies and spending programs enacted under Joe Biden, and locking in Donald Trump’s tax cuts. In their weekly conference meeting, Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) highlighted the various pillars […]
Despite coming up short in their fight for the majority, House Democrats aren’t tossing their leaders aside. The caucus opted to keep their top slate of leaders in Tuesday’s party elections, with every single top Democratic leader reelected without opposition. It’s a mark of confidence, even as the party girds for another Congress in the […]