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,” […]
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The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee on Wednesday announced the list of musical performers for the president-elect’s inauguration activities. Gear up for a lot of country. During Trump’s swearing-in ceremony on Monday, country music star Carrie Underwood and singer-songwriter Lee Greenwood will perform. American tenor Christopher Macchio will lead the National Anthem. At the “Make America […]
President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Energy Department, Chris Wright, said Wednesday he supported increasing global access to oil and gas — even as he acknowledged that fossil fuels were driving climate change. “Energy is critical to human lives. Climate change is a global challenge that we need to solve,” Wright said. “And the […]
Donald Trump has called for former special counsel Jack Smith to be prosecuted and even thrown out of the U.S., but the president-elect’s pick for attorney general declined to say Wednesday whether she’d investigate Smith’s conduct if confirmed. “I haven’t seen the file. I haven’t seen the investigation. I haven’t looked at anything,” Pam Bondi […]
Two months after taking himself out of the running for an Ohio Senate seat, Vivek Ramaswamy is under consideration for the post, according to two people familiar with the matter granted anonymity to discuss ongoing conversations. Ramaswamy and Gov. Mike DeWine, who is tasked with appointing someone to the job recently vacated by President-elect JD […]
First lady Jill Biden shared her disappointment with Nancy Pelosi amid the former speaker’s role in President Joe Biden’s decision to exit the presidential race last year, in an interview with The Washington Post published Wednesday. “We were friends for 50 years,” Jill Biden told the Post, in what appear to be her first public […]
Tensions at the confirmation hearing for Pam Bondi, Trump’s pick for attorney general, boiled over Wednesday afternoon, as Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) pressed Bondi about her role in Trump’s effort to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “You pointed your finger at me and said you were speaking,” Bondi interjected, as the two attempted […]
Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi declined to say Wednesday whether she would enforce the law set to kick in on Sunday that would ban the popular social media app TikTok if it isn’t sold to a new owner. While Bondi vowed to follow the law on other subjects, she was evasive when Sen. Richard Blumenthal […]
Pam Bondi has argued in courton behalf of a pro-Trump legal group that special counsel Jack Smith’s appointment was unconstitutional because he wasn’t confirmed by the Senate, despite his broad prosecutorial powers. But on Wednesday, Trump’s pick for attorney general said under current law, special counsels “don’t need to be confirmed by the Senate.” Sen. […]
Secretary of State nominee Marco Rubio didn’t rule out designating Mexican drug cartels as terrorist organizations during his Senate confirmation hearing, previewing a sharp crackdown by the incoming Trump administration on threats to the U.S. southern border. “These sophisticated transnational terroristic organizations have operational and functional control over huge swaths of areas that border the […]