House Ethics Chair Michael Guest said Monday that his panel will make its own decision about releasing the report into Matt Gaetz, regardless of Speaker Mike Johnson’s opinion that it should be kept under wraps. Guest (R-Miss.) told POLITICO in a brief interview that he and Johnson had spoken over the weekend. He added that […]
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President-elect Donald Trump’s transition effort is continuing to churn through potential picks for the next head of the Transportation Department, with the current crop of names including a former reality TV star, a former executive at Uber and a former Republican lawmaker from California who regularly lambasted his state’s high-speed rail ambitions. According to three […]
MIAMI — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis intends to hold interviews and “extensive vetting” to help him decide who should replace Marco Rubio in the Senate. The seat will soon open up after President-elect Donald Trump announced he planned to nominate Rubio to be secretary of state, which will necessitate Rubio resigning from his role. DeSantis […]
The Biden administration on Monday sent Congress a roughly $100 billion emergency funding request to rebuild communities hit by hurricanes Helene and Milton, along with a slew of other disasters nationwide. Top lawmakers plan to spend the next few weeks finalizing a bipartisan bill that fulfills at least some of that request, with a goal […]
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. may need every vote he can get to win confirmation as President-elect Donald Trump’s secretary of health and human services. No Senate Democrats have said they’d back Kennedy yet. But New Jersey’s Cory Booker shares RFK Jr.’s concerns about the U.S. food system, as he made clear in a post to […]
We’re chatting with former Cabinet members, chiefs of staff and government leaders from now to Jan. 20 to get a sense of what the incoming administration might face as it takes the reins. Today we’re talking to Ray LaHood, a former Republican lawmaker who made the unusual move to serve in Democratic President Barack Obama’s […]
“Morning Joe” hosts Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski met with President-elect Donald Trump in Mar-a-Lago on Friday, agreeing to restart communication between the three of them for the first time since March 2020. “For those asking why we would speak to the president-elect during such fraught times, I would ask back: Why wouldn’t we?” Brzezinski […]
Donald Trump’s political revival was fueled by a populist economic message that hit home with an electorate weary of Biden-era high prices and interest rates. Now the president-elect is having a hard time picking a quarterback to run his economic game plan. Nearly two weeks after Election Day — and after a flurry of high-profile […]
President-elect Donald Trump is dead serious about making him attorney general. Speaker Mike Johnson is pledging to bury a critical House Ethics Committee report into his alleged personal misconduct. But expect this to be a very uncomfortable week for former Rep. Matt Gaetz all the same. There is new pressure to publicize details from investigations […]
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries denied reports that he was growing frustrated with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, telling NBC’s Kristen Welker that he does not think she is undermining him with her public comments on the election results. “I think Speaker Emerita Pelosi has been incredibly respectful of the entire leadership team. It’s an […]