Sticker Mule CEO Anthony Constantino has filed paperwork to run for Congress and will self-fund his campaign to succeed Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., in upstate New York.
Former Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Saturday weighed in on President-elect Trump selecting Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead the department, calling it a "life or death" decision. “This is life or death," Sebelius said on MSNBC’s “The Saturday Show with Jonathan Capehart” in a clip highlighted by Mediaite. "The HHS...
The 2024 election results suggest that the Trump majority may soon have cause for second thoughts, as the proposed tax cuts and tariffs could lead to increased inflation and worker shortages, leading to higher interest rates and a more expensive labor force.
Lawmakers, government officials and advocacy groups said Wednesday that veterans issues must continue down a nonpartisan track in January, when a new Washington emerges following the 2024 elections that delivered a Republican trifecta in federal government. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kansas), ranking member of the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee, told The Hill's Bob Cusack at the...
House Republicans are set to hold a press conference on Wednesday afternoon following President-elect Trump's visit to Capitol Hill. The GOP is likely to be taking a victory lap, as House Republicans swept races for the White House, House and Senate. During his remarks Wednesday, Trump jokingly said he wanted to nominate 15 Republican lawmakers...
Democratic strategist David Axelrod is pushing for U.S. Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel to become the new chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). “If they said, ‘Well, what should we do? Who should lead the party?’ I would take Ambassador Rahm Emanuel, and I would bring him back from Japan and I would appoint...
Tesla voluntarily recalled 2,431 Cybertruck electric pickup trucks on Wednesday due to faulty drive inverters which increase the risk for driver collision in its sixth recall effort this year. The recall applies to all 2024 Cybertruck vehicles manufactured from Nov. 6, 2023 to July 30, 2024. “On affected vehicles, a fault in the drive inverter...
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) joked Thursday about President-elect Trump’s decision to appoint Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy as co-leads of his new government efficiency panel. “The Office of Government Efficiency is off to a great start with split leadership: two people to do the work of one person,” Warren wrote in a post on X. “Yeah,...
Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.) on Wednesday said Fox News host Pete Hegseth is not a “serious pick” after news broke Tuesday that he was President-elect Trump's nominee to lead the Defense Department. “Do you believe he is qualified to lead the Department of Defense?” MSNBC’s Jonathan Lemire questioned Ryan on “Morning Joe,” which was highlighted...
To the dismay of Chinese leaders who already had to deal with Trump for four years, they have not gotten the preferred outcome and are not looking forward to another term.
Republicans in the House and Senate are set to elect their leaders on Wednesday after securing a trifecta — winning the House, Senate and White House — in last week's election. In the Senate, Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.), John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) are competing to be the next Senate majority leader, replacing...
President-elect Trump and former President Biden sat down for a meeting in the Oval Office on Wednesday, just over a week after the former president’s decisive win back to the White House. “Politics is tough and in many cases it’s not a nice world, but it is a nice world today,” Trump said while the...
President-elect Trump’s surprise choice of Pete Hegseth, a conservative Fox News host, to serve as Defense secretary has enraged Democrats and even left some Republicans scratching their heads. The Tuesday evening announcement on Hegseth, a decorated Army veteran, confounded those who had expected a nominee with far more defense policy experience or foreign policy chops. “Wow,” Sen....
Former independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke about President-elect Trump's eating habits on the campaign trail, calling the food the Republican leader ate "really, like, bad." "The stuff that he eats is really, like, bad,” Kennedy said during an interview on "The Joe Polish Show," drawing laughter from the audience. "Campaign food is...
