Why should taxpayers have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars prosecuting and incarcerating someone already in the country illegally, rather than deporting him?
Democratic New York Rep. Tom Suozzi advised Americans to "calm down" as President-elect Trump's Cabinet picks continue to raise some concerns. "Let's look at what they're proposing to do and their background, and let the Senate go through their process of vetting these candidates so that they can decide whether or not to give their...
Comedian Dana Carvey knocked his impersonation of billionaire Elon Musk on a recent episode of "Saturday Night Live" during a Friday podcast episode. "I can't do Elon Musk very well," Carvey told David Spade on a recent episode of their podcast Superfly. "But I can do something that sounds not like anything. He has an...
Bernice King, the youngest child of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., said that she's "glad" President-elect Trump's inauguration is on the same day as MLK Day, despite that she didn't want Trump to win the presidential election, The Independent reported. “I’m glad that if it was going to happen, it happened on the King holiday,...
Rep. Jake Auchincloss (D-Mass.) urged the Senate to reject Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Secretary of Health and Human Services in a Friday op-ed for the Boston Globe. “Now Donald Trump is setting Kennedy up to “go wild” as secretary of health and human services. Kennedy is not just unqualified, he is dangerous —...
Former Defense Secretary William Cohen underscored the importance of having women in the military, including in combat roles, as President-elect Trump's pick for Defense secretary has come under fire for suggesting women should be removed from certain military positions. "Women in combat today, they are vital to our defense, and it's not as if we're...
The White House has taken its show largely behind closed doors after Vice President Harris’s stinging defeat to Donald Trump. Harris has all but disappeared from the public eye, jetting off to Hawaii after a few scarce appearances around Washington following her massive loss on Nov. 5. President Biden, meanwhile, managed to keep the press...
President-elect Trump announced that he will nominate Brooke Rollins to be the Secretary of Agriculture on Saturday, building upon a hefty list of Cabinet picks. “Brooke’s commitment to support the American Farmer, defense of American Food Self-Sufficiency, and the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns is second to none,” Trump wrote in a release, lauding...
The Washington Post’s editorial board released an op-ed on Saturday detailing the potential threats to Ukraine and the U.S. if President-elect Trump moves to strike a deal with his Russian counterparts. “The reason for this surge in fighting is clear: Mr. Trump seems inclined to strike a quick deal to end the conflict once he...
President-elect Trump rounded out his health team for his upcoming White House term by announcing his Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Federal Drug Administration (FDA) and surgeon general picks on Friday. In a flurry of administration announcements on Friday, Trump said he tapped Johns Hopkins’s surgeon, Marty Makary, to lead the FDA. The...
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee, and committee member Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-N.M.) condemned President-elect Trump for tapping Project 2025 co-author Russell Vought to serve as the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) during his second administration. “After vehemently denying his links to Project 2025 through...
President-elect Trump's Cabinet and senior staff for his upcoming administration are coming into focus as Democrats prepare for a full minority in both chambers of Congress and The White House. This week's Sunday talk shows are likely to touch on these topics. Florida Rep. Mike Waltz (R) is set to appear on "Fox News Sunday."...
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson said he doesn’t think Elon Musk’s vision for space travel to Mars is realistic during a Friday night episode of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher". “I don't see it happening until governments judge that it's geopolitically in our interest,” he said in conversation with Donna Brazile and Andrew Young. “But...
Democrats must shift their focus from divisive identity politics to practical economic needs, such as helping those without college degrees gain skills and good-paying jobs, reducing the cost of living in key areas, and supporting workers navigating the tensions between family needs and the workplace.
Congressman Sean Casten (D-Ill.) hammered former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) over accusations about his sexual assault allegations and reported drug use detailed in the House Ethics report that he is pushing to have released. “None of us would want to work in an environment where you can commit the crimes that Matt Gaetz is alleged...
