Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., was frustrated with Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., after he blocked a confirmation vote for John Ratcliffe as CIA director.
An award winning Tejano singer that is mulling a political future in Texas has a social media history full of vulgar and racially charged posts with some directed at Trump.
President Trump has directed that all employees in diversity, equity and inclusion roles be put on paid leave, a memo from the Office of Personnel Management shows Tuesday.
The prosecution of some protesters who were at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was obsessive and political. Some pardons of nonviolent offenders were justified and, indeed, were needed to undo the damage their hounding has done to the First Amendment. However, President Donald Trump went much too far in issuing a blanket pardon to […]
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) sharply criticized President Trump for issuing a sweeping pardon to nearly all defendants charged in connection to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. Schiff, a former member of the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack, called the move a "grotesque display" of power in an interview on MSNBC's...
President Trump signed a flurry of executive orders on immigration on his first day in office, taking a number of actions that would severely restrict immigration while driving a greater military presence at the border. The actions make major cuts to pathways to reach the U.S. — including the broadly supported refugee program for those...
Former District of Columbia police officer Michael Fanone, who was attacked by rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol, said Trump's pardon of rioters has left him feeling betrayed. "I have been betrayed by my country, and I've been betrayed by those that supported Donald Trump, whether you voted for him because he promised...
President Trump on Monday, in his first executive order, revoked dozens of Biden-era actions, including one that allowed members of the transgender community to serve in the military. In a signing ceremony before supporters at Capitol One Arena, Trump revoked Executive Order 14004, signed by his predecessor, former President Biden, in January 2021. The Biden...
President Trump is tapping a number of officials to serve as acting department heads as he waits for the Senate to confirm his Cabinet nominees. While some acting heads will only serve for a short time until their permanent successors are confirmed, others could be in their jobs for some time. Here’s a look at...
President Trump's Inauguration lunch brought together lawmakers, Cabinet nominees, Supreme Court justices and distinguished guests Monday afternoon, in a quadrennial tradition that takes place after the swearing-in ceremony. The attendees — a who’s who of Washington figures — noshed on crab cakes, ribeye steak and ice cream while sipping on wine and chatting in Statuary Hall,...
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said on Monday that he doesn’t know that “the extent of the pardons” granted by Biden was “necessary.” Murphy told reporters that he has “real sympathy for the position that Trump has put Biden and his and his family.” “There are real unique threats that are presented to the Biden family...
When President Biden walked through the Capitol on Monday with mere minutes left in his presidency, a reporter asked how he was feeling. “Well,” he replied as he made his way throughthe corridors together with his predecessor and successor, Donald Trump, the man he has repeatedly said is a danger to democracy. Aides and longtime...
The Senate Armed Services Committee on Monday voted to advance Pete Hegseth, President Trump’s nominee to serve as secretary of Defense, to the floor. The 14-13 vote was strictly along party lines. Senators on the Armed Services panel also voted to waive the seven-day rule that usually requires at least a week to elapse between...
Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) called his preemptive pardon from former President Biden, announced Monday for all past members of the now-defunct House. Jan. 6 committee in the final moments of his presidency, "unnecessary" and "unwise." “I continue to believe that the grant of pardons to a committee that undertook such important work to uphold the...
John Ratcliffe took a step closer to being confirmed to lead the CIA on Monday as the Senate Intelligence Committee advanced his nomination. The panel advanced his nomination 14 to 3 shortly after President Trump was sworn into office. All three "no" votes were cast by Democrats. The vote comes days after Ratcliffe’s confirmation hearing,...
President-elect Trump campaigned on leaving abortion decisions to the states, but that could prove a tough promise to keep as he returns to the Oval Office. Anti-abortion groups want Trump to quickly take executive action to re-impose federal restrictions from his first term; Republicans in Congress are poised to send him new abortion legislation; and his...
