Two more of President Trump's Cabinet picks, Doug Collins and Elise Stefanik, will receive confirmation hearings on Tuesday. His Treasury nominee, Scott Bessent, will get a committee vote.
President Trump's famous "Diet Coke Button" was spotted on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office at the White House again on Monday after the inauguration.
Donald Trump supporters who attended the president's inauguration parade share their experiences of braving the cold in the nation's capital for President Trump's inauguration.
States and municipalities are preparing to take the lead on climate action in a second Trump term as they brace for an administration likely to be less climate-focused and sometimes antagonistic to their efforts. President-elect Trump has falsely referred to climate change as a “hoax” and vowed to promote policies boosting fossil fuels — the...
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) took aim at tech mogul Elon Musk for saying that any lawmaker supporting the continuing resolution for the newly unveiled end-of-the-year funding deal should be voted out of office. "Democrats and Republicans spent months negotiating a bipartisan agreement to fund our government. The richest man on Earth, President Elon Musk, doesn’t...
Vice President-elect JD Vance met with Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Wednesday night, hours after President-elect Trump torpedoed the GOP leader’s spending deal. Vance was in Johnson’s office for nearly an hour, as a handful of Republican lawmakers huddled to discuss government funding and Friday’s looming shutdown deadline. Emerging from that meeting, Vance said the...
Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) said that House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) will end up with a good spending deal even as Republicans, including President-elect Trump and his allies, slam the current version of the package. The speaker is looking at a plan B to fund the government ahead of Friday's shutdown, which could include a...
A Manhattan judge on Wednesday issued an order for Rudy Giuliani to appear before him to face claims that he should be held in contempt after months of failing to turn over his assets to two Georgia poll workers who won a $146 million defamation lawsuit. Judge Lewis J. Liman in Manhattan signed the order calling...
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle appeared caught off guard on Wednesday as President-elect Trump demanded that a debt ceiling hike be paired with a stopgap government funding bill, rejecting a sweeping bipartisan plan to avert a government shutdown this week. Trump said in a joint statement with Vice President-elect J.D. Vance said that while...
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) poked fun at President-elect Trump's encouragement for her to "keep trying" after the congresswoman lost the vote to be the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Accountability Committee in the upcoming Congress. "You know it’s bad when even Trump is feeling bad for me," Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a post on...
Senate Republicans from regions affected by hurricanes and other storms are warning negotiators against stripping disaster funding from the stopgap spending bill that is suddenly in turmoil after President-elect Trump heavily criticized Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) plan. Multiple Republicans indicated that they would hold up any bill that does not include more than $100 billion...
Outgoing Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) quipped Wednesday evening that Republicans may be in for more turmoil next year after President-elect Trump threw the year-end spending debate into chaos by coming out against a stopgap spending bill negotiated by congressional leaders “Oh, this is the way it’s going to be next year,” McConnell told...
The Wisconsin assembly is slated to introduce a new committee modeled after the federal Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) which was created to reduce “wasteful spending.” State Assembly Speaker Robin Vos (R) said he would make strides toward the same goal for the Badger State through the Governmental, Oversight, Accountability and Transparency Committee (GOAT). “I...
The White House on Wednesday blasted President-elect Trump and Republicans for sinking a proposed government spending deal, raising the possibility of a shutdown. “Republicans need to stop playing politics with this bipartisan agreement or they will hurt hardworking Americans and create instability across the country,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. ...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) suggested Wednesday that Democrats will oppose any federal spending bill that strays from the bipartisan deal announced a day before, accusing GOP leaders of reneging on the agreement at risk of a government shutdown. In a brief statement, Jeffries invoked the growing conservative outcry over the negotiated continuing resolution...
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, pledged to support efforts to reimpose restrictions on the abortion pill mifepristone if Trump wants to. Hawley told reporters Wednesday he suggested to Kennedy during a Tuesday meeting that “it would be a wise...
