As President Donald Trump’s nominees are considered by the U.S. Senate, families are ready to see education secretary nominee Linda McMahon step into the ring to shake up our nation’s education system. What’s one of those moves? School choice. As someone who benefited from school choice by attending private and charter schools and has worked […]
Of all the things that people could be talking about on Inauguration Day, it didn't take long for people to latch onto the attire of Melania Trump, with one point of discussion taking the lead: her hat.
President Trump was sworn into office for a second time on Monday before an audience in the Capitol that included his predecessor, former President Biden, as well as former Presidents Obama, Clinton and George W. Bush and multiple current and former officials and lawmakers. However, a few notable figures decided to skip Trump's inauguration. Here’s...
The Pentagon on Monday swore in Robert G. Salesses as the acting secretary of Defense while President Trump's nominee Pete Hegseth awaits Senate confirmation. Salesses was sworn in just after noon, according to a defense official. NBC News first reported on his swearing-in. Salesses is the deputy director of the Washington Headquarters Services at the...
Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), the two leaders of the now-disbanded Jan. 6 committee, thanked former President Biden for a pardon they said was “not for breaking the law but upholding it.” Just hours before leaving office, Biden announced he would issue pardons for all the members of the committee...
A swath of high-profile Democrats warned President Biden against issuing preemptive and blanket pardons to those seen as Trump's political foes before pardoning Fauci and Milley.