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...
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...
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...
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...
President-elect Trump tapped Brooke Rollins, who served in his first administration as director of the Office of American Innovation and acting director of the Domestic Policy Council, as his agriculture secretary.
Former Rep. Matt Gaetz ditched Washington, for now, but has found another landing spot: joining Cameo, a platform where users pay celebrities to make video messages for them.