President Biden will deliver remarks on Sunday after meeting with Indigenous and other leaders in Manaus, Brazil, and becoming the first sitting United States president to visit the Amazon rainforest. Biden is expected to announce that the U.S. has fulfilled its pledge to increase its international climate finance to more than $11 billion a year by...
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), chair of the House Appropriations Committee, said in an interview Sunday that Republicans should “be working with” President-elect Trump “to try and achieve his objectives.” “As we record this, the Republican majority in the 119th Congress looks like it'll be about the same size as it is in the current Congress...
Alec Baldwin portrayed President-elect Trump’s nominee to lead the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in the latest “Saturday Night Live” episode this weekend. The cold open, set in what looked like the Oval Office, portrayed this past week’s meeting between President Biden, played by Dana Carvey, and President-elect Trump,...
Sen.-elect Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) declined to say on Sunday whether he intends to vote to confirm President-elect Trump's pick to lead the Pentagon, former Fox News co-host Pete Hegseth, saying he will allow him to explain his controversial past comments. In an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union,” anchor Jake Tapper noted that Hegseth...
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) said Sunday that his “bias would be to vote for the people that President Trump wants” for the upcoming administration. "My bias would be to vote for the people that President Trump wants to serve [by in his] administration," Johnson told NewsNation's Chris Stirewalt on "The Hill Sunday." "Again, as a...
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) said on Sunday that President-elect Trump was in the strongest position of the past three cycles when running for president in 2024. In an interview on CNN's "State of the Union," Fetterman pushed back on the suggestion that Democrats were no longer the party of the working class, saying, "Of course,"...
Within days of Donald Trump winning the White House in 2016, Shinzo Abe, then prime minister of Japan, visited Trump Tower to meet the president-elect. Like one of the Three Wise Men, he came bearing the gift of gold. In this case, gold golf clubs. Thus began a relationship that became the envy of many world leaders, who...