President-elect Trump said Tuesday he is nominating television personality and Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) administrator. Oz unsuccessfully ran for Senate in Pennsylvania in 2022 with Trump's endorsement and has been a Trump ally ever since. The CMS administrator is a Senate-confirmed position. “There may...
A Walmart executive warned that President-elect Trump’s plans to raise tariffs on imports could drive the retail giant to increase the price of store items. “We never want to raise prices,” John David Rainey, the company’s CFO said in an interview with CNBC on Tuesday. “Our model is everyday low prices. But there probably will be cases where prices will go up for consumers.”...
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Tuesday rejected the idea that voters delivered an Election Day mandate to Donald Trump and the Republicans, arguing that the GOP’s razor-thin majority in the House means that nothing will get done in Washington without Democratic support. “Despite the claims of some of my Republican colleagues, who have...
The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation Tuesday to increase lease sales for geothermal energy production. The bill seeks to speed up the permit process.
A prominent economist trying to influence the incoming Trump administration is facing criticism from conservative groups over his organization's liberal donors.
Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla., questioned how FEMA could continue to confidently claim no political discrimination within the agency without a complete investigation.
Texas is offering President-elect Donald Trump more than 1,400 acres to help facilitate the mass deportation operation he intends to launch when in office next year.
DePaul University student beaten unconscious has retained top Jewish civil rights law firm the Lawfare Project to hold his assailants and the school accountable.