Rep. Byron Donalds (R-Fla.) said on Sunday that President-elect Trump will use military assets to execute his mass deportation plan only as an “extreme last resort.” In an interview on ABC News’s “This Week,” host Martha Raddatz asked Donalds to describe in greater detail how Trump plans to carry out his mass deportation plan, which...
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) on Sunday pushed back on the idea that Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's choice for Defense Secretary in his upcoming administration, has an issue with drinking. “Now, if he did have a drinking problem, that would be obvious, but to make something out of it that isn't there just because he's going...
Mayor Muriel Bowser is open to working with the incoming Trump administration to benefit working-class residents of Washington, D.C., with potential areas for collaboration.
President-elect Trump in a new interview that aired Sunday said he couldn't guarantee Americans would not pay more because of tariffs he has pledged to impose on imported goods. Trump, in an interview with Kristen Welker of "Meet the Press," shrugged off repeated warnings from economists that tariffs on Canada, Mexico, China and others would...
President-elect Trump in a new interview signaled he would not move to restrict access to abortion pills upon taking office, even as he acknowledged "things change." "I’ll probably stay with exactly what I've been saying for the last two years. And the answer is no," Trump told Kristen Welker on "Meet the Press" when asked...
President-elect Trump early Sunday called for an "immediate ceasefire" in the fighting between Ukraine and Russia following the fall of the Assad government in Syria and after a meeting in Paris with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. "Assad is gone. He has fled his country. His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not...
Vice President-elect JD Vance backed President-elect Trump’s position on Syria, whose government collapsed as rebels marched into the capital city of Damascus early Sunday morning. “As President Trump said, this is not our fight and we should stay out of it,” Vance said in a post on X Sunday, several hours after rebels took the...
Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Sunday that he believes President-elect Trump will not intervene in Syria. “Donald Trump is always consistent, if there's one thing, that he did not wanna get involved in war. So, I think we should take him at his word on that,” Esper told anchor Jake Tapper on CNN’s “State...