President-elect Donald Trump has laid out an ambitious agenda that he has promised will go into effect on Jan. 20, the day he will be sworn into office for his second term.
President-elect Donald Trump’s recipe for victory in Tuesday’s election was built on his ability to improve his support from 2020 with several different demographic groups, exit polls show.
Donald Trump's pick to lead the Justice Department, Pam Bondi, faced questions on Capitol Hill Wednesday over her loyalty to the Republican president-elect, who has vowed to use the agency to pursue revenge on his perceived political enemies. The former Florida attorney general and corporate lobbyist told lawmakers on the Senate Judiciary Committee that politics would play no part in her decision-making as the country's chief federal law enforcement officer, but also refused to rule out the potential for investigations into Trump's adversaries. If confirmed to lead the department that charged the once and future president in two separate criminal cases, Bondi would become one of the most closely scrutinized members of Trump's cabinet.
The case sets up an early test of how Trump’s pick to chair the agency — Paul Atkins — would navigate potential clashes with the incoming president's allies.
Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees for key roles in the intelligence, foreign policy and law enforcement agencies all pledged to keep politics out of their offices amid concerns from Democrats that the president-elect will carry out his vows to go after his political enemies once in office.
Husham Al-Husainy, a Muslim cleric from Michigan, was reportedly tapped to deliver a benediction at President-elect Trump's inauguration after a series of controversial remarks.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer wants a fresh start with President-elect Donald Trump but also warns that she won't back down over tariffs that she believes would hurt the auto industry in her state. The second-term governor will give her first major speech Wednesday since Trump's victory over Vice President Kamala Harris, for whom Whitmer campaigned across the Midwest. Whitmer faces a more challenging political landscape than other rising Democrats who could run for president in 2028.
The Georgia Ethics Commission voted unanimously on Wednesday to fine two advocacy groups that were founded by Democrat Stacey Abrams and led by Raphael Warnock before voters elected him to the U.S. Senate. The commission found that the New Georgia Project and its affiliated New Georgia Project Action Fund illegally did election work for Abrams and others without disclosing their campaign contributions and spending. The groups' current leadership admitted 16 instances of illegal activity in a consent decree and will pay a $300,000 fine, the largest in state history according to the commission's director, David Emadi.
Tech billionaire Elon Musk is expected to get an office space in the building adjacent to the White House, as he prepares to take the helm of President-elect Trump’s newly created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), according to a New York Times report on Monday. The office space would be in the Eisenhower Executive Office…
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), who was tapped by President-elect Trump for Secretary of State, testified Wednesday morning before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a confirmation hearing. Rubio, who has represented Florida in the upper chamber since 2011, was a notable rival of Trump’s in the 2016 election, but has since become an ally. The…
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the State Department, is expected to tell his Senate colleagues Wednesday morning that the incoming administration will place American interests “above all else.” “Placing our core national interests above all else is not isolationism,” Rubio will tell members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, according to…
As President-elect Donald Trump plans bold moves for his first days in office, so too are conservative lawmakers in Wyoming, the first state where Trump-friendly Freedom Caucus members have won control of a statehouse chamber. It marks a big test for the Freedom Caucus movement, which has spread from Washington to a dozen state capitols during the past decade, including to Missouri and Oklahoma last year. With the start of Wyoming’s legislative session Tuesday, the Freedom Caucus majority in the House starts the clock on an aggressive agenda to pass five priority bills in 10 days targeting immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, dismantling diversity initiatives, prohibiting state investments that prioritize green energy over fossil fuels, and cutting property taxes.
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul pitched voters on a series of populist economic policies — floating proposals to hand out free money, slash taxes and fight hedge funds — in a speech Tuesday aimed at cleaning up the kitchen table issues that damaged Democrats in November. In her annual State of the State address in Albany, Hochul, a moderate Democrat, sought to recalibrate after a bruising election for her party, outlining measures to address the economic concerns that helped President-elect Donald Trump win the White House.
Jonathan Turley says volume one of Jack Smith’s final report on his investigation into President-elect Donald Trump was more about "defending himself" than the case.
Republican state Senate Minority Leader Aric Nesbitt announced his candidacy, becoming the first major party candidate in Michigan to launch a gubernatorial campaign in the race to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.
Americans are split between excitement and fear over President-elect Trump’s return to the White House next week, according to a survey released Tuesday. The new USA TODAY/Suffolk University poll found that the incoming president has generated strong feelings right before his second foray into the Oval Office with 31 percent of respondents saying they felt…
The Justice Department released special counsel Jack Smith’s report on President-elect Trump‘s election interference case, just days before he returns to the White House. Smith defended his investigations into Trump in the final report, released publicly early Tuesday morning, saying his determinations were free from political interference and that, if permitted to proceed, his cases would have…
The first part of former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s report on his now-closed investigations into President-elect Trump was released Tuesday, days before he will be sworn into office.
President-elect Trump called former Special Counsel Jack Smith "desperate" and "deranged" for releasing his "fake findings" early Tuesday morning after the Justice Department released Smith's report.
Several GOP Senate incumbents are already staring down the threat of primary challenges next year as friction builds between the MAGA and establishment wings. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), who plans to run for reelection in 2026, is facing a possible primary challenger in Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a longtime ally of President-elect Trump. Meanwhile,…
The Senate battle to confirm President-elect Trump’s Cabinet picks will begin in earnest on Tuesday, as his controversial pick to lead the Pentagon, former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, meets the Senate Armed Services Committee. Trump himself will take the oath of office on Jan. 20, and he’s hoping to have some of his team…
Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff’s first reelection bid, set to be a marquee 2026 Senate race, has both parties sharpening their knives. The GOP sees his seat as one of the best opportunities to knock off an incumbent, particularly after President-elect Trump won the state last year. But Democrats see Ossoff as a strong incumbent…
Special counsel Jack Smith defended his investigations into President-elect Trump in a final report released publicly early Tuesday morning, saying his determinations were free from political interference and that, if permitted to proceed, his cases would have likely secured a conviction. Smith made the claims both in a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and…
Ad wars in the hotly contested race for control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court are beginning. Republican-backed candidate Brad Schimel is launching a $1.1 million television ad buy statewide on Tuesday, marking the first spending on TV ads in the closely watched race in the presidential swing state. If Crawford wins, liberals will maintain their 4-3 majority until at least 2028.
Donald Trump Jr. announced Monday he is joining Kalshi, a prediction market that allows users to bet on political developments, as a strategic adviser. “On Election night at Mar-a-Lago, while biased outlets called the race a coin toss, my family and close friends used the prediction market @Kalshi to know we won hours ahead of…
CNN's Jake Tapper called out President Biden on Sunday for his claim that Vice President Kamala Harris could have beat President-elect Donald Trump, despite her loss.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) slammed President-elect Trump for politicizing the Los Angeles wildfires and said he is “threatening our first responders.” In an interview with NBC News’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Newsom continued his criticisms of Trump as the fires continue burning the populated neighborhoods in California. Newsom was asked about Trump blaming…
LIBERTY, N.C. - A small town that voted overwhelmingly for President-elect Donald Trump may not seem like an ideal place for President Joe Biden to hold up as a jewel of his economic legacy. But as the president prepares to leave office, the White House is looking to communities like this former textile town outside Greensboro to validate the “Bidenomics” agenda that voters soundly rejected in November. In a Dec. 10 speech on the economy, Biden praised a $13.9 billion electric vehicle plant that
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