Category: Election 2024

Pres­i­­dent-elect Trump’s team is con­fi­dent that Sen­ate Repub­li­cans will approve his cab­i­net selec­tion – despite some of the picks rais­ing eye­brows from Repub­li­cans and Democ­rats alike. A Trump tran­si­tion offi­cial con­firmed to Fox News that the pres­i­­dent-elect is “con­fi­dent that Sen­ate Repub­li­cans will hold the line.” “Pres­i­dent Trump is con­fi­dent that Sen­ate Repub­li­cans will hold […]

An effort by Sen. Bernie Sanders, I‑Vt., to block cer­tain U.S. weapons sales to Israel was over­whelm­ing­ly reject­ed by the U.S. Sen­ate Wednes­day evening. Sanders’ joint res­o­lu­tion of dis­ap­proval, which was sup­port­ed by Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D‑Md.; Sen. Jeff Merkley, D‑Ore.; and Sen. Peter Welch, D‑Vt., intend­ed to stop the White House­’s lat­est arms […]

Sen. Josh Haw­ley (R‑MO) urged his GOP col­leagues on Wednes­day to give Pres­i­­dent-elect Don­ald Trump‘s Cab­i­net nom­i­nees “a shot” and hear them out dur­ing con­fir­ma­tion hear­ings. Trump has indi­cat­ed he wants to use recess appoint­ments to install Cab­i­net mem­bers, bypass­ing the typ­i­cal process of hear­ings and votes, as not all his picks got a warm recep­tion […]

Con­ser­v­a­tive Repub­li­can Nick Begich will win a tight race for Alaska’s lone seat in the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives, accord­ing to the Asso­ci­at­ed Press. Begich defeat­ed his main rival, Rep. Mary Pel­to­la, D‑Alaska, the first Native Alaskan in Con­gress, and one of only five House Democ­rats cur­rent­ly rep­re­sent­ing a dis­trict won by Pres­i­­dent-elect Trump in 2020. […]

Pres­i­­dent-elect Trump chose for­mer ambas­sador and Rep. Pete Hoek­stra for his pick for the U.S. ambas­sador to Cana­da. “Pete is well-respec­t­ed in the Great State of Michi­gan — A State we won siz­ably. He rep­re­sent­ed Michigan’s 2nd Dis­trict in Con­gress for near­ly 20 years, where he was also Chair­man of the House Intel­li­gence Com­mit­tee, and […]

For­mer talk show host Ellen DeGeneres has report­ed­ly had it with the Unit­ed States and has already moved into a home in rur­al Eng­land with her wife Por­tia De Rossi fol­low­ing Pres­i­­dent-elect Don­ald Trump’s vic­to­ry. Sources with knowl­edge told The Wrap that the 66-year-old comedian/actress and Rossi pur­chased the home in South West Eng­land — […]

Oppo­nents of a defeat­ed Cal­i­for­nia bal­lot mea­sure to raise the state’s min­i­mum wage said vot­ers made the right call in push­ing back against a pro­pos­al that would oth­er­wise have result­ed in high­er infla­tion.  Propo­si­tion 32, which would have raised Cal­i­for­ni­a’s min­i­mum wage to $18 per hour, was nar­row­ly beat­en back as only 49.2% of vot­ers […]

FEMA Admin­is­tra­tor Deanne Criswell spent over five hours on Tues­day tes­ti­fy­ing about an agency supervisor’s direc­tion to relief work­ers to skip homes with Trump signs. But Criswell revealed lit­tle about the scan­dal, instead repeat­ed­ly point­ing to the agency’s “ongo­ing inves­ti­ga­tion.” Law­mak­ers on two Repub­­li­­can-led com­mit­tees grilled Criswell about since-fired FEMA super­vi­sor Marn’i Wash­ing­ton, who told […]

Radio host Char­la­m­agne tha God said New York offi­cials should just throw out their case against Pres­i­­dent-elect Don­ald Trump because he won the elec­tion. Dur­ing his radio show “The Break­fast Club” on Tues­day, the host talked about New York Jus­tice Juan Merchan’s upcom­ing deci­sion on the Trump hush mon­ey case, and said the Man­hat­tan Dis­trict […]

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, whom Pres­i­­dent-elect Don­ald Trump has tasked with run­ning the Depart­ment of Gov­ern­ment Effi­cien­cy (DOGE), laid out their vision in a Wall Street Jour­nal op-ed on Wednes­day. Musk and Ramaswamy said that the way the gov­ern­ment is cur­rent­ly run is “anti­de­mo­c­ra­t­ic and anti­thet­i­cal to the Founders’ vision” because it takes the […]