Written by Former Georgia senator Kelly Loeffler expected to be tapped as agriculture secretary Donald Trump is expected to offer Kelly Loeffler, the former Georgia Republican senator, the position of agriculture secretary, CNN and The Hill report. According to people familiar with the matter who spoke to the outlet, Trump is set to meet with Loeffler at […]
Trump announces Pam Bondi as his choice to replace Matt Gaetz as attorney general Trump has announced his choice to replace Matt Gaetz as attorney general: the former Florida attorney general and one of Trump’s defence lawyers. In a statement on Truth Social, he said: I am proud to announce former Attorney General of the […]
National Education Association says nominating McMahon as education secretary shows Trump ‘could not care less about our students’ futures’ The president of the National Education Association (NEA) said that the president-elect’s decision to name Linda McMahon as his pick for education secretary in his upcoming administration, shows “that he could not care less about our […]
The US Congress should investigate China’s purchases of Iranian oil in the past five years, a top US advisory panel on China has urged, with Tehran looming as a larger issue in the next Trump presidency. In an annual report covering nearly every aspect of the bilateral relationship, the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission […]
Jack Smith plans to end prosecutions of Trump, resign before president-elect sworn in – report Justice department special counsel Jack Smith plans to end his two prosecutions of Donald Trump and resign before the president-elect takes office, the New York Times reports. Smith last year indicted Trump for allegedly plotting to overturn his 2020 election […]
Trump announces Elon Musk as Vivek Ramaswamy as heads of Department of Government Efficiency Trump has announced that Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy will lead the Department of Government Efficiency. In a statement, Trump said: I am pleased to announce that the Great Elon Musk, working in conjunction with American Patriot Vivek Ramaswamy, will lead […]
Tom Homan: Trump’s new ‘border czar’ who vowed to ‘run the biggest deportation’ the US has ever seen
In 2018, then acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) Thomas Homan told HuffPost that Congress needed to fix immigration laws because: “I’m the first one to say, I can’t arrest 11 million people.” Now, newly tapped as Donald Trump’s “border czar”, he will be tasked with just that. The president-elect said on Monday […]
Military officials discussing how to respond to illegal orders under Trump – report Officials at the Pentagon are having informal discussions about what to do if Donald Trump were to give an illegal order, such as deploying the military domestically, CNN reports. They are also preparing for the possibility that he may change rules to […]
Donald Trump elected president of the United States Donald Trump has won the US presidential election, the Associated Press reports, with voters overlooking his divisive speeches, felony conviction and three separate criminal indictments to send the Republican former president back to the White House. The AP says he has reached the 270-electoral college vote threshold […]
Republicans win majority in the Senate The GOP has retaken the majority in the Senate, the Associated Press reports, after picking up seats in Ohio and West Virginia, and fending off challenges to their candidates in Texas and Nebraska. Republicans will control Congress’s upper chamber for the first time in four years. Should Donald Trump […]