Mr Trump had four press secretaries during his first term in office:Sarah Sanders,Stephanie Grisham, Kayleigh McEnany andSean Spicer,who resignedafterfalsely claimingthat Mr Trump's inauguration attracted the largest audience ever. Chris Wright Image:Chris Wright. File pic: AP The oil and g...
The Trump transition team has not said whether it has asked any Pentagon officials from the Biden administration to stay on a temporary basis. Secretary Kathleen Hicks, the deputy Defense secretary is in the line of succession after Austin, then the military services secretaries, follo...
Trump turns to 3 longtime senior civilians to serve as acting secretaries of US military branches 上午5:11 GMT+8 The Inauguration Day lunch is ending 上午5:07 GMT+8 What Melania Trump wore to the inauguration — including the hat 上午5:00 GMT+8 Trump’s press team starts settling in at...
Donald Trump has said he believes his NATO allies should be spending at least 5% of national income on their militaries. Sir Keir Starmer's government has yet to say by when it expects UK defence spending to inch up to 2.5% from around 2.3%....
After the events of January 6, Forbes editor Randall Lane announced that his publication would scrutinize companies that hire Trump's former press secretaries: "Forbes will assume that everything your company or firm talks about is a lie. We're going to scrutinize, double-check, investigate ...
There are just over4,000 political appointments to be made by the incoming Trump administration. About 1,200 of them will require Senate confirmation — the Cabinet secretaries and their deputies, as well as those appointees who will head independent agencies, like the CIA and EPA, for instance...
Trump says he’ll be leaving his businesses, announces official nominations for treasury, commerce secretaries 11:10 p.m. ETThedeliberations continuefor Donald Trump over who should be his top cabinet pick,Secretary of State. An announcement may not come until next week. ...
President Trump’s confirmation process continues to lag relative to President Obama’s. After 100 days, all of President Trump’s cabinet nominees have been confirmed. However, the administration is responsible for nominating 556 key positions, including most of the deputy and under-secretaries of ...
“Don’t the assistants of your secretaries buy things like that?” I say. “Not this one,” he says. Or perhaps he says, “Not this time.” I can’t recall. He is a big talker, and from the instant we collide, he yammers about himself like he’s Alexander the Great ready to ...
Most Secretaries of State have balked at the idea of striking a presidential candidate on their own. Minnesota Secretary of State Scott Simon, a Democrat, said in a statement last week that his office can't take such action on its own and could only do so if compelled by courts. ...