The SenateconfirmedElaine Chao to serve as transportation secretary on Jan. 31, 2017. Chao served as labor secretary under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. She was the only Cabinet member to serve through his entire two terms in the White House, and the first Asian-American woman...
was one of the longest-serving cabinet secretaries during Trump's administration. He is also allegedly still on the VP short list — Carson remained loyal to the former president after Jan. 6, when several cabinet secretaries resigned in protest, citing theattack on the ...
John C. Calhoun, senator, Cabinet member, vice president … a rival for historically evil influence McConnell once said of Trump: “His behavior during and after the chaos (of January 6) was … unconscionable, from attacking Vice President Mike Pence during the riot to praising the criminals ...
It could be his own vice president and Cabinet, who could threaten to remove him by invoking the 25th Amendment. But institutionally, the people who are supposed to keep him in check in a case like that are members of Congress. “The crucial thing for both the Court and the president is...
Trump exploded at staff and cabinet members, including Secretary of State Rex Tillerson as John Kelly, then the secretary of homeland security, cleared the room of underlings and tried to assert order, sources told the newspaper. The White House did not deny the heated nature of th...
Trump’s post Wednesday alsoechoes a tweet from him in 2018, when Section 702 was last up for reauthorization. Hewound up reversing coursewhen members of his Cabinet and then-Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., rushed to make sure that he supported the bill that his administration had publicly ...
secretary of transportation Pete Buttigieg, the first openly gay cabinet member in American history, who had unsuccessfully sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020. Among Biden’s early goals in foreign policy were to repair frayed relations with several U.S. allies, to cooperate in ...
And Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, New York Rep. Elise Stefanik, former Trump Cabinet official Ben Carson and even former South Carolina Gov.Nikki Haleyare among some of the names on a lengthy list Trump has mentioned over the past several months. Ad Feedback The presumptive GOP nominee is floati...
The result? A White House in which battles between senior staffers or even between the President and members of his Cabinet are the rule rather than the exception. The personalities in the ring rotate but the (in)fighting is constant. ...
Even Republicans are stunned by Trump's Gaetz Cabinet pick: ‘Absolute gut punch’ By NATALIE ALLISON, MEGAN MESSERLY, MERIDITH MCGRAW and LISA KASHINSKY 11/13/2024 04:19 PM EST Updated 11/13/2024 05:50 PM ESTTransition of Power Trump nominates South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem for DHS secret...