Many potential Cabinet members may think twice before giving up board positions that come with lucrative pay.
McConnell knows better than almost anyone what a reprehensible, incompetent, Constitution-crashing boob the former president is. Hiswife resigned from Trump’s Cabinetin protest after Jan. 6. Yet none of that matters to McConnell or, in Trump’s telling, his “China loving wife.” The Associate...
President-elect Donald Trump rode the winds of a populist movement into Washington, D.C., promising to root out money from politics. Yet when picking his Cabinet members, Mr. Trump is surrounding himself with a historic level of wealth that’s at least 50 times greater than the Cabinet that...
his cabinet will be a collection of misfits and misers keeping what is left of the public trough to themselves and their private sector cronies. There will be no “adults in the room” and institutional counters to put up guardrails around him, and he will introduce fickle criteria to his ...
Some Democrats have floated the idea of waiting until after President-elect Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office to send impeachment articles to the Senate. They worry a trial will hinder confirmation of Biden’s Cabinet and his early legislative agenda.—Jacob Pramuk ...
He picked generals to run his foreign policy. He named the Republican National Committee chair, Reince Priebus, as his chief of staff and a former top executive of Goldman Sachs, Gary Cohen, as his top economic adviser. But Trump seems less interested these days in placating establishment ...
Trump has said he rewrote his acceptance speech after the assassination attempt over the weekend and will call for unity and promise to “extend to you a hand of loyalty and friendship.” On Monday he announced he’d picked Sen. JD Vance of Ohio to be his running mate. Me...
We’re chatting with former Cabinet members, chiefs of staff and government leaders from now to Jan. 20 to get a sense of what the incoming administration might face as it takes the reins. Today we’re talking to Samuel Skinner, a corporate attorney who also served as chief of staff to ...
Trump picked up where his vice president left off as he took the mic, ticking through the items he can accomplish if granted another term and highlighting what he’s done so far. He talked about passing a criminal justice bill and health care reforms for veterans, doubling the child tax cr...
Greene said Comperatore, who reportedly shielded his family members from the gunfire, “reminded America what we must be: a people who will do whatever it takes to defend the people and the nation that we love.” In May, Greene faced criticism from other Republicans lawmakers wh...