Susie Wilesis a veteran Republican campaign manager - having helped Ronald Reagan and Ron DeSantis get elected as well as Donald Trump in 2016 and 2024. She was the first member of his team to be announced - and becomes the first female chief-of-staff in American history. The 67-y...
The president-elect's pick for Pentagon chief, along with the heads of other military branches, are still waiting Senate confirmation.
Senators received an affidavit Tuesday from a former sister-in-law of the Pentagon nominee alleging his repeat drunkenness and that he was abusive to Samantha Hegseth to the point where she feared for her safety. He and his ex-wife have denied that he was abusive. Meanwhile, the $50,000 ...
A warning of what is to come Ernst has gradually appeared to soften on Hegseth. By Monday, after meeting with him once again, she issued a statement saying they had had “encouraging conversations.” Ernst said Hegseth committed “to completing a full audit of t...
” said former Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James, who led the Air Force during Carter’s tenure as defense secretary as they announced the Pentagon would develop the nation’s first new strategic stealth bomber in decades, the B-21 Raider. It is scheduled to be unveiled to the ...
Along with captured suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he was considered responsible for the September 2001 attacks that destroyed New York's World Trade Center and hit the Pentagon. On Sunday, May 1, 2011, U.S. troops and CIA operatives shot and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan,...
Staunch opponent of the Vietnam War, Gravel was perhaps best known for reading the "Pentagon Papers" into the public record. Ran for Democratic presidential nomination in 2008 on a left-wing, anti-war platform. Briefly achieved viral celebrity due to his pugnacious debate performances and eccentr...
It’s not unusual for military leadership to shift priorities and carry out the mission laid before it by the commander in chief. But so far at the Pentagon, the new administration has seemed to prioritize a key Trump election promise — cracking down on immigration by moving troops and milit...
Democratic Sen. Dick Durbin, the current chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, called Patel “an unqualified loyalist,” and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy on Sunday said Patel’s “only qualification is … he agrees with Donald Trump that the Department of Justice should serve to punish, lo...
It wasn’t until much later, after Patel had risen to top national security positions inside the White House and Pentagon toward the end of the first Trump administration, that Patel’s reaction to the incident fully made sense, the former colleague said. ...