The Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department, former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. He secured confirmation with significant bipartisan support and a 79-18 vote. On Wednesday, senators voted by…
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The top Republican on the Senate’s chief health committee, Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., indicated Thursday during Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s second confirmation hearing of the week that his vote for Trump’s nominee to head Health…
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Conservatives on social media praised Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee for FBI director, after a thorny exchange with Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., during his confirmation hearing on Thursday. That’s a general statement and a…
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Trump FCC chair targets NPR, PBS for investigation ahead of Congressional threats to defund
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched an investigation into media outlets PBS and National Public Radio (NPR) over member stations potentially airing ‘prohibited commercial advertisements,’ according to a letter obtained by The New York Times. …
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Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s pick to head the FBI, pledged Thursday to work with a top Republican senator on exposing who worked with Jeffrey Epstein in trafficking and exploiting children. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn.,…
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President Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel pledged in his confirmation to end the ‘targeting’ of Americans by the government specifically as it relates to citizens who were in the crosshairs of the Biden administration…
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: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Republican senators on Thursday are expected to roll out a measure that would prohibit the use of U.S. foreign aid funds for abortions, Fox News…
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel testified before Senate committees on Capitol Hill on Thursday as urgency builds to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominations. Kennedy, Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health…
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Kash Patel hammers ‘grotesque mischaracterizations’ from Dems amid fiery FBI confirmation hearing
Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, ripped into ‘false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations’ from Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing on Thursday. Patel, a former public defender and DOJ…
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Gabbard sheds light on Assad visit, expresses shock intelligence community showed no interest at the time
Director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard shed further light on her 2017 meeting with then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a trip that has come under the microscope since President Donald Trump nominated the former congresswoman. …