Comment on Senate Probe Finds Huge Secret Service Errors

This article is part of The D. C. Brief, TIME’s politics newsletter. Sign up here to get stories like this sent to your inbox. As far as scripted set pieces of American politics go, the first photo-op in the hand-off of power between one White House and the next is up there. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] There are moments of cringe, as was the case in 1980 when Ronald Reagan peppered Jimmy Carter with seemingly ancillary questions to the job they were trading, even as the incumbent rightly suspected someone in Reagan’s camp had worked to extend the Iranian hostage crisis so it would end as soon as Reagan took power.

(NEW YORK) — A judge postponed a decision on whether to undo President-elect Donald Trump’s conviction in his hush money case, after his lawyers called for freezing and ultimately dismissing the case so he can run the country. [time-brightcove not-tgx=”true”] New York Judge Juan M. Merchan had been set to rule Tuesday on their earlier request to throw out his conviction because of a U.

SAN DIEGO — Donald Trump’s first picks for immigration policy jobs spent the last four years angling for this moment. Stephen Miller and Thomas Homan had critical roles in the first Trump administration and are unapologetic defenders of its policies, which included separating thousands of parents from their children at the border to deter illegal crossings.

No sooner had soon-to-be U. S. Rep. Gabe Evans outlined what drives him in public office — his faith, the U. S. Constitution and the needs of his constituents — than a reporter coyly asked him during a post-election news conference Monday when he planned to start fundraising for his 2026 reelection campaign. While delivered with a smile, the question was deadly serious in a congressional district with such an even partisan split that anything could happen to knock the future incumbent off kilter two years from now, as just happened to Democratic first-term Rep.

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