Hegseth on Defense Confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks kicked off Tuesday with a feisty showdown between Pete Hegseth and Democrats on the ... 01/15/2025 - 5:30 am | View Link
Pete Hegseth's Calm Defense in Senate Committee Hearing In a critical Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for Secretary of the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth, managed to sidestep major opposition from GOP ... 01/15/2025 - 5:14 am | View Link
After 4-Hour-Plus Hearing, Hegseth Heads to Approval Vote by Senate Secretary of Defense nominee Pete Hegseth faced hours of questioning from Republican and Democrat Senators in the Senate’s Armed Services Committee. “USA ... 01/15/2025 - 5:00 am | View Link
Senate Democrats fail to rattle Pete Hegseth A decade of live television sharpened Pete Hegseth so much so that even Senate Democrats acknowledged his ability to mobilize the talking point during a confirmation hearing before the Armed Services ... 01/15/2025 - 4:48 am | View Link
Trump Cabinet hearings: Who is coming to Capitol Hill this week Republicans have a three-seat majority in the Senate, and nominees only need to reach a simple majority to be confirmed. 01/15/2025 - 4:04 am | View Link
Chris Wright, the fracking company CEO who Trump has nominated to lead the Department of Energy and who had previously claimed “there is no climate crisis,” admitted that climate change is a “real issue” during his confirmation hearings on Wednesday.
Wright, who runs Liberty Energy and is worth $171 million, was tapped in mid-November by Trump, who heralded him as someone who would help lead his administration’s efforts to cut regulations and remove government subsidies for renewable energy.
After 15 months of unceasing destruction in Gaza following the October 7th attack on Isreal and the death of tens of thousands of Palestinians, Israel and Hamas have seemed to reach an agreement on a ceasefire deal.
President-elect Donald Trump confirmed the ceasefire on Truth Social: “WE HAVE A DEAL.” US officials told the Associated Press mid-day Tuesday that the ceasefire would be implemented in the coming days.
The president-elect—who pushed for an invasion of Mexico during his first term—has spent the month leading up to next week’s inauguration posting about inviting Canada to join the United States, refusing to rule out using military force to coerce Denmark into selling (or giving away) Greenland, and pledging to take back the Panama Canal Zone—which the United States gave back as part of a 1979 treaty.
There are holes in Tennessee Republican Congressman Andy Ogles’ personal story.
Some have been relatively harmless fabrications. Ogles claimed to be a scholar of German, Japanese, and Russian and he has repeatedly described himself as an economist. In fact, Ogles took one only one community college course in Elementary Japanese (receiving a B) and one in economics (receiving a C).