Cruz declines to back Gaetz before Senate holds confirmation hearing Republicans have a comfortable three-seat majority in the Senate, but there is no guarantee every Republican will be on board with Trump's pick. 11/14/2024 - 3:16 pm | View Link
How Donald Trump Outperformed Ted Cruz in Texas The Texas senator was reelected by a nine-point margin, compared to the president-elect's 14-point win in the Lone Star State. 11/9/2024 - 2:53 am | View Link
Ted Cruz beat Colin Allred. Here are some reasons why It didn’t matter. Cruz cruised to victory on a red wave led by the indomitable Donald Trump, who stormed to another term as president. Here’s why Allred lost. Trump blazed to victory in Texas, beating ... 11/8/2024 - 11:59 am | View Link
Donald Trump and Ted Cruz scored big wins in Texas, but the president-elect outperformed the senator on his own turf Cruz beat his challenger by 9 points, while Trump prevailed over his by 14 points. Still, Cruz performed better this year than he did in 2018 ... 11/8/2024 - 11:13 am | View Link
Ted Cruz's Daughter Says 'Don't Clap For That' About Trump Getting Re-elected in Viral Moment When her father says, "I hope and pray Donald Trump will be re-elected as the president of the United States," she grimaces in disgust. 11/8/2024 - 8:37 am | View Link
Donald Trump’s nephew Fred Trump III doesn’t expect to be invited to his uncle’s inauguration this time around. He did, after all, write a book exposing some of the president-elect’s unsavory behavior, including the Donald telling Fred he should let his disabled son, William, die.
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But Fred Trump still plans to spend time down in Washington, DC, in the coming years to push for progress on disability issues.
Donald Trump has made it clear that there are groups he’d like to punish.
Much attention has been paid to his planned crusades for his next term against immigrants and trans people. But less discussed has been another group on the list: protesters. Building off the bipartisan crackdown on anti-war student dissent last year, Trump has made clear he hopes to discipline, and potentially prosecute, civil disobedience with increased force.
Last May, he promised a group of donors that “any student that protests, I [will] throw them out of the country.” Trump hoped this would serve as a warning.
Public health experts, physicians, and scientists responded with fury and disgust to the news that Donald Trump will nominate anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be the secretary of Health and Human Services. If Kennedy—who has also promoted dangerous and ludicrous ideas about fluoride, 5G technology, and the causes of HIV/AIDS, among innumerable other pseudoscientific claims—assumes the position, “the damage he could do is near infinite,” warns Dr.
When the Fair Labor Standards Act was signed into law in 1938, first establishing a national minimum wage, it came with an exemption: employers could pay some disabled workers less than minimum wage. The federal exemption still stands, even as many states roll back their versions—and that wage can still be as little as 25 cents an hour.
25 states have since introduced or enacted legislation to phase out this outdated practice.
By COLLIN BINKLEY
WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump’s vision for education revolves around a single goal: to rid America’s schools of perceived “ wokeness ” and “left-wing indoctrination.”
The president-elect wants to forbid classroom lessons on gender identity and structural racism. He wants to abolish diversity and inclusion offices. He wants to keep transgender athletes out of girls’ sports.
Throughout his campaign, the Republican depicted schools as a political battleground to be won back from the left.
By LISA MASCARO
WASHINGTON (AP) — After a resounding election victory, delivering what President-elect Donald Trump and Republicans said is a mandate to govern, an uneasy political question is emerging: Will there be any room for dissent in the U. S. Congress?
Trump is laying down a gauntlet even before taking office challenging the Senate, in particular, to dare defy him over the nominations of Matt Gaetz, Robert F.