One Democratic senator said she needs to see the background checks on Trump’s incoming Cabinet selections. Multiple Democratic and Republican senators on Sunday signaled they will grill President-elect Donald Trump’s choices to lead the U.S. intelligence community and the Pentagon. Earlier this month, Trump nominated former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard to become his director of
Fred Harris, a former U.S. senator from Oklahoma, presidential hopeful and populist who championed Democratic Party reforms in the 1960s, died Saturday. He was 94. Harris’s wife, Margaret Elliston, confirmed his death to The Associated Press. It was not immediately clear where he died, but he had lived in New Mexico since 1976 and was
Trump’s new Treasury secretary will be at the center of his economic agenda. President-elect Donald Trump confirmed on Nov. 22 his plans to nominate Wall Street billionaire financier Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary. Bessent, 62, the founder of Key Square Group and Trump’s 2024 economic adviser, will serve in one of the most influential economic
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz.—With a population of more than 165,000 people, the Navajo Nation is the largest indigenous reservation in the United States, occupying 16 million acres, about the size of West Virginia. It is a land of stunning desert beauty, with majestic mountains, sandstone canyons and red-rock formations, and highways that stretch for miles with
The agency has 100,000 employees and a $25 billion proposed budget for fiscal year 2025. President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Brooke Rollins to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in his administration. “Brooke’s commitment to support the American Farmer, defense of American Food Self-Sufficiency, and the restoration of Agriculture-dependent American Small Towns is second
Expected policy changes to U.S. public education under the Trump administration will likely involve areas such as universal school choice, critical race theory, transgender ideology, student college debt relief, and higher education accreditation. In addition, the fate of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) itself hangs in the balance—though dismantling it would require an act
Democrat Michael DeFilippo was ordered to serve a year of probation, including three weekends of incarceration, and to pay a fine of $15,000. An ex-Bridgeport city councilman in Connecticut was sentenced to three weekends of incarceration on Nov. 21 in connection with federal election fraud charges. Democrat Michael DeFilippo, 38, pleaded guilty to completing voter