As Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent will be fourth in line of presidential succession (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) The Senate voted to confirm Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary on Monday, making him the nation’s highest-ranking gay government official in history. Bessent was confirmed by a vote of 68-29, with 16 Democrats crossing party lines to back the
Scott Bessent, a billionaire investor, was confirmed in a 68-29 vote. The Senate on Jan. 27 confirmed Scott Bessent’s nomination for Treasury Secretary in a 68-29 vote, putting him in a key role in implementing President Donald Trump’s tariff and growth agenda. The billionaire investor will be spearheading Trump’s plan of cutting taxes and curbing
The decision was made after Trump signed an order indicating the United States would pull out of the global health agency. Officials in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) were ordered to stop working with the World Health Organization (WHO), effective immediately, according to a memorandum that was sent out this week.
Both the House and Senate must pass identical budget resolutions in order to unlock the reconciliation process. WASHINGTON—The House GOP will begin its process of passing President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda through reconciliation the first week of February, said House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Jan. 27. Reconciliation allows for Congress to pass legislation related
A Nigerian man was extradited to the U.S. after he was indicted in connection with the sextortion of a South Carolina teen who died by suicide, the Justice Department said Monday. Hassanbunhussein Abolore Lawal, 24, allegedly posed as a young woman on social media and got 17-year-old Gavin Guffey to send him “compromising photos,” the
The executive order covers a range of advanced missile and air defense capabilities. The United States will begin revamping its missile defense capabilities under a new executive order President Donald Trump signed on Jan. 27. Trump’s executive order called for a revamped set of layered missile defense capabilities to defeat ballistic, hypersonic, and advanced cruise
Police found guns and pro-Hamas materials in the home of two students, and the FBI arrested a third for plotting a terror attack on Israeli consulate L: Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (Win McNamee/Getty Images) R: Anti-Semitism lawyer Kenneth Marcus (ed.gov) In recent weeks, local and federal law enforcement officials found guns and pro-terror materials in