Nominee for secretary of the Department of the Treasury Scott Bessent has vowed that when President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House, he will unleash “a new economic golden age.” Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager, appeared before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing in Washington on Jan. 16. Democrats asked questions
If confirmed by the Senate, Troy Meink will succeed Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall. President-elect Donald Trump said on Thursday that he has chosen Troy Meink, a former Air Force navigator and instructor, to become the next U.S. Air Force secretary. Trump stated that Meink currently serves as principal deputy director of the National Reconnaissance
Washington — South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the sprawling Department of Homeland Security, is set to field questions from lawmakers on Wednesday at her Senate confirmation hearing. She will be appearing at 9 a.m. before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, which has jurisdiction over the DHS
Washington — President Biden announced Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, using his final days in office on a flurry of clemency actions meant to nullify prison terms he deemed too harsh. The recent round of clemency gives Mr. Biden the presidential record for most
The move marks the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. President Joe Biden said on Jan. 17 that he is commuting the sentences of nearly 2,500 individuals, marking the largest single-day act of clemency in modern history. The latest pardons are being granted to people who were convicted of non-violent drug offenses and
The 47th president is poised to issue many more executive orders than his recent predecessors. President-elect Donald Trump is poised to issue a record-breaking number of actions immediately after his inauguration on Jan. 20. Stephen Miller, Trump’s incoming deputy chief of staff, has said that Trump would make more than 100 executive actions within the
“A has power over B,” said the political scientist Robert Dahl, “to the extent that he can get B to do something that B would not otherwise do.” In Washington’s new power equation, “A” is Donald Trump and “B” is everyone else. He has spent nearly a decade in presidential politics, remade the Republican Party