The transportation secretary replied to comments from the heads of two major carriers expressing hope for less regulatory oversight in the future. U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg said airline chiefs should use more energy worrying about their passengers than their regulators. During a Nov. 21 news conference, Buttigieg—in an apparent response to Delta Air
‘I don’t know who supports that,’ former White House press secretary says Jen Psaki (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Tuesday questioned the popularity of taxpayer-funded sex-change surgeries for illegal immigrants in federal custody—a policy that Vice President Kamala Harris supported and that advocates have called a “fundamental right.” “There
Without the funds, ‘our ability to respond to new disasters could be jeopardized,’ FEMA’s Deanne Criswell says. The director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) said on Wednesday that her agency needs more disaster-related funding due to back-to-back hurricanes Helene and Milton. In a Senate hearing, FEMA Director Deanne Criswell said that FEMA has
One of the first tasks faced by an incoming president is staffing the Cabinet, the people who collectively are a president’s top advisers and the nation’s highest officials. Most of the members of this group need to be confirmed by the Senate in order to serve in the roles chosen for them by the president.
Gaetz ‘did not want to be a distraction for the Administration,’ Trump wrote on Truth Social Rep. Matt Gaetz at the Republican National Convention (Leon Neal/Getty Images) Outspoken Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew his nomination for attorney general on Thursday afternoon, writing, “There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle.” “I’ll
Rep. Scalise has expressed concerns that the current version of KOSA would give the federal government more censorship power. A coalition of 32 state attorneys general, led by Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, has urged Congress to pass the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) before the end of the 118th Congress, stating that the
The FBI and DHS have said they would be willing to brief the Senate on national security conditions in a classified setting. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and FBI Director Chris Wray declined requests to testify at a Nov. 21 Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee hearing. The Senate committee had called the hearing