The Office of Government Ethics is raising alarm over the pace of confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees, saying Saturday that they have yet to receive required financial disclosures for some picks set to come before Congress next week. In a letter to Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., […]
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GOP Threatens To Cut Embassy Defense Budget
WASHINGTON ― Three Republican senators — including two former presidential candidates who’ve long criticized former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton for the attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi — introduced a bill on Tuesday that would halve funds for embassy security, construction and maintenance until the next president moves the U.S. Embassy in […]
Bernie Reveals Giant Trump Tweet On Senate Floor
Bernie Sanders spoke on the Senate floor on Wednesday to urge Donald Trump to veto any cuts to Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid—and used one of the President-elect’s own tweets to prove his point. As lawmakers debated the repeal of Obamacare, Sanders pointed out that Trump had previously said he would not cut the services […]
House Reverses Course On Gutting Ethics Office
WASHINGTON — After public denunciations from watchdogs and criticism from President-elect Donald Trump, House Republicans on Tuesday reversed course and dropped plans to gut an independent agency that polices potential ethical wrongdoing by lawmakers. The controversy over GOP plans to sharply curtail the powers of the Office of Congressional Ethics overshadowed the opening day of Congress, […]
Obama Continues To Empty Gitmo Of Terrorists Despite Trump’s Warning
President-elect Donald Trump urged President Obama to hold off on any final transfers from Guantanamo Bay, saying Tuesday that the detainees still being held are “extremely dangerous people.” The administration has signaled it is trying to transfer nearly 20 of the remaining detainees before Mr. Obama leaves office, making as much headway as possible on […]
Obama Takes To Twitter To Defend His Legacy
Barack Obama on Sunday used Twitter, a medium notoriously favoured by the man who will succeed him in the White House, to tout his achievements in office. “As we look ahead to the future,” Obama wrote in his first tweet, “I wanted to take a moment to look back on the remarkable progress that you […]
Leaked Snowden Documents Lend Credence To Russian Hacking
U.S. intelligence officials appear certain that Russia was responsible for interfering in the presidential election — though they haven’t fully detailed how they know. But a classified document leaked by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden reveals that they’ve tracked Russian hacking before and that the information they gleaned may have helped this time around. Russian […]
Presidential Transition Turns Adversarial Between Trump And Obama
President Barack Obama and his successor Donald Trump are making moves that tread on each other’s turf and complicate the other’s agenda, creating one of the messiest White House transitions in recent years. Since Election Day, Mr. Obama has taken some of the most far-reaching actions of his eight-year presidency, leaving Mr. Trump to manage […]
Donald Trump Says “No Way” Obama Would Have Won Election
President Obama said that he thinks he would have won against me. He should say that but I say NO WAY! – jobs leaving, ISIS, OCare, etc. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 26, 2016 “I am confident in this vision because I’m confident that if I had run again and articulated it, I think […]
Trump To Enter Into Arms Race With Putin
U.S.-Russia relations will certainly be a major feature of the Trump presidency; the intelligence community has accused Putin’s government of hacking e-mails from Democratic Party officials in an effort to help Trump win the recent presidential election. In 2014, Russia annexed the territory of Crimea from neighboring Ukraine, which triggered several rounds of economic sanctions […]
Sly Stallone Turns Down Position In Trump’s Cabinet
Sylvester Stallone revealed Sunday that he would turn down a position in Donald Trump’s administration. The president-elect was reportedly considering the actor for chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency tasked with funding artistic endeavors that was founded by Congress in 1965. “I am incredibly flattered to have been suggested to be involved […]
Clinton Campaign Implies That Trump Colluded With Russia
WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign chairman said Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign may have colluded with the Russian government over hacked e-mails in an effort to swing the election. “It’s very much unknown whether there was collusion,” John Podesta said on NBC’s Meet the Press. Without pointing a finger directly at Trump, Podesta said any […]