Trump taps Army, NASA chiefs
President-elect Donald Trump selected leaders for the Army and NASA on Wednesday. Army vet: Daniel Driscoll, an investor and close friend of Vice President-elect JD Vance from Yale Law School, has been tapped to become the next secretary of the
Trump taps former aide Navarro as senior counselor for trade and manufacturing
President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday tapped his once-imprisoned former adviser Peter Navarro to be senior counselor for trade and manufacturing in his next administration. Navarro, 75, who served as director of the White House National Trade Council in Trump’s first
New York’s D’Esposito makes play for top DEA role after failed reelection bid
New York GOP Rep. Anthony D’Esposito is making a play for a job in the incoming Trump administration: the next head of the Drug Enforcement Administration. After losing a reelection bid for his competitive Long Island district, D'Esposito is working
Johnson: No Ukraine aid on year-end spending stopgap
Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday shot down the Biden administration’s request to include $24 billion in Ukraine-related aid as part of an expected short-term spending bill Congress needs to pass by Dec. 20. The Office of Management and Budget included
FEMA officials worry Trump will divert disaster aid to the border
In 2019, then-President Donald Trump took $155 million from the federal government’s main disaster fund and used it to build immigration facilities near the U.S.-Mexico border. Now senior officials with the Federal Emergency Management Agency are expressing concern that Trump