2024 Elections

Donald Trump's choice for defense secretary could wind up deciding who will inherit the MAGA movement, according to a CNN analyst.

The president-elect's first nominee Pete Hegseth appears to be losing support from Republican senators over damaging allegations about excessive drinking and abusive behavior toward women, in addition to questions about his qualifications to lead the Pentagon, and Trump is reportedly considering Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis or Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) to replace him.

Jared Kushner is working "behind the scenes" with Donald Trump's incoming administration, but he isn't expected to take a formal role, according to new reporting.

NBC News reported on Wednesday that Trump's children are "notable absences" from his new team.

A new report detailed how Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of defense, ruined his marriage after repeatedly cheating on his first wife.

Sources revealed to Vanity Fair's Gabriel Sherman that Hegseth admitted to then-wife Meredith Schwarz that he had been unfaithful in November 2008, four years after being wed.

Donald Trump has used a private company to perform background checks on some of his appointees to serve in his Cabinet and refused to sign an agreement that he would let the FBI do the checks.

That ended Tuesday when Trump's transition team finally signed a memorandum of understanding with the Department of Justice, agreeing to allow the FBI to conduct background checks, reported legal analyst Aaron Parnas on Bluesky.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned that it would be "difficult" to confirm former Fox News weekend co-host Pete Hegseth as President-elect Donald Trump's defense secretary.

Graham told CBS News correspondent Scott MacFarlane that recent allegations about Hegseth's treatment of women and alcohol abuse would complicate his confirmation hearings.

New incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) announced to his caucus that he wants the first major budget reconciliation bill in the first 30 days of the new Congress, Politico reported.

The 119th Congress is set to begin on Jan. 3, 2025, and President-elect Donald Trump has a long list of big-ticket items he wants to see Republicans approve.

President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he intends to nominate billionaire investor Steve Feinberg to be the second in command at the Defense Department.

The Washington Post's John Hudson wrote that Feinberg has "investments in companies that maintain Pentagon contracts."

Rep. Richard McCormick (R-GA) told Fox Business that Republicans will desperately need help from Democrats if they intend to cut Social Security and Medicare — both of which are programs Democrats have historically supported.

President-elect Donald Trump has said he intends to extend, and possibly expand, his tax cuts to the wealthy and corporations. The cost of the cuts has been in the trillions, and expanding them would cost the country a little under $5 trillion, experts have calculated.

In a startling power grab, the Republican-led supermajority in North Carolina moved to override a veto by the current governor, Roy Cooper, that would limit the powers of the executive branch.

Slate courts reporter Mark Joseph Stern posted on Bluesky that it was "hugely corrupt power grab."

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) reminded Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) that he once refused to give Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination a hearing after the Kentucky lawmaker suggested Republicans were being treated unfairly with current judicial nominations.

During a Senate floor session on Monday, McConnell said he was alarmed after hearing that two judges might not follow through with plans to retire in light of Donald Trump's victory in the 2024 presidential election.

Immigrants seeking to cross the U.S.-Mexico border wall — which cost an estimated $20 million per mile to build — can wield simple power tools to saw their way through.

That's according to a new article in the Independent, which added that in some southern Arizona sections, severed pillars of the famous border wall can be pushed open by hand. In other sections of the state, the terrain is too rugged to build and the wall stands unconnected.

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) announced Monday that he was officially running to replace Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-NY) as the ranking Democratic member of the House Judiciary Committee.

In a letter to fellow Democrats, Raskin said he based his decision on threats from the "MAGA movement" following the re-election of Donald Trump.

President Joe Biden pardoned his son over the weekend after vowing not to before the election. Since making the promise, Biden has been kicked off the presidential ticket and witnessed a convicted felon being elected to the White House.

So Biden ally Ana Navarro wasn't shocked by the pardon of Hunter Biden after he was convicted of lying on a federal form and tax charges.