President-elect Donald Trump named Thomas Bossert his deputy for domestic and transnational security priorities, which will be an equal and distinct portfolio from the portfolio given to incoming National Security Adviser Michael Flynn.
The southern California congressman who was on the short list to become President-elect Donald J. Trump’s secretary of state told Breitbart News, when President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pulled his country’s United Nations resolution condemning Israel at Trump’s request, he proved he was a friend of the United States.
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., told the Los Angeles Times that he anticipated the victory of President-elect Donald J. Trump after watched a Trump rally at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania and witnessed the lack of enthusiasm for Hillary R. Clinton.
The Airborne Ranger serving as the U.S. Senator from Arkansas blasted President Barack Obama on Monday for his stage management and failure to veto a United Nations Security Council resolution condemning the State of Israel for its settlements on land it seized after Arab nations attacked it in 1967.
The ranking Democrat members of 16 Senate committees signed a joint statement of principles, released Thursday, regarding vetting of President-elect Donald J. Trump’s nominees requiring Senate confirmation, which pledged to prevent the nominees from committee votes until the FBI finished its investigations and the nominees have completed full financial disclosures.
The report contradicts the popular image of Snowden as a Robin Hood stealing government secrets and sharing them with the uninformed for the greater good.
The chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology ripped into how President Barack Obama’s Energy Department officials tried to destroy the career of scientist Noelle Metting, who testified to his committee about the merits of the Department of Energy’s low-dose radiation program–a program DOE wished to raid to fund climate-related projects.
President-elect Donald J. Trump named Peter Navarro, one the top economic advisers to his campaign, to establish and take charge of the White House National Trade Council, which Trump is creating to develop trade polices, drive export growth, and protect American jobs.
Television star Scott Baio, a rare Hollywood conservative, told Whatever It Takes host Curt Schilling that for Democrats the goal with immigration is always votes during his guest segment on Monday’s program. “I know what the endgame is with illegal
Speaker Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) praised the decision announced Saturday by President-elect Donald J. Trump to choose Rep. Mick Mulvaney (R.-S.C.), who worked closely with the speaker to expand immigration and guest worker programs, to lead Trump’s Office of Management and Budget.
A local newspaper recorded an impromptu talk by President Bill Clinton at the Village Bookstore, in Pleasantville, N.Y.,where he credited the FBI with Hillary Clinton’s loss, and credited Donald Trump with an ability to win votes from “angry, white men.”
Gorka said he was angry because he knows first-hand the quality of the American fighting man and his equipment, but the decisions made at the top chain of command have wasted the blood and treasure spent.
The House Freedom Caucus released a report Wednesday: “The First 100 Days: Rules, Regulations and Executive Orders to Examine, Revoke and Issue,” with more than 200 federal rules and regulations that President-elect Donald J. Trump could wipe off the books as soon as he takes office Jan. 20.
Judicial Watch, the Washington-based government watchdog, released documents with many details redacted that describe “community engagement tours,” including security briefings, in secured areas of at least three major U.S. airports – Los Angeles, Minneapolis and Columbus, Ohio — given to members of the Somali community, including individuals who were the subject of federal investigations, by Homeland Security Officials.
A Capitol Hill source familiar with the request by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for a briefing on Russian cyber-attacks told Breitbart News the Central Intelligence Agency refused the invitation to update members.
“I’m excited to have a highly effective leader in Ronna McDaniel as RNC Deputy Chair and I look forward to her serving as the Party’s Chairman in 2017,” incoming president Donald Trump says.
Two senators filed a bill in the Senate Dec. 9 that would create a pilot program for an innovative technology, Magnetic e-Resonance Therapy, to address medical challenges for veterans with severe brain and emotional injuries. “Our veterans sacrificed everything to
President-elect Donald J. Trump heads into his Jan. 20 inauguration riding a wave of approval from Americans, according to a national Remington Research Group poll conducted Dec. 11 and Dec. 12 with 1,945 voters.
The lone congressman from Montana is being offered the chance to lead the Department of the Interior Tuesday by President-elect Donald J. Trump, according to multiple media reports.
A Democratic member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee told reporters Tuesday that he is preparing a challenge to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s choice for Secretary of State, Exxon-Mobil CEO Rex W. Tillerson.
The incoming Senate Minority Leader told hosts of TV’s CBS This Morning that he is pleased Sen. Mitch McConnell (R.-Ky.) supports calls for a congressional investigation into possible Russian tampering in the 2016 presidential election, but he does not want it to become political, like what happened with Benghazi.
The Kansas congressman who lost his August primary to a challenger backed by the House Republican leadership told Breitbart News Monday that he is ready to lead the Department of Agriculture if asked by President-elect Donald J. Trump.
Senate Democrats, in a preview of the tactics Democrats plan to deploy against incoming president Donald J. Trump, came within two votes of shutting down the federal government in the name of the union coal miners, whose health and pension benefits lose federal support at the end of the year late Friday night.
Conservative columnist Michelle Malkin told Curt Schilling, the host of Whatever It Takes, she was stunned to hear that Mitt Romney is still a candidate to lead Donald Trump’s State Department.
Senate Democrats from coal mining states shamed their Democratic colleagues in joining them in a procedural vote Thursday that would have ended debate on the continuing resolution to extend federal government funding through April over an extension of benefits for out-of-work coal workers.
House Conservatives are trying to play it cool after House Freedom Caucus member Rep. John M. “Mick” Mulvaney (R.-S.C.) met with President-elect Donald J. Trump Monday about his leading Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, one of the most powerful positions in the White House and the federal bureaucracy.
Retired Army Lt. Col. Allen B. West, a former Republican Florida congressman and combat commander in Iraq, who recently met with Donald Trump’s presidential transition team, joined fireballer Curt Schilling on Whatever It Takes Wednesday to talk about his visit to Trump Tower and what Pearl Harbor means now.
The chairman of the Media Fairness Caucus slammed the left-wing bias at mainstream news outlets, especially after the election of President-elect Donald J. Trump, Wednesday from the House floor.
“Sergeant Bergdahl betrayed his fellow soldiers and put the lives of American troops at risk when he walked off his post,” Buchanan, an Air Force veteran, says. “He needs to be held accountable and face a court-martial for desertion. Failure to do so would send a horrible message to all of the soldiers who sacrifice so much in the service of their country.”
House Republicans and House Democrats came together to block a privileged motion by members of the House Freedom Caucus aimed at forcing the whole House to vote on the impeachment of IRS Commissioner John Koskinen.
Setting up a possibly awkward situation for incoming administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump, the Senate Foreign Relations voted unanimously Tuesday to approve Montenegro’s entry into the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, moving forward a process that became during the under
The South Carolina congressman who visited with the Presidential transition team Monday about a job as White House budget chief, is circulating a letter among House colleagues demanding Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R.-Wis.) bring a “clean” continuing resolution for a vote.
The Southern California Republican congressman being considered for Secretary of State told Breitbart News that President-elect Donald J. Trump sent the right message when he accepted a congratulatory call from Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen Friday, despite the uproar from Red China and America’s left-wing commentariat.
Capitol Hill conservatives allowed Democrats to strip the “Russell Amendment” out of the Pentagon’s fiscal year 2017 budget during conference negotiations after Vice-President Michael R. Pence and other members of the presidential transition team assured them that the incoming administration will restore protections for religion and conscience stripped by President Barack Obama.
The Senate overwhelmingly voted to extend economic sanctions against the Islamic Republic of Iran for 10 years, 99-0, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) the lone senator missing Thursday’s vote that sets up a confrontation with President Barack Obama.
Charles Pinck, president of The OSS Society, said: “General Donovan said OSS personnel performed ‘some of the bravest acts of the war.’ We are very grateful to Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the bills’ sponsors in the House and Senate, and the 393 cosponsors from both bodies for recognizing their bravery with a Congressional Gold Medal.”
Jim Jordan says the election of Donald J. Trump as president in November was not a signal that it was now acceptable to return to business as usual. “That’s my big concern. And, that’s why we have to focus on doing what we told the voters we would do, doing what they sent us here to do,” he said.
Rep. Mark Meadows says House conservatives seek to give the incoming administration space to operate as they settle in their offices and in their focus. “We see our role as being ready and prepped for them.”
Tim Ryan says he’ll let others speculate why one-third of the caucus supports his challenge. Going into the next session of Congress, the Republicans hold 240 seats, the Democrats 194, with one seat to be decided in a run off. Of the 23 most contested seats in 2016, Republicans won 15.
Capitol Hill conservatives are preparing for a fight over funding the federal government after the current funding legislation expires Dec. 9, as President Barack Obama and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) take their last bite from the apple before both men return to private life.
