President-elect Donald Trump has made many selections to lead his administration as his transition gets underway, ranging from chief of staff to head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). At the same time, a number of crucial positions have yet to be filled just one week removed from the landslide election.
A former transition official and longtime aide said Michael Flynn fielded thousands of calls during a chaotic transition period.
Rice denied knowing anything about the Obama administration surveilling members of the Trump transition team in a March 2017 interview.
A Politico report states education secretary Betsy DeVos blames the Trump transition team for her confirmation process difficulties that overshadowed the fact she had been recommended for her post by both Jeb Bush and Mike Pence.
North Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-NC) told reporters Monday that unmasking Americans accidentally picked up in intelligence surveillance for partisan reasons is wrong.
Democrats are running a smear campaign against House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA), after he revealed last week that members of Trump’s transition team were caught up in “incidental surveillance” targeting foreigners.
James Rosen of Fox News reports that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee will be presented with “smoking gun” evidence that “the Obama administration, in its closing days, was using the cover of legitimate surveillance on foreign targets to spy on President-elect Trump.”
Dr. Ben Carson will testify at Thursday’s hearing before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on his nomination to become Secretary of Housing and Urban Development that growing up poor in Detroit gave him a unique understanding of the job for which he is being considered.
On Friday, the Washington Post declared “the honeymoon seems to be ending between retired Gen. James N. Mattis and Donald Trump’s transition team amid an increasingly acrimonious dispute over who will get top jobs in the Defense Department — and who gets to make those decisions.”
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana – In an open letter to President Barack Obama, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio and 30 other “sanctuary city” leaders across the country asked for further protections for illegal immigrants before President-Elect Donald Trump takes office.
New Mexico’s secretary of education is reportedly being considered for a top post in the Trump administration’s Education Department.
President-elect Donald Trump will meet with two former GOP Primary rivals, Carly Fiorina and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, on Monday in New York City at Trump Tower, according to his transition team.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence met with former Secretary of State Condoleezza “Condi” Rice in the Washington, D.C., transition office on Wednesday to discuss bringing her on board the new administration.
