Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin appears on track to become the next Homeland Security secretary this month. He will be taking over a hulking agency that is strained by a government shutdown, on alert for heightened risks from war in Iran, and under pressure to carry out mass deportations. Mr. Mullin’s rise to a Cabinet nomination … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Jeremy Carl, President Donald Trump’s nominee for assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs, withdrew his nomination Tuesday after facing bipartisan criticism over past comments about race, religion and Israel. Carl, a conservative commentator and senior fellow at the Claremont Institute, wrote on X that he … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s Federal Reserve chair nominee, Kevin Warsh, will meet Tuesday with Sen. Thom Tillis, R-N.C., the Republican who has been holding up his nomination amid GOP concerns tied to a criminal probe involving Fed Chair Jerome Powell. Tillis told Fox News Digital he supports Warsh, … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has a confirmation hearing ready to go, and he will have to reckon with an intraparty feud in the process. Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., will soon undergo the rigorous confirmation process in the Senate after … Read more
President Trump gave updates on the war in Iran on Monday, saying he was “disappointed” in the country’s new choice of leadership, the former supreme leader’s son, Mojtaba Khamenei. CBS News congressional correspondent Nikole Killion joins to discuss takeaways from the news conference. Then, Joe Zacks, former deputy assistant director for counterterrorism at the CIA, … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Oklahoma Republican Sen. Markwayne Mullin, President Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the embattled Department of Homeland Security, is a supporter of strict immigration enforcement who, in the last year, has proved invaluable in getting key pieces of the president’s agenda across the finish line. A first-term … Read more
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., will have at least one Democratic “yes” vote in support of his nomination to become President Donald Trump’s next Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary. Trump announced Thursday afternoon that he tapped Mullin to replace outgoing DHS Secretary Kristi Noem, who will leave … Read more
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WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s pick to lead a new Justice Department division dedicated to rooting out fraud said Wednesday he would pursue prosecutions “without fear or favor” as questions grow about how the new unit will operate free of political influence from a White House that has declared a “war on fraud.” The proposed … Read more
Democratic Sen. Bernie Sanders questioned Casey Means, President Trump’s nominee for surgeon general, on whether she believed vaccines caused autism. Sanders said studies showed no link between vaccines and autism, contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s views. Means said “anti-vaccine rhetoric has never been a part of my message.” Source link