Newsweek - 12 hours 17 min ago
Trump touted Bessent as having "long been a strong advocate of the America First Agenda."...
ABC News - 12 hours 19 min ago
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former George Soros money manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction, to serve as his next treasury secretary...
NBC News - 12 hours 25 min ago
President-elect Donald Trump nominated Florida's former top prosecutor Pam Bondi to be attorney general following Rep. Matt Gaetz's withdrawal. Is she better?...
Chicago Tribune - 12 hours 36 min ago
Donald Trump assigned Doug Burgum a singular mission in nominating the governor of oil-rich North Dakota to lead an agency that oversees a half-billion acres of federal land and vast areas offshore: "Drill baby drill."...
Newsweek - 12 hours 37 min ago
Homan, who was named Donald Trump's "border czar," has set his sights on sanctuary cities like Los Angeles.
Quartz - 12 hours 40 min ago
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped former Soros Fund Management chief investment officer Scott Bessent as his next Treasury Secretary, according to multiple reports. Read more...
Newsweek - 12 hours 45 min ago
The Republican senator and Trump critic wrote that Pam Bondi will be a "highly capable leader" for the Department of Justice.
ABC News - 12 hours 49 min ago
RFK Jr.'s controversial views have received criticism since he was picked by Donald Trump to lead HHS -- but he's also receiving support from some unexpected sources.
CNBC - 12 hours 53 min ago
The founder of Key Square Group was deemed a strong favorite to lead the Treasury Department, along with several other contenders.
NBC News - 12 hours 55 min ago
President-elect Donald Trump has tapped Scott Bessent, a key campaign fundraiser, as his pick for Treasury secretary. If confirmed, Bessent will oversee fiscal policies amid ongoing concerns about inflation, a major issue for voters in the recent election.
NBC News - 13 hours 7 min ago
President-elect Donald Trump on Friday asked Scott Bessent, a top fundraiser to his campaign, to serve as secretary of the Treasury Department, two sources familiar with the matter confirmed to NBC News.
The Guardian - 13 hours 7 min ago
Job is one of most powerful in Washington with huge influence over US economy and financial markets Trump's administration and White House staffing picks and likely contenders so far Donald Trump will nominate Scott Bessent, a longtime hedge-fund investor who taught at Yale University for several years, to be his treasury secretary, according to media reports on Friday. The job is one of the most powerful in Washington, with huge influence over America's gigantic economy and financial markets...
NY Post - 13 hours 20 min ago
Bessent, the 62-year-old founder of Key Square Group, has repeated backed the president-elect's pro-tariff stance in a series of op-eds and media appearances over the past year.
The New Yorker - 13 hours 33 min ago
From the daily newsletter: Eric Lach on the state of the hush-money conviction. Plus: Antonia Hitchens reports from Mar-a-Lago; Matt Gaetz and the early lessons of Trump 2.0; and revisionist fantasies in "Wicked" and "Gladiator II."...
The Guardian - 13 hours 35 min ago
I served in Congress,' Gaetz's page says. Trump nominated me to be US attorney general (that didn't work out).' The Florida Republican Matt Gaetz has made his first big move since withdrawing from consideration to be Donald Trump's attorney general by starting an account on Cameo, the website that lets ordinary people pay for video messages from celebrities, dubious or otherwise. The news website Semafor first reported the move on Friday. The revelation came a day after Gaetz...
Forbes - 13 hours 48 min ago
The 2024 election has brought significant changes, with Donald Trump returning to the White House after securing both the popular vote and the Electoral College.
Deadline Hollywood - 13 hours 55 min ago
EXCLUSIVE: Director Matt Tyrnauer is doing a rapid update of his new documentary Carville: Winning Is Everything, Stupid to reflect Donald Trump's win in the presidential election. Deadline has learned the filmmaker quickly assembled a crew to shoot a new interview with the famed Democratic political consultant to include as a coda to the film. […]...
Advocate - 13 hours 58 min ago
Some same-sex couples are worried about the status of their marriages under a new Donald Trump administration. Legal and financial experts don't see an immediate threat to marriage equality, but they recommend some safeguards to put in place.
Daily Signal - 14 hours 1 min ago
"No one has ever been as dangerous to this country as Donald Trump," retired Army Gen. Mark A. Milley told Bob Woodward. The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs... Read More The post Democrats: Trump = Hitler? Never Mind! appeared first on The Daily Signal .
Boston Herald - 14 hours 13 min ago
He's been helping Donald Trump's most contentious Cabinet picks try to win confirmation in the Senate.
Newsweek - 14 hours 18 min ago
Former congressman Matt Gaetz withdrew as Trump's attorney general pick following resistance from some GOP senators.
Newsweek - 14 hours 28 min ago
Comcast will move cable news channels CNBC and MSNBC, along with other TV brands, into a new company tentatively named SpinCo.
Daily Signal - 14 hours 31 min ago
We are witnessing a historic counterrevolution after President Donald Trump’s victory, far different from his first election in 2016. The orthodox and the supposed scripted... Read More The post The Trump Counterrevolution is a Return to Sanity appeared first on The Daily Signal .
Newsweek - 14 hours 32 min ago
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to release the remaining files related to President John F. Kennedy's assassination.