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Then-presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump with Sen. Bob Corker during a campaign event July 5, 2016, in Raleigh, North Carolina. When Republican Sen. Bob Corker took a stroll by his lonesome along Stringer's Ridge in his home state of Tennessee Sunday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman probably wasn't shocked that at least one fellow hiker on the trail recognized him.
Kris Kobach, the Kansas secretary of state whose hard-line immigration stance has caught the attention of President-elect Donald Trump, could be a candidate for attorney general. Kobach, already a member of Trump's transition team, advised Trump on immigration policy, one of the Republican's top priorities, throughout the campaign and added Trump's promise to build a wall along the southern border to the Republican Party's national platform.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence reportedly ordered the removal of all lobbyists from president-elect Donald Trump's transition team, The Wall Street Journal wrote on Tuesday night. The decision was one of Pence's first since formally taking over the team's lead role.
Noem, the state's only member of the U.S. House, easily won a fourth term last week. She announced the move in a video posted Monday by her gubernatorial campaign, saying she believes in the spirit of "citizen legislators whose temporary service helped found our nation."
The International Bottled Water Association today announced that Terry Clark, chief operating officer of Alaska Glacial Products LLC, based in Anchorage, has won its prestigious Shayron Barnes-Selby / IBWA Advocacy Award. Mr. Clark was handed the award at IBWA's Annual General Meeting as part of the 2016 IBWA Annual Business Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
Washington insiders say the city is just now recovering from the shock of election night. The Trump transition team is described as a continuation of the campaign-a little chaotic, seat of the pants, at times, and the President-elect is making all the calls.
A trio of respected Republicans is pushing for the return of some earmarks to Capitol Hill, saying it's time to restore Congress' full power of the purse - and drawing passionate pushback from conservative groups who say the GOP would betray its voters if it returned to pork barrel spending. A vote on the rules change is expected behind closed doors among House Republicans on Wednesday, and if it's successful, the GOP will try to make a change for the entire Congress.
Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard said Tuesday that he won't pursue an expansion of Medicaid in 2017 after a discussion with Vice President-elect Mike Pence. The South Dakota governor said in a statement that his decision is based on a Monday meeting in which he and Pence talked about the Trump administration's plans for repealing or reforming the Affordable Care Act.
Even with a presumably business-friendly president-elect in Donald Trump, drugmakers that have been battered by criticism over high prices in the past year are bracing for Republican and Democratic lawmakers to take aim at the industry. Although Trump's brief health plan released last week on his transition's website doesn't mention drug prices, he has previously voiced support for having the government negotiate prices in Medicare, and allowing the re-importation of cheaper treatments from other countries -- two proposals the pharmaceutical industry has long opposed.
President-elect Donald Trump is considering an oil billionaire and a North Dakota lawmaker for top posts as he moves to roll back President Barack Obama's environmental and energy policies and allow unfettered production of oil, coal and natural gas. Trump has vowed to rescind "all job-destroying Obama executive actions" and pledges to sharply increase oil and gas drilling on federal lands, while opening up offshore drilling in the Atlantic Ocean and other areas where it is blocked.
Former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. partner Steven Mnuchin has been recommended by Donald Trump's transition team to serve as Treasury secretary, according to two people familiar with the process, and the choice is awaiting the president-elect's final decision. Mnuchin, the campaign's national finance chairman, has been considered the leading candidate for the job.
Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions is the leading candidate for defense secretary in the Donald Trump administration, Politico reported , quoting sources close to the process. The news comes as the Associated Press reported another close Trump ally, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, tops the list for secretary of state.
Sen. Jeff Sessions "is the leading contender for Donald Trump's secretary of defense, sources close to the transition say - a choice that would reward the president-elect's most outspoken congressional loyalist but offer few olive branches to a Trump-wary Republican national security establishment," Politico reports. "The two men haven't seen eye to eye on everything: Session is a budget hawk who favors caps on defense spending, while Trump has called for an arms and troops buildup that could cost $55 billion or more per year.
Donald Trump's transition is being marked by sharp internal disagreements over key cabinet appointments and direction, both for internal West Wing positions and key national security posts, sources involved in the transition team tell CNN. The split has put traditional Republican operatives such as Reince Priebus -- named Trump's chief of staff Sunday -- against more non-traditional influences such as Steve Bannon -- the alt-right leader of Breitbart News -- who will be Trump's chief strategist.
London: US Vice President-elect Mike Pence is shaping up to be the most important man in the new US administration, apart from his boss. The long presidential campaign revealed sharp differences between Donald Trump and Mike Pence, which may yet cause difficulties between the now President-elect and Vice-President-elect.
About three times as many people voted for third party candidates in 2016 as did in 2012 - roughly 3.7 million votes as of now. In a close election, it's hard not to wonder what would have happened if Gary Johnson and Jill Stein had not been in the race.
Congressional Republicans are already on the defensive about President-elect Donald Trump's decision to give former Breitbart News chief Steve Bannon a senior job in his White House. House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy was pressed by reporters in Washington Monday on the appropriateness of Trump's choice of someone who has been a leading figure in the so-called alt-right conservative movement.
President-elect Donald Trump is considering a woman and an openly gay man to fill major positions in his administration, history-making moves that would inject diversity into a Trump team. The incoming president is considering Richard Grenell as United States ambassador to the United Nations.
Our friend Tevi Troy, the author of outstanding books about the presidency , is also CEO of the American Health Policy Institute. During the George W. Bush administration, he served as deputy secretary of Health and Human Services.