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A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump says the incoming president will make additional appointments to his team this week. Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway tells reporters at Trump Tower that the transition team is working on naming members of the incoming president's staff and Cabinet.
Stephen Bannon, a leading force of the far-right, a flame-throwing media mogul and professional provocateur, a man who made a career out of roiling the establishment from the outside, just landed squarely on the inside.
Congressional Republicans are looking for the quickest ways to tear down Obamacare following Donald Trump's election as U.S. president, including rapidly confirming a new health secretary who could recast regulations while waiting for lawmakers to pass sweeping repeal legislation. Trump's victory on Tuesday means Republicans will control the White House, Senate and House of Representatives.
Donald Trump's election as U.S. president has caused consternation for some IT services investors, as there is uncertainty regarding his stance on visas and the IT services industry's use of them. During the campaign, Trump flip-flopped between talking tough on the H-1B visa program, saying he'll end it forever as a cheap labor source, and showing a great willingness for America to attract high-skilled foreign workers.
"What people don't realize is, because of Obamacare, Medicare is going broke." - House Speaker Paul D. Ryan , interview with Fox News Channel, Nov. 10 Our eyebrows went up when we saw this quote from Ryan.
They're sending donations to Planned Parenthood in the name of Vice President-elect Mike Pence, who has called for cutting off federal funds to the organization and -- as governor of Indiana -- imposed tougher restrictions on abortion for women in his state. Pence's controversies have often paled in comparison to those of his running mate, but many people unhappy with the election results have made an effort to include him in their protests nonetheless.
Republican President-elect Donald Trump said he's "fine" with same-sex marriage as the law of the land, calling the issue "settled" by the Supreme Court . The comments in his first television interview since winning the presidency sharply contrast with his party's orthodoxy, his running mate's longtime position and comments the New York Republican made during the primary.
GIVING his first official interview as President-elect on CBS's 60 Minutes, an important element sticks out: Donald Trump is not alone. The Republican billionaire is surrounded by his glamorous family, each of whom played an important role in his 18-month election campaign.
Steve Bannon, campaign CEO for President-elect Donald Trump, leaves Trump Tower, Friday, Nov. 11, 2016, in New York. ORG XMIT: MIN2016111318280542 - Donald Trump's tough-talking plan to rein in illegal immigration showed signs Sunday of cracking, with the president-elect backing off his vow to build a solid wall along the southern U.S. border and House Speaker Paul Ryan rejecting any "deportation force" targeting people in the country illegally.
A concert b... . In this Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016 photo provided by Universal Music France, British musician Sting performs on stage at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, France, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016.
President-elect Donald Trump chooses Republican National Committee Chairman and low-key Washington insider Reince Priebus to be his top aide. Gavino Garay reports.
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday picked Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, the favorite of the party's establishment and a low-key Washington insider, to serve in the influential position of White House chief of staff. Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, delivers a speech as Republican president-elect Donald Trump looks on during his election night event at the New York Hilton Midtown in the early morning hours of November 9, 2016 in New York City.
"I will suggest that I be ambassador for the Czech Republic," Ivana Trump told the New York Post in an interview published Sunday. "[That] is where I'm from and my language and everybody knows me.
Donald Trump won fair and square and, as Hillary Clinton said in her concession speech, is owed an open mind and a chance to lead. It is therefore incumbent upon conservatives who have been highly critical of Trump to think through how to make a success of the coming years of Republican rule.
President-elect Donald Trump named Republican Party chief Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff and conservative media owner Stephen Bannon as his top presidential strategist, two men who represent opposite ends of the unsettled GOP. In bringing Priebus and Bannon into the White House, Trump is making overtures to both traditional Republican circles and the party's anti-establishment wing, which helped fuel the businessman's political rise.
Democrats are rending their garments, bemoaning their failure to connect with rural and small-town America. They are supposed to feel guilty about insufficient empathy for the industrial heartland.
Three of the president-elect's four adult children are on the team, including Ivanka Trump. Her husband, Jared Kushner, a publisher and, like Ivanka, an heir to a real estate fortune, is also on the team.
Top Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, a vocal critic of Donald Trump throughout the election cycle, slammed the president-elect's views on foreign policy in a wide-ranging interview with Business Insider last week. He called Trump a "fool" when it comes to Russia, said the billionaire businessman has "zero idea" about how to defeat the terrorist group ISIS , called his views on the NATO alliance "dangerous," and said Trump "doesn't know anything" about foreign policy writ large.