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The New York Times reports that Donald Trump will name Steven Mnuchin, his campaign's national finance director, as Treasury secretary. Mr. Mnuchin, the son of a Goldman Sachs partner, joined the firm after graduating from Yale University.
Elaine Chao's record at the Labor Department suggests she'd have a light hand when it comes to safety regulation as transportation secretary and would seek to shift responsibility from the federal government to... Trump has a follow-up meeting Tuesday with the 2012 GOP presidential nominee, who has become a symbol of the internal divisions agitating the transition team. Reaching deep into conservative territory, President-elect Donald Trump chose Georgia Rep. Tom Price to oversee the nation's health care system on Tuesday, picking a fierce "Obamacare" critic who also has championed... President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday received only his third top-secret intelligence briefing since his election four weeks ago.
WASHINGTON, Nov 29 President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name former Goldman Sachs partner and Hollywood financier Steven Mnuchin as his nominee for Treasury secretary, a source said on Tuesday, putting a Wall Street veteran in the top U.S. economic Cabinet post for the first time in eight years.
I know I know we've sort of beaten the whole " Trump wants to jail flag burners " thing to death today, but there's just so much juice left in that tasty, tasty fruit. Earlier this morning, Ed Morrissey set forth the basics of why this should essentially be a constitutional non-starter.
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday that anyone who burns an American flag should face unspecified "consequences," such as jail or a loss of citizenship.
US president-elect Donald Trump's latest proposal - to jail anyone who burns the American flag - faced a backlash from much of political Washington on Tuesday, including from within his Republican Party. "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag," Trump posted on Twitter early on Tuesday.
Congress may vote to repeal President Barack Obama's health care law before coming up with a replacement, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Tuesday. The approach could allow congressional Republicans to take swift action on one of President-elect Donald Trump's campaign promises, while putting off the hard part.
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Georgia Rep. Tom Price, a strong critic of the Affordable Care Act, to be his secretary of Health and Human Services, his transition team announced this morning. What he does now : Represents Georgia's 6th district since 2004 in the House of Representatives.
Jon Huntsman, who served as Governor of Utah and U.S. Ambassador to China, and ran for President in 2012, is mulling a bid for the U.S. Senate in 2018: Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman said he's weighing a run for the U.S. Senate in 2018, depending in part on whether fellow Republican Orrin Hatch decides to seek an eighth term. "I've always said that I've got one more run left in our bones.
President-elect Donald Trump moved to fill out his Cabinet Tuesday, tapping Georgia Rep. Tom Price to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. Aides signaled that at least one other Cabinet nomination was imminent.
Yemeni Said Salih Said Nashir, shown in a 2008 photo from his GuantA namo profile provided to McClatchy by WikiLeaks, went before the panel in April. Prison spokesman Navy Capt.
Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday urged the nation to step up its engagement with the rest of the world on matters of trade, climate change and security, and to increase foreign aid. It is a message that clashes in many ways with the policies President-elect Donald Trump has spoken about introducing.
She's a producer for a public radio station who asked that I not use her name. She loves her job but struggles to stretch her "paltry" paycheck to cover rent and other living expenses.
President-elect Donald Trump said Tuesday he wants to impose punishment on people who burn American flags, possibly including imprisonment or loss of U.S citizenship. Trump floated the sanctions, which would run counter to a 1989 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, in an early-morning "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!" Trump said.
President-elect Donald Trump proposed on Tuesday a penalty - including possible jail time or loss of citizenship - for burning the American flag, in spite of two US Supreme Court rulings that protect the act under the First Amendment as a form of free speech. "Nobody should be allowed to burn the American flag - if they do, there must be consequences - perhaps loss of citizenship or year in jail!" Trump tweeted.
China relations are headed for a "wild ride" if President-elect Donald Trump fulfills a campaign promise to designate China as a currency manipulator and the Republican-led Congress imposes trade sanctions, said Jon Huntsman, who served as U.S. ambassador in Beijing under President Barack Obama. podcast co-hosts Scott Lanman and Daniel Moss on Monday in Washington.
Investigators are looking into whether a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University that injured 11 people was an act of terror by a Somali-born student who had once criticized the media for its portrayal of... Investigators are looking into whether a car-and-knife attack at Ohio State University that injured 11 people was an act of terror by a student who had once criticized the media for its portrayal of Muslims. Donald Trump's hunt for a secretary of state is veering into dramatic terrain, with the president-elect summoning Mitt Romney back for a second look as a top aide leads a public pressure campaign against the pick.
A leading critic of Obamacare has been selected by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Georgia Rep. Tom Price, 62, is an orthopedic surgeon and six-term congressman who chaired the House Budget Committee for the past two years, the Associated Press reported.
That's what President-elect Donald Trump has done by claiming to have won the popular vote after discounting for "the millions of people who voted illegally." Trump offered no evidence of voter fraud, and by so baldly staking a demonstrably false claim he risks damaging the integrity of the very representative democracy that just elected him president.
This morning, the Dow Jones Industrial Average is ticking higher as investors watch oil prices and an update to U.S. economic growth. GDP levels have been frustratingly low over the last eight years.