Trump Administration

Weldon served 14 years in Congress, where he was an outspoken critic of the CDC and its vaccine program.

Congressional Republicans and former Trump appointees have spent the last year building out their response to the movement protesting Israel’s war in Gaza, and now that Donald Trump is returning to the White House they warn that protest leaders, activists and those who help them raise money could face an onslaught of federal investigations and possible indictments.

A Republican senator has blocked the promotion of a general who oversaw troops in Kabul during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Senate aide told NBC News.

President-elect Donald Trump has selected Scott Turner to lead the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

President-elect Donald Trump says he will nominate former White House aide Brooke Rollins to be his agriculture secretary.

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Russell Vought, a co-author of Project 2025 who served as a platform policy director for the Republican National Committee, as his pick to lead the Office of Management and Budget.

Makary, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, is the latest in a string of Trump nominees who have declared the U.S. health system “broken” and in need of a shakeup.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he’ll nominate billionaire hedge fund manager Scott Bessent, an advocate for deficit reduction, to serve as his next treasury secretary, one of several personnel decisions that he unveiled as he closed out the workweek.

The Oregon House member who narrowly lost her reelection bid earlier this month received strong backing from union members in her district.

There was a question about whether he’d want to be sworn into the next Congress.

Transition officials have used Project 2025’s extensive personnel database for potential candidates to hire for the incoming administration, a person familiar the plans said.

Senate Republicans offered mixed responses Thursday to President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement that he will nominate Pete Hegseth, a Fox News personality accused of sexual assault, to lead the Defense Department following the release of a police report concerning sexual assault allegations against him.

Bondi served as the Florida attorney general from 2011 to 2019 after she was the first woman elected to the office.

Gaetz’s path was mired by a series of allegations of sexual misconduct, including sex with a minor at a 2017 party. Conan Nolan reports for the NBC4 News at 3 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024. 

The physician and TV personality’s views on health policy have evolved significantly over the years.

The House Ethics Committee, which was investigating Gaetz, was told that a 17-year old girl had two sexual encounters with Gaetz at a 2017 party, according to a source familiar.

Hegseth, who was not charged, said the encounter was consensual and denies any wrongdoing.

Matt Gaetz, Pete Hegseth and Robert F. Kennedy Jr. face questions about their personal actions as well as their professional qualifications ahead of the Senate confirmation process.

Whitaker first took over the Justice Department on an acting basis during Trump’s first term in office in Nov. 2018, right after the midterm elections, when Trump announced on Twitter that Whitaker would be succeeding Jeff Sessions, whom Trump asked to resign.

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