It’s not yet clear where lawmakers will be on the day of Trump’s inauguration after it was announced that the ceremony would be inside due to dangerously cold temperatures.
Congressional Republicans are looking to press on in scrutinizing some of those who received pardons from former President Biden in the last hours of his presidency. “Implication is that they
President Donald Trump has kicked off his second term with a flurry of executive actions on immigration, the economy, DEI and more. Federal agencies are being directed to place all employees working on DEI programs and initiatives to be put on paid administrative leave by Wednesday at 5 p.m.
House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer, R-Ky., said that former President Biden’s decision to issue preemptive pardons to his family members at the end of his presidency “validates everything we found” in his investigation of the Biden family’s foreign business dealings, according to a report from The Hill.
It is always hard to interpret Donald Trump's more outrageous statements. Is he joking? Is he expressing wild ideas that he is playing with?
Donald Trump will take the oath of office Monday, solidifying a political comeback without precedent in American history.
The Texas real estate developer whose relationship with state Attorney General Ken Paxton was at the center of the Republican’s historic impeachment trial in 2023 has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of lying to a financial institution.
The move is one of many executive actions focused on the federal workforce enacted since Trump took office Monday afternoon. His other actions addressed DEI hiring more broadly, froze hiring in most executive agencies and directed a return to in-person work for many federal employees, among other directives.
Though Biden, for his part, explicitly indicated that he did not consider the acceptance of his pardon to be an admission of guilt, House Republicans considered their mere issuance to be indicative of some wrongdoing.
Now-former President Joe Biden used the final minutes of his presidency to issue sweeping pardons protecting his family from any future prosecution.
President-elect Trump indicates he is not interested in hiring people who have worked with or are supported by "people suffering from Trump Derangement Syndrome."