Jan 7, 2017 – Their loyalty will be to someone in the White House, not to their cabinet secretary. … What Mattis is doing is shrewd and he’s also one of the very few cabinet secretaries who can pull this off and make it stick. … Trump has invested a lot personal capital in appointing Mattis to be SecDef.…

Jan 7, 2017 – Shaub, is, if you recall, the guy who used the official account of his agency to troll Donald Trump, the president-elect: At the … time he knew Trump had not engaged in any divestiture and had said, accurately, that the President is not covered by OGE rules. … In 2009, the Democratically controlled Senate confirmed seven of President Barack Obama’s cabinet picks in a single day.…

Jan 7, 2017 – Obama rewarded her with a top cabinet post of Secretary of State. … , she relied too heavily on celebrity endorsements than campaigning in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, losing the election to Donald Trump…

Jan 5, 2017 – , the Russian hacking must have been intended to help Trump.) … wanted Trump to win. … You don’t have to like Trump to accept that. All we are dealing with here is blue smoke and mirrors. A sham.…

Jan 5, 2017 – with Chuck Schumer on MSNBC last night with Rachel Maddow, cut number 2: CS: It’s hard for me to imagine a nominee that Donald Trump … For reasons of fundraising alone they have to be seen as fighting Trump tooth and nail. … Cruz then goes on to give Reid credit for Trump’s cabinet and for the next SCOTUS appointments.…

Jan 5, 2017 – The Left has selected a few of Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominees to try to tear down before, during, and after the nomination hearings … to paint DeVos as anti-public school, a charge Democrats and activists groups have been throwing at her since she was picked by Trump…

Jan 24, 2017 – Resistance to Donald Trump is popping up in all kinds of ways. … first book: "Half Onion In A Bag: The Art of the Meal" — Half An Onion (@HalfOnionInABag) January 21, 2017 Still a better cabinet … The mere fact that Trump is president is a testament to anything being possible.…

Jan 24, 2017 – Perhaps because of the threat of multiple ethical violations within a Trump administration, there are those who feel Jeff Sessions … As for stepping aside for any Trump investigations, however, Sessions makes a good point. … Sessions further said that he saw no need to recuse himself from voting on other cabinet nominees.…

Jan 24, 2017 – Were I to predict the first Trump cabinet secretary to be frog marched out of his office by the FBI, it, sadly, would be Ben Carson…

Jan 24, 2017 – Republican primaries, Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) were the last two so-called “Conservatives” to fall to Donald Trump … international commerce, and my belief that the president is entitled to significant deference when it comes to his choices for the cabinet … Beginning with the decision to betray his base and abandon his principles by endorsing Trump in order to save his re-election in 2018…

Jan 23, 2017 – Trump is on the record against the FCC’s Open Internet order.” “Trump is on the record against the FCC’s Open Internet order.”  … We have now transitioned from President-elect Trump – to the Trump Administration.  … on Trump Administration policy.…

Jan 23, 2017 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Jan. 22, 2017. … (Ronen Zvulun/Pool Photo via AP) President Trump spoke with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by phone on Sunday, a conversation … which Trump described as “very good.”…

Jan 22, 2017 – This far Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson has been the only Trump cabinet nomination to take any appreciable friendly fire…

Jan 21, 2017 – President Trump is filling the government’s national security leadership with former military officials and businessmen, rejecting … But the militarization of the Trump foreign policy team is even more concentrated on the White House staff led by national security … Under Obama the cabinet secretaries most affected, Defense, State, and Homeland Security, were go-fers.…

Jan 21, 2017 – Donald Trump is President of the United States. I know, it still sounds insane. But that happened. It wasn’t a terrible day. … Maybe President Trump’s echo of campaign fire and brimstone was part of the welcome change Trump voters sought. … Even the mighty Donald Trump. Trust no monarch or dictator, no oligarch or strongman.…

Jan 20, 2017 – After President Donald Trump signed the waiver, USMC General ‘Mad Dog’ Mattis was sworn in as the nations 26th Secretary of Defense … Best cabinet appointment, period. Second, he gives props to the Intel Community. … For this moment alone, President Trump deserves the thanks of the nation. h/t The Blaze…

Jan 20, 2017 – Trump will be lucky to have his cabinet filled by 2020 the way McConnell is operating.…

Jan 20, 2017 – Trump will be entering office with a nation deeply divided and with historically low approval ratings. How low are they? … A new poll from Fox News showed that 37 percent of Americans approve of Trump ahead of his inauguration, while 54 percent do not. … If Trump gets out of the way, stays off of Twitter, and allows his cabinet to work with the Republican majority in the House and Senate…

Jan 20, 2017 – Trump will be sworn in as President of the United States of America. … President Obama steps away, President Trump takes the reigns. … God Bless this Country, and God Bless President Trump.…

Jan 19, 2017 – Hollywood isn’t going to let the Inauguration of Donald Trump in Washington, DC get them down. … Alec Baldwin appeared to speak and insert a few Trump impressions along the way, commenting on Trump and his cabinet picks. … Trump doesn’t act right, but neither do these people.…

Jan 19, 2017 – According to senior transition officials, President-elect Donald J. Trump has chosen former Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue to lead the Department of Agriculture. Perdue is a 70-year-old veterinarian who served as a state senator for 10 years beginning in 1991. He switched political parties from Democratic to Republican in 1998....

Jan 19, 2017 – Having only been established in 1977, the Department of Energy is still in its infancy compared to many of the other Cabinet-level … Last month, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate former Texas Governor Rick Perry to serve as Secretary … second whether or not the Department of Energy should exist in the first place, there has been no indication from President-elect Trump…

Jan 18, 2017 – One of soon to be President Donald Trump’s cabinet picks is not going to be a Putin stooge. Or even a Trump stooge. … According to Haley, Trump doesn’t plan to surround himself with “yes men”. “That’s how an administration works. … Certainly, Donald Trump has selected some opinionated cabinet members, it’s refreshing to think of them as being obstructionists.…

Jan 18, 2017 – It’s widely acknowledged that the two Cabinet nominees of President-Elect Donald Trump that are most at risk of not getting confirmed … Unless they think that sending Republican majorities and Donald Trump to Washington was some covert way for the electorate to signal…

Jan 18, 2017 – But Trump is unconventional. … Trump called members of the Ohio GOP state central committee and was successful at swaying enough of them to elevate Trump loyalist … He did the work to help Trump get elected, but still, because he was a Kasich ally, Trump went after his job, in order to reward a…