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…

Jan 18, 2017 – When Donald Trump nominated South Carolina congressman Mick Mulvaney to lead the Office of Management and Budget it was a great sign … household employee, he admitted in a statement to the Senate Budget Committee, the sort of tax compliance issue that has derailed cabinet … Unpaid taxes on domestic workers of unclear immigration status precipitated Bush’s decision to withdraw Kerik’s name… The Trump…

Jan 17, 2017 – Thankfully, President-elect Trump and especially his cabinet nominees have specifically made it a point to acknowledge the deadly threat…

Jan 16, 2017 – Making matters worst and, simply, more convoluted, is the fact that other Trump nominees to mostly non-environmental postings in the … All the while, the Democrats, in minority, are still latching onto the pipe dream that climate change is so bad that by electing Trump … With such things in place, we can move forward with Trump, only if he is willing to join us.…

Jan 15, 2017 – At first blush, when Republican President-Elect Donald Trump talks about a border tax on goods former U.S. … If Trump follows-through on his pro-growth tax and regulatory reform package, these tax inversion schemes will likely become a thing … I am hopeful that the incoming Trump Administration will make America’s economy great again.…

Feb 3, 2017 – It was the second time this week lawmakers sent President Donald Trump a Congressional Review Act resolution undoing an Obama administration … Otherwise Congress is asking a president to repeal regulations promulgated by his own administration… regulations which his OMB and cabinet…

Feb 1, 2017 – Donald Trump’s cabinet is slowly taking shape. … Naturally, Democrats wanted to delay the process: Democrats had hoped to delay a final vote in order to quiz Tillerson about the Trump … Meanwhile, in 2009, President Obama had most of his cabinet in place on the first day he took office.…

Feb 1, 2017 – Last night, shortly after President Trump announced the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the US Supreme Court, there were predictions … than the House, to have a filibuster requirement of 60 votes that keeps it from being too extreme in either direction, requiring cabinet … Trump says he will but I don’t think Mitch McConnell will so in the end it will be Mitch McConnell making a decision, do I give up…

Feb 1, 2017 – President Donald Trump shakes hands with 10th U.S. … He adds you can’t be credible if your only position is “against” regardless of what Trump does. It’s true. … Several, in fact, if you include the cabinet. I’m not trying to put lipstick on a pig here.…

Jan 30, 2017 – transition it is hardly shocking that an Obama holdover who currently runs the Department of Justice has decided to take a whack at Trump … Trump has the authority to fire Ms. … I predict this action will produce a lot less, not more, coordination between the White House and its cabinet agencies until there…

Jan 28, 2017 – Donald Trump have in common? What is it about foreign dictators and Liberal hubris? Is it some disconnect from common sense? … The congresswoman is the very same Tulsi Gabbard who President-elect Trump considered as Secretary of State back in November, two weeks … Gabbard, a high-profile Bernie Sanders supporter during the Democratic primaries, is “under serious consideration” for various Cabinet…

Jan 28, 2017 – He lost his bid and becoming the Republican nominee for president, so he immediately became a top Trump toady, in hopes of at least … getting the VP slot or a cabinet position.…