Follow live updates on Trump’s transition plans after the 2024 election: Cabinet selections like Matt Gaetz, CPAC at Mar-a-Lago and key developments.
The president-elect is under three criminal indictments from one state and two federal cases, and he is awaiting sentencing in a fourth case. Here’s what’s likely to happen.
The president-elect’s choice of combative loyalists who could have trouble being confirmed has raised constitutional questions about executive power and the Senate’s prerogatives.
Gaetz “will never get confirmed,” an unnamed Republican senator told Fox News. Senator John Cornyn rolled his eyes and let out “an audible snort,” while Gaetz’s Republican House colleagues reportedly gasped when they heard the news.
Kennedy abandoned his presidential bid after striking a deal to have a role in health policy in the administration.
Trump chose Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to run Health and Human Services Department, which oversees NIH, CDC and FDA, among other agencies.
The nearly $2 trillion agency administers health-insurance programs for millions of Americans, approves medications and oversees vaccine safety.
(Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump selected Robert F. Kennedy Jr., an environmental activist who has spread misinformation on vaccines, to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, the United States' top health agency, he said on Thursday. DREW ALTMAN, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION KFF:
Mr. Trump’s television and radio count is bolstered by more than two dozen appearances on Fox News, Fox Business and Fox News Radio. But even if you exclude those, he still sat for more television and radio interviews than Ms. Harris.
It also plays a key role in doling out billions of dollars in grant funding for immigration enforcement, border security and policing — issues that Gaetz has underscored as a leading advocate for Trump’s agenda in the House.