Donald Trump has already tapped one House lawmaker for a key post in his fledgling administration: Conservative Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas) is likely to be the next CIA director. But other relatively obscure House lawmakers — including Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Tom Price, Mike McCaul and Marsha Blackburn — could make the leap from lower chamber to presidential Cabinet.
Ben Carson said Tuesday that he’s been offered several jobs in President-elect Donald Trump’s administration including helming the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
Donald Trump on Tuesday answered questions from the New York Times on his relationship to the alt-right, his web of business entanglements and his relationship with the press in an extraordinary event live-tweeted by the Grey Lady’s reporters and editors.
Conservatives expressed feelings of betrayal on Tuesday after a top advisor to President-elect Donald Trump said that the incoming administration would decline to pursue a criminal case against former rival Hillary Clinton.
President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday said he did not want to “energize” the alt-right movement and denounced the conference held over the weekend where white nationalists cheered his election and used Nazi-era terms and salutes.
The Labor Department’s contentious overtime rule was blocked Tuesday by a federal judge in Texas, putting one of President Obama’s top regulatory initiatives in jeopardy.
The White House saw stars on Tuesday, as more than 20 famous names — including Michael Jordan, Bruce Springsteen, Vin Scully, Tom Hanks, Robert De Niro, Diana Ross and many others — gathered to be honored by President Obama in his final Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony.
Questions are being raised about whether Mr. Trump is exploiting the high profile of the presidency to conduct what could be seen as a promotional tour for the Trump Organization.
President-elect Donald Trump’s promise to deport millions of immigrants in the country illegally and his selection of tough-on-crime Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions as attorney general could mean big money for the private prison industry.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was keeping an open mind on whether to pull out of a landmark international accord to fight climate change, in a softening of his stance toward global warming.
By Joseph Gerth, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez and Joseph Baucum
To supporters of Hillary Clinton, the number looks intoxicating: 155 electors in states where the popular vote went for Donald Trump — some by slim margins — who apparently aren’t legally bound to vote for the GOP presidential nominee when the Electoral College meets Dec. 19.
