Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a campaign rally, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2016, in Golden, Colo. (AP Photo/ Brennan Linsley)
Two days of confirmation hearings show that President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominees are determined to quickly reverse President Obama’s most controversial policies, including his immigration actions. At the same time, Trump himself showed in an unprecedented press conference that his rhetoric against the media wasn’t just a campaign stunt, and that he’s willing to fight reporters who don’t see it his way. A shock to the system.
President-elect Trump’s decision on Wednesday to nominate David Shulkin, undersecretary for health at the Department of Veterans Affairs, to lead the embattled agency was a move that may have satisfied some of his skeptics – but it left veterans advocates who had hoped for radical change feeling stunned and confused. A huge disappointment after big promises.
