WASHINGTON — Tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy outlined a plan Wednesday for President-elect Donald Trump to oversee a massive reduction in the federal workforce, arguing the employees won’t be needed after Trump eliminates “thousands of regulations” in his next administration. Musk and Ramaswamy, who Trump last week named co-heads of a new Department…
President-elect Donald Trump named his new secretary of education, tapping former Small Business Administration head and former wrestling executive Linda McMahon for the position. The Education Department provides some funding for public schools, administers federal student aid programs and collects data on US education. Trump has vowed to close the department and redistribute most services…
President-elect Donald Trump is making his Cabinet picks and raising eyebrows on both sides of the aisle with choices looking very different compared to his first White House administration. Trump most recently tapped environmental activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nephew of the late Democratic U.S. President John F. Kennedy for the Health and Human Services…
President-elect Donald Trump placed a key campaign figure in the coming cabinet Thursday, nominating Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to be his next Secretary of Health and Human Services. Kennedy spent the majority of the 2024 campaign as an independent candidate but dropped out and endorsed Trump. He became a de-facto advisor on public health after…
He’s not moving in just yet, but President-elect Donald Trump is returning briefly to the White House on Wednesday. Trump will meet with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office just one week after defeating Vice President Kamala Harris to win a second term as president. The meeting between the outgoing president and his successor…
One of the ideas I liked the most from Donald Trump on the campaign trail was his proposal to harness the expertise and gift for innovation of billionaire businessman Elon Musk if he were to get elected. It looks like Trump will follow through on his promise to have Musk, who leads Tesla and SpaceX…
Jamal Simmons, a former communications director for Kamala Harris, made an unlikely suggestion about how the vice president might still have a chance of becoming president in 2024: If Joe Biden steps down from office. Asked on Sunday what they thought would be the most important thing to watch for in the 71 days until…
“Saturday Night Live” is looking to get on President-elect Donald Trump’s good side. The sketch comedy show’s post-election episode kicked off with the cast delivering what initially seemed to be a serious message about the Republican nominee’s win. “To many people, including many people watching this show right now, the results were shocking and even…
Arizona went red. The pivotal swing state ended up not being so pivotal, after all — or, at least, not nearly as pivotal as it was in the 2020 election. Though results are still being tabulated, it appears that Donald Trump will win the state he narrowly lost four years ago. And while Democrat Ruben…
As Donald Trump emerged victorious in the presidential election Wednesday, stock prices soared. As the stock market rose, the bond market fell. Stocks roared to record highs Wednesday in the wake of news of Trump’s triumph, signaling an end to the uncertainty of the election cycle and, perhaps, a vote of confidence in his plans…