Trump’s nominees
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New FBI Director Kash Patel is expected to be named the acting head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, a Justice Department official said Saturday. Patel could be sworn in next week, the official said, putting Patel in charge of two of the Justice Department’s largest agencies in an unusual arrangement that…
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Senate Democrats will “do what they always do” while pushing back against the confirmation of Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of defense, House Oversight Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., said on Newsmax Tuesday. “They’re going to show off,” the Kentucky Republican and author of the new book “All the President’s Money,” told Newsmax’s “Wake Up…
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As he fills out his incoming administration, Donald Trump’s nominees have ranged from absolutely unqualified to ideological nightmares. But he might have just made his scariest hire yet. On Saturday night, Trump announced he’s selected Kash Patel to lead the FBI. Patel is one of Trump’s most loyal enforcers and a conspiracy theorist — a…
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Republicans avoided a confirmation firestorm when former Rep. Matt Gaetz withdrew from consideration as attorney general, but lawmakers on Capitol Hill are already bracing for how they’ll navigate the next slew of unorthodox Donald Trump picks — and they have warned the president-elect’s choice to lead the Pentagon, who faces controversy over his past comments and history,…
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