By Sabrina Rodriguez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 PHOENIX – Ruben Gallego embodies the kind of voter that Democrats struggled to keep this election cycle. A Latino with working-class roots, he won his Senate race in a battleground state that Donald Trump flipped and will become the first Latino to represent Arizona in the upper […]
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Trump taps North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead Interior Department
By Maxine Joselow, Evan Halper, Dino Grandoni, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would nominate North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) to lead the Interior Department, a role overseeing roughly 500 million acres of federal land and more than a billion acres offshore that will be key to his plans to […]
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Trump taps North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum to lead Interior Department
By Maxine Joselow, Evan Halper, Dino Grandoni, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump announced Thursday that he would nominate North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum (R) to lead the Interior Department, a role overseeing roughly 500 million acres of federal land and more than a billion acres offshore that will be key to his plans to […]
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Speaker Johnson moves to block release of ethics report on Matt Gaetz
By Meryl Kornfield, Marianna Sotomayor, Paul Kane, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said Friday that he will urge the House Ethics Committee to suppress its report into former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) and block the Senate Judiciary Committee from viewing the investigation, an unusual intervention that could shape a divisive nomination fight. “I’m […]
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Speaker Johnson moves to block release of ethics report on Matt Gaetz
By Meryl Kornfield, Marianna Sotomayor, Paul Kane, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) said Friday that he will urge the House Ethics Committee to suppress its report into former congressman Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) and block the Senate Judiciary Committee from viewing the investigation, an unusual intervention that could shape a divisive nomination fight. “I’m […]
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Why Thune won: Small-state senators rally around their own, not Trump
By Paul Kane (c) 2024 , The Washington Post In choosing their Senate majority leader, Republicans turned to a consummate insider from the fourth-smallest state by population, a 20-year veteran without close ties to the incoming president. Sen. John Thune (South Dakota) overcame doubts about his past criticism of President-elect Donald Trump and won his […]
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Why Thune won: Small-state senators rally around their own, not Trump
By Paul Kane (c) 2024 , The Washington Post In choosing their Senate majority leader, Republicans turned to a consummate insider from the fourth-smallest state by population, a 20-year veteran without close ties to the incoming president. Sen. John Thune (South Dakota) overcame doubts about his past criticism of President-elect Donald Trump and won his […]
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Go bags, passports, foreign assets: Preparing to be a target of Trump’s revenge
By Isaac Stanley-Becker, Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post (c) 2024 A retired U.S. Army officer who clashed with senior officials in Donald Trump’s first White House looked into acquiring Italian citizenship in the run-up to this month’s election but wasn’t eligible and instead packeda “go bag” with cash and a list of emergency numbers in case […]
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Go bags, passports, foreign assets: Preparing to be a target of Trump’s revenge
By Isaac Stanley-Becker, Ellen Nakashima, The Washington Post (c) 2024 A retired U.S. Army officer who clashed with senior officials in Donald Trump’s first White House looked into acquiring Italian citizenship in the run-up to this month’s election but wasn’t eligible and instead packeda “go bag” with cash and a list of emergency numbers in case […]
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RFK Jr. faces battles in quest to change America’s food
By Rachel Roubein, Lauren Weber, Michael Scherer, David Ovalle, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. made a pledge last month on Fox News: He would get processed food out of school lunches “immediately” if he is given a position in a second Trump administration. The message shocked nutrition experts whoremember how Trump’s first administration fought […]