Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., is calling on the House Ethics Committee to preserve and hand over 'relevant' parts of their investigation into Matt Gaetz. Durbin stressed the relevance of their report after President-elect Trump nominated Gaetz to serve as his attorney general.
A gathering of the Conservative Political Action Conference kicks off at Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida today. Scheduled speakers include
That 80,000 vote total includes all ballots for which county boards have not yet made a final resolution regarding their validity or eligibility to be counted.Bynum will be the first Black person to represent Oregon in Congress, with NBC News projecting that she has defeated first-term GOP Rep. Lori Chavez-DeRemer in the competitive district.
Gaetz, a staunch Trump ally, has been an outspoken critic of the Justice Department's probe into the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol."The Department of Defense has been enormously mismanaged under the current regime," Hagerty said."It needs to change dramatically. They need to stop working on pronouns and get back to lethality, and someone like Pete can lead that."
Trump never publicly endorsed anyone for the job, despite his MAGA allies — including Elon Musk — launching a pressure campaign for Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., one of the three candidates, who was handily defeated during the vote.Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton said in an interview today that he doesn't think former Reps. Gaetz and Tulsi Gabbard, R-Hawaii, are qualified to serve as attorney general and director of national intelligence, respectively.
His absence was notable considering that of all the top tech companies, TikTok faces the most immediate and existential threat from the U.S. government. In April, Presidentby Jan. 19. If ByteDance fails to comply, internet hosting companies and app store owners such as Apple and Google will be prohibited from supporting TikTok, effectively banning it in the U.S.
The lawmakers receiving those calls including members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will be the first significant hurdle in Gaetz’s confirmation process. “Absolutely,” Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said when asked if he wants to see the report. “I think there should not be any limitation on the Senate Judiciary Committee’s investigation, including whatever the House Ethics Committee has generated.”
“I barely know Gaetz," North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis said."All I know is he likes picking fights on social media, and we’ll have to deal with that in committees. But I don’t know his background, I’m going to look at it and give him a fair hearing."In the letter to Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., Gaetz said he does not intend to take the oath of office for the 119th Congress in January.
It’s not clear yet whether the House Ethics Committee will release their findings into Gaetz now that he has submitted his resignation from the House, but Judiciary Democrats are expected to continue to put pressure on the committee., Trump revealed what he and Biden spoke about yesterday at the White House, which included the Middle East and the war in Ukraine.
Trump also said the transition is going “very smoothly" and that the two of them plan to meet again just before the inauguration.Tulsi Gabbard has been accused of parroting lines that could be taken off of any regular Russian broadcast over the past decade, accusations that she has consistently denied. NBC News’ Matt Bodner looks into the history of the woman picked by Donald Trump to be director of national intelligence.
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