Transition

WASHINGTON — Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy, the tech mega-stars tapped to lead President-elect Donald Trump’s new government efficiency panel, are leaving nothing to the imagination when it comes to the effort they’ll soon undertake to cut the federal bureaucracy... Read More

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has asked Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity surgeon who for years was a fixture on daytime TV, to be the next administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “America is facing a Healthcare... Read More

WASHINGTON — Details of the report the House Ethics Committee compiled on former congressman Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., are leaking out despite efforts by Republicans to prevent release of the information. ABC News quoted sources familiar with the report Friday saying... Read More

WASHINGTON — Advocates for the biofuel sector are celebrating President-elect Donald Trump’s victory at the polls, and South Dakota Sen. John Thune’s elevation to Senate majority leader as huge pluses for the ethanol industry. During his first term as president,... Read More

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., to be the nation’s next attorney general. The announcement, which was made shortly after Trump’s meeting today with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office, took many on... Read More

WASHINGTON — Justice Department attorneys are preparing for the possibility of widespread job terminations and resignations after a warning this week from the transition team for the incoming Trump administration. They were told they could be fired unless they comply... Read More

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump met for a “very cordial” two hours on Wednesday, setting the stage for what both promised would be a “smooth” transition after a sometimes bruising 2024 election cycle. The post-election meeting... Read More

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump kept up his fast and furious pace in creating his next administration, naming William “Bill” McGinley, a Cabinet secretary in his first term, to serve as his White House counsel. In announcing the appointment, Trump... Read More

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday announced Mike Huckabee, a former pastor and former governor of Arkansas, as his pick to be his ambassador to Israel. “Mike has been a great public servant, Governor, and Leader in Faith for... Read More

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump on Monday selected former Rep. Lee Zeldin to be the next head of the Environmental Protection Agency, making him the second New Yorker slated to join the Trump cabinet. Earlier on Monday, the Trump transition... Read More

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., a member of the House Republican leadership, to serve as U.N. ambassador in his next administration. Trump’s decision was first reported by CNN. In a statement, the president-elect called... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden is nominating New York emergency department commissioner Deanne Criswell to serve as the Federal Emergency Management Agency administrator and has tapped former CIA deputy director David Cohen to return to the agency in the... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Lady Gaga will sing the national anthem at Joe Biden's inauguration and Jennifer Lopez will give a musical performance on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol when Biden is sworn in as the nation's 46th president... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden has selected Samantha Power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations under President Barack Obama, to run the U.S. Agency for International Development. That's the agency that oversees U.S. foreign humanitarian and development aid.... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday he has chosen veteran diplomat William Burns to be his CIA director. A former ambassador to Russia and Jordan, Burns, 64, had a 33-year career at the State Department under both Republican... Read More

WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump took to his favorite medium -- Twitter -- Friday morning to announce he won’t attend President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20. “To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to... Read More

WASHINGTON - The more-than-century-old tradition of feting the new president with a post-inauguration luncheon is the latest casualty of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Joint Congressional Committee on Inaugural Ceremonies, which has hosted the lunch, with limited exception, since 1953,... Read More

Less than a month before he is sworn in, President-elect Joe Biden has not yet selected his attorney general, a key role given how politicized the department became under President Donald Trump and while federal officials are investigating Biden’s son.... Read More

WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Michael Regan, the top environmental regulator in North Carolina, to lead the Environmental Protection Agency, according to multiple reports. If confirmed, Regan would be the first Black man to head the agency.... Read More

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has asked Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland, of New Mexico, to serve as the first Native American interior secretary, a historic pick for a department that oversees the country’s vast natural resources and much of the... Read More

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden has selected Gina McCarthy, Barack Obama’s former EPA chief, to run a special White House office on climate change that will coordinate policy and elevate global warming to a top place in the executive office,... Read More

WILMINGTON, Del. - President-elect Joe Biden has selected Pete Buttigieg, a former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, to be the next Secretary of Transportation. Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana, who has never held federal office, and... Read More

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden's Inaugural Committee on Tuesday offered a first glimpse at detailed plans for a scaled down inauguration ceremony on Jan. 20 due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Its main advice to Americans who want to be... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell congratulated Democrat Joe Biden as president-elect on Tuesday, saying the Electoral College “has spoken.” The Republican leader's statement, delivered in a speech on the Senate floor, ends weeks of silence over President... Read More

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden’s transition team is considering a North Carolina environmental regulator and EPA veteran to lead the agency, as he assembles a team to move aggressively against climate change and pollution. Michael Regan is now among the... Read More

WASHINGTON – President-elect Joe Biden and his transition team are making collaboration between the executive branch and Congress a priority, with early and extensive outreach to the legislative branch. The Biden transition team has already reached out to more than... Read More

WASHINGTON - President-elect Joe Biden has asked Susan Rice to be the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, signaling the importance of domestic policy in his early agenda. The job is also something of a career change for... Read More

WASHINGTON — Wary of a narrow majority, one of President-elect Joe Biden's closest allies in Congress isn't sure the Democratic Caucus can afford to see any more House members join the new administration. "I think we better bring that to a halt," Majority Whip James E. Clyburn told reporters... Read More

WASHINGTON — Katherine Tai, chief trade counsel for the House Ways and Means Committee, is reported to be President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to be America's trade negotiator. Tai would lead the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, an agency she knows well from her committee work... Read More

WASHINGTON — President-elect Joe Biden intends to nominate Ohio Democratic Rep. Marcia L. Fudge to be secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, several news reports said Tuesday. The move would create an opening in a solidly Democratic district that could lead to Nina Turner,... Read More