Showing posts with label Senate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Senate. Show all posts

Thursday, November 28, 2024

Ron DeSantis slows the process to fill Marco Rubio's Senate seat as pressure grows from Trump world

President-elect Donald Trump handed Ron DeSantis a political gift this month when he gave him a U.S. Senate seat to fill. Just don’t expect the Florida governor to open it before Christmas.

The next layer of intrigue that DeSantis must navigate is whether to placate Trump and his political team by appointing Lara Trump, the president-elect’s daughter-in-law and co-chair of the Republican National Committee.


Tuesday, November 19, 2024

GOP senators reject replacing FBI background checks for Trump nominees


Senate Republicans are rejecting a proposal floated by some advisers to President-elect Trump to take the job of conducting background checks for high-level nominees away from the FBI and give it to private investigators.....MORE