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March 3 (UPI) -- The U.S. Senate on Monday confirmed billionaire and former World Wrestling Entertainment executive Linda McMahon as the secretary of Education, an agency President Donald Trump wants to abolish. All but one member of the 22-member Cabinet has been confirmed with Lori Chavez-DeRemer the exception in the Labor Department. The vote was 51-45 with all Democrats voting against and every Republican backing her. Two Republicans and two Democrats didn't vote.Last month after Trump became president again, he told reporters in the Oval Office that he wants McMahon, 76, to "put herself out of a job" in the...

President Trump’s public debacle with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky halted hopes for a signed minerals agreement while dividing the world — and Washington — over their support for them both. Long-simmering tensions between Trump and Zelensky exploded into the open during a heated Oval Office exchange that will have ramifications for the U.S., Russia, Ukraine and all of Europe. Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) called his vote to confirm Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who was in that meeting with Trump and Zelensky, “a mistake” in a Sunday interview with CNN’s “State of the Union.” “It was a mistake. I think...

The confirmation hearing for President Donald Trump’s Education Secretary nominee Linda McMahon on Thursday was interrupted several times by raging protesters who screamed about transgenderism and other left-wing causes. A person familiar with the situation told the Hill the interruptions were from people affiliated with the National Education Association (NEA), which is the largest teachers’ union in the country. The NEA is staunchly opposed to school choice, and the organization has a history of funneling millions of dollars into far-left politics. The head of the organization notably raked in more than $500,000 in pay and showered liberal causes with money,...

Senators confirmed environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary on Thursday.Senators confirmed environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for Health and Human Services (HHS) secretary after the controversial nominee successfully eased lawmakers’ concerns over previous views on abortion and vaccines. The upper chamber voted 52 to 48 for confirmation of the new HHS secretary, who previously battled a 14-year heroin addiction and is now the highest-ranking Kennedy in the federal government since his father was attorney general.Despite the sparring on Capitol Hill from Democrats and some Republicans who claimed Kennedy would do otherwise, Kennedy...

Isn't this sumpthin" Holy smokes. HOLY SMOKES Robert Kennedy Jr., vile, disgusting family attacks and all, has cleared his cloture vote with room to spare and is on the clock for the confirmation vote as head of Health and Human Services. BREAKING: RFK Jr. has passed the Senate cloture vote, clearing a major hurdle toward confirmation!One step closer to officially becoming Secretary of HHS! pic.twitter.com/RFInDbAQsM— American Values 🗽 (@AVPac_US) February 12, 2025Astonishingly enough, even you-know-who came along for a ride on the 'Vote for Bobby Train.'Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski will vote YES to confirm RFK Jr. 🔥That’s 52 YES votes....

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) voted on Wednesday with Democrat colleagues against confirming Tulsi Gabbard as the Director of National Intelligence. McConnell’s vote underscores his repeated opposition to President Donald Trump and his America First policies. He previously voted against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s confirmation in January. McConnell was the only Republican to vote “no” on Trump’s nomination. Every Democrat voted “no.” Despite Democrat and McConnell’s opposition, the Senate confirmed Gabbard’s nomination by a vote of 52-48.

Tulsi Gabbard, one of President Donal Trump's controversial cabinet picks, was confirmed as DNI

President Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel is expected to be approved Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, putting him one step closer to Senate confirmation, after Patel appeared before the committee last week and faced widespread opposition from Democrats over his alleged ties to Jan. 6 rioters and previous vows to go after his political enemies. Feb. 6, 2025The Senate Judiciary Committee will vote at 10:15 a.m. EST on whether to approve Patel’s nomination, with the committee’s Republican majority broadly expected to back the Trump nominee.

Senate Intel Chair Tom Cotton found a surprise ally in former Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) to help resuscitate Tulsi Gabbard's nomination. The former Democratic senator approached Cotton and was deployed to help sway Sens. Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) into "yes" votes today, sources tell Axios. Why it matters: Cotton, the hawkish Arkansan who is No. 3 in GOP leadership, worked all the angles on Gabbard. He worked with Vice President Vance — who's been a crucial influence on undecided senators — Trump adviser Jason Miller and others on Gabbard's team. Cotton told Trump last year he could...

BREAKING: The U.S. Senate has confirmed @PamBondi as President Trump's Attorney General — she has reached 51 yea votes

Several Democrat lawmakers said on Feb. 2 that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should commit to avoiding all decisions related to vaccines if he becomes the next U.S. health secretary.“Given the breadth of your involvement in vaccine litigation, such a recusal would help ensure that you and your family do not benefit financially from official government actions that you will oversee and control,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), wrote in a letter to Kennedy.President Donald Trump has selected Kennedy, a lawyer, to take over the U.S. Department of Health and...

But RFK and the entire vaccine-quality movement has muddled the message. Over and over RFK told the Senators "I support vaccines. [But] I want good science." That doesn't register. That doesn't make sense, especially to those who intentionally don't want to understand it. Good medicine is good. Bad medicine is bad. We have an entire government agency, the Food and Drug Administration, founded on the scandals of the nation's first century or so of contaminated food and worthless medication. No one is dividing or "framing" this topic correctly. As often happens, the vaccine quality movement has recoiled from political attacks...

Meghan McCain vowed to make it her “personal mission to help campaign and fundraise” against any Senator who does not vote to confirm Tulsi Gabbard to serve as the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). “Any Senator who votes against @TulsiGabbard for DNI isn’t just going to have a problem with MAGA and Trump,” McCain warned. “I will make it my personal mission to help campaign and fundraise against you in your next election. And my people are probably a lot like their people.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Pharmaceuticals-_-Health-Products-Recipients-%E2%80%A2-OpenSecrets.pdf ( Screen shot- very damning). Lee Wyden, a Democrat from Oregon, dares to call RFK a fraud when, in fact, according to Open Secrets, he took $1,207,873 from the Pharmaceutical Industry and will vote against RFK, Jr. because I do not believe that Wyden is representing the people of Oregon, but Big Pharma. There is no question that people have died from the COVID-19 Vaccines—countless stories on the side effects of blood clots. My lawyer suffered from that and can no longer fly. I have one fellow who works for me, and his family cannot get any vaccine. They...

What kind of people are Democrats in terms of human decency? I blogged yesterday about about their execrable behavior to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at his Senate confirmation hearings for the Health and Human Services portfolio in the new Trump administration. They bellowed. They bloviated. They interrupted, while Kennedy remained the perfect gentleman in a setting no gentleman should ever have to endure. But they only got worse after I signed off on that piece. Here's what kind of creature Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse is as he preens on the Senate floor, piously intoning "You frighten me": Imagine being such an...

VIDEOKrystal Ball claims she is a "progressive" as well as "populist" yet she still manages to end up sounding like a corporate SHILL for Big Pharma in her deranged denunciations of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. during his confirmation hearings for Secretary of HHS. The "Breaking Points" host had RFK Jr. on their show last year and caught a lot of flack from viewers for doing the Democrat tactic we have seen at the confirmation hearings by overtalking him and not allowing him to say much. The channel comments on what she did last year were brutal last year and they...

@JohnCornyn Art. II, Section 2,clause 2 provides that the President shall appoint officers with the advice and consent of the Senate. Having won the election decisively, I believe President Trump has earned the right to appoint his own cabinet, absent extraordinary circumstances. Therefore, it is my intention to consent to the appointment of @TulsiGabbard as Director of National Intelligence.

President Donald Trump's government is beginning to take form following his inauguration on Jan. 20, but he is still waiting for a few key players to join the team. A large number of government positions require the U.S. Senate's approval, including every Cabinet secretary and other Cabinet-level officials. In order to be formally hired, Trump's nominees must first undergo confirmation hearings, where senators can grill them on their qualifications and confront them with any concerns. The Senate will then deliberate and, ultimately, schedule votes on whether to approve or deny each of Trump's nominees.

WASHINGTON — FBI director nominee Kash Patel told lawmakers during his Thursday confirmation hearing that the number of US drug deaths, homicides and rapes should be halved — while brushing off Democratic critics by saying that “ticking off some people” was evidence of a job well done. The Long Island native pledged to “make sure we don’t have 100,000 rapes in this country next year, make sure we don’t have 100,000 drug overdoses from Chinese fentanyl and Mexican heroin, and make sure we don’t have 17,000 homicides.” Patel, 44, said “those numbers need to be cut in half immediately, and...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: "And by the way, Bernie, the problem of corruption is not just in the federal agencies, it's in Congress too. Almost all the members on this panel, including yourself, are accepting millions of dollars from the pharmaceutical industry." Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): "Oh no, no, no...I ran for president like you. I got millions and millions of contributions. They did not come from the executives…They came from the workers."