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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."

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. walked into his confirmation hearing expecting a grilling. Instead, he gave a master class in Washington’s most predictable theater—politicians masquerading as public servants while performing for their real benefactors. That spectacle, courtesy of Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, should dispel any remaining illusion that the progressive wing of the Democrat Party is anything but a reliable arm of the medical-industrial complex. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. carries a storied name in Democrat politics, but his break from the party’s establishment is now undeniable. Once part of the liberal political dynasty, he has charted a different course,...

Robert F Kennedy Jr and Sen Bernie Sanders had an explosive clash over the senator's links to Big Pharma as Trump's health nominee came out swinging in the second day of his confirmation hearing. The spat started when RFK Jr, who has been tapped to be head of the Health and Human Services (HHS), promised he would 'make America healthier than other countries in the world.' Sen Sanders questioned how RFK Jr could do so without guaranteeing free healthcare to every American, which appeared to set the nominee off. Referring to an earlier point in the hearing about corruption in...

Tulsi Gabbard Senate Confirmation Hearing to be Director of National Intelligence Expect some interesting exchanges...

FBI Director nominee Kash Patel fired back at Democratic California Sen. Adam Schiff as he spewed several allegations about his past involvement with a song sung by the “J6 Prison Choir” during his Thursday confirmation hearing. Schiff accused Patel of being unfit to be FBI director due to his promotion of a March 2023 song recorded by the “J6 Prison Choir” titled “Justice for All,” which consisted of defendants convicted for their involvement in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. Patel, said he had no knowledge about the defendants’ backgrounds and said he had instead “promoted the hell out of”...

During her Thursday Senate confirmation hearing, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard provided the definitive case on why she’s the best person to lead the Office of the Director National Intelligence (ODNI).Speaking before the Intelligence Committee, the Army lieutenant colonel spoke of the importance of ending the political weaponization of U.S. intel agencies and restoring public trust in these institutions. She specifically noted prior remarks by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who in 2017 ominously warned then-President-elect Donald Trump, “[Y]ou take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”“For too long, faulty, inadequate, or weaponized...

Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.), who was thought to be open to voting for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s nomination to head the Department of Health and Human Services, now says the nominee is in serious trouble after his rocky confirmation hearing. “I don’t think it went well for him today. I don’t think that was a good one,” he said after Kennedy sparred with Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee over his past statements and stance on vaccines. Fetterman said after the bruising hearing that he thinks Kennedy’s nomination may be “moot.” “It’s moot,” he said when asked if he’s still...

Billionaire Nicole Shanahan vows to fund primary challengers of 13 specific U.S. Senators who don't support RFK Jr's confirmation, calls them out by name.

The U.S. Senate voted on Monday to confirm Scott Bessent as Treasury secretary in President Donald Trump’s administration. The Senate voted 68-29 to confirm the Wall Street veteran, with 16 Democrats joining all Republicans to choose Bessent for the post. He will be the 79th Treasury secretary. Bessent, the founder of Key Square Group, will play a key role helping Trump enact his economic agenda, including having insight on tax policy. He is being confirmed as the U.S. government grapples with its debt and deficit. The federal government has spent roughly $711 billion more than it has collected in the...