The select subcommittee will be chaired by Representative Barry Loudermilk, who also leads the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight and last month released a 128-page “interim report” by House Republicans on the January 6 committee.
The Trump administration has fired U.S. Coast Guard Commandant Admiral Linda Fagan due to her supposed “excessive” focus on DEI initiatives. Appointed by President Joe Biden, Fagan was the first uniformed woman leader of a U.S. Armed Forces branch.
Three former secretaries of the U.S. Department of Education took to a Brookings Institution panel on Tuesday to offer more perspective on President Donald Trump’s calls to dismantle the federal agency,
Donald Trump, on his first day in office yesterday, signed an executive order repealing former President Joe Biden’s executive order that allowed out transgender people to serve in the military. The move doesn’t immediately ban trans people from serving in the military but paves the way for a future order from Trump to ban trans servicemembers.
The heads of the Jan. 6 committee say they're grateful for the decision by President Joe Biden to pardon them “not for breaking the law but for upholding it.”
Donald Trump took office as the 47th president claiming an electoral and divine mandate to immediately invoke emergency powers on immigration and energy, pursue territorial expansion and reverse Joe Biden’s policies on car emissions and trans rights.
Kenneth Marcus, who served as a top civil rights official in the George W. Bush and Trump administrations, lauded Biden for his rhetorical commitment to combating antisemitism, which he said was unprecedented. But he said the strategy fell short. Marcus said Biden failed to institute policies that would stem antisemitism.
President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration next week will mean sweeping changes in the way the federal government handles issues from foreign policy to education — and Education Secretary Miguel Cardona is already rebutting what he’s expecting to see from his successor.