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President-elect Donald Trump's transition team reportedly tapped a former senior health official from the president-elect's first term and a friend to top Trump loyalists to be Robert F. Kennedy Jr's chief of staff.

This month, President-elect Trump is set to return to the White House, where he has promised to take swift action against institutionalized “gender-affirming care."

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Trump's choice to head up the Pentagon, faced a Senate confirmation grilling with the Armed Services Committee.

'It is shameful'

House Republicans on Tuesday passed a bill to bar transgender student-athletes from competing in girls’ sports from kindergarten through twelfth grade, putting the contentious issue front and center following an election cycle that saw it become a frequent target of Republicans. The Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act would amend Title IX — [...]

RFK Jr. begins meeting with Senate Democrats this week as his coalition for getting confirmed to HHS secretary remains uncertain.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday took the necessary procedural steps to place Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) bill blocking transgender athletes from women’s sports on the Senate calendar. The step sets up a vote on Tuberville’s bill in the weeks ahead. The legislation, dubbed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, [...]

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) on Tuesday took the necessary procedural steps to place Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) bill blocking transgender athletes from women’s sports on the Senate calendar. The step sets up a vote on Tuberville’s bill in the weeks ahead. The legislation, dubbed the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, [...]

Outgoing Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Mark Warner (D-Va.) said that his meeting with former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) has left him with more questions as she looks to win confirmation in the coming weeks to lead the U.S. intelligence community. Warner sat down with Gabbard, Trump's pick for director of national intelligence, on Wednesday, a [...]

'How can you be against that'

WASHINGTON — The feud between Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell could soon spark anew in the next Congress with the Kentucky Republican poised to hold ample sway over the president-elect’s agenda and nominees.

The 43-year-old heiress and actor has testified about her own experience as a teenager at treatment facilities.

New polling shows Republicans hold a positive view of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but recent polling shows Americans overall are less positive. Also, there isn’t broad support for some of his views.

GOP Alabama Sen. Tommy Tuberville said Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Health and Human Services secretary, told him he stands behind Trump's stance on abortion 100% and will not go overboard when it comes to regulating the agriculture industry.

President-elect Donald Trump's nominee for HHS Secretary hopes to make a positive impact on lawmakers during one-on-one discussions.

Donald Trump's controversial choice to run the Pentagon is backtracking on previous comments he made about women in combat and some senators are not buying his sudden about-face as he tries to salvage his nomination.According to a report from Politico, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth is scrambling to disavow comments he made just a month ago, before the president-elect tapped him to be the next secretary of defense, where he bluntly stated, "I’m straight up just saying, we should not have women in combat roles.”Already under a cloud of allegations of public drunkenness and an accusation of sexual assault, Hegseth is now reassuring lawmakers that he sees a role for women that he now characterizes as "some of our greatest warriors."ALSO READ: The reckoning: Plenty of hurts coming for the people who didn't care about their countryAccording to Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), she is not buying his overnight conversion.The senator who lost both her legs in combat while serving in the U.S. Army, scoffed, "Trump nominees lie all the time in order to get confirmed, don’t they? So, I don’t trust him.”Sen Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), who is likely to rubberstamp all of Trump's Cabinet nominees, admitted Hegseth's change of heart might be a matter of convenience.“I heard he was changing his tune a little bit on women in combat,” he stated before suggesting, “Sometimes you make comments that you don’t really want to stand by, sometimes, you know, when you’re not up for confirmation.”You can read more right here.

Weeks before millions of small businesses faced their rights being trampled and being unwittingly turned into felons, a nationwide injunction against an obscure reporting rule has gone into effect.

The Trump transition team is rolling out a video highlighting the support Pete Hegseth has received from some Republican senators as he looks to sell himself to others.

Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be director of the FBI, leaves a meeting Monday with Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, in the Hart building.

The Department of Health and Human services issued a "Pansexual and Panromantic Pride Day" post that earned a wave of backlash on social media.

If there’s a theme among Trump’s health Cabinet picks, it’s this: The vast majority were critics of how the Biden administration handled COVID-19.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) meets with Pam Bondi, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee for U.S. Attorney General, at 3:30 p.m. ET on Dec. 2.

Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Office of Management and Budget, testifies during a House Budget Committee hearing in 2020.

The Atlantic's Tom Nichols said the Alabama senator is peddling an "old saw."

Republican lawmakers revealed they will have a heightened focus on legislation related to preventing gender-related medical care for minors.

Republican senators have some concerns about Trump's choice of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

How many? And how fast? That’s the question for the Senate in January as it will sprint to confirm as many of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees as possible.

Mehmet Oz speaks during a meeting with business leaders at Washington Crossing, Pa., on Nov. 6, 2022. President-elect Donald Trump announced his intent to nominate Oz to serve as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The former Florida congressman could face an uphill battle for confirmation in the Senate.

President-elect Donald Trump sent shock waves through the national security establishment when he nominated Pete Hegseth for Defense secretary.

'Ten GOP members have endorsed a candidate so far'

It remains to be seen whether the high-profile endorsements Rick Scott has received from external figures will influence the Senate GOP's secret ballot leader race.

Senate Minority Whip earned another endorsement in his bid to succeed Mitch McConnell as Republican leader.

As Senate Republicans prepare to vote Wednesday on a new majority leader, Trump is already weighing in with demands for recess appointments.

An army of online pro-Trump voices is trying to boost underdog Rick Scott for Senate Republican leader over two Mitch McConnell deputies, John Thune and John Cornyn.

'This is what they did four years ago, and we cannot let it happen again'

Vice presidential candidate Tim Walz is calling former President Donald Trump a "dictator" who has asked to "overturn the Constitution."

While Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is posting bizarre videos wishing for a return to the violent masculinity that brought us the Vietnam War, the Biden-Harris administration has scored another big win for LGBTQ+ justice.Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced on Tuesday that more than 800 former service members discharged under the homophobic “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy have had their status upgraded to “honorable discharge” after a yearlong review.“Don't Ask, Don't Tell” affected more than 13,000 military members during the 17 years it was in effect and barred openly gay people from serving. According to Christa A. Specht, a legal policy director at the Pentagon, while most of those members were given honorable discharges, “nearly 2,000 were separated with less than fully honorable characterizations.” While many of those affected by the policy appealed for an upgrade after the policy was reversed in 2011, others likely didn’t know that was an option and did not apply. Austin announced in September 2023 that the Pentagon would be reviewing the remaining cases in order to “do right by our outstanding service members, military families, and civilian employees.” According to Austin, 96.8% of the cases reviewed received an upgrade to their status.

The Republican presidential nominee posted a video on Saturday titled “America’s Military: President Donald J. Trump vs. Comrade Kamala Harris.” “WE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY!” Trump wrote in the post accompanying the video.The amateurish effort splices footage from Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 film “Full Metal Jacket” alongside video of drag queens and transgender advocates. R. Lee Ermey’s notoriously abusive drill sergeant character who dehumanizes new recruits during basic training is captioned “President Trump.” Those clips are juxtaposed with videos ripped off of social media of LGBTQ+ people dancing, with a caption reading “Comrade Kamala.”xWE WILL NOT HAVE A WOKE MILITARY! pic.twitter.com/zpWZhSKcEs— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2024

Hung Cao disparaged people who are tolerant of drag queens by implying they are not tough enough to serve in the U.S. military.

Donald Trump attended the highly anticipated Alabama-Georgia college football matchup

The Senate on Wednesday quietly cleared a key military nomination for commanding general of the U.S. Army in the Pacific after Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) dropped his hold on the nominee. Lt. Gen. Ronald Clark, the senior military assistant to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, was confirmed to be a general for the commanding Army job...

Senate Republicans blocked Democrats from advancing a resolution aimed at ensuring access to emergency health care, including for abortions, as Democrats keep their messaging centered on reproductive rights ahead of November. Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) attempted to pass the resolution, which was introduced last week, via unanimous consent. She argued it was necessary after ProPublica reported a [...]

U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) holds a press conference about requesting additional resources for the Secret Service, at 3:30 p.m. ET on Sept. 17.

Republican senators are calling on Secret Service to increase security for former President Donald Trump in the wake of a second assassination attempt.

Republican senators are fast losing patience with Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) inability to muster the votes to avoid a government shutdown at the end of September, and are warning they will take matters into their own hands if the House fails to act by Thursday. GOP senators fear that Congress may stumble into a shutdown [...]

Senate Republicans seethed Monday after former President Trump was subject to what authorities said was another assassination attempt and questioned why Secret Service protection has not been beefed up even more since the shooting in Butler, Pa., two months ago. GOP lawmakers returned to the Capitol angry and upset, and pointed fingers at the Secret [...]

Sylacauga, Alabama, residents fume at officials over an influx of Haitian migrants legally in their town under Temporary Protective Status as state lawmakers seek action.

Democrats are finding their footing on football, promoting their pigskin backgrounds and talking up the game. Republicans, however, see an inauthentic rebrand.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., seen after Senate luncheons in the U.S. Capitol on July 30, is looking ahead to his next act.