President Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel pledged in his confirmation to end the ‘targeting’ of Americans by the government specifically as it relates to citizens who were in the crosshairs of the Biden administration for religious reasons. ‘Is it appropriate for the Federal Bureau of Investigation to attempt to recruit spies or informants into religious institutions in this country, ...
: Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jim Risch, R-Idaho, and Republican senators on Thursday are expected to roll out a measure that would prohibit the use of U.S. foreign aid funds for abortions, Fox News Digital has learned. The bill, titled ‘the American Values Act,’ would permanently enact and expand existing prohibitions on the use of U.S. foreign assistance to ...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel testified before Senate committees on Capitol Hill on Thursday as urgency builds to confirm President Donald Trump’s Cabinet nominations. Kennedy, Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), faced his second day of questioning on the Hill before the Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor & Pensions on Thursday. ...
Kash Patel, Trump’s nominee to lead the FBI, ripped into ‘false accusations and grotesque mischaracterizations’ from Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee at his confirmation hearing on Thursday. Patel, a former public defender and DOJ official, was grilled by Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who accused Patel of having called for FBI headquarters to be shut down. That came on the ...
Director of national intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard shed further light on her 2017 meeting with then-Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a trip that has come under the microscope since President Donald Trump nominated the former congresswoman. ‘There is not a great deal in the public record about what you and Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad discussed for so long in January ...
Kash Patel, President Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the Federal Bureau of Investigation, pushed back in his confirmation hearing after he was grilled on the president’s pardoning of January 6 rioters. ‘So do you think that America is safer because the 1600 people have been given an opportunity to come out of serving their sentences and live in our communities ...
Director of National Intelligence nominee Tulsi Gabbard slammed the Democratic narrative that she is a puppet for U.S. and world leaders, saying she is loyal to only God, the Constitution and her own conscience in her opening remarks before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday. ‘Before I close, I want to warn the American people who are watching at home. ...
President Donald Trump’s FBI director nominee Kash Patel was grilled Thursday over the FBI’s investigation into alleged Trump-Russia connections in the aftermath of the 2016 election, known colloquially by its nickname ‘Crossfire Hurricane,’ and which has emerged as something of a partisan lightning rod in the years since the investigation was closed. Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., for his part, used ...
Virginia Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, grilled President Donald Trump’s DNI nominee Tulsi Gabbard over her previous remarks praising whistleblower Edward Snowden. ‘Until you are nominated by the president to be the DNI, you consistently praised the actions of Edward Snowden, someone, I believe, jeopardized the security of our nation and then, to flaunt ...
The Senate is set for a Thursday confirmation vote for President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department, former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum. The upper chamber voted to advance Burgum’s nomination to a confirmation vote on Wednesday by a 78–20 margin. Burgum appeared before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee in mid-January, where he told lawmakers that ...