During the first round of his Senate confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s pick for U.S. Department of Health and Human Services secretary, appeared to be at odds with his past self. Lawmakers on the Senate Finance Committee grilled Kennedy on his past positions and comments on topics ranging from abortion to […]
PolitiFact is live fact-checking U.S. Senate hearings for President Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks. Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump’s pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, met with members of the Senate Finance Committee on Jan. 29. Hearings for Kennedy, FBI director nominee Kash Patel and former U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Trump’s pick for national intelligence […]
School meals for low-income students. Cancer treatment trials. Housing assistance for veterans. These are among the federal programs that might — or might not — be on the chopping block after the White House issued a sweeping, but vague, Jan. 27 late-night memo that ordered a temporary pause on all grants, loans and financial assistance. […]
When President Donald Trump took his second-term oath of office, tech titans Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos had front-row seats — literally. Before Trump’s speech, the Silicon Valley billionaires stood in front of many of Trump’s Cabinet picks, turning around to mingle with some of the incoming secretaries who will directly influence their […]
President Donald Trump’s second time taking the oath of office had the internet buzzing about rules and tradition. Unlike former President Barack Obama’s 2009 swearing-in — when Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts and Obama stumbled through some words of the oath, prompting a redo — Trump’s words were right. Trump broke with another tradition: […]
WASHINGTON — Donald Trump se juramento como el presidente número 47 de los Estados Unidos el 20 de enero en la Rotonda del Capitolio, donde habló sobre el comienzo de una nueva “América” bajo su mandato. Trump criticó al Departamento de Justicia, y la frontera bajo la administración del expresidente Joe Biden, resaltando que su […]
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump took his second oath of office Jan. 20 as the 47th president of the United States, offering an agenda heavily foreshadowed by his campaign promises. Speaking from inside the U.S. Capitol Rotunda because of the subfreezing temperatures, Trump said, “The golden age of America begins right now.” He vowed to […]
In sometimes fiery exchanges, former Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi fielded questions during a Senate confirmation hearing for her attorney general nomination about whether she would prosecute President-elect Donald Trump’s declared political enemies. Bondi also refused to deny falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election being stolen. In the Jan. 15 hearing, Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., […]
As wildfires swept through Los Angeles, devastating the Pacific Palisades and surrounding neighborhoods, many took to the internet to blame the destruction on the mayor and budget cuts. The critics included the Los Angeles Times owner, Patrick Soon-Shiong. “Fires in LA are sadly no surprise,” Soon-Shiong wrote Jan. 8 on X, “yet the Mayor cut […]
As Joe Biden campaigned for president in 2020, national and global discussion focused on one issue: the COVID-19 pandemic. As then-President Donald Trump downplayed the pandemic’s severity, Biden pledged to increase COVID-19 testing, vaccinate 50 million people in 100 days and get the virus under control. But his campaign promises extended beyond the pandemic. Biden […]
Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the 42-year-old suspected driver in the New Year’s truck attack in New Orleans, was a U.S. citizen and U.S. Army veteran. But within hours of the attack — which killed 14 people and is being investigated as an act of terrorism — President-elect Donald Trump, Republican leaders and social media influencers speculated that Jabbar […]
La administración entrante del presidente electo Donald Trump podría tratar de eliminar el flúor del agua potable, según Robert F. Kennedy Jr., nominado por Trump para liderar el Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos. Kennedy, quien también se postuló a la presidencia, llamó al flúor, también conocido como fluoruro, un “desecho industrial” y lo relaciono […]