Today: October 12, 2025
Incoming Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) spoke with Fox News’ Bret Baier on Thursday about President-elect Donald Trump’s Cabinet picks; “all options” are on the table to get Trump’s pick confirmed, Thune told Baier. Some of Trump’s picks so far include Pete Hegseth, RFK Jr., Matt Gaetz, and Tulsi Gabbard. “All these people have a process that they have to go through. All these nominees are – it’s a – you know, advice and consent. That’s the Senate’s constitutional role when it comes to confirmation of nominations to the executive branch of the government. And we take that role seriously,”
X owner Elon Musk and former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy are set to unleash DOGE (The Department of Government Efficiency) onto the federal government. Trump said in a statement that Musk and Ramaswamy “will pave the way for my Administration to dismantle Government Bureaucracy, slash excess regulations, cut wasteful expenditures, and restructure Federal Agencies.” A recent article in The New York Post provides a few ideas on where they can start. From The New York Post: John Hart, CEO of watchdog Open the Books, which monitors fiscal waste, told The Post they will curb “spending that has been on autopilot where
CNN’s lone Republican panelist Scott Jennings called out Democrats on Wednesday for their dangerous campaign rhetoric after President Biden was seen smiling with President-elect Donald Trump. Jennings reacted to footage of Trump and Biden during a meeting in the Oval Office. “It was the underpinning of the Democrat campaign that Donald Trump is a ‘fascist.’ And what I see in this — and I’m glad it’s happening — but what it tells me and what it ought to tell Democrats is that they didn’t mean any of it; it was all campaign rhetoric,” Jennings said on Wednesday. “If you really