President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Dr. Mehmet Oz to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Dr. Scott Atlas, senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution and former adviser of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, speaks with NTD about what changes we can expect.
Hakeem Jeffries has won reelection as the Democratic Party leader in the House of Representatives in the aftermath of the party’s recent election losses. For more insight and perspective, NTD spoke to Democratic political consultant Lee Neves.
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to reduce the U.S. reliance on Chinese-made products and scale back renewable energy investments. One product set to be impacted by both of these measures is Chinese-made solar panels—a product, like many made in China, that is often dependent on slave labor. NTD spoke to Bret Manley, executive director of […]
House Democrats reelected 54-year-old Rep. Hakeem Jeffries of New York’s Eighth Congressional District as their leader Tuesday, just weeks after falling short of reclaiming the lower congressional chamber. NTD discussed the Democratic Party’s strategy with Mike Leon, NTD News contributor, policy and strategy director with the Free & Equal Elections Foundation, and host of the […]
Vice President Kamala Harris and Vice President-elect JD Vance are the leading contenders in hypothetical 2028 Democrat and Republican presidential primaries, according to a new poll. The Echelon Insights survey released on Monday shows that Harris holds a comfortable, double-digit lead among possible presidential hopeful despite her loss to President-elect Donald Trump. It also shows […]
President-elect Donald Trump has nominated former U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands and former Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.) to be the ambassador to Canada. “In my Second Term, Pete will help me once again put America first,” Trump said in a statement announcing the nomination on Wednesday night, with all caps. “He did an outstanding job […]
An independent federal agency is recommending that lawmakers strip the Chinese regime of its trade privileges with the United States, ending what is known as permanent normal trade relations (PNTR) status, which Beijing has enjoyed for more than 20 years. In its annual report to Congress released on Nov. 19, the U.S.–China Economic and Security […]
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy co-authored a Nov. 20 op-ed article on the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) that they will lead in the second Trump administration starting next year. The article appeared in the Wall Street Journal and outlined their ambitious goals for DOGE, which include rolling […]
The Democratic Party’s election loss is forcing it to reevaluate its positions on key issues. To examine the task facing the party, NTD spoke with Democratic strategist Robin Biro, who was a regional campaign director for Barack Obama.
President-elect Donald Trump’s signature dance moves have taken social media and the sports world by storm, with U.S. athletes and UK teams performing it on sports fields. The dance gained attention during Trump’s 2020 presidential campaign, when he energized supporters by pumping his fists and swaying to the song “Y.M.C.A.” by the Village People. Trump […]
Jon T. Kosloski, the new director of the Pentagon’s All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), which studies unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP)—formerly known as UFOs—testified to the U.S. Senate on Nov. 19 and discussed cases the military believes it has solved and others it has not. The hearing, hosted by the Senate Armed Services Committee under Sens. […]
WASHINGTON—U.S. Reps. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) and Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) joined a group of pro-democracy Hong Kong activists to decry the sentencing of 45 political prisoners, imposed under the special administrative region’s draconian Article 23 based on China’s national security law. “We are outraged about what [Chinese communist leader] Xi Jinping and his cronies are doing […]
The House Ethics Committee will not release a report on its findings on a probe on former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for now after no consensus was reached. “There was not an agreement by the committee to release the report,” Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), chairman of the committee, told reporters after the panel met to […]
WASHINGTON—House Speaker Mike Johnson announced on Nov. 20 that he will ban persons from using bathrooms that do not correspond with their biological sex. In this year’s general election, Delaware state Sen. Sarah McBride—a male who identifies as a woman—was elected to represent the state’s at-large district in the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the […]
The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that called for an immediate, unconditional cease-fire in Gaza on Nov. 20. The 15-member council voted on the resolution proposed by 10 nonpermanent members, including Algeria, Ecuador, and Japan. The United States was the only member to vote against it, using its veto power as […]
House representatives depart after a meeting of the Ethics Committee panel on Nov. 20, which is expected to discuss the next steps in its investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general choice Matt Gaetz.
Republicans have won a majority in the Senate, but still don’t have the sixty-vote majority they needed to easily pass legislation. However, the GOP could avail of a process called “budget reconciliation,” which they will likely use to get around majority vote requirements.
President Joe Biden is urging Congress to approve $100 billion for hurricane relief efforts. For a look at how this money would be spent, NTD spoke with Pete Sepp, president of the National Taxpayers Union.
U.S. House representatives arrive for a meeting of the Ethics Committee panel at 12:15 p.m. ET on Nov. 20, which is expected to discuss the next steps in its investigation into President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general choice Matt Gaetz. SCHEDULE: 12:15 p.m. ET – Monitor for arrivals 1:00 p.m. ET – Start of meeting
