President-elect Donald Trump asserted that cyber attacks had “absolutely no effect” on the results of the election, after he received an intelligence briefing at Trump Tower on Friday.
“They got beaten very badly in the election. I won more counties in the election than Ronald Reagan,” Donald Trump says of Democrats in an exclusive interview with the New York Times. “They are very embarrassed about it. To some extent, it’s a witch hunt. They just focus on this.”
Obama promised Republicans that if a replacement plan was actually better, he would support repeal of his signature legislation.
The national unemployment rate in December ticked upward to 4.7 percent, although the United States economy added 156,000 jobs, according to statistics released by the Labor Department.
President-elect Donald Trump reacted to recent reports that he had asked Congress for funding for the wall on the southern border.
According to spy photos from TMZ, workers are currently building a brick wall around the rental home where the Obamas plan to live after leaving the White House.
President Barack Obama reflected on the attack on a white disabled man aired on Facebook by four African-America teenagers, describing the incident as a “terrible” and “despicable” hate crime. Obama made his remarks in the context of a discussion of
The White House reacted to the Facebook live video of four African-American teenagers beating and torturing a white disabled man, denouncing the apparent crime.
President-elect Donald Trump has selected former Indiana senator Dan Coats as his choice to serve as the Director of National Intelligence, according to reports.
President-elect Donald Trump challenged Toyota for plans to build a new plant in Mexico, warning them that they would face big taxes if they tried to sell the cars built there in America.
“[W]e cannot deny the legacy of racism that continues to drive inequality in how the justice system is experienced by so many Americans,” Barack Obama writes in his 56 page essay.
“The Democrats, lead [sic] by head clown Chuck Schumer, know how bad ObamaCare is and what a mess they are in,” Donald Trump wrote on Twitter. “Instead of working to fix it, they do the typical political thing and BLAME.”
President-elect Donald Trump has appointed former RNC Chief of Staff Katie Walsh to serve as his Deputy Chief of Staff to the White House, according to a release from the transition team.
President Barack Obama celebrated the social changes made in the military during his administration by allowing gays to serve openly in the Armed Forces and opening combat roles to women.
Exxon’s former CEO Rex Tillerson received a $180 million retirement package, according to the Wall Street Journal, as he prepares for congressional hearings to confirm his nomination as President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of State.
After the Obamacare meeting, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters that it was “an inspiring meeting” but did not go into any greater detail about what the president said. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi described Obama’s message as “one of confidence and one of values.”
President-elect Donald Trump confirmed reports that he would choose Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton as Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Thank you to Ford for scrapping a new plant in Mexico and creating 700 new jobs in the U.S,” Donald Trump wrote on Twitter. “This is just the beginning – much more to follow.”
President-elect Donald Trump questioned the intelligence community, suggesting they have delayed a briefing with him connecting Russian hackers and the Russian government to the DNC emails that WikiLeaks leaked.
The White House notes that Obama was elected and re-elected with “with strong majorities — not just of the electoral college, but actually a majority of the voting population.”
Former President Bill Clinton and wife Hillary Clinton will attend president-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration, according to several reports citing aides close to the Clintons.
In a hastily arranged meeting on Capitol Hill, the Republican conference scrambled to kill the rules changes proposal before a scheduled vote and after President-elect Donald Trump publicly ridiculed them for their ham-handed timing on the issue.
“This drive-by effort to eliminate the Office of Congressional Ethics, which provides appropriate independence and transparency to the House ethics process, is a poor way for the Republican majority to begin ‘draining the swamp,’” Judicial Watch leader Tom Fitton says.
“With all that Congress has to work on, do they really have to make the weakening of the Independent Ethics Watchdog, as unfair as it. may be, their number one act and priority,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Focus on tax reform, healthcare and so many other things of far greater importance!”
Robert Lighthizer served under President Ronald Reagan as Deputy United States Trade Representative, according to the Trump transition team, and played a major role in developing trade policy during his administration.
President-elect Donald Trump sent a message to Chevrolet, warning that it would face a big border tax if it continued making its Chevy Cruze car in Mexico.
Vice President-elect Mike Pence is going to meet with House Republicans on Wednesday to talked about repealing and replacing Obamacare, the same day that President Obama plans to meet with Democrats to talk about saving it.
“It’s been the privilege of my life to serve as your President,” Barack Obama writes on Twitter. “I look forward to standing with you as a citizen. Happy New Year everybody.”
President-elect Donald Trump revealed his New Year’s resolution, after he was asked about it by reporters at Mar-a-lago on New Years Eve.
Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed President Obama’s order that 35 Russian diplomats leave the country, in response to assertions by the intelligence community that Russia had hacked into Democratic email accounts.
