Trump team gets low ratings from public: poll
President Trump’s top appointees received tough ratings from the public in a new CNN poll.Half of the people polled said Trump’s appointments are less qualified than the officials who previously held...
View ArticleLast week was the worst for geopolitical risk in 20 years
When the 9/11 terror attacks happened in 2001, the U.S. was still the world’s unquestioned superpower; Russia was still struggling to find its own political footing under relative newcomer Vladimir...
View ArticleTrump asked aides about making Labor secretary his new attorney general: report
President Trump reportedly asked an aide if Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta would make a good replacement for Attorney General Jeff Sessions.The inquiry came after the president saw Acosta on “Fox...
View ArticleState Dept website removes references to Tillerson
Former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been removed from the State Department’s website.A link labeled “Secretary of State Tillerson” at the top of the department’s homepage has disappeared and...
View ArticleWithdrawal from Syria would be unusual bright spot for American foreign policy
We all know that President Trump plays to the crowd and cameras and then sometimes flip flops on policy proposals like a fish out of water. However, he recently shocked his national security advisers...
View ArticleSenate Dems want a confirmation spectacle — but Mike Pompeo knows all the tricks
Democrats lie in wait for Mike Pompeo. His confirmation hearing before the Foreign Relations Committee is expected to be a contentious affair. As nominee to be Secretary of State Pompeo should, in the...
View ArticleFormer Dem Rep rips Trump for inability to work with his own staff
Former Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) blasted President Trump for what he described as his failure to get along with members of his own staff."This is a man who can’t get along with a man he made...
View ArticleDem lawmaker rips Trump's taxpayer spending on Tax Day
Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) took to Twitter on Tax Day to slam President Trump and “his cronies” for a series of controversial spending scandals.“It’s Bigly Swampy in the Trump Administration,”...
View ArticleDemocrats have good reason to confirm Mike Pompeo as secretary of State
Mike Pompeo should be promptly confirmed as secretary of State because he is well qualified, but also because this is an extraordinarily dangerous time for the United States to be without an effective...
View ArticleMSNBC host compiles list of White House officials who have reportedly...
MSNBC host Stephanie Ruhle on Tuesday put together a list of current and former officials in President Trump's administration who have reportedly insulted the president.White House chief of staff John...
View ArticlePompeo lifts hiring freeze at State Department
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is lifting the hiring freeze on the Foreign and Civil services imposed by his predecessor, Rex Tillerson. In a memo, Pompeo announced he was authorizing the State...
View ArticlePompeo touts 'America's essential rightness' to State employees
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo touted "America's essential rightness” in international affairs to a group of State Department employees on Wednesday, The Associated Press reported.Pompeo told the...
View ArticleBUILD Act must build in US values for global development projects
Earlier this year, the then-U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told African and Latin American countries to stop taking billions of dollars in financing from China for infrastructure, energy and...
View ArticleChina is investing in Latin America, and the US is jealous
An extraordinary change in attitude toward China has taken hold in Washington over the past several months from jovial nudging to full-on confrontation on trade and pretty much everything...
View ArticleEx-Trump campaign adviser on Tillerson remarks: Trump will 'pick a fight...
A former senior campaign official weighed in on President Trump's attack on former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during an appearance on “Rising.”“This is unique to Donald Trump, he’ll pick a fight...
View ArticleTillerson told lawmakers Kushner didn't alert him to Saudi meeting
The House Foreign Affairs Committee on Thursday released the transcript of a closed-door May interview with President Trump’s former secretary of state Rex Tillerson.Tillerson told the panel that...
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