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01/22/2017 / By JD Heyes

DAY ONE: Trump gets right to work with new executive orders, Cabinet picks approved

As he said he would during his campaign, President Donald J. Trump and his new administration wasted no time getting straight to work on his first day in office. As reported by the UK’s Daily Mail, Trump—in between his inauguration and post-inauguration celebrations and festivities—took time out in the Oval Office to sign an executive […]

01/13/2017 / By News Editors

Trump defends Cabinet picks disagreeing with him: They should “express their own thoughts”

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday defended his Cabinet nominees repeatedly breaking from his own policy positions during their confirmation hearings this week. (Article by Mark Hensch from TheHill.com) The Senate began interviewing Trump’s departmental picks this week, often finding they disagree with their would-be boss on everything from climate change to waterboarding. All of my […]

12/08/2016 / By whitehousenews

A Scandal in the Cabinet

Gerald Nye was a Republican who represented North Dakota in the U.S. Senate for the 20 years between 1925 and 1945. Nye was a lifelong good-government progressive who grew up in Wisconsin, where his father, a smalltown newspaper publisher, used to take young Gerald to see Fighting Bob LaFollette speak. Ultimately, Nye was appointed to […]

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