Donald Trump's former primary opponent Sen. Marco Rubio is meeting with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday as the president-elect's secretary of state nominee.
Bondi, 59, the former two-time attorney general of Florida who Trump has tapped to lead the Department of Justice, arrived at her Senate confirmation hearing with her fiancé and family in tow.
Senate confirmation hearings for the Trump cabinet continue on Thursday. They will include Doug Burgum for interior secretary, Scott Turner for housing secretary and Lee Zeldin for Environmental Protection Agency administrator at 10 a.m. Eastern, and Scott Bessent for Treasury secretary at 10:30 a.m.
All of Trump's high-profile nominees are required to file reports disclosing their assets and recent sources of income.
The Senate will continue confirmation hearings for President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees on Thursday, featuring several high-profile candidates.
Notably, Gabbard questioned the US intelligence community’s assessments that Assad was behind a deadly chlorine gas attack the same year she met with the Syrian strongman, to which Trump said at the time: “There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons.”
U.S. senators will have the opportunity to publicly question President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks for the first time.
Political analyst Mark Halperin criticized Senate Democrats on Thursday for their handling of President-elect Donald Trump’s nominees during confirmation hearings, accusing them of prioritizing attacks on Trump
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The treasury secretary nominee said he has no qualms about tightening sanctions against Russia and Russian energy products if Trump is in favor of doing so.