Senate confirmation hearings for President Trump cabinet nominations continue today.
10 a.m.: Scott Turner, secretary of housing and urban development. Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Doug Burgum, interior secretary. 10:30 a.m.: Scott Bessent, Treasury secretary.
♦ Scott Turner, a former football player who served as a midlevel official in the first Trump administration, has been elevated as Mr. Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
♦ Former Representative Lee Zeldin of New York previously made an unsuccessful run for governor in the state in 2022. Now he has been tapped by President Trump to carry out his environmental policy and remove excessive climate regulations at the Environmental Protection Agency.
♦ Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum made a $1 billion fortune in the tech industry before running for governor. Burgum, who has longstanding ties to oil and gas companies will seek to fulfill the “drill baby drill” energy independence policy expressed by candidate Trump. Burgum would be in charge of managing vast swaths of federal land and coastal waters in the Interior Department, as well as leases of those lands for oil and gas drilling.
♦ Scott Bessent is a billionaire hedge fund manager who has been a central economic adviser to Mr. Trump as the president-elect created a campaign agenda centered on raising tariffs on imported goods. Mr. Bessent, who will oversee some of America’s most powerful economic levers in the Treasury Department, has called for rolling back government subsidies, deregulating the economy and raising domestic energy production.
Burgum and Bessent will get the majority of attention from the ‘resistance’ democrats and the Moonbats amid their climate change base.
Murkowski is sharpening her claws
how did you get there?
Where?
North. To Alaska 🙂
Johnny Horton gave me a ride
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Wasn’t it Sara Palin who first began the montra “drill, Baby drill,” when she ran as McCain’s V.P. candidate?
Seems like it was
Honestly I keep getting more and more excited about his team…come on Monday!
agreed.monday can’t come fast enough.
T minus 4 days.
Dems. The nattering nebobs of negativity. (Spiro Agnew?)
William Saffire wrote that phrase for Agnew’s speech.
See, we have so much deep intelligence here at this site. Thank you.
Exactly. How much revenue did you take in from the Covid lie?
https://x.com/julie_kelly2/status/1879719463811154346
Mary McCord to testify today in the Bondi-for-AG hearings. As Julie Kelly tweets above, McCord herself deserves extensive interrogation. My appreciation to CTH for providing invaluable backstory on what a snake this swamp-rattess is.
How like the Dems to bring out the one of the main architects of all of the lawfare against President Trump take down Pam Bondi. Pam Bondi is one of the lawyers that defended President Trump in the first impeachment.
They really must be terrified. They are bringing out one of the biggest of the big lawfare instigators to protect themselves against potential investigations of their activities.
This may be a battle royal today. Prayers up for Pam Bondi.
Reruns, remakes, and reboots.
We’re even getting the Ukrainian interference like it’s a prequel.
Ukrainian efforts to sabotage Trump backfire
https://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/ukraine-sabotage-trump-backfire-233446
The Swamp, particularly Mary McCord, is very afraid that “justice” will now happen to them. They will do anything to stop it. They want a “toady” in that office who will protect them at every turn.
‘She’ looks like a man to me. So much blatant sick behavior now, I don’t believe everything I see nor trust in optics. Feel like once you see one, its pretty easy to spot. This makes my heart so heavy. I just pray without ceasing.
Climate change? Ha! Listen to the recent Jordan Peterson podcast featuring Alex Epstein, an expert on energy of all kinds. Really interesting.
Climate is, and always has, been changing. End of story. But, not for the clueless/money-grabbers.
Oh, but globalists themselves are tampering with our weather patterns under the guise of addressing this unacceptable “climate change.” Cloud seeding. Blotting out the sun. Chem trails. HAARP weather experiments.
These psychopaths will “change” the atmosphere just like they’re changing the human genome through gene edits.
Having these confirmation hearings done and dusted quickly will help the new government get down to serious business not playing political games. It is high time the politicians do the work they need to be doing for the good of the whole country not their own personal interests.
There’s a first time for everything …. /s
All depends on when Thune will put them on the Executive schedule for a floor vote…after the committees get around to actually voting them out of committee, of course. We shall see! The debt ceiling fight or more Ukraine funding might bump them back, don’t ya know!
RE: Burgum at Interior. There is a fun article at Politico this morning with the environazis loosing their minds over the prospect of Trump annexing Greenland. “The development of Greenland’s natural resources would be a disaster from which the world could not recover.” A lot of those folks work at Interior and Burgum will have a hard time forcing them to adhere to Trump’s agenda.
That should be easy: Either get on board and support the President’s agenda or be fired. Besides, Musk @ Twitter proves we can fire 50% and a leaner better functioning department.
Just fire everyone that has revealed or reveal in the future that they are not on board. If they can’t be outright fired, reassign them to “go-fer” positions.
President Trump had to work with a skeleton crew in his first term in office. Shows what can be done by someone who wants to do it.
Never even considering that leaving them to exploitation by China or Russia is an exponentially worse outcome.
Which I believe is the same philosophy behind AI surveillance and bioweapons research: Don’t let the “enemy” get there before us. Greenland I can handle. The other two? Not so much.
Make Democracy Monarchy Again
Poll: Greenland wants independence from Denmark.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113833210298331227
“losing”… lol
Their minds have always been “loose”.
Judiciary Committee to meet at 10:15 eastern on Bondi. Might be a vote to get her nomination to the Floor
It will be fun to watch the climate change “moonbats” explain away non-existent forest management and the water diversion to save the precious smelt fish.
And the smelt has not actually been seen in 4 years.
Maybe the swamp embeds should all be reassigned to locate and count smelt in CA waterways. They must live and work in canyon country during dry season while on this very important mission for planet sustainability.
I read an article that stated that the fish ‘story’ of being an endangered species, is without basis, as that particular is actually a member of a ‘family’ that is in no danger at all.
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Whitehouse is of course calling the Trump Administration “Anti-Climate. I could only take a few minutes of his drivel.
TDS Deniers are tedious.
Enjoy the show… I ignore it.
“Our contemporaries are constantly excited by two conflicting passions; they want to be led, and they wish to remain free: as they cannot destroy either one or the other of these contrary propensities, they strive to satisfy them both at once. They devise a sole, tutelary, and all-powerful form of government, but elected by the people… [who consist of an easily propagandized, attention deficit, political idiocracy – W] By this system the people shake off their state of dependence just long enough to select their master, and then relapse into it again. A great many persons at the present day are quite contented with this sort of compromise between administrative despotism and the sovereignty of the people; and they think they have done enough for the protection of individual freedom when they have surrendered it to the power of the nation at large.” – Alexis de Tocqueville, “Democracy in America” (1835)
Make Democracy French Again
“Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society.”
–Frederic Bastiat (The Law, 1848)
“This in France is philosophical!”
–Noah Webster (The Revolution in France, 1794)
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/12/06/giddy-up-macron-has-bilateral-meetings-with-both-zelenskyy-and-trump-ahead-of-notre-dame-ceremony/
I think that the Mary Mccord appearance is purpose designed to provoke a response from GOP Senators to help justify the coming pardons that the White House vegetable is going to issue this weekend.
Absolutely. She’s a litmus test.
Don’t see “F YOURSELF IN THE FACE” Musk in the photo lineup.
What is he in this regime? He’s not a government employee. But listening to people talk today, many seem to have the impression that he is part of the administration. What the heck.
And how shameful for America, the “F YOURSELF IN THE FACE” will never stop reverberating. Nor should it.
Lee Zeldin just contradicted his boss by answering climate change is real. Bad answer and pick. WTF???