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🔵 Pete Hegseth CONFIRMED
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January 25, 2025
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5. Trump Tells Danish PM He’s Serious About Buying Greenland in ‘Fiery’ Call... Denmark Gov in ‘Crisis Mode’
Pete Hegseth will be the next secretary of defense after Vice President JD Vance cast a historic vote to save his confirmation when Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) rejected the nominee at the last hour.
The turbulent nomination threatened to split Republicans on one of President Donald Trump’s most consequential Cabinet picks and sets up a tense future as McConnell surprised his conference in voting “no” a day after supporting moving the process forward.
In a vote that fell mostly along party lines, the upper chamber voted 51-50 to confirm Hegseth to run the Pentagon and its sprawling, $840 billion budget.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio halted spending Friday on most existing foreign aid grants for 90 days. The order, which shocked State Department officials, appears to apply to funding for military assistance to Ukraine.
Rubio’s guidance, issued to all diplomatic and consular posts, requires department staffers to issue “stop-work orders” on nearly all “existing foreign assistance awards,” according to the document, which was obtained by POLITICO. It is effective immediately.
It appears to go further than President Donald Trump’s recent executive order, which instructed the department to pause foreign aid grants for 90 days pending review by the secretary. It had not been clear from the president’s order if it would affect already appropriated funds or Ukraine aid.
President Trump on Friday teased signing an upcoming executive order targeting the Federal Emergency Management Agency that could overhaul or eliminate the entire agency.
Trump, during a visit to survey damage caused by Hurricane Helene in North Carolina, took questions from reporters in Fletcher, where he suggested such an order.
He continued to criticize the agency suggesting that bringing in FEMA was a waste of time for states.
President Trump was greeted warmly by Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom as the commander in chief exited Air Force One upon arrival in Los Angeles Friday — making nice after Trump blasted his management of the crisis.
Trump, 78, and Newsom, 57, talked briefly and animatedly after the president descended the steps of his jet — with the governor alternately pointing, making a fist and giving a thumbs up.
The awkward greeting, in which both men patted each other on the shoulder, ended with Newsom, who had not been officially invited, giving first lady Melania Trump a peck on the cheek.
Denmark is in “crisis mode” after Donald Trump made a direct play for Greenland in a “horrendous” phone call with the country’s prime minister.
The US president spoke to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish premier, for 45 minutes last week and made clear he wanted to place Greenland under American control.
The autonomous Arctic territory has been owned by Denmark since 1814, but Mr Trump thinks it would be a valuable asset in the US’s strategic competition against Russia and China.
Vice President JD Vance addressed tens of thousands of pro-life advocates at the 52nd annual March of Life on Friday in the nation’s capital, emphasizing that while the American government has failed struggling mothers, families, and the unborn in the past, change is not simply on the horizon but underway.
After pro-life advocates shivered through a multitude of speakers, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, they finally heard from President Donald Trump via video message then from Vance in the flesh.
Trump, who on Thursday pardoned over two dozen pro-life activists targeted by the Biden Department of Justice, thanked pro-life advocates in the video for consistently standing up “for precious little babies who cannot stand up for themselves.”
President Donald Trump’s rollicking start to his second term is being bolstered with his highest-ever approval rating.
In a new Napolitan News service survey shared with Secrets, the 47th president has a 57% approval rating.
As the 45th president, Trump’s average approval never popped above 47%, according to RealClearPolitics President Tom Bevan in an X post uploaded before the Napolitan survey was released.
Discount store chain Target said Friday that it would join rival Walmart and a number of other prominent American brands in scaling back diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
The Minneapolis-based retailer said the changes to its “Belonging at the Bulleye” strategy would include ending a program it established to help Black employees build meaningful careers, improve the experience of Black shoppers and to promote Black-owned businesses following the police killing of George Floyd in 2020.
Target, which operates nearly 2,000 stores nationwide and employs more than 400,000 people, said it also would conclude the diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, goals it previously set in three-year cycles.
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