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Became the first cabinet member to announce her resignation, effective on January 11; [56] was criticized by US Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) for resigning rather than voting to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office. [57] Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Mental Health and Substance Use: Elinore F. McCance-Katz
A member of the United States Senate can resign by writing a letter of resignation to the governor of the state that the senator represents. [1] Under Article I, Section 3 of the Constitution of the United States, and under the Seventeenth Amendment, in case of a vacancy in the Senate resulting from resignation, the executive authority of the state (today known in every state as the governor ...
While Trump is calling for the removal of all Senate Democrats, he has refused to stand down from his own political ambitions in the face of 91 criminal charges
In July, he secured the conviction of New Jersey Democratic U.S. Senator Bob Menendez on charges of fraud and acting as a foreign agent. Menendez, who denied wrongdoing and has since resigned, is ...
In the Senate, some of Trump’s most contested picks for his administration, including Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, Pete Hegseth for Defense secretary and Kash Patel to ...
Trump was subsequently acquitted in the Senate trial, which was held in February after Trump had already left office. The result was a 57–43 vote in favor of conviction, with every Democrat and seven Republicans voting to convict, but two-thirds of the Senate (67 votes) are required to convict. [2] Many in the Trump administration resigned.
Trump initially nominated Clayton for the post in 2020, but his nomination was scuttled amid opposition from New York Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, both Democrats, and the ...
The 2020 congressional insider trading scandal was a political scandal in the United States involving allegations that several members of the United States Senate violated the STOCK Act by selling stock at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and just before a stock market crash on February 20, 2020, using knowledge given to them at a closed Senate meeting.