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For example, upon the inauguration of President Donald Trump on January 20, 2017, then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch left her position, so then-Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates, who had also tendered her resignation, was asked to stay on to serve as the acting attorney general until the confirmation of the new attorney general Jeff Sessions ...
April 9, 2018: FBI raids the office of Donald Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen. [23] October 6, 2018: Senate confirms Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. November 28, 2018: Senate discharges from committee and calendars S.J.Res. 54, bill that ends US intervention in the Yemeni Civil War.
During his Senate tenure, Sessions was considered one of the most conservative senators. His Senate voting record includes votes against comprehensive immigration reform (2006), the 2008 bank bailout , the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 , the Affordable Care Act (2009) and criminal justice reform (2015).
After spending more than two years as Cabinet secretary during Trump’s first term, Bill McGinley will return to the White House as the president-elect’s counsel. He has also served as general ...
Gaetz resigned from the lame-duck 118th Congress immediately after Trump announced his choice of the lawmaker as AG Nov. 13. In his resignation letter, Gaetz told House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La ...
Donald Trump assumed office as the 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2017, and his first term ended on January 20, 2021. The president has the authority to nominate members of his Cabinet to the United States Senate for confirmation under the Appointments Clause of the United States Constitution .
The 39-year-old served as senior adviser to Trump and director of speechwriting during the Republican's first term in the White House and is credited with shaping Trump’s immigration policies.
Trump has said he intends not to fill many of the positions. [4] The rules of the Senate require that when the term of the Senate expires (in the case of the 115th Congress, at noon on January 3, 2019), nominations then pending lapse and are returned to the president, who can resubmit them to the new Congress. [5]