President Trump has re-nominated documentary filmmaker Michael Pack to lead the nation’s taxpayer-funded global broadcasting operation, which was created to counter propaganda from repressive regimes but critics say has lost its focus and needs reform.
A group of conservative senators successfully stopped a last-ditch effort to weaken the power of President Trump’s choice to lead the nation’s taxpayer-funded global broadcasting operation.
A group of conservative senators are fighting a last-ditch effort by retiring senator Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) and Sen. Bob Menendez (D., N.J.) to undermine President Trump’s choice to lead the nation’s taxpayer-funded global broadcasting operation, Michael Pack, before he steps into the role early next year, according to several Republican sources.
President Donald Trump tweeted out a “full endorsement” of Marsha Blackburn in her Tennessee senatorial bid Thursday, saying he would travel to campaign for her.
Sen. Bob Corker (R., Tenn.) will stick with his decision to retire and not seek reelection this year, his chief of staff said in an interview Tuesday.
Senior White House officials and congressional leadership are scrambling to save the Iran nuclear deal and convince President Donald Trump to again waive key sanctions on the Islamic Republic despite opposition, according to multiple sources working on the matter who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon.
Former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen (D.) made an official announcement Thursday that he is entering the 2018 Senate race for retiring Sen. Bob Corker’s (R., Tenn.) seat.
President Donald Trump on Wednesday morning made his first public remarks since Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake (R.) denounced him amid an announcement he would not seek reelection, saying Flake and Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker (R.) dropped out of their races because they had “zero chance of being elected.”
