President Trump on Wednesday indicated Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino would leave his post at the bureau and return to his role as a conservative commentator.
“Dan did a great job. I think he wants to go back to his show,” Trump said of Bongino.
Trump did not provide a timeline for when Bongino, who for years hosted a conservative radio show and podcast, would depart.
MS NOW reported earlier Wednesday that Bongino had been telling colleagues he intended to depart early in the new year. Trump had appointed Bongino to the role of deputy director in February.
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New plaques were spotted by reporters on Wednesday at the “Presidential Walk of Fame” along the West Wing Colonnade at the White House in which President Trump jabs at the most recent former presidents.
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House GOP moderates on Wednesday privately huddled with a bipartisan group of senators to begin plotting the next steps on extending the Affordable Care Act’s enhanced subsidies.
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Just ahead of a House procedural vote Wednesday on a narrow, GOP-crafted health care bill, four Republican members defied their own leadership and joined a Democratic discharge petition that would force a vote on the House floor on extending Affordable Care Act subsidies. Read more. |
The House advanced a GOP health care bill Wednesday, even as moderate Republicans signed a Democratic discharge petition to extend the Affordable Care Act subsidies in an act of defiance against leadership. Read more. |
Ghislaine Maxwell, the accomplice of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, asked a judge to set aside her conviction Wednesday, claiming newly available evidence shows she was not fairly prosecuted.
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The Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Wednesday, sending the mammoth Defense policy bill to President Trump for his signature.
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Disgruntled centrist Republicans raced to sign a Democratic discharge petition Wednesday extending ObamaCare subsidies for three years, providing the definitive 218 signatures to force a vote on the bill over the opposition of GOP leaders.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that the Kremlin is prepared to use “military means” to achieve its goals in Ukraine if diplomatic efforts with the West fail to satisfy Moscow’s demands.
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