Hayes Brown

When President-elect Donald Trump announced that Kash Patel will be his nominee for director of the FBI, my reaction wasn’t subtle. In an appearance on MSNBC, I warned that, if confirmed, Patel “would be like if you crossed Alex Jones […]

President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday shared the name of his chosen ambassador to Denmark. Compared with other high-profile appointments, Ken Howery’s naming won’t raise many eyebrows. What did elevate those eyebrows was Trump’s statement announcing Howery, in which Trump resurrected

Leave it to President-elect Donald Trump to take one Washington crisis and add another one on top. As a plan to keep the federal government over the holidays began to waver this week, Trump injected a new demand: pausing —

House Democrats on Tuesday morning chose their caucus’s committee leadership for the next Congress. In one of the most closely watched of the elections, Rep. Gerry Connolly of Virginia was named the next ranking member of the House Oversight Committee.

Washington is a town that loves its holiday season traditions. The White House has its annual Christmas party, where attendees line up for their status-affirming photographs with the president. The National Zoo is illuminated for the enjoyment of families and

In the fall of 2023, the Internal Revenue Service announced a pilot program that would allow some Americans to file their taxes directly to the agency — for free. The Direct File service managed to go against at least a half-dozen

By the end of next month, Florida will almost certainly have a new face representing it in the U.S. Senate. President-elect Donald Trump has tapped his adopted home state’s senior senator, Marco Rubio, to lead the State Department. And one

In President-elect Donald Trump’s recent interview with NBC News’ Kristen Welker, host of “Meet the Press,” he once again promised to end birthright citizenship when he takes office in January. “You know we’re the only country that has it,” Trump

When President-elect Donald Trump takes the oath of office again on Jan. 20, it will complete a Republican takeover of Washington. The House and the Senate will have been sworn in two weeks earlier, offering the party a do-over for

Special counsel Jack Smith moved on Monday to end the federal prosecution against President-elect Donald Trump. The filings confirm that Trump will not face accountability for his alleged federal crimes. But that’s not enough for some observers. Hours before Smith moved