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As many as six GOP senators are not currently comfortable supporting Hegseth, following allegations concerning drinking and his treatment of women, sources told NBC News.

Donald Trump’s nominee to run the Drug Enforcement Administration says he’s withdrawing his name from consideration.

Chad Chronister, Donald Trump’s pick to run the Drug Enforcement Administration, said Tuesday he was withdrawing his name from consideration, becoming the second person selected by the president-elect to bow out quickly after being nominated for a position.

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary, drank in ways that concerned his colleagues at Fox News, according to 10 current and former Fox employees who spoke with NBC News.

Here are five things to know about former federal prosecutor Kash Patel.

Some Republican senators are brushing aside sexual assault and other allegations against Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary.

The Senate voted Monday to approve the promotion of a general who oversaw troops during the U.S. withdrawal from Kabul, Afghanistan, after it had been blocked by a Republican senator.

President-elect Donald Trump on Saturday nominated Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister to serve as the next administrator of the Drug Enforcement Agency.

GOP Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., on Sunday expressed support for FBI Director Christopher Wray, just one day after President-elect Donald Trump said he would nominate Kash Patel to lead the agency as Wray’s replacement.

As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, the roughly 535,000 DACA recipients are bracing yet again for a whirlwind of uncertainty.

Boulos has previously sought office in Lebanon and has long-standing ties to political figures in the country. Other Trump picks for key national security positions are staunch supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a Trump ally.

President-elect Donald Trump announced Saturday he would pick Kashyap “Kash” Patel, a 44-year-old loyalist with little significant experience in federal law enforcement, to serve as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Donald Trump dined on Wednesday with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. The visit brought together the Facebook founder and the former president who was once banned from that social network. Stephen Miller, who has been appointed deputy chief of staff for Trump’s second term, says Zuckerberg wants to support Trump’s economic plans. Trump was...

The meeting is the latest indication that Republicans in Congress are taking Musk and Ramaswamy seriously.

The recipients of the threats included Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-New York, and former Rep. Lee Zeldin.

President-elect Donald Trump has raised eyebrows with candidates for several top Cabinet posts. Will Senate Republicans challenge more of his picks or defer to their party’s leader?

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday night said he picked Dave Weldon, a former Congressman from Florida, to be the agency’s next chief.

Weldon served 14 years in Congress, where he was an outspoken critic of the CDC and its vaccine program.

Congressional Republicans and former Trump appointees have spent the last year building out their response to the movement protesting Israel’s war in Gaza, and now that Donald Trump is returning to the White House they warn that protest leaders, activists and those who help them raise money could face an onslaught of federal investigations and possible indictments.

A Republican senator has blocked the promotion of a general who oversaw troops in Kabul during the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, a Senate aide told NBC News.