Women across the U.S. say they're putting their family planning decisions on pause following Donald Trump's decisive presidential win, citing concerns about reproductive care and gender equality.
The big picture: The 2024 election saw intensely personal decisions about family and children become politicized and illuminated vast differences between how men and women planned to vote. Now, Americans are processing the outcome as they look to make choices about their futures.
President-elect Trump will nominate former House lawmaker Lee Zeldin of New York to run the EPA, Zeldin confirmed on Monday.
Why it matters: Trump has promised a wave of deregulation and changes to U.S. environmental policy — including reversing most of President Biden's climate agenda, as Axios Pro reported last week.
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) may be the MAGA media darling, but some of his colleagues are bristling at the public pressure on their secret voting process to elect Mitch McConnell's Senate Republican leader successor on Wednesday.
Why it matters: Senate GOP sources tell us Scott's weekend momentum — especially without an endorsement from President-elect Trump — is starting to backfire.
President-elect Trump plans to weigh in on roughly 40 top cabinet, agency and White House jobs from a makeshift Situation Room at Mar-a-Lago, where he's surrounded by TV monitors displaying profiles of potential picks.
The interactive array lets aides instantly summon a multimedia menu covering whatever position or person he wants to consider next, Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei write in a "Behind the Curtain" column.
🧐 Why it matters: The process is just getting underway, and includes lots of surprise names, including some for big jobs.
The real lists exclude many names floated publicly by people who claim to have knowledge of the process but actually don't.
House Democrats' hopes for a majority are dwindling, with some now predicting that their best-case scenario is falling just one seat short, Axios' Andrew Solender reports.
Vice President Harris, second gentleman Doug Emhoff, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and First Lady Jill Biden attend a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery. Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
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President-elect Trump plans to weigh in on roughly 40 top cabinet, agency and White House jobs from a makeshift Situation Room at Mar-a-Lago, where he's surrounded by TV monitors displaying profiles of potential picks.
The interactive array lets aides instantly summon a multimedia menu covering whatever position or person he wants to consider next, transition sources tell us.
Why it matters: The process is just getting rolling, and includes lots of surprise names, including some for big jobs.
The real lists exclude many names floated publicly by people who claim to have knowledge of the process but actually don't, officials tell us.
House Democrats are strategizing ways to put a damper on the Trump administration's sweeping plans while their party still retains some control in Washington, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: Many Democrats fear that full GOP control of Congress – an increasingly likely prospect – will allow Trump to roll back many of the gains they made under the Biden administration.
A slew of GOP lawmakers are making moves to become the next House Republican conference chair in the wake of President-elect Trump tapping Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) to serve as his ambassador to the United Nations.
Why it matters: With the top three roles within the House GOP conference currently uncontested, the No. 4 spot in leadership is expected to be the most crowded race for a leadership position.
President Biden reflected on the "sacred obligation" to honor and protect those who serve during his final Veterans Day appearance as commander-in-chief on Monday at Arlington National Cemetery.
The big picture: The observance event and ceremonial wreath-laying mark Vice President Kamala Harris' first public appearance since her post-election speech Wednesday — and one of just a handful of appearances of the sort left in Biden's tenure.
Tom Homan, named Sunday to be President-elect Trump's "Border Czar," said on Fox News this weekend that the new administration's planned deportation operation will target "the worst first" — prioritizing what he called criminal threats and national-security threats.
Homan was acting director of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the first Trump administration.
Why it matters: ICE agents will take a pivotal operational role in delivering on Trump's promise to "seal the border" and conduct the "largest deportation operation in American history."
President-elect Trump intervened from Mar-a-Lago in this week's suddenly scrambled race for Senate majority leader, demanding that the candidates embrace using "recess appointments" to bypass Senate confirmation votes.
All three of the candidates quickly saluted. The secret-ballot vote will be Wednesday.
Why it matters: It all played out in just a few hours on Elon Musk's X — a tiny taste of the platform's rising juice as Trump maps his new government.
Tom Homan (left) talks to Fox News' Maria Bartiromo yesterday, along with Scott Bessent, who's on the short list for Treasury Secretary.
President-elect Trump announced on his Truth Social platform late last night that Tom Homan, acting director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the first Trump administration, will be "The Border Czar" in Trump 2.0.
Why it matters: ICE agents will take a pivotal operational role in delivering on Trump's promise to "seal the border" and conduct the "largest deportation operation in American history."
The deeper they dig into federal and state election results, some Democrats are coming to a harsh, humbling conclusion: America rejected soft liberalism.
Why it matters: You see it in Hispanic men turning against Democrats … L.A. and San Francisco dumping Democrats seen as soft on crime and homelessness … white men taking to podcasts to lament word-policing and strict DEI policies … California voting to undo social justice reforms … a growing number of Democrats scolding their party for condescending political correctness.
Democrats' disastrous showing in the 2024 election is resurfacing a war over the party's core direction that has lain dormant since the days of the first Trump administration.
Why it matters: HouseDemocrats are already fretting that these fights could seriously hamper House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries' (D-N.Y.) efforts to win a majority in 2026.
President-elect Trump announced late Sunday that Tom Homan, the former acting head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the Republican's first-term, will be in charge of U.S. borders in his second administration.
The big picture: The president-elect indicated during the election campaign that if reelected he'd tap Homan, who had a role in the controversial family separation policy during the first Trump administration.
Climate-related extreme weather events cost the global economy more than $2 trillion over the past decade and the U.S. was the worst-affected nation, per a report published as leaders gather for the COP29 summit in Azerbaijan Monday.
Why it matters: The damage estimates in the Oxera report for the International Chamber of Commerce for 2014-2023 roughly equate to those of the 2008 global financial crisis and ICC secretary-general John Denton said "the economic impact of climate change" needs a "response of similar speed and decisiveness," per CNN.
The big picture: The documentary to be released Wednesday comes as other recent projects on Elvis have re-examined his role in racial desegregation after previous generations dismissed him as an appropriator of Black art.
Why it matters: With party control of the U.S. House still in flux, national Republicans and Democrats are watching every uncalled competitive race in the country.
President-elect Trump spoke with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Thursday and warned him not to escalate the fighting in Ukraine, according to a source briefed on the call.
Why it matters: Trump has said publicly that he is going to end the war in Ukraine and use his personal relationship with Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to get a peace deal.
