Eric Garcia

Jan 25, 2025 | everand.com | Eric Garcia

The Senate confirmation of Pete Hegseth as Donald Trump’s next Secretary of Defense was hung up late Friday evening in a last-minute nail-biter vote following several misconduct allegations that threatened to tank his nomination. All the Democrats and a surprise third Republican — Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell, along with expected no votes from Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Susan Collins of Maine — opposed his nomination.

Jan 25, 2025 | everand.com | Eric Garcia

Republican Senators ducked answering questions about Donald Trump’s claim that Ukraine should have surrendered to Russia and his attempt to blame the bloody conflict on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The president this week and blamed Zelensky’s failure to preemptively capitulate to Russia invading Ukraine, even though Russian forces have occupied parts of the country since 2014.

Jan 24, 2025 | everand.com | Eric Garcia

The Senate confirmation of Pete Hegseth as Donald Trump’s next Secretary of Defense was hung up late Friday evening in a last-minute nail-biter vote following several misconduct allegations that threatened to tank his nomination. All the Democrats and a surprise three Republicans — Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Susan Collins of Maine and Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell — opposed his nomination. Vice President JD Vance quickly arrived in the Seante after the vote to break the 50-50 tie.

Jan 21, 2025 | everand.com | Oliver O'Connell |Joe Sommerlad |Andrew Feinberg |Eric Garcia |John Bowden |Rhian Lubin | +3 more

Hours after Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th commander-in-chief of the United States, he withdrew from the World Health Organization as part of a flurry of executive orders he signed. Sitting in the Oval Office, Trump argued other countries should pay more and the U.S. should pay less to fund the WHO. “China pays $39 million, and we pay $500 million,” Trump said.

Jan 20, 2025 | everand.com | Oliver O'Connell |Joe Sommerlad |Andrew Feinberg |Eric Garcia |John Bowden |Rhian Lubin | +2 more

Donald Trump will promise a “thrilling new era” for America in his inaugural address at the US Capitol on Monday after he is sworn-in as the 47th commander-in-chief of the United States. Trump will become the first president since Grover Cleveland to enter the White House for a non-consecutive second term, with the ceremony driven indoors for the first time since Ronald Reagan’s second inauguration in 1985 by the punishing sub-zero temperatures currently blasting Washington DC.