President-elect Trump's new pick for attorney general, Pam Bondi, is a longtime ally who helped him amplify claims of 2020 election interference. She is a former Florida attorney general. Late today Trump named Scott Bessent,

Matt Gaetz, who withdrew from consideration as attorney general in Donald Trump’s cabinet over ethics allegations, says he will not return to his seat in the US House of Representatives. Gaetz told a conservative radio host: “I’m still going to be in the fight, but it’s going to be from a new perch.”

President-elect Donald Trump’s hunt for a new FBI director is being complicated by the need to find someone who has a clear path to confirmation — and who will appeal to the MAGA base.

President-elect Donald Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill rallied around Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Pentagon pick, on Thursday even as new details surfaced about allegations that he had sexually assaulted a woman in 2017.

Matt Gaetz has withdrawn as Donald Trump’s pick for attorney general following scrutiny over a federal sex trafficking investigation

Fla., withdrew his nomination to be President-elect Donald Trump's attorney general Thursday amid continuing allegations of sexual misconduct. "It is clear that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance Transition,

President-elect Donald Trump has named Pam Bondi, the former attorney general of Florida, to be U.S. attorney general just hours after his other choice, Matt Gaetz, withdrew his name

Gaetz, one of Trump’s most loyal supporters, said in a post on X on Thursday that his nomination was “unfairly becoming a distraction to the critical work of the Trump/Vance transition”. “There is no time to waste on a needlessly protracted Washington scuffle,

Republican lawmakers generally agree with the president-elect’s ambition to reshape the federal bureaucracy but sometimes balk at his wishes.