[125]@RapidResponse47 - Here are the 16 confirmed members of President Trump’s cabinet (and their official X handles) (STATE: @SecRubio, CIA: @JohnRatcliffe, DEFENSE: @SecDef, HOMELAND SECURITY: @Sec_Noem, TREASURY: @SecScottBessent, TRANSPORTATION: @SecDuffy, EPA: @epaleezeldin, INTERIOR: @SecretaryBurgum, ENERGY: @SecretaryWright, AG: @AGPamBondi, HUD: @SecretaryTurner, VETERANS: @SecVetAffairs, OMB: @russvought, DNI: @DNIGabbard, HHS: @SecKennedy, AGRICULTURE: @SecRollins); Here are the seven awaiting confirmation (FBI: Kash Patel, COMMERCE: Howard Lutnick, UN: Elise Stefanik, EDUCATION: Linda McMahon, LABOR: Lori Chavez-DeRemer, SMALL BUSINESS: Kelly Loeffler and TRADE: Jamieson Greer)
[120]A.G. Bondi orders death row prisoner back to Oklahoma for execution. New United States Attorney General Pam Bondi has granted a request to transfer a convicted murderer in federal custody to the state of Oklahoma for execution. John Hanson, who is currently serving a life sentence in federal prison for bank robbery, was convicted for his role in the 1999 carjacking, kidnapping and murder of 77-year-old Mary Bowles
[112]@SecKennedy - Thank you, President Trump. As a boy, I sat in the Oval Office where my uncle led on the issues of health and fitness. And now, six decades later, I stand with a transformational leader who fully grasps the public health crisis our great nation faces. I couldn’t be more thrilled to be confirmed as the 26th Secretary of @HHSGov . Let’s Make America Healthy Again
[108]All federal workers employed less than one year to be fired (200,000 employees). The Trump administration has directed agency heads to fire most trial period and probationary staff within two days, taking aim at many of the roughly 200,000 people hired by the federal government within the last two years, according to four people familiar with internal conversations who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly
[106]Three Top Federal Prosecutors Rage-Quit After DOJ Drops Case Against NY Mayor. The resignations of Danielle R. Sassoon, the acting U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, John Keller, the acting head of the Public Integrity Section, and Kevin Driscoll, the acting head of the department's criminal division, came three days after acting US deputy AG Emil Bove issued a memo ordering federal prosecutors in New York to drop the case against Adams because, in part, it hampered his ability to combat "illegal immigration and violent crime."
[104]Hundreds from Army, Navy, Marine Corps Surge to Guantanamo Bay for Migrant Detention Operation. The number of troops deployed to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under President Donald Trump's order to turn the Navy base into a detention camp for migrants arrested in the U.S. has nearly tripled to about 900 in little more than a week, according to a defense official on Thursday