Next month, the new Trump administration will assume control of Washington, and some of Donald Trump’s cabinet nominations are troubling — to say the least.
Trump has selected Tulsi Gabbard, who has expressed sympathetic views for Vladimir Putin and Bashar al-Assad, to be the director of national intelligence.
Fox News host Pete Hegseth as our next defense secretary.
And Trump loyalist Kash Patel — who has promised to “come after” Trump’s opponents — as the director of the F.B.I.
It’s clear what Donald Trump’s plan is: to put his partisan allies in positions of power to carry out his far-right agenda.
But Trump’s nominees have to be confirmed by the Senate — and Tammy is committed to doing her job to ensure that the incoming members of the new administration will serve the American people, not Donald Trump.