The Republican senator said on Sunday that he believes the president will fill the inspectors general positions that were recently terminated.

He cited Republicans' success pushing through another of Trump's more controversial nominees as reason to be bullish.

Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts said "there's no legal basis" for an extension to keep the social media platform online.

President Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office that halts the ban on TikTok. But is TikTok actually "saved?"

A Senate Democrat is blocking a streamlined process to vote on Trump's nominees, forcing the Senate to take lengthy procedural votes. This strategy was employed by Republicans while in the minority.

Pete Hegseth, military analyst at Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. and US secretary of defense nominee for US President-elect Donald Trump, during a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Kent Nishimura)

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) sought to help Pete Hegseth clarify his comments about women in combat, noting that the defense-chief nominee was referring to women in “ground combat roles.” Hegseth said P

In a wide-ranging interview on Sunday, Vice President JD Vance defended a variety of plans set in motion by President Trump during the first week of his term, including the beginnings of a promised crackdown on migrants living in the United States and an effort to supercharge oil and gas production.

Democrats’ hopes of defeating any of President-elect Trump’s Cabinet nominees appear to be fizzling ... Gabbard assured Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) that she had changed her view of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence ...

In a statement, senators disputed President-elect Donald Trump’s suggestion that he would “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day extension to bring the app back.

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