Trump Blames Post-Election Stock Drop on Voters as Markets Ease: Live Updates

Rep. James Comer, the Kentucky Republican who chairs the House Oversight Committee, offered no assurances of support for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Friday.

Democrats have said they will push to impeach Hegseth, and administration officials will consider ousting him.

“What do you want to see Pete Hegseth do?” » a NewsNation host asked Comer.

“That will be a decision that President Trump will have to make,” Comer responded. “But I can tell you with a high level of confidence that there are a lot of questions about Hegseth. We have no idea what the strategy is in Iran. Nobody is happy with Iran, and I think Republican voters are more unhappy about what’s happening in Iran than Democratic voters.”

Before the midterm elections, it was suggested that Pete Hegseth might make a run for Marsha Blackburn’s Tennessee Senate seat, assuming it becomes vacant when she wins her race to become the Volunteer State’s next governor, as a way to escape angry Democrats at the Capitol.

Blackburn actually won the governor’s mansion, as it happens, but Hegseth wouldn’t be in the running to replace her after all, leaving him stuck inside the Pentagon — unless Trump fired him.

Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed has already found something he wants to work on with President Donald Trump: cutting aid to Israel.

The Michigan Democrat, who has been an outspoken critic of Israeli leadership during the Gaza war, which he calls a genocide, supported Trump’s idea of ​​cutting $4 billion in aid to Israel by the end of the year, saying he “would love to work with him to make that happen.”

“I don’t think we should continue to subsidize a foreign army that has done the worst things with our money,” El-Sayed told the hosts of the MS NOW show. Morning Joe THURSDAY.

“I actually don’t think we should continue to sell weapons to a country that is, once again, using our weapons to do horrible things. »

The ruby ​​red of Texas turned so blue in the Republican Party’s crushing midterm defeat that Democrat James Talarico received more early votes than Republican Ken Paxton received in total.

Talarico defeated Paxton by more than 5.4 million votes in a blue tsunami that hit their state, as well as other reliably Republican states such as Iowa and Kansas.

Paxton received 4,249,373 total votes, including 3,232,667 early votes, according to data from Texas Secretary of State Robert S Howden’s office.

Gina Hinojosa, the newly elected governor of Texas, told CNN’s Jake Tapper that data centers have a place in her state, but only if they benefit residents and are not imposed on communities without proper laws and protections.

Trump’s insistence on their necessity and his indifference to the objections raised by rural voters may well have cost Republicans their support this week.

The president has already issued his first threat to Hinojosa, who will succeed Greg Abbott in January, over his border security.

Federal prosecutors are actively pursuing a criminal investigation into the source behind the 2022 leak of the Supreme Court decision that overturned the federal right to abortion.

Jasmine Fernandez reports.

A successful midterm performance for Democrats highlighted an evolving battleground for news consumers, as live digital broadcasters like left-wing creator Hasan Piker have attracted audiences large enough to rival traditional media networks.

Here is the latest news from the president on social networks:

“As President, I am 100% in favor of Super Intelligence (SI) and will work with the many American states that want to become RICH by possessing them. They are GOLD, and only foolish leaders will say ‘NO’ to the riches they bring! “

He also clearly changed channels to Fox:

“NEWSMAX: ​​’Trump is a winner, and he’s right on Iran!’ »

The veteran Democrat, who is expected to become the new Senate majority leader in January, brushed off questions about his leadership of the party, albeit with a somewhat comical analogy comparing himself to a conductor.

South Carolina Sen.-elect Annie Andrews, who defeated Darline Graham on Tuesday, has already called for a “generational change” in Congress amid concerns about the advanced age of some party stalwarts (Schumer is just a boy at 75).