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Scott Bessent becomes the fifth Trump official to move on to a military base. Here’s who else has moved

Rena Rowe · November 11, 2026 12:43 pm

President Donald Trump listens as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent speaks.

Bessent moves to military base due to Iranian assassination threat

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at a campaign rally with President Donald Trump at Alico Arena on the campus of Florida Gulf Coast University.

US likely to lose its measles elimination status this week

Workers continue to deploy large buoys to be used as a border barrier along the banks of the Rio Grande in Eagle Pass, Texas, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. The floating barrier is being deployed in an effort to block migrants from entering Texas from Mexico.

Greg Abbott spent years fortifying the Texas border. Gina Hinojosa could undo it all

Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll testifies before the House Armed Services Committee hearing on the budget request of the Department of the Army, on Capitol Hill, Friday, May 15, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

OpenAI hires ex-Army Secretary Dan Driscoll two months after Pentagon exit

FILE - In this July 21, 2019, file photo, a speedboat of the Iran's Revolutionary Guard moves around a British-flagged oil tanker Stena Impero, which was seized on Friday by the Guard, in the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas.

US expects Iran to prepare for talks with Biden, not plot attacks in Trump’s final days

Joel Gehrke January 10, 2021 1:00 pm

CIA Director Michael Pompeo testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington.

‘Null and void’: Pompeo lifts restrictions on US-Taiwan contacts in parting shot at China

Joel Gehrke January 10, 2021 12:25 am

Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S Capitol in Washington D.C., on January 6.

‘Down a rabbit hole’: Pentagon dismisses importance of delaying Maryland Guard response to Capitol rioting

Abraham Mahshie January 9, 2021 2:55 am

FILE - In this Dec. 3, 2018, file photo, people line up at the Artux City Vocational Skills Education Training Service Center at the Kunshan Industrial Park in Artux in western China's Xinjiang region. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, File)

China portrays repression of Uighur birthrates as victory for feminism

Joel Gehrke January 8, 2021 10:46 pm

In this April 10, 2019, file photo, House Financial Services Committee chairwoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif., listens during a hearing with leaders of major banks on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Maxine Waters: Trump ‘trying to create a civil war’ and must be stopped ‘dead in his tracks’

Anna Giaritelli January 8, 2021 9:41 pm

Violent protesters storm the Capitol on January 6 in Washington. It was a stunning day as a number of lawmakers tried to overturn America's presidential election, undercut the nation's democracy and keep Democrat Joe Biden from replacing Trump in the White House.

Army secretary promises National Guard will help deliver a ‘peaceful transition of power’

Abraham Mahshie January 8, 2021 8:37 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a news conference at the State Department, Friday, March 15, 2019, in Washington.

Pompeo meets with Antony Blinken ‘to facilitate an orderly transition’ to Biden administration

Joel Gehrke January 8, 2021 8:15 pm

Pipe bombs found outside DNC and RNC contained timing devices: Report

Anna Giaritelli January 8, 2021 8:15 pm

Nancy Pelosi’s dangerous and silly nuclear mistake

Tom Rogan January 8, 2021 7:46 pm

Rudy Giuliani, an attorney for President Trump, during campaign event for Eddie Edwards, who is running for the U.S. Congress in New Hampshire, in Portsmouth, N.H., Wednesday, Aug. 1, 2018.

Giuliani says time for ‘harmony’ is over and urges Trump declassification spree

Daniel Chaitin January 8, 2021 6:30 pm

McCarthy claims Army ‘in the heat of taking back the Capitol’ did not delay National Guard authorizations

Abraham Mahshie January 8, 2021 5:28 pm

Senators launch bipartisan hearings to investigate Capitol attack

Anna Giaritelli January 8, 2021 4:58 pm