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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

National security adviser John Bolton attends a wreath laying ceremony at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by the Kremlin wall in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday.

Bolton reportedly resigned after Trump raised possibility of relieving Iran sanctions

Carlin Becker September 14, 2019 5:05 pm

In this image from video released by the CIA, Hamza bin Laden is seen as an adult at his wedding.

Trump confirms death of Osama bin Laden’s son Hamza in US counterterrorism operation

Hunter Lovell September 14, 2019 2:18 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gives a speech at the London Lecture series at Kansas State University Friday, Sept. 6, 2019, in Manhattan, Kan.

Pompeo: China and Russia have ‘morally reprehensible’ hypocrisy on human rights

Joel Gehrke September 14, 2019 1:12 am

United States U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power speaks during her final press conference, Friday, Jan. 13, 2017 at U.N. headquarters.

Samantha Power: Iran deal backers went soft on human rights

Joel Gehrke September 13, 2019 10:57 pm

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said it is in the United States' national security interest to remain in the Iran nuclear deal. (Graeme Jennings/Washington Examiner)

‘Read, read, read’: Mattis won’t say Trump should pick up his book but suggests he might learn about leadership if he did

Jamie McIntyre September 13, 2019 9:18 pm

FILE - This photo taken April 28, 2014 shows the Phoenix VA Health Care Center in Phoenix. The Department of Veterans Affairs says investigators have found no proof that delays in care caused any deaths at a VA hospital in Phoenix, deflating an explosive allegation that helped expose a troubled health care system in which veterans waited months for appointments while employees falsified records to cover up the delays. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

‘They feasted on him’: Cancer-stricken veteran bitten 100 times in VA facility ant infestation before dying

Russ Read September 13, 2019 7:44 pm

Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul.

Liz Cheney on feud with Rand Paul: ‘I enjoyed it’

Susan Ferrechio September 13, 2019 2:53 pm

In Washington Examiner interview, Jim Mattis concedes he doesn’t have all the answers

Jamie McIntyre September 13, 2019 11:27 am

Jim Mattis on Osama bin Laden, how ancient history guides his modern strategy, and his pithy aphorisms

Jamie McIntyre September 13, 2019 3:00 am

Harvard professor Samantha Power, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, addresses an audience, Monday, Oct. 16, 2017, at a forum called âPerspectives on National Security,â at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, on the campus of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass.

‘Did it work, Mommy?’: Top Obama aide describes moment she realized reality was more important than rhetoric

Joel Gehrke September 12, 2019 10:09 pm

U.S. Air Force F-35 A-fighter jets from 31st Test Evaluation Squadron.

Senators ask why the military bombed ‘a bunch of terrorists hiding in the bushes’ with super-expensive F-35

Russ Read September 12, 2019 9:06 pm

China and Kong Hong national flags are displayed outside a shopping center in Hong Kong.

Chinese spies use Hong Kong to steal sensitive Western technology

Joel Gehrke September 12, 2019 6:55 pm