Page 31 - Nick Ayers News Today

Kamala Harris faces challenging dynamics in White House full of longtime Biden allies Shannon Pettypiece and Marianna Sotomayor and Deepa Shivaram © Provided by NBC News WASHINGTON — Vice President-elect Kamala Harris will take office in January as a historic first, shattering a glass ceiling and becoming one of the most powerful women in the United States. But as President-elect Joe Biden fills out his administration, divvying up responsibilities, Harris is at risk of falli...

Previously deputy EPA administrator, he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in February 2019 to fill the role vacated by his boss Pruitt (who resigned in July 2018). “So many environmental reporters, so-called environmental reporters, are actually activists. They’re not practicing journalistic standards,” Wheeler lamented. “They have a habit of only reporting bad news. They don’t want to report any good news.” With respect to the deregulation doctrine ascribed to President Trump, Wheel...

‘It’s non-stop’: Georgia Senate battles rage far from Atlanta POLITICO 12/17/2020 By Marc Caputo © Spencer Platt/Getty Images People attend a rally organized by FreedomWorks in support of senate candidates Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler on Dec. 6 in Columbus, Ga. When Vice President Mike Pence touches down in Georgia Thursday to rally for GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, it won’t be in the Atlanta metropolitan area, where the bulk of the state’s p...

POLITICO ‘It’s nonstop’: Georgia Senate battles rage far from Atlanta Pence’s rally in Columbus on Thursday is a sign of the city’s emergence as a hotspot in the Jan. 5 runoffs. People attend a rally organized by FreedomWorks in support of senate candidates Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler on Dec. 6 in Columbus, Ga. | Spencer Platt/Getty Images Link Copied When Vice President Mike Pence touches down in Georgia Thursday to rally for GOP Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, it w...

Denial of Pebble permit an empty calorie victory Author: Anne Coray Published December 12, 2020 FILE - In this July 13, 2007, file photo, workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska, near the village of Iliamma. A proposed gold and copper mine at the headwaters of the worlds largest sockeye salmon fishery in Alaska would cause "unavoidable adverse impacts," the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said in a letter to the developer released Monday, Aug. 24, 2...

I think about someone like mike short who left the administration for a short period of time and he went to go work for university and then he came back to serve in pences office as his chief of staff. now, that is someone who could possible be the author because he had several months to write a book like this. but it would be difficult to have a full-time job in the white house and to dedicate the amount of time that it takes to publish a book. >> and who is on your short list? i know a lot of ...

Georgia. theyve increasingly done much better in the polls as of late. what this means is that isaacson, who will step down at the end of the year, there will be a temporary appointment that the republican governor put in place. but then the next time theres a general election, a special election will take place to replace isaacson. and that means that there will be two senate elections because david perdue, the other senator there, is up for re-election in 2020. this is a name we are hearing be...

Topping our political radar today, ruth bader ginsburg back on the bench for the first time in two months after cancer surgery. the vice president will soon have a new chief of staff, mike short. the former director of legislative affairs will now lead mike pences team. he will now replace nick ayers who left the administration after turning down the job of white house chief of staff. short was a political contributor after i left the whi white house. he is no longer a contributor here. the ...

Out, scandal, fallen out with the man on top. and, chris, you know, what was striking to me was the chief of staff hunt. youve got a guy named nick ayers, a guy whos like been doing jobs very big deal jobs from a very young age who walked away from being white house chief of staff, which said to me something about how hes assessing the political future of this presidency and how other republicans are. >> the white house chief of staff really is one of the most important jobs, really, in the enti...

People, as im sure chris will tell us in a moment that they had who had experience and that they could choose from but that were willing and able democrats. the other thing, when you say is it unprecedented? this is not a question of what is my opinion? because people keep track of it, and the washington white house transition project keeps numbers. president trump is the highest turnover of top tier of any recent president at the 17 month mark. his number is the highest of clinton, bush, reagan...