This morning, Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee boycotted votes for cabinet nominees Steve Mnuchin and Tom Price.

President Trump has signed an executive order putting his chief strategist, former Breitbart News Network executive Stephen Bannon, in the "principals committee" of the National Security Council and reduced the roles of the director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

President Trump’s transition team staff met ahead of the inauguration to plan federal bureaucracy cuts — including eliminating funding for the arts and privatizing funding for public broadcasting.

In what is already shaping up to be a tight race to secure host city privileges for the 2024 Summer Olympics, the U.S. will almost certainly have to deal with the implications of President Trump and his actions when the International Olympic Committee votes on which city -- Paris, Los Angeles, or Budapest -- should host the 2024 Games.