The new president faces immediate questions over his threat to deny help to California as wildfires still rage.

Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee pressed Kristi Noem, President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of ...

Noem said she would not withhold disaster aid based on politics but did not directly answer questions on whether she would refuse such a directive from President-elect Trump. Noem initially declined ...

Gavin Newsom (D), a Trump critic and frequent ... then-Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D). In a largely low-key hearing, Noem said unequivocally that she would not politicize aid as head of the ...

American flags at state buildings across Washington will be raised to full staff on Monday in recognition of the presidential inauguration, with flags to return to half-staff by sunrise Tuesday in ...

Jay Inslee also ordered that U.S. and Washington ... On Wednesday, a spokesperson for California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that flags in the state would be temporarily raised for the ...