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Andrew Bernard

Andrew Bernard is the Washington correspondent for JNS.org.

The former senator from Florida was unanimously confirmed 99 to 0, becoming the first of U.S. President Donald Trump’s cabinet picks to make it through the Senate.
“They’re here because they’re part of an effort to retrieve their bodies, so they can be buried in a proper way,” Trump’s Middle East envoy said.
“From this moment on, America’s decline is over,” Trump said in his second inaugural address.
“We gotta start telling the truth,” the New York congresswoman told JNS. “We need to be the catalyst.”
Two fringe, anti-Israel activist-journalists were removed from the State Department press briefing after accusing the secretary of state of complicity in war crimes for supporting Israel.
“It is long past time for the fighting to end and the work of building peace and security to begin,” the president said.
President-elect Donald Trump’s defense secretary nominee faced tough questions from Democrats in the more than four-hour confirmation hearing.
“No matter how much he tries to avoid it, President Biden’s failure in Afghanistan is a permanent stain on his legacy,” Republicans on the House Foreign Affairs Committee said.