The cost savings DOGE has identified less than two weeks into Trump’s second term, however, is not what has impressed the vice president most about the newly-minted department. 

Carr, 46, explained that his specific concern is related to corporate underwriting announcements broadcast by NPR and PBS member stations, which may violate rules prohibiting public broadcasters from running commercials. 

Burgum, 68, received bipartisan support from senators, who voted 78-18 to approve his Cabinet nomination. 

Emergency units responded to the wreckage in the Potomac River near Reagan National Airport.

President Trump argued Thursday that it appears to him that the collision between an American Airlines jet and Army helicopter over the Potomac River “should have been prevented.” 

“What is shocking to me is that many of these violent criminals – we knew their addresses, we knew their names. We just needed to send somebody to go to their house and get them the hell out of the country."

Trump, 78, argued that students in schools teaching CRT and promoting transgenderism “are forced to accept these ideologies without question or critical examination.”

The American Airlines flight traveling from Wichita, Kan., collided with the military chopper while approaching Runaway 33 at the DC airport around 9 p.m., according to the Federal Aviation Administration.