The Republican senator said on Sunday that he believes the president will fill the inspectors general positions that were recently terminated.

Senator Tom Cotton believes President Donald Trump should rethink his decision to remove security details from three former national security officials.

Senators Tom Cotton and Pete Ricketts said "there's no legal basis" for an extension to keep the social media platform online.

Some people thought that some were unfair or some were not doing their job. It’s a very standard thing to do,” Trump said.

A Senate Democrat is blocking a streamlined process to vote on Trump's nominees, forcing the Senate to take lengthy procedural votes. This strategy was employed by Republicans while in the minority.

President Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office that halts the ban on TikTok. But is TikTok actually "saved?"

Pete Hegseth, military analyst at Twenty-First Century Fox Inc. and US secretary of defense nominee for US President-elect Donald Trump, during a Senate Armed Services Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025. Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Kent Nishimura)

In a wide-ranging interview on Sunday, Vice President JD Vance defended a variety of plans set in motion by President Trump during the first week of his term, including the beginnings of a promised crackdown on migrants living in the United States and an effort to supercharge oil and gas production.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R., Ark.) sought to help Pete Hegseth clarify his comments about women in combat, noting that the defense-chief nominee was referring to women in “ground combat roles.” Hegseth said P

Some users saw the social media app come back online on Sunday, following a shutdown when a federal law went into effect requiring a sale or ban.

TikTok is owned by ByteDance, which many Republicans, including Arkansas Gov. Sarah Sanders, have decried as having “significant ties to the Chinese Communist Party.” No critic has been louder than Tom Cotton, who says TikTok is “a Chinese Communist spy app” that “ endangers our national security and poisons our children .”