President-elect Donald Trump continues to build his incoming administration, announcing key loyalists for top roles and a string of controversial Cabinet picks. Follow for live updates.
directly to lobby them to confirm his pick for attorney general, former Rep. Matt Gaetz, according to sources, as House Republicans, a former US representative and Fox Business host, is Trump’s choice to be transportation secretary. Trump has yet to announce his picks to lead theaccording to sources, and will be joined there by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, in another example of Musk’s increasing role in Trump’s orbit.
Trump is now considering Kevin Warsh, a former investment banker and former member of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors whom Trump has often consulted for economic advice, and Marc Rowan, the billionaire cofounder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management, the sources said. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries would not answer questions about the report as he walked into the House Democratic leadership elections, where it’s expected that he’ll be selected again to lead the caucus.
House Speaker Mike Johnson is insisting ahead of a scheduled meeting of the Ethics Committee on Wednesday that the report should not be released since Gaetz, following his resignation last week, is no longer a member of Congress. Washington said FEMA’s guidelines to relief workers in Florida were to remove themselves from hostile situations if they felt threatened or unsafe.
Many Never-Trump Republicans in Congress have converted or been defeated. Former economic adviser Gary Cohn and other anti-tariff voices are not likely to be welcome in the new Trump administration. Special counselYet there is another force that could deter Trump from some of his most extreme instincts: the $50 trillion US stock market., viewing the Dow Jones Industrial Average as a real-time barometer of his success.
Gaetz has derided the Justice Department as rife with members of the so-called “deep state” hostile to Trump. “You can’t just have the same career people who have grown up in a system that has fallen victim to political capture,” Gaetz said in an interview this summer. Garland has not publicly addressed Trump’s selection of Gaetz, but his comments come after shock inside the department over Gaetz’s nomination and concerns from some Justice Department officials that his appointment will cause more people to leave the department either voluntarily or as part of efforts to push out employees who aren’t seen as loyal to the incoming administration.
President Joe Biden speaks during the G20 Summit at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro on Monday.President Joe Biden is using the last day at his final world leaders’ summit touting American steps to combat climate change, an area that President-elect Donald Trump is poised to swiftly reverse when he enters office.
While that particular pot of money seems safe from Trump’s decision-making, officials acknowledged the broader Biden initiatives were more uncertain.
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