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• The Memo: Gaetz and Hegseth controversies could trickle down to Trump

  18-11-2024 23:58 via thehill.com
  
  Allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct are complicating the paths of two of President-elect Trump’s most important nominees.In the process, they threaten to put a new spotlight on Trump’s record with women.Former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla) left Congress upon being nominated by Trump to serve as attorney general last week. His resignation ended an investigation into him by the House Ethics Committee, which was looking into sexual allegations, among others. That panel&
  
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• Trump's Energy Department pick has history of downplaying climate change impacts

  18-11-2024 22:52 via thehill.com
  
  Chris Wright, President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Energy Department, has denied the well-established connection between climate change and extreme weather, claiming that storms are not getting more intense. “We have seen no increase in the frequency or intensity of hurricanes, tornadoes, droughts or floods despite endless fear-mongering of the media, politicians and activists,” Wright, the chairman and CEO of fracking company Liberty Energy, said in a v
  
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• Where Trump's search for a Treasury secretary stands

  18-11-2024 22:25 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump is expanding his search to lead the Treasury Department as the jockeying over who will fill the key economic role has spilled into public view.Investor Scott Bessent appeared to be the front-runner for the role and has visited Mar-a-Lago multiple times in recent weeks, but billionaire Elon Musk, who has frequently been by Trump’s side since Election Day, advocated over the weekend for Howard Lutnick, the Cantor Fitzgerald head who is co-leading Trump’s
  
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• 2 women tell Ethics panel Gaetz paid them for sex: Attorney

  18-11-2024 22:05 via thehill.com
  
  Two women testified before the House Ethics Committee that former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) paid them to have sex, according to the attorney representing them.Joel Leppard, a Florida-based attorney, made the disclosure in an interview with ABC News that was published Monday. The article does not include the identities of his clients, both of whom are older than 18.Leppard said the House Ethics Committee and his clients went one by one through a series of Venmo transactions.“That&rsquo
  
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• Musk, Epshteyn clash over Trump picks: Report 

  18-11-2024 21:35 via thehill.com
  
  Billionaire Elon Musk and lawyer Boris Epshteyn, two prominent figures in President-elect Trump’s circle, reportedly are butting heads over his Cabinet picks.  Musk, a major campaign donor who has been a regular by the president-elect's side of late, has been tapped to lead a effort to make the government more efficient. Epshteyn is a lawyer and longtime Trump strategist.According to an Axios report early Monday, a “heated discussion” between Musk and Epshteyn&nb
  
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• Bolton: Moscow, Beijing should feel ‘a lot of relief’ if Gabbard is confirmed as DNI

  18-11-2024 21:10 via thehill.com
  
  Former national security adviser John Bolton said that Russia and China should feel “a lot of relief” if former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) is confirmed as President-elect Trump’s choice for director of national intelligence.“She’s not capable of doing it,” Bolton said Sunday on CNN. “Her judgment is nonexistent and the idea that somehow she would be put in charge of this critical function should be giving the our adversaries in Moscow and Beijing a lot
  
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• Top House Democrat: Gabbard 'a national security threat' to US

  18-11-2024 21:01 via thehill.com
  
  Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-N.Y.), the ranking member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Monday that former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii), President-elect Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, is “a national security threat” to the U.S.“So, to have Tulsi Gabbard there now, who has basically said good things about [Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad,] secretly gone over to visit him, good things about [Russian President Vladimir Putin,] shows to me th
  
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• Biden asks Congress for $100B in disaster relief funding

  18-11-2024 20:33 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden has sent Congress an emergency funding request for roughly $100 billion to help with recovery after natural disasters, including the recent Hurricanes Helene and Milton in the Southeast, battered communities nationwide and depleted key programs.“From rebuilding homes and reopening critical infrastructure, such as schools and roads — to supporting the Nation’s farmers and ranchers and ensuring access to healthcare services — impacted communities await your
  
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• Democrats wrestle over role of transgender rights in election

  18-11-2024 19:27 via thehill.com
  
  Democrats are wrestling with the role the party’s broad support for transgender rights played in its failure to capture the presidency and either chamber of Congress, with sharp views being exchanged in a party reeling from its losses. Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.), a five-term congressman who has previously voted with most other Democrats to safeguard transgender rights, touched off a firestorm of criticism when he railed against Democratic support for transgender athletes in women&rs
  
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• Texas Democrats at a crossroads after devastating election

  18-11-2024 19:00 via thehill.com
  
  Texas Democrats are sorting through what went wrong for them after their shining hopes turned to ash in November — and what it means for their long-term plans to take power.The party was optimistic it could make pivotal gains across the state, especially in the hard-fought race between Sen. Ted Cruz (R) and Democrat Colin Allred. But in the end, the party “woefully underperformed,” according to state Sen. Roland Gutierrez (D), the latest gut punch for Democrats i
  
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• Trump's former CDC director Redfield defends RFK Jr. pick

  18-11-2024 18:57 via thehill.com
  
  Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) under the first Trump administration, gave a vote of confidence to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as potential head of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).NewsNation Senior National Correspondent Brian Entin asked Redfield on Sunday whether there should be concerns that Kennedy, a well-known opponent of vaccines, will introduce a "no-vaccine culture" into public policy."No Brian, I don't think that. I m
  
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• House Ethics Committee to meet Wednesday amid debate over Gaetz report

  18-11-2024 18:07 via thehill.com
  
  Members of the House Ethics Committee will meet Wednesday, a source confirmed to The Hill, as the panel weighs whether it should release its report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), whom President-elect Trump plans to nominate to serve as attorney general.The source, however, cautioned that the huddle may be delayed, since details about the meeting leaked early Monday morning.The panel scrapped plans to gather this past Friday for an unclear reason. House Ethics Committee Chair Michael Guest
  
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• Trump Jr.: Biden administration trying to cause ‘World War 3’ by helping Ukraine

  18-11-2024 17:40 via thehill.com
  
  Donald Trump Jr., the eldest son of President-elect Trump, claimed the Biden administration is trying to cause “World War 3” by helping Ukraine in its war with Russia.“The Military Industrial Complex seems to want to make sure they get World War 3 going before my father has a chance to create peace and save lives,” Trump Jr. posted on X. “Gotta lock in those $Trillions. Life be dammed!!! Imbeciles!”He posted just after President Biden authorized Ukra
  
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• Public health leader: RFK Jr. 'fails on all fronts' as potential agency leader

  18-11-2024 17:09 via thehill.com
  
  A leading public health organization is sounding the alarm over Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. The American Public Health Association (APHA) said Kennedy “fails on all fronts” as a candidate to lead the nation’s top health agency. “We urge President-elect Trump to select a qualified health leader that is properly trained and has the management skills to be the nation’s top heal
  
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• Trump vows to be 'open and available' to press

  18-11-2024 16:58 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump is promising to make himself available to the press and keep an open mind when dealing with journalists when he takes office next year.
  "In order to Make America Great Again, it is very important, if not vital, to have a free, fair and open media or press," Trump, who has long had an acrimonious relationship with the media, said as part of an extensive interview given to Fox News Digital.Trump confirmed a Mar-a-Lago meeting he hosted late last week with Joe Scarborough and&
  
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• Speaker Johnson open to supporting recess appointment for Trump nominees

  18-11-2024 16:34 via thehill.com
  
  Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) left open the possibility of enabling President-elect Trump to appoint his Cabinet by recess appointment, bypassing the need for approval from the Senate.“We’ll evaluate that at the appropriate time, and we’ll make the appropriate decision. There may be a function for that, we’ll have to see how it plays out,” Johnson said when asked  about whether he would support recess appointments on “Fox News Sunday.”Discu
  
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• Priebus: Trump: 'made it very clear' Gaetz pick 'a big middle finger' to DOJ, FBI 

  18-11-2024 16:31 via thehill.com
  
  Reince Priebus said that President-elect Trump made it "very clear" to him that the decision to nominate now-former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) for attorney general was a “big middle finger” to the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the FBI.  “He made it very clear to me that the Matt Gaetz pick is not three-dimensional chess to help another nominee get through, that this was what he wanted to have happen,” Priebus, who served as chief of staff in the first Trump administr
  
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• Trump signals use of military for deportations

  18-11-2024 15:57 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump recirculated a social media post Monday suggesting his incoming administration will declare an immigration national emergency and use military assets to support his mass deportation pledge, labeling the claim “TRUE!!!”On his Truth Social site, Trump at 4:03 a.m. EST reposted Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative organization that's been active both in courts and on social media regarding a number of culture war issues, including questionin
  
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• Trump declares 'true' reports of national emergency, military assets to achieve mass deportation plan

  18-11-2024 15:57 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump on Monday recirculated a social media post suggesting his incoming administration will declare an immigration national emergency and use military assets to support his mass deportation pledge, labeling the claim “TRUE!!!”On his Truth Social site, Trump at 4:03 a.m. re-posted Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a conservative organization that’s been active, both in courts and social media, on a number of culture war issues, including questioning
  
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• Kash Patel would do ‘massive damage’ to FBI: Ex-agent

  18-11-2024 15:56 via thehill.com
  
  Former FBI Special Agent Daniel Brunner said if President-elect Trump chooses loyalist and former Trump administration aide Kash Patel to lead the FBI, it would do “massive damage” to the agency.“Putting someone like Kash Patel in the position of Director of the FBI is, I believe, extremely, extremely dangerous because … his resume isn’t traditional,” Brunner said Sunday on CNN.
  Brunner later added that Patel “has no experience leading an organization,
  
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• Biden to send disaster relief funding package to Congress in coming days

  18-11-2024 15:18 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will send Congress an extensive emergency funding request in the coming days, the White House said Monday, as administration officials called on Congress to approve more money following a slew of natural disasters.Various agencies, including the Small Business Administration, the Department of Agriculture and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), are running low on funding following Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton and other severe storms, wrote Shalanda Young, direct
  
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• Biden to send Congress disaster relief funding package in coming days

  18-11-2024 15:18 via thehill.com
  
  President Biden will send Congress an extensive emergency funding request in the coming days, the White House said Monday, as administration officials called on Congress to approve more money following a wave of natural disasters.Various agencies, including the Small Business Administration, the Department of Agriculture and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), are running low on funding following Hurricane Helene, Hurricane Milton and other severe storms, Budget director Shalanda You
  
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• 'Morning Joe' Scarborough, Brzezinski say they traveled to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump

  18-11-2024 15:00 via thehill.com
  
  Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, co-hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe," said Monday they had traveled to the president-elect's Mar-a-Lago estate late last week to talk to Donald Trump about unifying the country and toning down political rhetoric.Brzezinski told the program's audience it was the first time the two hosts, who are married, had met with Trump face-to-face in seven years."We didn't see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues, and we told him so," Scarborough said, reading from a script in the
  
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• Rep. Mikie Sherrill launches bid for New Jersey governor

  18-11-2024 14:26 via thehill.com
  
  New Jersey Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D) launched her campaign for the state's governor on Monday, joining an already crowded Democratic primary field ahead of the 2025 race. “We can also be the state that sets the gold standard for protecting rights and freedoms, and we know they'll be under attack from Donald Trump's Washington,” Sherrill said in an announcement video. “Because in New Jersey, we love our country, we're proud of our state, and we value our freedoms.&r
  
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• Ramaswamy: 'We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright'

  18-11-2024 13:34 via thehill.com
  
  Tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who accepted a role alongside Elon Musk in President-elect Trump’s incoming administration to lead the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), said "certain agencies" are expected to be "deleted outright.""We expect mass reductions," said during an appearance on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures” with Maria Bartiromo. "We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright. We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the
  
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• House GOP seeks to turn the page on chaos 

  18-11-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  House Republicans are doing everything they can to project unity in anticipation of the party taking total control of government under President-elect Trump.But the House GOP, which has been marked by chaos and faces another slim majority for the next two years, will encounter a series of obstacles as it aims to push through an ambitious agenda. Amid that, it is likely to grapple with surprises from Trump.House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.),
  
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• Federal workers brace for Trump overhaul of civil service

  18-11-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump’s plans to reshape the federal workforce would allow him to fire wide swaths of career employees and replace them with political appointees — a move that comes as he has demanded loyalty at every level of government.Trump has said he will reissue an order released in the waning days of his first administration that ends merit-based hiring for a number of federal jobs that work on policy, instead creating a new class of federal employees — Schedule F &mdash
  
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• All eyes on House Ethics Committee amid controversy over Gaetz report

  18-11-2024 12:00 via thehill.com
  
  All eyes will be locked on the House Ethics Committee this week as it weighs whether to release its report into former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) following his nomination by President-elect Trump to serve as attorney general.The question of publishing the report has emerged as a heated debate on Capitol Hill, with some lawmakers in both parties pushing for its release as Gaetz looks to serve as the next chief law enforcement officer, and others — mainly Republicans — arguing that
  
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• Trump taps FCC commissioner Brendan Carr to chair the agency

  18-11-2024 01:58 via thehill.com
  
  President-elect Trump is tapping Brendan Carr of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to chair the agency.Trump said he first nominated Carr to the FCC in 2017 and he was confirmed unanimously by the Senate.“His current term runs through 2029 and, because of his great work, I will now be designating him as permanent Chairman,” Trump said Sunday.Carr was the FCC’s general counsel and the adviser to former FCC Chair Ajit Pai.He is currently the top Republican in the FCC, w
  
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• Jeffries: 'Of course' House Ethics Committee report on Gaetz should be released

  18-11-2024 00:45 via thehill.com
  
  House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) said on Sunday “of course” the House Ethics Committee should release its report on the misconduct allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who resigned from Congress last week when President-elect Trump tapped him to be attorney general.“Of course it should be released,” Jeffries said on NBC News’s “Meet the Press,” when Kristen Welker asked about Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) saying that the repo
  
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• GOP Sen. Mullin calls on House to release Gaetz ethics report

  18-11-2024 00:19 via thehill.com
  
  Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said Sunday that the Senate “absolutely” should have access to the House Ethics Committee report from its probe into misconduct allegations against former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.), who resigned from Congress last week after President-elect Trump tapped him for the attorney general role.Mullin said the findings from the Ethics probe should factor into senators’ decisions as they proceed through Gaetz’s confirmation process.“Absolutely,
  
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