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Trump Adviser Agrees About ‘Our Adversaries’
“Rep. Michael Waltz (R-FL) said Sunday that he has met with President Joe Biden’s National Security adviser Jake Sullivan — and that the two administrations are working collaboratively on national…
The Right Has a Bluesky Problem
The Atlantic: “Since Elon Musk bought Twitter in 2022 and subsequently turned it into X, disaffected users have talked about leaving once and for all. Maybe they’d post some about…
GOP Senator Says No One Cares About Background Checks
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), a prominent ally of Donald Trump, said voters don’t care who conducts background checks into the president-elect’s Cabinet picks and that Trump would fire members of…
Sherrod Brown May Run Again
Sen. Sherrod Brown, who was defeated Nov. 5 in his reelection bid, said he won’t rule out running for the Senate again or for governor of Ohio in 2026, Politico…
Trump Starts Transition on Positive Note
A new CBS News poll finds President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration starts off with mostly good will from the public: a majority of Americans overall are either happy or at…
The Resistance Goes Quiet
Axios: “While President-elect Trump’s 2016 win sparked shock, outrage and massive protests, the response to his 2024 victory has been more muted.” “2016 birthed The Resistance, a political movement to…
Flashback Quote of the Day
“The prosecutors will be prosecuted, the bad ones. The investigators will be investigated.” — Attorney General-designate Pam Bondi, quoted by the Washington Post in 2023. Save to Favorites
Trump Is Running His Transition on Secret Money
“President-elect Donald Trump is keeping secret the names of the donors who are funding his transition effort, a break from tradition that could make it impossible to see what interest…
Biden’s Chief Economist Processes the Election
“Since the election, Jared Bernstein, the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, has often found himself in a down mood — dealing, he says, with ‘confusion, guilt’…
Trump’s Choices for Health Agencies Suggest a Shake-Up
“President-elect Donald Trump’s eclectic roster of figures to lead federal health agencies is almost complete — and with it, his vision for a sweeping overhaul is coming into focus,” the…
Trump’s Trade Agenda Could Benefit Friends
“The sweeping tariffs that President-elect Donald Trump imposed in his first term on foreign metals, machinery, clothing and other products were intended to have maximum impact around the world. They…
Little Ideological Consistency in Trump’s Cabinet
Axios: “Lost in the noise of Trump’s most controversial picks is the simple, undebatable fact that this might be the most ideologically diverse cabinet of modern times.” Save to Favorites
Trump Picks Brooke Rollins for Agriculture
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to select Brooke Rollins, a former Trump administration policy adviser, to lead the Agriculture Department, the Wall Street Journal reports. “Rollins is the president of…
Trump’s Team of Randos
Playbook: “In a flurry of Truth Social posts last night, President-elect Donald Trump made a furious pre-holiday-week dent in his list of Cabinet and key sub-Cabinet nominations — naming nine…
Where Kamala Harris Lost the Election
Politico: “Blue cities represent the core of the Democratic base… But this year, the major cities accounted for smaller shares of the votes cast in the battleground states than four…
Trump Is Casting a Made-for-TV Cabinet
“A common thread weaves through many of Donald Trump’s picks for his incoming administration, a quality the president-elect values as highly as loyalty and perhaps even more than conventional qualifications:…
Trump Considers Ex-Intelligence Chief for Ukraine Post
“President-elect Donald Trump is considering tapping Richard Grenell, his former intelligence chief, to be a special envoy for the Russia-Ukraine conflict,” USA Today reports. “Grenell, who served as Trump’s ambassador…
How Scott Bessent Won the ‘Knife Fight’ for Treasury
Wall Street Journal: “Trump told friends shortly before the Bessent announcement that he trusted him to execute the administration’s policies more than any of the other contenders. Trump’s advisers also…
Inside Trump’s Rocky Transition
Washington Post: “In any other presidential transition, such a showdown and physical confrontation between two top advisers to the president-elect would be a showstopping breakdown in decorum.” “But in Trump’s…
What’s the Point of Election Forecasts?
New York Times: “While election polling has been around for more than a century, election forecasts have come to the forefront only in the past decade and a half. And…
