“Top Justice Department antitrust officials have decided to ask a judge to force Alphabet Inc.’s Google to sell off its Chrome browser in what would be a historic crackdown on one of the world’s biggest tech companies,” Bloomberg reports.
A Tax Break to Join the Trump Administration
“Democrats’ dreams of imposing stiff tax increases on the rich have gone poof, and now some super-wealthy people who campaigned for Donald Trump could get a sweet tax break just for serving in his administration,” Politico reports.
“There’s an arcane provision in the tax code that allows people who join the federal government to sell stock and other assets and put off paying the capital gains tax they’d owe.”
Trump Team Weighs Pairing Warsh and Bessent
“President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team is considering pairing Kevin Warsh, a former Federal Reserve official, in the Treasury secretary role, with hedge fund manager Scott Bessent as director of the White House’s National Economic Council,” Bloomberg reports.
Politico: “Donald Trump has chosen to move fast and break things with his early picks for top Cabinet posts. He is facing stiff resistance to that strategy when it comes to the Treasury Department.”
Trump Plans to Attend Musk’s SpaceX Launch
“President-elect Donald Trump plans to attend a SpaceX launch in Texas on Tuesday, in yet another demonstration of the billionaire Elon Musk’s increasing closeness to the incoming president,” the New York Times reports.
“SpaceX will be conducting its sixth test of its Starship rocket, the largest and most powerful rocket ever built, which it soon hopes to use to deliver more of its Starlink communications satellites into orbit and to carry NASA astronauts to the moon. Eventually, Mr. Musk wants to use Starship to take humans to Mars.”
Putin Signs New Nuclear Doctrine
Associated Press: “The signing of the doctrine, which says that any massive aerial attack on Russia could trigger a nuclear response, demonstrates Putin’s readiness to tap the country’s nuclear arsenal to force the West to back down as Moscow presses a slow-moving offensive in Ukraine.”
Democrats Look to Hakeem Jeffries
“Hakeem Jeffries nearly became House speaker. Instead, he’s steering the Democratic Party through an identity crisis and hoping to avoid an ugly intraparty civil war,” CNN reports.
“Even without the gavel, many Democrats across Washington say House Minority Leader Jeffries — a 54-year-old New Yorker with centrist roots and messaging chops — is about to become the de facto voice of the party’s future and the face of resistance to Donald Trump.”
Dan Osborn Wants to Help Working Class Run for Office
“Dan Osborn, an industrial mechanic who ran as an independent Senate candidate in Nebraska, came up short in his quest to unseat Senator Deb Fischer, a low-profile Republican whose closer-than-expected victory in a red state clinched Senate control for her party on election night,” the New York Times reports.
“But Mr. Osborn’s 47 percent of the vote in Nebraska well outpaced Vice President Kamala Harris’s 39 percent, and in what he called his ‘almost success,’ there might be clues to how a more populist approach could wrest the working class from Republicans, not through partisan warfare but class consciousness.”
Trump Admits Matt Gaetz May Not Be Confirmed
“In his private conversations over the past few days, President-elect Donald Trump has admitted that his besieged choice for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, has less than even odds of being confirmed by the Senate,” the New York Times reports.
“But Mr. Trump has shown no sign of withdrawing the nomination, which speaks volumes about his mind-set as he staffs his second administration. He is making calls on Mr. Gaetz’s behalf, and he remains confident that even if Mr. Gaetz does not make it, the standard for an acceptable candidate will have shifted so much that the Senate may simply approve his other nominees who have appalled much of Washington.”
Politico: Negative signs for Gaetz as senators brush off questions amid Trump pressure.
CNN: Trump escalates test of strength over Gaetz pick.
Dismay in Democrats Led to Distrust
“The working-class voters Vice President Kamala Harris’s presidential campaign needed were not moved by talk of joy. They were too angry about feeling broke,” the New York Times reports.
“For decades, Democrats had been the party of labor and of the working class, the choice for voters who looked to government to increase the minimum wage or provide a safety net for the poor, the old and the sick. But this year’s election results show how thoroughly that idea has collapsed even among Latino, Black and Asian American voters who had stuck by the party through Donald Trump’s first term.”
“Latinos had signaled what was coming: They drifted away from Democrats and toward Mr. Trump in 2020, before defecting in greater numbers this year. But working-class Black and Asian American voters have also now broken ranks in startling numbers.”
How Democrats Will Fight Trump’s Mass Deportation Pln
“Immigration advocacy groups and Democratic leaders are seeking to disrupt President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to deport millions of undocumented immigrants by pre-drafting lawsuits that could be filed as soon as he takes office,” ABC News reports.
Mace Seeks to Bar Trans Women from Capitol Restrooms
The Game-of-Telephone Election
“The demotion of news media’s role in American life has brought on a profound shift in how facts make their way to voters,” Axios reports.
“The scattering and flattening of media has created a labyrinth where information trickles from primary sources to news media to non-journalist media including Youtubers, podcasters, TikTokers and X accounts — and eventually to conversations between family and friends.”
“This chain leaves facts susceptible to being massaged, spun and outright fudged.”
Trump Picks Sean Duffy as Transportation Secretary
President-elect Donald Trump plans to nominate former lawmaker and Fox News contributor Sean Duffy, who also had a turn on MTV’s “Real World,” to be the next secretary of Transportation, Politico reports.
Trump Personally Squeezes GOP Senators on Matt Gaetz
“President-elect Trump is personally calling senators to press them to confirm former Rep. Matt Gaetz to be his attorney general,” Axios reports.
“Trump is digging in on his embattled and controversial nominee and is sending an unmistakable message to Senate Republicans that he expects him to be confirmed.”
Said Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND): “He clearly wants Matt Gaetz. He believes Matt Gaetz is the one person who will have the fearlessness and ferociousness, really, to do what needs doing at the Department of Justice.”
He added: “One thing about Donald Trump, people should never confuse his support for one of his nominees as a tactical or strategic tool for somebody else. And at least to this point, he’s putting his own political capital behind it.”
Tulsi Gabbard Is a Favorite of Russian State Media
New York Times: “Ms. Gabbard’s comments have earned her sharp rebukes from officials across the political spectrum in Washington, who have accused her of parroting the anti-American propaganda of the country’s adversaries. Her remarks have also made her a darling of the Kremlin’s vast state media apparatus — and, more recently, of President-elect Donald Trump, who this week picked her to oversee the nation’s 18 intelligence agencies and departments.”
“Her selection to be the director of national intelligence has raised alarms among national security officials, not only because of her lack of experience in intelligence but also because she has embraced a worldview that mirrors disinformation straight out of the Kremlin’s playbook.”
Trump Wants Pollster Investigated
“President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday called for the investigation of an Iowa pollster over a bombshell pre-election survey that showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading in the deep red state,” USA Today reports.
Said Trump, of pollster Ann Selzer: “She knew exactly what she was doing.”
Trump’s Transition Co-Chairs Snubbed So Far
“Linda McMahon, once seen as a shoo-in to lead Donald Trump’s Commerce Department, is privately frustrated that she has yet to get offered the position,” Semafor reports.
“McMahon’s status leaves both of the president-elect’s transition co-chairs conspicuously without clear places to land in his administration. Her fellow co-chair, Cantor Fitzgerald CEO Howard Lutnick, has made a play to lead Trump’s Treasury Department — as competition for that post descends into the sort of mudslinging that’s more common on the campaign trail.”
“The delay in an offer for McMahon is seen by some of Trump’s allies as a sign that he’s saving the commerce secretary job as a potential landing spot for someone else who misses out on a more prominent position.”
Harris Won ‘Highly Engaged’ Voters But Lost Everyone Else
NBC News: “According to the final NBC News poll of the 2024 race, 76% of registered voters said they follow public affairs and politics closely. The poll showed Harris winning among that group by 5 points over Donald Trump, 52% to 47%.”
“But among the remaining quarter of voters who said they don’t follow politics closely, Trump was ahead by a much greater margin — 14 points, 54% to 40%.”
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