“President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he intends to nominate Dr. Mehmet Oz to serve as the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services,” the New York Times reports.

Trump said that Oz would “work closely with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to take on the illness industrial complex.”

“President-elect Donald Trump’s plans to end business-as-usual at the Justice Department apparently include replacing FBI Director Christopher Wray, Vice President-elect JD Vance indicated in a social media post on Tuesday,” Politico reports.

“Vance revealed he and the president-elect were conducting interviews for the crucial FBI post in a since-deleted post on X.”

“President-elect Donald Trump is considering giving Russell Vought, his previous Office of Management and Budget director, his old job back,” Politico reports.

“Vought, a prominent contributor to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 initiative to draft proposals for a second Trump administration, is among the people being seriously considered for the post.”

“The conflicting goals of President-elect Donald Trump’s economic agenda have been playing out as he debates who to choose as his Treasury secretary, a job that will entail steering tax cuts through Congress, leading trade talks with China and overseeing the $30 trillion U.S. bond market,” the New York Times reports.

“Budget experts have warned that his plans could add as much as $15 trillion to the national debt while increasing inflation and slowing growth. But Mr. Trump is not in the market for a naysayer. After a first term in which some of his top economic aides tried to tame his protectionist impulses, Mr. Trump is seeking a Treasury secretary who will carry out his unconventional plans while still having the credibility to keep markets buoyant.”

“That mix of qualities is not easy to find.”

Linda McMahon had been widely seen as a leading contender for commerce secretary, before President-elect Donald Trump gave the job to her transition co-chair, Howard Lutnick, the Wall Street Journal reports.

McMahon is now under consideration for other jobs, including education secretary and U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom.

“An unidentified hacker has gained access to a computer file shared in a secure link among lawyers whose clients have given damaging testimony related to Matt Gaetz, the former Florida congressman who is President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be attorney general,” the New York Times reports.

“The file of 24 exhibits is said to include sworn testimony by a woman who said that she had sex with Mr. Gaetz in 2017 when she was 17, as well as corroborating testimony by a second woman who said that she witnessed the encounter.”

President-elect Donald Trump is expected to nominate Howard Lutnick to be his Commerce secretary, Punchbowl News reports.

Lutnick, the CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, is the co-chair of Trump’s transition team. He was also in the mix to be Treasury secretary.

Associated Press: “The images from Johnson’s wild weekend with Trump provide a snapshot of his proximity to power, the former religious rights attorney just a year on the job as House speaker, now dining at Mar-a-Lago, flying on Trump Force One, appearing near-ringside in Manhattan — and riding shotgun to Trump’s second term in the White House.”

“Taken together the photographs, which boomeranged around social media with stunning disbelief and mocking commentaries, put on vivid display Trump’s command of the Republican Party. It spotlighted not only a political force that has swept control of the government in Washington but a cultural moment for the hypermasculine, partygoing, men, and some women, propelling the movement.”

The Hill: Speaker Johnson becomes ‘MAGA’ Mike, cementing place in Trump’s circle.

“President-elect Donald Trump, the only former president to have been charged with mishandling classified information, has begun receiving intelligence briefings,” the Washington Post reports.

“Trump declined classified briefings during the campaign, saying he feared being accused of leaking classified secrets.”

As he prepares to enter the White House again, Donald Trump has not made any moves to divest from his financial interests, the Washington Post reports.

Said Dan Fox, former acting director of the Office of Government Ethics: “We’re in a worse position now than we were when he first took office.”

“People come to me all the time, saying, ‘You’re so negative, and you’re so hard, and you come across with so much vitriol and so much meanness.’ I go, ‘Dude, this ain’t morning in America.’”

— Steve Bannon, quoted by New York Magazine.

“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.”