“Donald Trump and his doctor claim he’s 6-foot-3, but his New York driver’s license says he’s actually an inch shorter. A copy of Trump’s license, obtained by Politico through an open-records request, lists the president-elect at 6-foot-2.”

President-elect Donald Trump has named Republican National Committee strategist Sean Spicer to be his press secretary, The Hill reports.

“In addition, Hope Hicks was named assistant to the President and Director of Strategic Communications, Jason Miller was named assistant to the President and Director of Communications, and Dan Scavino was named assistant to the President and Director of Social Media.”

President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team “asked employees at the State Department to submit details of programs aimed at promoting gender equality, including a list of the positions primarily focused on such issues, fanning fears within the agency that the incoming administration might roll back a cornerstone initiative of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,” the New York Times reports.

“It also asks for information on positions dedicated to those activities, as well as how much funding was directed to these programs in 2016. The responses were due by 5 p.m. on Wednesday, the same day the questionnaire was circulated within the department.”

“Senate Democrats are approaching the January confirmation battle over Donald Trump’s Cabinet as a chance to launch their political comeback and expose the president-elect as a fraud,” Politico reports.

“Lawmakers know they’re unlikely, at best, to stop any of Trump’s Cabinet picks from being installed. But they still see major opportunity in the confirmation hearings. The goal, according to lawmakers and aides: to depict Trump’s chosen inner circle of billionaires and conservative hard-liners as directly at odds with the working-class Americans he vowed to help.”

“Moving some of President-elect Donald Trump’s highest-profile cabinet nominees — with their millions in assets and complex business arrangements — through an arduous financial disclosure examination has been unusually slow and may threaten the quick start for the administration promised by the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell,” the New York Times reports.

“Senate Democrats are concerned that their Republican colleagues will permit confirmations to proceed without the ethics safeguards that have been in place for decades. If that happens, Democrats will almost certainly move to delay swift confirmations.”

Washington Post: “To lead the Pentagon, Trump chose a rugged combat general, whom he compares to a historic one. At the United Nations, his ambassador will be a poised and elegant Indian American with a compelling immigrant backstory. As secretary of state, Trump tapped a neophyte to international diplomacy, but one whose silvery hair and boardroom bearing project authority.”

“The parade of potential job-seekers passing a bank of media cameras to board the elevators at Trump Tower has the feel of a casting call. It is no coincidence that a disproportionate share of the names most mentioned for jobs at the upper echelon of the Trump administration are familiar faces to obsessive viewers of cable news — of whom the president-elect is one.”

“As unfortunate as it is, I understand the quagmire. You do a good thing that backfires.”

— Eric Trump, quoted by the New York Times, after saying he will no longer raise money for his charitable foundation.

“The prospect of brutal confirmation hearings has Republicans targeting red-state Democrats in hopes of softening opposition to some of Donald Trump’s most conservative Cabinet nominees — from Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions,” Politico reports.

“It’s an effort at early damage control, with Republicans aiming to protect their own from a Democratic onslaught that could cause lasting damage both to Trump administration officials and to the president-elect’s ability to push his ambitious legislative agenda through Congress.”