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Steven Mnuchin Is Donald Trump's Expected Choice for Treasury Secretary — WASHINGTON — Steven Terner Mnuchin, a financier with deep roots on Wall Street and in Hollywood but no government experience, is expected to be named Donald J. Trump's Treasury secretary as soon as Wednesday, sources close to the transition say.
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Jennifer Jacobs / Bloomberg:
Trump's ‘Thank You Tour’ Said to Start in Ohio on Thursday
Trump's ‘Thank You Tour’ Said to Start in Ohio on Thursday
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Ben Brody / Bloomberg:
Treasury Contender Allison: Meeting Trump ‘Like a Job Interview’
Treasury Contender Allison: Meeting Trump ‘Like a Job Interview’
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Nelson D. Schwartz / New York Times:
Trump to Announce Carrier Plant Will Keep Jobs in U.S. — From the earliest days of his campaign, Donald J. Trump made keeping manufacturing jobs in the United States his signature economic issue, and the decision by Carrier, the big air-conditioner company, to move 2,000 of them from Indiana …
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David Faber / CNBC:
Trump to reveal deal to keep nearly 1,000 Carrier jobs in Indiana
Trump to reveal deal to keep nearly 1,000 Carrier jobs in Indiana
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Andrew Restuccia / Politico:
Elaine Chao tapped to be Trump's Transportation secretary — Former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao was nominated on Tuesday by President-elect Donald Trump to head the Department of Transportation. — Chao ran the Labor Department under the George W. Bush administration.
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Rep. Lou Barletta under consideration for labor secretary
Kate Nocera / BuzzFeed:
More Than A Dozen Pelosi Supporters Consider Turning On Her — “I think a lot of people are unsure if we want the faces of the party to be Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi: liberals from New York and California,” one Democrat said. — Managing Editor, BuzzFeed DC — Alex Wong / Getty Images
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Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Nancy Pelosi Torches Democrat Trying To Unseat Her As Party Leader
Nancy Pelosi Torches Democrat Trying To Unseat Her As Party Leader
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Mike Lillis / The Hill:
House Dems brace for Wednesday's secret ballot
House Dems brace for Wednesday's secret ballot
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Carrie Levine / Center for Public Integrity:
Donald Trump offering huge perks for inauguration donors — President-elect offering access, luxury in exchange for big money — Donald Trump's inaugural committee is offering huge perks — prime tickets, luxurious lodging, access to the president-elect himself — in exchange for six …
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Southern Poverty Law Center:
Ten Days After: Harassment and Intimidation in the Aftermath of the Election — Just a week before the November 8th election, attackers set a church in Greenville, Mississippi, on fire. The historically black church was targeted in what authorities believe was an act of voter intimidation …
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Mark Hensch / The Hill:
Dem senator: I'll ‘beat the hell out of you’ for burning flag — (D-W.Va.) lashed out at flag burning on Tuesday after President-elect Donald Trump — raised the issue. — “It's a First Amendment right, but you do it in front of me, I'm going to beat the hell out of you,” Manchin said, according to a Roll Call reporter.
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
McConnell pushes back at Trump on flag-burning comments
McConnell pushes back at Trump on flag-burning comments
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U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly of Indiana:
Donnelly Announces He Will Oppose Nomination of Tom Price for HHS Secretary, Cites Medicare Privatization — Senator has been staunch supporter of Medicare and vocal opponent of efforts to end Medicare as we know it — Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senator Joe Donnelly announced …
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Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Here's how Trump's HHS pick wants to replace Obamacare
Here's how Trump's HHS pick wants to replace Obamacare
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Susan Page / USA Today:
Gingrich calls Trump tweet about vote fraud a big mistake — WASHINGTON — Former House speaker Newt Gingrich calls Donald Trump a potentially transformative president. But he shouldn't have sent out that tweet alleging election fraud. — In an interview Tuesday with Capital Download …
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John Hinderaker / Power Line:
Politico: What If Trump Enforces the Law?! — I have been saying for a long time that, while our current legal immigration system poses intractable problems, illegal immigration is relatively easy to solve: we only need to enforce our existing laws. Donald Trump's appointment of Jeff Sessions …
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Nikita Vladimirov / The Hill:
Hannity: Trump doesn't need a White House press office — Fox News personality Sean Hannity on Monday said President-elect Donald Trump — does not need press in the White House. — Hannity, a longtime Trump supporter, blasted the mainstream media during his interview with radio host Matt Boyle …
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Mark Finkelstein / Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion:
Mika Shockingly Scorches Elizabeth Warren: ‘Tired of this Act,’ ‘Shrill, Almost Unhinged’ — Mika: This Reminds Me of Republican Obstructionism Eight Years Ago, 'Except Now It's Democrats Doing It' — Earlier in this presidential election cycle, Mika Brzezinski was a big Elizabeth Warren booster …
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CNN:
Gatlinburg fires: The worst is over, officials say — Gatlinburg, Tennessee (CNN)[Breaking news update, posted at 11:50 a.m. ET] — More than 100 structures in the city of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, have been damaged, Mayor Mike Warner said Tuesday morning. More than 150 other structures …
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Jamie Satterfield / Knoxville News-Sentinel:
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Washington Free Beacon:
Sen. Chris Coons Regrets Making Appointments Simpler to Confirm — Senator Chris Coons (D., Del.) said on CNN Tuesday that he regrets the rule change Senate Democrats made to the nomination process. — “The filibuster no longer acts as an emergency brake on the nomination,” Coons said.
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AJ Vicens / Mother Jones:
The Republican Governor of North Carolina Has Finally Run Out of Options — The North Carolina State Board of Elections on Monday night dismissed the bulk of Republican Gov. Pat McCrory's ballot challenges in the disputed governor's race. Their ruling, along with a vote difference …
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Amanda Taub / New York Times:
How Stable Are Democracies? ‘Warning Signs Are Flashing Red’ — WASHINGTON — Yascha Mounk is used to being the most pessimistic person in the room. Mr. Mounk, a lecturer in government at Harvard, has spent the past few years challenging one of the bedrock assumptions of Western politics …
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Tod Lindberg / Weekly Standard:
His Reelection Plan — To those who believed, sequentially, that Donald Trump would drop out soon after entering the GOP primary field; that this or that outrageous provocation of his would fatally turn off primary voters; that while he might be winning primaries, he had a ceiling …
Josh Feldman / Mediaite:
Obama on Dems' Inability to Reach Voters: ‘Part of It Is Fox News in Every Bar and Restaurant’ — President Obama sat down for a post-election interview earlier this month with Rolling Stone's Jann Wenner, reflecting on Donald Trump's win and what Democrats did wrong.
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Many People Just Voted Themselves Out of Health Care? (Updated) (Updated again) (And again) — My original update was right! Screwed up dates. So it's back to around 5 1/2 million Trump chumps. — As Greg Sargent points out, the choice of Tom Price for HHS probably means the death of Obamacare.